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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)—A man claiming to be the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq mocked the death toll of American troops and urged his fighters to launch an offensive against U.S. forces in the next few weeks.

I could have sworn that al Qaeda wasn’t in Iraq and we were supposed to pull our forces out of there to go fight al Qaeda.  It must just be my mind slipping at this late hour.

Posted by Owen at 2344 hrs
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1. dUH, RIGHT?  I am in a similar fight with educators of MPS, friends of mine- please…I don’t want to blow it yet… I have made inroads beyond imagination so far- who knows??../.I may even get these idiots on “our side”...

   Thanks much for your blog!

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   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 20, 2008 at 0013 hrs
   
   
   

2. Who ever said it wasn’t.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 20, 2008 at 0627 hrs
   
   
   

3. Owen

   You really need to pay closer attention.

   Al Queda wasn’t in Iraq until we went there.

   Everyone knows they’ve been there for years now!!

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 20, 2008 at 0736 hrs
   
   
   

4. So what sense does it make when people say that we should pull out of Iraq in order to free up resources to fight al Qaeda?

   Posted by Owen on April 20, 2008 at 0818 hrs
   
   
   

5. Just Because Al queda is now in Iraq doesn’t mean most of our troops are fighting them and only the.

   if we leave Iraq we could concentrate more on Al Queda in Afghanistan and pakistan, you do know, of course you do,
   that those are the Al Queda that attacked us on 9-11.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 20, 2008 at 0904 hrs
   
   
   

6. Are you suggesting that America take unilateral action to re-invade Afghanistan?  That’s a NATO gig now.  And we continue to fight al Qaeda on those other battlefields.  What’s wrong with continuing to fight them in Iraq too?

   Posted by Owen on April 20, 2008 at 0913 hrs
   
   
   

7. Fritz, are you suggesting we invade Pakistan?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 20, 2008 at 0959 hrs
   
   
   

8. al Qaeda in Iraq is just the new flavor at Baskin Robins.

   Posted by Aaron on April 20, 2008 at 1005 hrs
   
   
   

9. Al Qaeda in Iraq in Iraq is at most the fourth biggest problem after (in no particular order) the Shi’a militias and the Sunni militias and the Shi’a-Sunni civil war. The al Qaeda presence in Iraq is so obnoxious that even the Iraqis are working hard to help us get rid of it.

   Fritz is right. Plus, al Qaeda in Iraq isn’t even the same al Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 and that has pretty much reconstituted itself in Pakistan and Afghanistan while this administration has gone off on its little trillion-dollar cluster**** in Iraq. While this president was pouring ever more lives and treasure inro Iraq, the al Qaeda that actually attacked us was getting back together and getting stronger and stronger while our military was being stretched to its absolute breaking point.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 20, 2008 at 1038 hrs
   
   
   

10. Fritz & apc,

    Try as you might to minimize AQI and disconnect it from AQ in general it isn’t working. Ayman Al Zawahiri must have missed your memo: Zawahiri says Iraq will become ‘fortress of Islam’ see: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpDD3Wn01ketdT1EwGe6VMBJbdbg

    Posted by Marcus Aurelius on April 20, 2008 at 1134 hrs
    
    
    

11. One might think that if “even the Iraqis are working hard to help us get rid of [al Qaeda in Iraq],” then maybe in their (and thus, in our) view ranks somewhere above “the fourth biggest problem.”

    But then I’ve never been very good at doublethink…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 20, 2008 at 1139 hrs
    
    
    

12. Which came first the chicken or the egg? Is Al Qaeda in Iraq because it is an easy place to engage US troops or did US troops go there because Al Qaeda was operating from Iraqi bases?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 21, 2008 at 0910 hrs
    
    
    

13. We should’ve never gone into Iraq.

    We shouldn’t leave until we clean up our mess, create stability, ensure Iraq isn’t fertile ground for creating terrorist, isn’t susceptible to Iran and has a strong responsible government in place.

    We shouldn’t stay because it is crippling our ability to fight through a sluggish economy, the will of the people is no longer behind it and has left our military over-extended unnecessarily.

    Those are the types of quandaries you find yourself in when a person of George W. Bush’s caliber is your President.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 21, 2008 at 1242 hrs
    
    
    

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