On his first day as defense secretary, Robert Gates warned Monday that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years. Underscoring eroding security there, a Pentagon report said the number of insurgent and sectarian attacks had risen to the highest level in years.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/..._st_pe/us_iraq)


i just wanted to tke a second to thank the US for bringing democracy and liberty to those poor iraqis. Without the US, the Iraqis would probably still be living under Saddam's oppresive rule, but now, thanks to us, they are living under our oppressive rule. (see rape, torture...) But that's alot better than they had it when Saddam was around!

remember what bush said a few years back about removing all troops from iraq within a very specific timeframe? I'm glad he lied/was horribly wrong because if we left then all the crazy terrorists over there probably would have killed us all by now. Am i right or am i right?

God bless america

RAPE? TOURTER?......WHO? WHERE? WHEN? ME? ARE YOU SERIOUS?

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Hexum is never serious, he just forgot to take his medication today.

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I HOPE NOT BECAUSE IF HE IS THEN HE WILL BE INVALVED IN A DEBATE FROM WHICH I WILL SMASH HIM! BUT I AGREE. HE CANT BE SERIOUS!

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16241340/site/newsweek/

Civil war or not, Iraq has an economy, and—mother of all surprises—it's doing remarkably well. Real estate is booming. Construction, retail and wholesale trade sectors are healthy, too, according to a report by Global Insight in London. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports 34,000 registered companies in Iraq, up from 8,000 three years ago. Sales of secondhand cars, televisions and mobile phones have all risen sharply. Estimates vary, but one from Global Insight puts GDP growth at 17 percent last year and projects 13 percent for 2006. The World Bank has it lower: at 4 percent this year. But, given all the attention paid to deteriorating security, the startling fact is that Iraq is growing at all.

ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING MAN!

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Gix, why don't ever hear about this on the evening news?

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Probably because job numbers and economic numbers just don't draw the attention of people dying. In the last month CNN has reported everyday, and so has FOX, at least 10 people and as many as 100 Iraqis have died due to "sectarian" violence.

Check your local news. The really bad news, murder, death, rape, etc. will always trump the financial news.

Kinda shows we care more about life then money...I like that.

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NO NO NO! YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TERROR WORKS. THE MORE THE HYPE OF A CIVAL WAR THE MORE THE INSERGENTS ARE WINNING IN TRYING TO INSITE ONE! THEY ARE BOMBINBG BOTH SUNNI AND SHIAA MOSQUS AND KILLING BOTH WITH MASKS ON ALL IN THE NAME OF SHIAA AND SUNNI MUSLIMS! HELL IRAQI CHRISTIANS LIVE WITHOUT DANGER IN IRAQ! YOUR CRAZY JUST ASK MIDEASTER! SUNNIS AND SHIAAS ARE VERRY PASSIVE OF EACH OTHER! THIS IS THE WORK OF INSERGENCY TRYING TO INCITE A CIVAL WAR!

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exactly. The more press these shitheads get the more they want to attack. Is it safe to say the insurgents are camra hungry