Comments on: Iraq Success

By: TC

TC — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:43:44 +0000

You are all forgetting that the real surge was economical. The Sunni militias were supporting by our Sunni allies countries but ONCE we HIRE them and we started to put them in our Pay Roll they became our allies. But once we stop Pay for our Peace and they fall to the Iraqui Govt they will wage War once again. So dont talk about the famous surge. That is something that Pres Bush came up with to hopefully win the election. It is just as if you start paying a salary to the so call GOOD TALIBAN so the won’t shoot at you.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:28:48 +0000

Nice post Christian, your %100 correct.

By: Ptsfp

Ptsfp — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:26:50 +0000

OK, let’s compare mortality rates between two countries. Let’s take the US for example. US rate is 5.6 per 100,000. Iraq is .9 per 100,000. Hmm… safer to be in Iraq.
The US is too big you say? The closest US state population wise to Iraq is Texas. Let’s see, the Texas murder rate per 100,000 is 5.9. Hmm… Maybe we should fire Walker, Texas Ranger.
You know the Anti-war people will never admit that anything positive happens or has happened in Iraq. I got an e-mail from a soldier. It was labeled, “Iraq images too shocking for CNN”. It was pictures of GI’s playing with the Iraqi children. GI’s building schools and buildings. Iraqi’s thanking the US soldiers for what they did. Pictures of Iraq’s who just voted for the first time, celebrating…
The Militant Islamists want negative press to weaken our resolve and many of you are doing the work for them.

By: Mr. Spock

Mr. Spock — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:35:25 +0000

Thank you for making this point. I completely agree with you. Of course, there are those people who would disagree, though often for illogical reasons. The point you make is not about whether we should have gone into Iraq in the first place. Your point is in regards to how we needed to wrap things up. Clearly the surge approach has been extremely successful in setting the stage for a responsible exit. Were other people to have their way, we would have essentially “thrown the baby out with the bath water”. I find it strange that all the people who complained about a “rush to war” would now push for a “rush to exit”. The surge has in fact worked and the people who disagree with this point are just unable to look facts in the face. THE SURGE HAS WORKED. The FACTS back this up. End of story.

By: Philip Shade

Philip Shade — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:32:17 +0000

Let’s see we’ve spent $100 Billion on reconstruction, five years, 4k soldiers lives and roughly ten times that “injured” to get Iraq roughly where it was the day we invaded?
Yeah you can argue the surge worked. But why the Eff did it take so long to implement? Why weren’t those troops put in place before the invasion? If the Bush administration had put even a cursory post-Sadam, occupation strategy in place we wouldn’t have needed a Surge.

By: Ptsfp

Ptsfp — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:01:26 +0000

“He added that the country’s murder rates have dropped below levels that existed before the start of American operations in Iraq. In November, the ratio was 0.9 per 100,000 people.“
To put things into perspective, that ratio is lower than the murder rate in some US cities. For example, in 2007 Detroit had a murder rate of 45.7 per 100,000 people. And that is just one city, the Iraq stat is for the entire country. It was actually safer to be in Iraq than Detroit.
Call me crazy, but I think we need to cut our losses in Detroit. Sure, the people from Ohio may take it over, but the cost is just too high. It’s a quagmire, another Vietnam waiting to happen…

By: seaturtle

seaturtle — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:39:56 +0000

Hey Rob..nice breakdown of our wins/losses in Iraq.If we know Iran is going to be a future problem,why not get our hands dirty,invade Persia and maintain positive control of the Strait of Hormuz„using Iraq as our FOB???

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:22:12 +0000

Was Vietnam a victory too?
I’ve seen some good journalism on this site–but but this is just pathetic.
A trillion dollars, God knows how many lives lost, a whole country destroyed… and a drop in insurgent attacks on our occupation (seven years later) is a success?
Hasn’t there been enough optimistic disinformation from official sources already?

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:51:43 +0000

And this story was posted on DefenseTech for what reason?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:59 +0000

To all the naysayers out there.
Things are looking good in Iraq. You can thank our government for not leaving Iraq to soon! Can you argue that the U.S. “puppet government” (not Iran) was strong enough last year to defeat the insurgents? I think not.
Another question… what do you consider a victory in Iraq? I think this is pretty darn good so far. Weather or not your agree if going into Iraq was right or wrong, that is besides the point. The question is, what do we do after that fact?