Chief of Central Baghdad Police Station Shot Dead - Reuters

[VolcanoJen]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050310/ts_nm/iraq_police_dc_4

Excerpt:

Insurgents dressed in Iraqi police uniforms shot dead the chief of a central Baghdad police station on Thursday, police sources said.

They said the insurgents set up a fake police checkpoint and stopped the police officer's car as he was on the way to work at Salhiya police station. After asking his name, they shot him along with two other policemen in his car. One of the insurgents filmed the killing, police said.

[rooboy]

1. Rejoice. People do that in free countries. n/t

[VolcanoJen]

6. See, I'm really confused.

Just this morning CNN shills Hemmer and O'Brien were telling me that Bush had triumphed in the middle east, and that he was, indeed, right, and that we should all just stop questioning him already.

The latest edition of Newsweek arrived and trumpeted the same thought on the cover.

Funny the way current events get in the way of the party line sometimes.

I remain concerned, disheartened and lied to about Iraq in particular. Are there really that many of us left?

[Cooley Hurd]

9. The Daily Show showed Bush taking credit for Syria leaving Lebanon...

...immediately followed by the massive pro-Syrian rallies.

Leave it to a fake news show to provide reality...:crazy:

[saigon68]

13. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

Collaborators sometimes get the short end of the stick.

[llmart]

19. I'm with you.....

I happened to see that Newsweek cover yesterday and I thought, what a bunch of lemmings the press in this country are.

Yeah, it's such an overwhelming success in Iraq. If it's weren't for the internet all we would know is what we see on the TV news and there's very little real reporting going on. I don't watch any of it myself, but I'm sure the majority of people in this country aren't actively getting their information elsewhere like we are here at DU.

[Erika]

2. Anybody old enough to remember Nam?

History repeats itself. Of course, Bush never went to Nam.

[BrotherBuzz]

7. The only difference....

George W. Bush had a plan to get out of the Vietnam war.

The Iraq police and Guard recruiting problems are strikingly similar to what we experienced with the ARVN in Vietnam. Yes, history is repeating itself - in spades!

[saigon68]

12. I remember Nam

I live it every morning at 3:30 am when I can't sleep, due to nightmares.

[leftchick]

15. morning saigon....

I have not seen you in so long. I have been thinkng of you.

peace,
lc

[pokercat999]

17. Bush was too stoned to even know there was a Vietnam..nt

[bklyncowgirl]

22. I'm sure Pootie Poot could tell him a thing or two about Afganistan

The Iraqi's are doing to us what the Vietnamese did to us in the 60s and 70s and the Afgans did to the Russians in the 80s and early 90s.

Who was it who said that "Those who fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it.

[ElectroPrincess]

23. Yes, how many thousands more American Troops and

How many hundreds of thousand Iraqis MUST DIE before the American Sheeple wake from their complacency coma and *demand* that we bring our troops home?

I remember Vietnam why doesn't Kerry jog his memory of "the end" of the war? We cannot do any good there. Pulling out NOW is the only sane alternative.

But no, we'll stay and see more carnage. We are IDIOTS when it comes to learning the lessons of history. Especially when is comes to the failure of modern "Empire Building" efforts.

[physioex]

3. This is ofcourse very tragic......

But it surprises me that he lasted as long as he did. It's very obvious that the presence of US occupation makes these people "collaborators" thus considered valid targets...

[Erika]

4. Freedom on the March

What a f'ng joke. Check www.icasualties.org

1,513 American troops now dead.

[Larkspur]

5. Didn' Hillary say that violence like this means the insurgents are losing?

:eyes:

[EFerrari]

8. Please let's take every opportunity to debunk the mendacity

every day. We each have opportunities. Please let's use them.

[Frederik]

10. "Insurgents dressed in Iraqi police uniforms "

Or perhaps "insurgents who had infiltrated Iraqi police"? We know that happens.

[leftchick]

16. the fact is for every couple of thousand Iraqis the US $$$$ arm

and give uniforms to, clearly 2/3 of them leave with what we have given them. This is very predictable and will increase over time.

[madmark]

11. When do we get to secede from Iraq? I'm tired of hearing about this

godforsaken place. Let Jesusland and Iraq experience anchluss and let the rest of us get on with whatever we were doing before these took idiots took power.

[Disturbed]

14. Bush Junta will keep troops in Iraq at present levels..

for at least two more years. As long as U.S troops remiain and the Sunnis are kept out of the power loop many more deaths of Ameriikans and Iraqis will occur.

[leftchick]

18. get used to the fact the neo-cons want use there for a "generation"

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13&pid=2132

A Permanent Presence...

~snip~

While the exact figure may change, suspicions of undisclosed US imperial plans--exemplified by permanent military bases--rightfully linger. Before the war, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested moving US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia into Iraq. In October, a survey by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes found that two-thirds of respondents disapproved of a permanent military presence, even though more than half thought the US would build the bases anyway.

Now comes a report in the New York Sun by Eli Lake revealing that the Pentagon is building a permanent military communications system in Iraq, a necessary foundation for any lasting troop presence. The new network will comprise twelve communications towers throughout Iraq, linking Camp Victory in Baghdad to other existing (and future) bases across the country, eventually connecting with US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.

"People need to get realistic and think in terms of our presence being in Iraq for a generation or until democratic stability in the region is reached," Dewey Clarridge, the CIA's former chief of Arab operations (and Iran-contra point man), told the Sun.

The fabled "exit strategy" may be not to exit. Thomas Donnelly, a defense specialist at the American Enterprise Institute, said the new communication system resembles those built in West Germany and the Balkans, places where American troops remain today. "The operational advantages of US bases in Iraq should be obvious for other power-projection missions in the region," Donnelly wrote in an AEI policy paper.

Next time the Bush Administration hints at withdrawing troops, keep these grand plans in mind.

[leftchick]

20. Look at the shitty vehicle the "Police Chief" rode in...

This is so fucking bizarre.....




A blood-stained police pick-up truck in Al-Saidiyah, Baghdad. A police chief was gunned down in Baghdad in an ambush that also killed two of his companions, as a wave of violence swept through Iraq (news - web sites) one week before the newly-elected parliament meets to choose a new government.(AFP/Karim Sahib

[dArKeR]

21. (new story) Just read the list of attacks the Iraqi rebels made in one day

Our media should be on trial and in prison and not Martha Stewart. And/or the American people are so uneducated/corrupt/selfish they can't comprehend/care about the lies of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz. Limbaugh, O'Reily...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050310/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq