Another LEFT...
posted by Mrs. Webster at 6:54 AM
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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Another LEFT...
Ummm... another "LEFT" needs to be front and center.
June IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
101 Americans
July IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
79 Americans
August IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count
84 Americans
A post brought forward from May
May 1, 007
UMMMMMMMMMM... The war will soon cost more than $500 billion.
May.be if you are not sobered to reality by dead bodies...MAY.be dollar bills will do it?
Year.....DEAD.....Wounded
2003.....486......2408
2004.....849......8003
2005.....846......5948
2006.....822......6398
2007.....778......4996
Ohio has the distinction of being one of the TOP ten states with the MOST causalities. 159 to date.
September 7, 007
Jason J. Hernandez of Streetsboro is the most recent.
HERE is a list of the NAMES and Home towns.
Reality Check...
Two weeks prior to his Congressional appearance, the top U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus, was quoted as saying the troop increase has sharply reduced sectarian killings in Baghdad. That would be on or about August 29, 2007.
In August alone; at least 1,809 civilians were killed.
Umm...520 people were killed in horrific quadruple suicide bombings on August 14.
The SINGLE deadliest day since the war began in March 2003.
Reality Check...
On August 22, 2006 President Bush admitted Iraq had NO WMDs and had NOTHING to do with 9/11.
Read it for YOUSELF!
General Petraeus doesn’t know if the mission in Iraq makes America safer???
In the event ya missed this stunning revalation, HERE it is!
REALITY CHECK
Who over there is worth any of our guys?
This tread had to be moved to front and center.
Comments on this thread should be relevant.
I am still looking for the Petraeus quote when he was asked about the connection between 911 and Iraq.
General Petraeus is hailing to the chief...perhaps he will retire soon and tell the truth.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS--BRING THEM HOME!!!
Reality Check
ONE of the reasons...
Triv is an idiot; is his insistance that Cleveland streets are worse/less safe than the streets of Iraq.
09/13/07 AP: Gunmen ambush police checkpoint near Mosul, killing 6
09/13/07 Reuters: 13 bodies found in Baghdad on Sunday
09/14/07 Reuters: Truck bomb kills seven police north of Baghdad
09/14/07 Reuters: Bodies of police officer and judge found in Balad
09/15/07 Reuters: Two bodyguards killed, 3 wounded in Diyala
09/16/07 MCT: Gunmen kill prominent members of Islamic Union of Kurdistan
09/16/07 MCT: 12 bodies found in Baghdad
09/16/07 Reuters: Gunmen assassinate police colonel the town of Ifech
09/17/07 channel4: Army base blast kills 2 Iraqi soldiers
09/18/07 Reuters: Policeman killed during rain in Shirqat
09/18/07 Reuters: Nine bodies found in Baghdad
09/18/07 Reuters: Seven killed in central Baghdad car bomb
18-Sep-2007 6 | US: 6 |
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
US Specialist Matthew J. Emerson
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET
3791 Americans
3,791--Do you feel safer now?
September 24, 2007
09/19/07 Reuters: Two bodies found in Mosul
09/20/07 Reuters: 8 bodies found in Baghdad on Wednesday
09/20/07 KUNA: Junior Iraqi official shot dead
09/20/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill senior judge in central Baghdad
09/20/07 Reuters: Three bodies found in Mosul
09/20/07 MCT: Seven bodies found in Baghdad
09/20/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 2 Iraqi soldiers, wounds 11 in eastern Baghdad
09/20/07 MCT: Iraqi Lieutenant Colonel survives assassination attempt
09/21/07 Reuters: 3 bodeis found in Yusufiya, one found in Bajwan
09/22/07 Reuters: Eight bodies found in Baghdad…four women
09/22/07 AP: Gunmen ambush Iraqi police checkpoint in Baqouba…killing 5
09/22/07 CP: Al-Qaida group shows execution of 5 kidnapped Iraqis in new video
3798...161 ohio
160. Private 1st Class, Christian M. Neff
161. Capt. (Dr.) Roselle M. Hoffmaster
It should be no surprise that I agree with most of the LIB pundits on the Petraeus ad...
But GOOD LORD they are correct...instead of focusing on any worthy legislation, or a plan for Iraq...they are still whining about the moveon.org ad.
Where was all this indignation when Rush said the same thing about Senator Hagel.
Hagel, a moderate Republican is a critic of the war and happens to be a decorated veteran officer of Vietnam.
Rush referred to him as Senator Betrayus for days.
As far as I am concerned, the truth ALWAYS takes longer.
I will stand by my statement...
The General hailed to the chief, someday he will retire and tell the truth.
This Blackwater thing bugs me!
NOT the most recent event, everyone is talking about...the whole enchilada.
Erik Prince is a billionaire right-wing Christian fundamentalist and the co-founder of Blackwater.
This guy is sooo whacked with his core values and mission statements.
HIS ideology to spread Christianity through mercenaries...has him on my radar.
Is that what Jesus would want- “guns for hire” ?
Washington must think money grow on trees...
Our government/tax dollars, has paid $100 MILLION more to Blackwater than was budgeted for...so far!
Can you imagine a CEO overspending like this in the private sector?
Blackwater has received multiple very lucrative no-bid contracts in Afghanistan and New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
This “guns for hire” firm has pulled down at least $320 million in Iraq alone.
How many more private "military" firms are we paying for?
NOT so few or proud...
The irony for the US military is that many of its best soldiers leave to join organizations like Blackwater where the pay is as high as $1000 a day.
Sounds more like “guns and greed” than the standard mantra of a “few and proud”.
Is our government using private contractors to overcome military staff shortages?
Reports indicate there as many as 100,000 of these “hired guns” in the combat theaters.
Ummm...crossing over into Iran?
Is the US military privatizing its missions to avoid public controversy or to avoid embarrassment or worse yet to run under the radar of the media?
Rush is the PHONY!
Unless you have been sleeping under a Black River rock...
Ya MUST have heard about Rush proclaiming for anyone who will listen, we have “phony soldiers” in our active military ranks.
Ummm…he was NOT referencing Blackwater.
Yeppers, on Wednesday 9/26/07, he actually said...
Any service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq are "phony soldiers."
Media outlets are reporting the transcripts have since been edited.
Then...
Rush returned to smearing Rep. Jack Murtha, and expanded the group of "phony soldiers" to this career military man, and decorated Vietnam veteran.
Murtha joined the Marines in 1952 and volunteered for service in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.
Please tell me..who really wants to continue in this religious civil war, other than the fundamentalists, profiteers, King George and Erectile Dysfunctionate Rush?
I will try to remember to refer to him as EDR.
Ditto that!
I like it, I like it alot.
A blueblood liberal trying to convert the cowboy crowd.
September IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count66 Americans...
3807 Americans
10/01/07 Reuters: 4 Bodies found in Kirkuk
10/01/07 Reuters: 2 bodies found in Mahaweel
10/01/07 MCT: 11 bodies found in Baghdad
10/02/07 Reuters: Policeman was killed in Madaen
10/02/07 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap head of Ibn Sina hospital in Mosul
10/02/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill teacher in Suwayra
10/02/07 KUNA: Car bombs kill 6 Iraqis, injure 10 others in Baquba
10/02/07 Reuters: Nine bodies found in Baghdad
10/03/07 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap 13 at fake checkpoint
10/03/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 2, wounds 5 in Baghdad
10/03/07 Reuters: 6 bodies found in Baghdad
10/03/07 Reuters: Police captain killed in Tikrit
10/04/07 dpa: Six policemen killed in separate attacks in Salahaddin province
10/04/07 Xinhua: Roadside bomb kills mayor of Iraqi town south of Baghdad
10/04/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 3, wounds 8 in central Baghdad
10/04/07 MCT: In Basra, vigilantes wage deadly campaign against 15 women
10/04/07 MCT: 8 Bodies found in Baghdad
Here in Cleveland...
We will be re-hashing how kids get guns.
Whose fault it is that a 14 YO suspended student was able to get past two floors of administration to go on a shooting rampage?
TRIV will no doubt, resurrect his claim that Cleveland is more dangerous than Iraq.
IT JUST AIN'T SO...
Camp Victory, the main U.S. base near Baghdad was attacked yesterday by a rocket/ mortar killing two Americans and wounding 40 others.
10/06/07 Reuters: 4 ISF and 4 civilians killed
10/06/07 Reuters: 4 bodies found in Baghdad
10/06/07 Reuters: body of bullet ridden child found in Mussayab
10/06/07 Reuters: Beheaded body found in Iskandariya
10/07/07 AP: Roadside bomb kills 3
10/08/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills policeman
10/08/07 Reuters: Six bodies found in Baghdad on Sunday
10/08/07 Reuters: Suicide bomber kills 3
10/08/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 4 in Central Bagdad
10/08/07 AP: 24 Dead In Series Of Iraq Blasts
10/09/07 Reuters: 7 bodies found in Baghdad
10/09/07 Reuters:3 bodies found in al-Qassim
10/09/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill deputy police chief
10/09/07 KUNA: Ranking Iraqi Shiite cleric assassinated
10/09/07 Reuters: Car bombs kill 22 in northern Iraq
10/09/07 Reuters: Violence in Iraq kills 56
10/09/07 Reuters: 8 Bodies found in Baghdad
10/10/07 Reuters: Body of a 4 YO boy found hanged in Numaniya
15 Americans killed this month
3820* DEAD Americans
The asterisk is there for a reason. The actual number is significantly higher.
Did ja know there is a growing list of military personnel who die from their wounds but are NOT included in the DOD?
The two most recent that are documented.
Richards, Jack D. 29-Jul-2007
Cassidy, Gerald J. 25-Sep-2007
October 12, 007
Found an awesome pic for this thread. I "borrowed" it from highwayblogger.com.
Today is Dixie Chick Martie's birthday. Another Libra...my husband and I are both Libras.
My DISTAIN with WGAR began the day after Natalie made her now infamous remarks.
Up until that day I was a "loyal listener".
Today...it's a dichotomy!
I detest their station/Clear Channel, and a majority of their on air personalities.
Captain "snot-nose" propaganda Tony and his Clear Channel twisted sister, TRIV, need to read something other than the Clear Channel newsletter.
October 23, 007
OK...Who wants to bomb/invade Iran?
Raise your hand.
Security!
Ya have to really look for it...but the UK special forces have already crossed the border into Iran.
The Dick VP is getting his mushroom cloud power point dusted off.
Meanwhile...King George is asking for more money. Like 46 BILLION!
October 26, 007
GOOD GOD...where does fair and balanced FOX get it's news?
I am clickin between CNN, FOX and Keith last night...stop at Bill Oreilly for a few.
I swear to GOD...I hear Bill say no one was killed in Iraq last week. WHAT...which week was that?
It's NOT true! Look it up.
Nine Americans were killed...tell their mothers, no one was killed last week.
So...on Wednesday, I attended a luncheon at the Yacht Club.
It's a mixed bag of professionals trying to change the world...educational scholarships for at risk teens is the focus and what drives the fundraising.
Seated at my table are clinicians, senior services, realtors, bankers, and politicians.
We ALL agree education is the key to changing the world we live in...that's where the common ground ends.
The small talk/chatter begins over salads and before the main speaker.
Outta the blue...the suit sitting across from me pipes up with "the terrorists started the wild fires in California".
I nearly chocked on a mandarin orange. I looked him straight in eye and said "the terrorists control the Sana Ana winds"?
Tom heard it on the radio.
So... I had to ask the obvious.
Tell me Tom, what station were ya listening to...who said this?
Bob Frantz was the answer.
Tom needs to change the channel once in a while. PERIOD!
Here's the scoop...
YES, there was a "plot" uncovered regarding wild fires.
Ummm...it's four years old. The "plot" was destined for Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
"Those who would give up essential liberty,
to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Only Only Only...
October IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count “only” 38 Americans
November IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count “only” 37 Americans
December IRAQ Coalition Casualty Count "only" 5 Americans...so far
I am NOT a political infant...
I’ve been paying attention to this mess in IRAQ for a long time. Much longer than most...
See the first "LEFT" thread.
A few months of declining casualty rates, does NOT mean victory is around the corner.
We are STILL spending upwards of $10 billion dollars a month in Iraq.
Then, there is a newly emerged report this week of $1B in military equipment LOST in Iraq.
We are talking about tanks, CRATES of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades.
ALL the media outlets are spewing the “good news”...
“Only 37 Americans killed in the month of November.” How is that “good news”?
As I have stated over and over again, the medical advances on the battlefield have saved more lives. For every soldier killed, eight are severely injured/wounded, nearly TRIPLE the ratio in Vietnam.
More GOOD news...
YESTERDAY in Iraq.
12/07/07 AP: Female suicide bomber kills 15 in Iraq
12/07/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills policeman, wounds 3 in Falluja
12/07/07 Reuters: Five bodies found in Baghdad
12/07/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill four police unit leaders in Rabia
12/07/07 AP: Suicide bomber kills 10 in Baquba
12/07/07 Reuters: Gunmen wound 3 in attack on a police station
Sixty percent of families with troops who have served, say the war in Iraq has not been worth the cost.
Deployments more frequent and have grown longer as troops rotate in and out of the war zone, sometimes up to five times.
The all-volunteer force is older and more married than any before it. More widows and orphans...when is it gonna END?
When will the REAL good news be broadcast?
Call me a sinister or a conspiratorist when comes to this God forsaken war.
I scour the foreign news wires, and non main-stream media outlets for more information.
From my perspective, I should NOT have to do this.
The realities of the current administration's foreign policy initiatives/failures should be readily available.
I am tired of being spoon fed the news.
Don't the MAJOR media networks have a responsibility to get the information to us as it occurs, NOT five days later.
I suspect the DOD list of casualties is lacking in accuracy.
Is is purposeful that it has NOT been updated for five days...
Is the DOD on vacation...
Is the WAR on vacation...
Is the MEDIA on vacation...
It was disheartening to recheck the DOD casualty list...six names had been added. Two died on Christmas day.
February 28, 2008
It has NOT been my intent to neglect my "LEFT" rantings on the blog. I have taken my rantings to where they can be heard up close and personal.
So much so...it appears, the Pentagon has began scanning the blog.
The war lingers on without media coverage...thousands of civilians have been annihilated and more than
70 US military service personnel have been killed since January 1, 2008.
We have been force fed "it's the economy stupid" for weeks upon weeks. The Ohio economy tanked long before it was "news".
Meanwhile on Sunday, 40 human beings were killed in Iraq. Did I see on the news, did I read it in the newspaper? NO...I had to look to the foreign press wires to find it.
The new estimate, of the cost of the war is 3.3 TRILLION dollars VS the 50 or maybe 60 BILLION estimated in 2003.
Don't know what's up with the federal government and King George...in the real world, when I am more than $1000.00 dollars "off budget", I am required to generate three reports with detailed explanations as to how I am gonna fix/balance it.
March 4, 2008
Well, it's OHIO's big day...being dubbed the second super Tuesday.
NOT so sure, Obama will take Ohio...it would be a delightful.
Bottom line...I will support the democratic nominee.
Soon the divide among us must be super glued back together for a sweep in November. The sooner the better.
Hilliary has gone negative...NOT a good plan, given the scattered skeletons in her closet.
Obama is NOT squeaky clean...what politician is?
Last week, in my rural Huron County office...home of the red, white and republican.
The client services coordinator thinks Obama is Muslim and won't put his hand on a bible.
The operations manager is STILL supporting Huckabe.
I travel Northern Ohio extensively. Once you drive a few miles outside of any city limits whether it's Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo, or Lorain...it's rural.
I call it cows and crops.
March 5, 2008
OK...so the outcome of the second SUPER TUESDAY was NOT exactly as I would have liked to see it.
Last minute calls to friends yesterday to remind them to VOTE, sorta indicated the handwriting on the wall.
Undecideds went to Hillary, or switched to Hilliary in the last 48hours.
For Ohio and maybe Texas too, it appears, folks were persuaded by the last minute Canadian NAFTA memo. The housing deal with Resko never came up.
There is the RUSH factor..."righties" voting for Hilliary in the primary.
Poll after poll shows McCain beating Hilliary in the general election.
As much as a female president appeals to me...I fear it won't be Hilliary.
There is way tooooo much baggage.
Going all the way back to Vince Foster being rolled up in a carpet...add Whitewater, the lesbian thing, and MONICA.
While Hilliary may NOT have been wild about NAFTA, most of the documentation leading up to primaries indicates she was supportive of her husband's trade agreement.
The primary season especially n Ohio, MAY be about ECONOMICS/stupid...it's my belief, that's the way it was presented, literally spoon fed to voters.
The occasional blip about the war might be found on page 38, while the mortgage melt-down, and the lack of job growth is page one.
It's the WAR...stupid!
Question:
Did Hillary have presidential aspirations as far back as her and her husband moving out of the Whitehouse? Because if I were her, I would have divorced my sleazy, cigar toting, cheating husband ASAP.
I would love to say "stand by your man" but REALLY...do you think MONICA was the ONLY one?
I guess my bottom line is that I have a hard time respecting a woman like that regardless of her political views.
JUST MY OPINION....
I might be mistaken about the exact timing, but I do believe, Hilliary was launching her senate campaign shortly before/after leaving the White House. I vaguely remember the house hunt in NY.
Hilliary has had her OWN political aspirations for decades.
I also remember the string of women, before, during and after the White House. Their names elude me. And...I am willing to wager there are other scandals brewing.
What's the deal with her tax returns, and the contributions to the Clinton library? Does it really take 6 weeks to prepare them for public review?
It takes six weeks for the whiteout to dry!
nobeerhere
EXCELLENT...very witty!
Again...I am annoyed with the media. When are they gonna get with the program?
FOX tells us every other day...some new high ranking insurgent, sought after, second in command, target has been captured or killed.
How bout the administration is NOT gonna release the NEW, NEWER, NEWEST report dismissing the links between Iraq and 911 to the press unless requested and will NOT be available on-line. They will mail the 600 page report.
DAH...how cost effective can that be?
How about 14 more of our men and women in uniform killed in that civil war sand trap. Eight of them in one day. Remember when 8 killed in one day was a headline.
Didja see John McCain get snarky with the press when asked about being John Kerry's VP?
Ya have to go back to the original "LEFT" thread to see where I posted my disbelief at his denial it ever occurred.
New day...new scandals. Tired of the Spitzer story.
Today, it should be the GOP chair that has embezzled a million dollars from the campaigns, and funneled the money into his personal accounts.
OK...so now that we have lost almost 4000 men and women to the mission almost accomplished. Cheerfully named Operation Iraqi Freedom, the media is somewhat on target.
Yesterday was the most coverage I've seen in months.
Perhaps, it was the Roman Catholic Arch-Bishop that was kidnapped three weeks ago, found in a shallow grave, that prompted the newsies to take a look see at what the hell has been happening.
In fact, a study was released yesterday on how the coverage of the war has dwindled since the "surge".
The report also acknowledged how few Americans even know what has happened in the past 6 months.
At the time of the "surge", 40% of news (print and cable) was dedicated to war coverage.
In Feb 08...it was 3%.
OMG...could I have been any MORE wrong bout the news cycle. Here I thought one network would pick up the story bout embezzling a million bucks.
NOPE...we are into day 4 or 5 of Obama's preacher.
On day two I was pretty wound up...
Unlike most lily white folks out there, I have experienced the black church up close and personal.
Not to be outdone by the charismatic evangelicals...ya know the Jew hating homophobes.
Quite honestly, I personally was NOT offended by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright...but was/am aware of the reaction and coverage it would garner.
Social justice requires a fire and brimstone voice.
The folks that believe that ONLY America is blessed are naive.
Good Lord...there are "reverends" with doctorates in Christian theology that believe the world is ONLY 3000 years old, and pass this nonsense on from the pulpit.
NOT only do these folks lack a world view, an inherent disbelief in science, and routinely pontificate about the evils of "homos", abortions and divorces...they lack an understanding of the Christian precepts.
To think that Americans are somehow MORE blessed and will NOT have to atone for our policies and behavior is shameful, and illustrates the distasteful myopic view way too many folks cling to.
I THINK most Democrats want the same thing...to win in the fall.
It's TIME to figure out a way to unite against McCain. He's old, forgets the facts, and wants atonement for the a loss of a war.
A war we should NOT have been involved in. PERIOD!
We do NOT want the appearance of an old, frail, and forgetful leader of the free world.
We have had tooo many jack-asses in the White House.
Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan included.
McCain = Bush, BOTH jack-asses.
The WAR has to end, and we need to draw down our ground/war troops as soon as feasible.
The blips ya have been hearing bout the war the past few days ain't the half of it.
Unfortunately, most media outlets won't think about it again until it hits 4000.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of my on-air dispute with WGAR over the Dixie Chicks.
The grim milestone the media has been waiting for...is upon us.
4000 killed.
Would it be too much to ask that we have have MORE information and media attention directed to the war?
My post from Easter Sunday 2007...
Every HOLY day in the states is marred by death and destruction in Iraq.
The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Easter Sunday.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman made the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows to declare the Baghdad “surge” was effective.
Lieberman's profession of the absurd is based on, Al-Sadr’s (Shiite Cleric) statement to his followers to kill Americans, NOT each other.
"God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them-not against the sons of Iraq". Hmmmmmmm...can YOU take that statement, and find the GOOD news?
Sure, I would like to believe that the surge is making a difference...but it isn’t.
Baghdad might be slightly more secure...however, these people are NOT morons.
They have moved the death, destruction, execution, torture, and chlorine bombs to other areas.
At least 62 bodies, execution victims, who were tortured, were found Northeast of Baghdad last week alone.
A truck bomb exploded, south of Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and wounding 23.
At least 47 people were killed or found dead in violence Easter Sunday, including 17 execution victims dumped in the capital.
Five bodies burned beyond recognition, littered a courtyard and hospitals were treating chlorine exposure/burns.
Which brings me to TRIV...another idiot, proclaiming to the masses with unequivocal authority: "the streets of Cleveland are MORE dangerous than the streets of Iraq." Did the Cleveland Police find 17 dead bodies on Public Square, Easter Sunday?
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