Americans being evacuated from Iraqi air base as militants advance

Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 10 months ago to News
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The development signals the worsening security environment in the northern part of the country. One senior official told Fox News that the focus for evacuation at this point is on people outside of Baghdad.


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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm going to try the new tab like you suggest.

    My problem is learning this new Microsoft 8.1, everything is so different from my old XP!
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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 10 months ago
    Fox news reported, this past evening, that the
    evacuation of the embassy in Baghdad was
    considered a politically indefensible situation
    at the moment.

    I just came unglued and damn near burnt down
    my end of the couch.

    fly air force one in there, with fighter escorts,
    and get our people out. screw politics. shit.

    what is wrong with these people?????? -- j

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  • Posted by sillywhim 11 years, 10 months ago
    These Iraqis military dropping weapons is EXACTLY the same as South Vietnam military abandoning its US supplied weapon systems.

    Same ol', same-o.

    Dunno why everyone is so surprised. Also, not everyone wants democracy. Some populations don't understand it, and ultimately, don't want it.

    They want a king or a dictator to tell them what to do and keep order.

    Again, not every populace wants democracy! When are Americans gonna understand this?
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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Lodge cast iron is just down the road from us here
    in eastern tennessee, so we can get you what you
    need if something goes bad, Rocky!

    we bought a full set for a nephew and his bride
    about 3 years ago, and had it shipped to colorado --
    now, that was a treasure!!! -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    they could be fighting to prevent being beheaded,
    or their family members being beheaded.

    you would think that this would rile them up! -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey, Rocky! here's a couple of ways to
    hold onto a great reply while looking up a word:::

    first way -- open up a new browser window
    alongside the gulch window and use it to look up
    the word, then return to the gulch window.

    second way -- snapshot the reply by pressing
    shift+Prt-Scn, and then paste the image (Ctrl+v)
    into a Word document (or file) for safe-keeping.
    I snapshot most of my gulch stuff into word, so
    that I can use it for future reference.

    try it;; you might like it!!! -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    WoW!! what a beautiful place! you may have
    company soon, given the way that things are
    going up here. -- j

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  • Posted by scojohnson 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Iraqi army has a very well-established history of surrendering as its first military action in combat... to foreign troops.. to noncombatants.. to reporters holding a camera... :)
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    *What* US supplied weapon system? You mean the weapons systems that had no ammunition because Congress cut funding?


    America doesn't want a democracy. America was never a democracy. The best, and only acceptable form of government, from the view of an American, is a republic. Period, end of argument.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The hell we have.

    It's not the "jingoists" as you put it that are responsible for the country going to hell in a handbasket, it's the traitorous left who have to be goaded into doing the right thing by having their own precious asses threatened.

    We "jingoists" weren't ALLOWED by you anti-Americans to do the job. Had it been up to us "jingoists", Abu Graib wouldn't have been a scandal, it would have been the introductory video on a course teaching how to dominate Moslems. If it had been up to us jingoists, 100k Iraqi troops wouldn't have surrendered, after we started executing those who did.

    if it had been up to us jingoists, there would be Americans RULING the AMERICAN protectorates of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Syria. And probably Pakistan.

    if it had been left up to us "jingoists"... the world would piss its collective pants at the mere idea of threatening Americans ever again.

    If it were up to us "jingoists", the TSA's mandate would be to profile anybody who looked like he might be Moslem or Arab, and to leave American citizens alone. It's the LEFT that was so concerned, from the start, about the persecution Moslems by Americans, it was the LEFT that was so concerned from the start that we be "fair" and search blonde-haired, blue-eyed Christian grandma's from Des Moines right along with the Arab-looking, Arab-speaking Moslems from Saudi Arabia.

    Had we "jingoists" been allowed to persecute Moslems in America as the Japanese were persecuted during WWII (a war we won, remember?) until they self-deported, renounced Islam, or took a very active and very visible role in fighting Islamic terrorists, the country wouldn't have gone to hell in a handbasket.

    Had it been up to us "jingoists", there would have been an Amendment declaring Islam a philosophy of government and not a religion.

    But, we "jingoists" weren't allowed to have our way, and you leftist "blame America" traitors caused this decade-long debacle.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Or central America, or north Africa, or the Pacific or Europe, or Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, California.

    We should just sit on our porch and rock in our rocking chairs as the world goes to hell around us. We filthy stinking Americans got no business imposing civilization on the world if it doesn't want it. To hell with the future of Mankind, to hell with the survival of our culture and nation, to hell with biological imperatives.

    We should have just turned the world over to the communists at the end of the second world war, and let them accomplish what we spent billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives preventing the Nazis from doing.
    Jefferson should have just turned the country over to the Barbary Pirates.
    (cause, as everyone who's seen "Pirates of the Caribbean" knows, pirates are the good guys, with whom we have no business interfering).
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Is it true that the insurgents are brave enough to risk their lives for their wrong-headed cause? Why is it the US-backed troops have less courage than the people they're fighting?
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't watch normal prime-time TV, but working with all kinds of people is normal my daily life.
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  • Posted by NealS 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I felt let completely let down. I wanted to know, why did we let so many of our youth die, and after winning this thing, let the Communists just have South Vietnam? I actually thought it ended when we left, the North seemed to think it was over too. A few traitors (John and Jane to name two of them), free speech, even though a bunch of their speech was lies, emboldened the North to ignore the treaty because they knew we were not coming back under most conditions. Congress played politics after Nixon resigned defunding any financial or war material help to the South. If Nixon hadn't been caught in his stupid indiscretion things might have been different. I also believe our presence there was enough to short circuit any further communist aggression, such as perhaps the Philippines, then who knows how far. They weren't so bold as to think they could continue any further aggression beyond where they were.

    As far as the Middle East, I think we should draw a red line, tell them to stay away from America and leave Israel alone, period. If they pull anymore (censored) like 9/11 again, we should go over there and turn their stinking desserts into one big thick sheet of glass. But, then again, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. In any case, there are lot of soldiers that gave their lives to capture those terrorists that were just let go. That's got to be an extremely demoralizing experience for any soldier. The general public doesn't seem to understand how military people, especially combat veterans, feel about these issues. I guess the best explanation would be like any mother feels about her child. That's the kind of camaraderie that's felt in the service. Everyone watches everyone's back and if you (censored) up, you pay by the rules, no excuses, period.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No need to apologize...his quote had me up to the Coke national anthem!

    Michelle would never have allowed him to promote a soft drink product....

    Like I said...it is still true as to how I see the Oval Office.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You saw it as possible...and I saw it the same, given the subject.

    The irony is that the satire is close to the truth...and that the truth is not far from the satire.

    Don't put on your hair cloth shirt just yet...history is on your side!
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  • Posted by katrinam41 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    richrobinson, I am truly sorry that I didn't check this before I posted. I have issued an apology to the group and will be much more careful in the future.
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  • Posted by katrinam41 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rocky_Road, I have apologized to the group as a whole and will be very careful not to post again without checking!
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  • Posted by katrinam41 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    jlc, I have goofed and have added an apology to the entire group--I normally check these things before I post...
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