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Poiuyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:47 PM Original message |
Was the surge a success? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oh. I thought that was because Michelle Duggar announced her 19th pregnancy prematurely... |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. No. |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. If bribes to the "insurgents" can be call success... |
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Maggie_May (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. Lets look at it this way |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
5. Does everyone lose their capacity to remember anything ?? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Splurge is Working |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. If it worked, why are they still sending new recruits to Iraq. |
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Maggie_May (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. My son-law has been there less than a year |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Same thing here. |
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Maggie_May (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. My son-in-law says |
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jrd1415 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
30. you can still save his life |
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Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
8. The surge was a mostly successful publicity stunt to stall for more time and money |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. I hate the war as much as anyone, but denial of the obvious isn't doing anyone good |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Do you know how many extra troops were put "onto the streets"? |
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jrd1415 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. post hoc ergo propter hoc |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Your method of personal insults says all that needs be said about the strength of your arguments |
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jrd1415 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:26 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. truth |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Welcome jrd1415 ! |
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jrd1415 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Thank you |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. My prediction: |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
12. Missing the point. Federal tanks in Chicago would reduce the violence too. |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. I suspect it's a |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
16. What happened to the President's benchmarks? |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
17. About as much as Tet or the Little Big Horn. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. And no one mentions the 4 million refugees that left their homes... |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
20. Bush had the death squads working for him out of the Green Zone stand down |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
24. How long must one plug one's thumb in a leak to still the flood? |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
25. Ask me in ten years. n/t |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. The Sunni Insurgency groups got smart. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. There are now about 2000 doctors in Iraq down from 30K. |
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PerfectSage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
31. Of course the surge is a success... |
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JBoris (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
32. If gas went down to $3.50 a gallon would we call it cheap? No, and the surge only improved... |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
33. Nobody knows. |
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