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Iraq CF Thread
24 Iranians? Last I heard we had 5.
Xer ('71)
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RL: My 1972 cohort boss just put on his first set of oak leaves- and shipped out with his unit to Ft. Polk. Likely next stop: Iraq.
1972 Cohort Makes Major...
1972? Last I checked, it takes about 10 years to make Major. Is he a prior-enlisted type, a johnny-come-lately, or a just another slowly promoted, hard-headed Gen-Xer?
I assume he's going to play at the Joint Readiness Training Center.
The latter. Hard headed X'r. You might recognize a few of those types on this board...Originally Posted by jamesdglick
1972? Last I checked, it takes about 10 years to make Major. Is he a prior-enlisted type, a johnny-come-lately, or a just another slowly promoted, hard-headed Gen-Xer?
I assume he's going to play at the Joint Readiness Training Center.He's already done one tour in Iraq.
I remember Polk from very early childhood. Even for a native Southerner, it's a scary, scary place. Now, it's even scarier in a different sense.
Turkey launching air and artillery strikes into Iraq/Kurdistan:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...&attr=_3071008
See how well this is working out?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkows...kowski186.html
LTC Karen has a message for Chris Seamens:
"Don’t worry that a soldier will ask the impossible question of "If we leave now, why was I maimed, lied to, wasted, and made a murderer?" He’ll ask anyway, and there is only one answer, an old and oft repeated answer, and it hurts. You chose to serve the state, and it sacrificed you for nothing."
Electrical power situation in Baghdad, Iraq is so bad the Administration has stopped reporting on it. How about that, Chris Seamens?
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-iraqpow...la-home-center
Note: The grace period for posting all the bad news about Iraq in a single thread will soon expire, unless commentary in this thread picks up.
Last edited by Pink Splice; 07-31-2007 at 02:38 PM.
The Purple Fingers Are Slacking:
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-missing...la-home-center
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6907110.stm
At least Gates is signing the letters personally.
These reports are great! So good, you would want to move from Metropolis IL, Ohio, or Philadelphia for the excitement of living in Iraq.
Keepin it together
I posted these on another of your threads, but thought that this really has the most appropriate title. And keeping it all together gives a better sense of how much a CF it is -
http://www.fourthturning.com/forum/s...23&postcount=2
http://www.fourthturning.com/forum/s...35&postcount=3
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
Big surprise, this corruption, you know
Now, here is a big surprise --
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20043428/
‘Untouchable’ corruption in Iraqi agencies
Report partially faults PM’s office, says health ministry in ‘grip’ of militants
By Aram Roston and Lisa Myers
NBC News Investigative Unit
Updated: 8:56 p.m. ET July 30, 2007
Supplies and medicine in strife-torn Baghdad's overcrowded hospitals have been siphoned off and sold elsewhere for profit because of corruption in the Iraqi Ministry of Health, according to a draft U.S. government report obtained by NBC News.
The report, written by U.S. advisers to Iraq's anti-corruption agency, analyzes corruption in 12 ministries and finds devastating and grim problems. "Corruption protected by senior members of the Iraqi government," the report said, "remains untouchable."
Last edited by playwrite; 07-31-2007 at 04:38 PM.
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite
And here's part of the government we're fighting for -
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...la-home-center
Interior Ministry mirrors chaos of a fractured Iraq
The nerve center of the nation's police is not so much a government agency as an 11-story powder keg of factions.
By Ned Parker, Times Staff Writer
July 30, 2007
BAGHDAD — The colonel pulls his Mercedes into the parking lot of the drab, 11-story concrete building, scanning the scene for suspicious cars.
Before reaching for the door handle, he studies the people loitering nearby in hopes he will be able to recognize anyone still there later in the day. He grips his pistol, the trigger cocked, wary of an ambush.
He has arrived at his office.
This is Iraq's Ministry of Interior — the balkanized command center for the nation's police and mirror of the deadly factions that have caused the government here to grind nearly to a halt.
The very language that Americans use to describe government — ministries, departments, agencies — belies the reality here of militias that kill under cover of police uniform and remain above the law. Until recently, one or two Interior Ministry police officers were assassinated each week while arriving or leaving the building, probably by fellow officers, senior police officials say
"The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start" - R. Service
“It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed … so, to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed. It’s much more akin to printing money.” - B.Bernanke
"Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can't do with your uterus" - Sarah Silverman
If you meet a magic pony on the road, kill it. - Playwrite