State of Emergency declared in Baghdad

[Mean MrMustard]

Originally posted by: BoberFett
Hell might not be all bad...

Touché

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Rainsford

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I want to say we should pull out of Iraq...but...I look at how in the past we've always kept troops in countries like Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. I think that the history tells us we need to stay. Hell, even when we pulled out of VietNam, millions of people we were trying to protect got slaughtered.

Should we really pull out..will that make the situation better?

No, what we should do is finish the damn job and get out as soon as humanly possible. This whole waiting-for-the-victory-fairy thing you people have going is getting pretty old.

But there is no finishing the job. There never was. Since this is part of the so called war on terror which apparently is open ended, your children will be there, as will theirs

Welcome to the Hotel California.

 

[catnap1972]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: Rainsford

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I want to say we should pull out of Iraq...but...I look at how in the past we've always kept troops in countries like Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. I think that the history tells us we need to stay. Hell, even when we pulled out of VietNam, millions of people we were trying to protect got slaughtered.

Should we really pull out..will that make the situation better?

No, what we should do is finish the damn job and get out as soon as humanly possible. This whole waiting-for-the-victory-fairy thing you people have going is getting pretty old.

But there is no finishing the job. There never was. Since this is part of the so called war on terror which apparently is open ended, your children will be there, as will theirs

Cheney has already said (several times) that we have no intention of ever leaving.

 

[EXman]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
When we pulled out of VietNam, millions of people we were trying to protect got slaughtered.

Should we really pull out..will that make the situation better?

and that is our problem why???

Our situation will get better, we need help at home.

Yea the UN will help IRAQ! F-them we're selfish bastages!

 

[EXman]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Good grief, we've gone from war to a state of emergency. Oh my!

Whatever happened to that concrete wall that was supposed to encircle Baghdad and make things safe?

Nov 2004
Allawi announced a state of emergency in Iraq
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/08/iraq.main/


March 2005
Iraq PM Allawi extends countrywide state of emergency another 30 days
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/03/iraq.main/


May 2005
Allawi extends state of emergency another 30 days
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/13/iraq.main/index.html


May 2005
Iraq to launch huge Baghdad raids
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4582615.stm

More than 40,000 Iraqi soldiers are to be deployed in Baghdad in a massive operation to hunt down insurgents, the Iraqi defence minister has announced.

...

Mr Dulaimi said the capital would be split into seven areas of operation, and warned that security measures would be far more strict than had been seen before.

"We will also impose a concrete blockade around Baghdad, like a bracelet around an arm, God willing. No-one will be able to penetrate this blockade," Mr Dulaimi said.

It is also hoped that mobile checkpoints will stop suicide bombers getting to the markets and the busy streets, where many people have been killed.

So, did that concrete bracelet ever get built? If it did, it...ummm...doesn't seem to have worked.


One year later,

June 2006
Iraqis call state of emergency in Baghdad
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=Ai...;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Iraq's government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.

...

Defense Ministry official Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Mohamed Jassim initially said all Baghdad residents must be off the streets from 2 p.m. until 6 a.m. Saturday, but al-Maliki later declared the ban would end just three hours after it began.

The state of emergency, which was to continue for an indefinite period, included a renewed prohibition on carrying weapons and gave Iraqi security forces broader arrest powers, Jassim said.

...

He declared a similar state of emergency in the increasingly volatile southern city of Basra at the beginning of June. The violence there continues, however.

And the continued US presence has done what exactly to make things better?

What do you think there will be ZERO violence there someday? Hell our "Civilized country" had what 16,900 murders last year it's not ever going to be a violence free utopia.

 

[Engineer]

Things in Iraq are just lovely. What, you didn't get this memo?

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Things in Iraq are just lovely. What, you didn't get this memo?

I saw that last week and forgot to post it. It deserves attention because I think it futher shows EVERYONE who even tries to go to work is bargaining with thier lives, even in the green zone. For that to be the case insurgency has to be HUGE!!!