US Casualties Hit All Time Low In Iraq “Overseas Contingency Operation” With 90% Decrease

Remember, now that Obama’s President it’s not a war any more.

In the first two months of this year 19 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, down from 148 in the same period two years ago, Major-General David Perkins told a joint news conference with Baghdad security spokesman Major-General Qassim Moussawi.
Moussawi said the number of militant attacks documented last week in Baghdad was at a record low.
“U.S. combat deaths (in Iraq) are at the lowest level since the war began six years ago today, a decrease of over 90 percent,” Perkins said.

Sounds like victory to me. Of course, we won’t be done with the mission until our troops are out of Iraq in a combat capacity. As a supporter of the war in Iraq who has never once wavered, I look forward to the day when the Iraqis can stand on their own and Obama will withdraw our combat troops.

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  • http://Array carrick

    RR:

    This conservative retired Marine will chime in

    Thanks for the laugh.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    It is a victory but NOBAMA doesn’t want the USA to declare victory because he is a DAILY KOS, George Soros Liberal.

  • Anthony

    Dino is having wet dream of Vietnam.

    Sure the people want us to leave, its their country. And I believe that President Bush made every effort to explain that, but Libs and American media kept saying that we were there for the oil. Now they have been proven wrong.

    Apology anyone?

  • sayanything-5371

    woof,

    Meet the victors,

    You are easily propagandized.

  • jimmypop

    saddam lied, saddam died!

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Supporters of Bush’s illegal, immoral, unjustified, unconstitutional, and unnecessary invasion and occupation of Iraq should go visit their local army recruiter and sign up. The rest of US know what a crock of lies the Iraq quagmire really is.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    The racist Rugby Reader can’t get away from using logical fallacies.

    How funny.

    The strength of his position is laid bare for all to see. He looks and sees skin color over differing ideologies and uses the chickenhawk fallacy as a hammer.

    How funny!

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Your pro-war national guard unit in Alabama is most likely a bunch of military brain-washed rednecks that look forward to any opportunity to kill less-than-white folks.

  • sayanything-4625

    I’d like to see how this country would react if they had lost tens of thousands of lives due to an invasion that pretty much took out one dictator and put in another.

    They have had four elections (as the ABC report pointed out) since the invasion. That is why 64% think democracy is the best way. Don’t let reality get in the way of your little rant though.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Go GOoPers and warmongers!

    Said the guy cheering on Saddam’s old regime.

    WOW!

    Seriously, dude. You’re pretty messed up.

  • robert108

    The so-called “war” is illegal because the United States assaulted and occupied Iraq…

    More leftie lies; we didn’t “assualt” Iraq; we deposed a murdering dictator who slaughtered and tortured(real torture, no interrogation) hundreds of thousands of his own people, besides harboring and funding worldwide terrorists.
    The UN has no sovereignty over us, as it is composed of tyrants and slaveowners, for the most part. They also funded Saddam through the bogus “oil for food” program.

    Your premises are bullshit, as usual.

  • Mafario Amicucci

    Mission “finally” Accomplished.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    We have not accomplished one positive thing in Iraq. We had no business or right to attack Iraq in the first place. Everything that follows from our initial crime of invading Iraq is bullshit and government propaganda. I was there. I saw it for myself.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    When are y’all going to find your local recruiters and enlist for the cause?

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Although we have killed an awful lot of less-than-white folks, so that might not be such a bad thing for folks from Alabama.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Rugby Reader shows us his ignorance, We have not accomplished one positive thing in Iraq.

    Really,…what can one even say to that kind of stupidity? It’s best just to highlight it.

    One of your mistakes, Rugby Reader, is using the royal “we”. You don’t speak for my nation.

  • 2Hotel9

    Really, Norway Boy, show us the line in the United States Constitution that says the United Nations is in control of America. We will be here waiting.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    I’d like to see how this country would react if they had lost tens of thousands of lives due to an invasion that pretty much took out one dictator and put in another.

    Another blame America first Liberal.

    Rugby moron said: Supporters of Bush’s illegal, immoral, unjustified, unconstitutional, and unnecessary invasion and occupation of Iraq should go visit their local army recruiter and sign up. The rest of US know what a crock of lies the Iraq quagmire really is.

    Go to the Daily Kos where you will fit in, that is nothing but a line of bullshit since a majority of the dems voted to approve his war. Swing and a miss. Nothing unconstitutional about that.

    Of course I’m messed up. I wasted 547 days of my life in Iraq for George W. Bush’s lies. Everything the US government told US about Iraq is bullshit.

    Yawn!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Sorry, Rugby Reader. You’re a known racist liar. Everything you claim and say is suspect. I don’t believe that you’ve been to Iraq. You’re probably lying.

    That’s the problem with lying – even when you might be telling the truth, people won’t believe you.

    When you go on about “George W. Bush’s lies”, all I see is projection. It’s not like you don’t have a history of such behavior. I mean, just look at your racist rants. You try to glob that one off onto everybody else around you. It doesn’t look too good and it’s more than a little transparent.

    Well, carry on with your tired one note. “Brown people”, “redneck”, “Bush’s lies”, “chickenhawk”, blah blah boring blah. I won’t be seeing it. I’m throwing you back into that ignore script. You’re a waste of time and offer no stimulating intellectual debate.

    Be gone, useless troll!

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    After all, everything is all safe and such. Y’all should have no fear about dying for your country and all that crap.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Besides, the occupation of Iraq is immoral.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    I’m no racist, dude. Check with the people wanting to kill less-than-white folks.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    BTW, we have not accomplished anything positive with our invasion and occupation of Iraq.

  • sayanything-4625

    ABC News seems to think that we have done something positive in Iraq. Funny the positive reports waited until a Democrat was in office to run positive war stories.

    Optimism and Safety in Iraq
    3/19/2009

    http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7097424

    Highlights

    84% of people feel safe in their neighborhoods

    People are traveling to Iraq to have medical procedures done.

    Shipping has increase 300% and are ports are not in militia control.

    3/4 of Iraq’s trust their own security forces. (Most want the US to leave so in my opinion its time to go.)

    The police in the Northern part of Iraq have been reduced to giving out parking tickets. A long way from fighting terrorists.

    64% now say democracy is the best form of government. They reject strongman rule or an Islamic state.

    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4764&page=6

    George W. Bush may have had shoes thrown at him in Iraq, but the president’s invasion left behind one footwear trend: cowboy boots, or “boose” as the locals call them. “I wear boose because they are American,” one young man told Agence France-Presse.

    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4764&page=7

    Fishing for a future: A vendor sells a fish at the newly opened Shuhada fish market on Feb. 18 in Baghdad. The market, located in a Sunni area, had once been the scene of sectarian fighting and violence against the U.S. military. The market was rebuilt with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Such projects are part of efforts to stabilize communities and allow economic development to take hold in places once afflicted with violence. They also create short-term jobs.

    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4764&page=9

    On track? A girl smiles through the window of a train before it heads north from Baghdad to Samarra on Feb. 27. The Shiite pilgrims filling the train were in a relaxed mood during the newly revived service to Samarra. The February 2006 destruction of the golden dome of the city’s famed al-Askari mosque unleashed violence that left tens of thousands dead. The bloodshed has ebbed now and Baghdad families cram parks, but optimism is tempered with uneasiness. With U.S. combat forces set to withdraw by the end of August 2010, the world hopes Iraq is on the right track.

    Remember, there are no positive accomplishments in Iraq.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Of course I’m messed up. I wasted 547 days of my life in Iraq for George W. Bush’s lies. Everything the US government told US about Iraq is bullshit.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Bama,

    Of course I agree. RR is one fucked-up character. I worked with Norwegians and generally liked them as good folks. Then again, Norway did produce a Vidkun Quisling

    Also, RR says he served in the Marines, and yet sounds like no Marine I ever ran into.

    I doubt he ever served.

    If he did, at best, he was a shitbird, a 10 Percenter, the kind Gunny Hartman used to run roughshod over:

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What’s your name fat-body?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, Leonard Lawrence, sir.

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Lawrence? Lawrence what of Arabia?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, No, sir.

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: That name sounds like royalty are you royalty?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, No, sir.

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Do you suck dicks?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, No, sir.

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit. I bet you could suck a golfball through a garden hose.

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, No, sir.

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I don’t like the name Lawrence, only faggots and sailors are called Lawrence. From now on you’re Gomer Pyle.

    or

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! I’m going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!

    Seeing all the rough treatment he got at the hands of straight Marines (but I am being redundant) now he has a grudge against the Mighty, Mighty Marine Corps.

    More likely he is just a sniveling Leftard saying that he was a Marine.

    Freekin Leftard puke.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    This conservative retired Marine will chime in anytime Iraq is mentioned by chickenhawks. We had no business attacking Iraq. We have no business occupying Iraq.

    http://ivaw.org

  • 2Hotel9

    What a racist, lying piece of shit. But keep it coming! It is funny as hell.

  • Anthony

    without the consent of the UN Security Council

    That is assuming that the United States surrendered its autonomy to the UN. The UN has no authority except for what the nations give it, and the United States has not granted the UN sovereignty over any of its policies, foreign or domestic. You argument falls flat on its ass.

    because the Congress has never declared bush’s invasion to be a war.

    The congress doesn’t have to declare war, all they have to do is give the president the power to act as pur the War powers act of 1973.
    http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/11/iraq.us/

    Again your again collapses from its own ignorance.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    I’m no racist, dude. The redneck hick from Connecticut Texas set the standard for Arabic prejudice.

  • sayanything-4625

    I like how the tolerant left has no compunction against stereotyping anyone the don’t like as rednecks or mindless, brainwashed killers. Its funny, they come to a conservative website and are tolerated for the mostly mindless drivel they spew, the whole time they claim that we are intolerant. Yet, if I were to go to many leftie sites my comments would be deleted as fast as I wrote them. Projection? I do know this, the men in my guard unit that RR slandered are far better men than he will ever be, whether he was a Marine or not.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    The so-called “war” is illegal because the United States assaulted and occupied Iraq without the consent of the UN Security Council. In doing so they violated the same body of laws they accused Iraq of breaching.

    The so-called “war” is unconstitutional because the Congress has never declared bush’s invasion to be a war.

    Everything about Iraq is based on lies and deception. Saddam never posed a threat to US.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Americans rock! I’m proud to be one, except for Iraq.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Of course I’ll keep “talking”. I love the sound of my own words. Redneck hicks and McCainPalin go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Go GOoPers and warmongers!

  • sayanything-4625

    Again, fuck off RR. Prove we have not accomplished anything in Iraq. Until you do you are just a bigoted troll. Call me a and the rest of Alabama rednecks. It just says more about you and your character than anything else you do. You are no
    conservative and I doubt that you were a Marine.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    I blame Bush.

  • sayanything-4625

    Appeasement – to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.

    This word, I don’t think it means what you think it means…

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/world/middleeast/24sunni.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=world

    Yes we paid them to switch sides. They repaid us in blood.

    No one has ever doubted that many of the recipients of the American money were once insurgents, some aligned with Al Qaeda at one time. Essentially, they were paid to change sides. They have paid a price: More than 500 were killed in the fighting that ousted Al Qaeda from their neighborhoods and villages in 2007 and 2008.

    Now they continue to be the victims of assassinations by extremists, most recently on Monday, when an Awakening leader in Abu Ghraib was killed.

    The Awakening members’ willingness to lose their lives fighting Al Qaeda gradually persuaded Iraqi leaders around Mr. Maliki to soften their distrust and to bring these local fighters into the fold. Many Awakening leaders praised Mr. Maliki, but said other factions in the Iraqi government were undercutting his efforts. “The Iraqi Army considers us members of Al Qaeda, not Awakening Council leaders,” said Sheik Awad al-Harbousi, who lost a son, a father and four other close relatives to Al Qaeda, and who still leads the council in Taji, just north of Baghdad. “We sacrificed to kick out Al Qaeda, and this is their thank-you?”

    He said his members voted Saturday to leave the Awakening movement, though they would keep their posts. “This is a message to the prime minister,” he said, suggesting that the move was only symbolic so far.

    What is new about this? Were we appeasing the French when we let French forces in Africa join the Allies? We paid them, rearmed them and used them to fight the Germans.

  • sayanything-4625

    Fuck you RR. You are just as bigoted as anyone you claim to despise. So if someone has a different thought than you they are rednecks. Drop dead.

  • docdave

    The rest of US know what a crock of lies the Iraq quagmire really is.

    Is the US the rest of the inmates in the insane asylum where you reside?

  • docdave

    rr, everything you say is the same old tired bullshit. Why don’t you go to somewhere you’ll be appreciated, like Iran or Palestine?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Rugby Reader – I’m no racist, dude. Check with the people wanting to kill less-than-white folks.

    Yes, you are. You’re the one fixated on skin color.

    You can’t run away from what you are. Hell, you can’t even be quiet about differing skin colors. It is what you see first! Because you’re a racist.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Remember, there are no positive accomplishments in Iraq.

    I’d like to see how this country would react if they had lost tens of thousands of lives due to an invasion that pretty much took out one dictator and put in another.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    We have not accomplished one positive thing in Iraq. We had no business or right to attack Iraq in the first place. Everything that follows from our initial crime of invading Iraq is bullshit and government propaganda. I was there. I saw it for myself.

    Dude do us all a favor and go hang out with Markos at the Daily Kos you would probably fit in better over there. The huffington Post would also be a good place for you. You part of the blame America First croud, the kind that go around saying how Evil the USA is.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Rugby Reader the racist says, BTW, we have not accomplished anything positive with our invasion and occupation of Iraq.

    Saddam’s family and tribe agree with you. They mourn the deaths of Saddam and his two insane sons.

    Nice crowd you hang with.

  • 2Hotel9

    “immoral, unjustified, unconstitutional”

    In your country, Norway, perhaps. In America it is moral, justified, and Constitutional. Suck on that.

  • jimmypop

    I’d like to see how this country would react if they had lost tens of thousands of lives due to an invasion that pretty much took out one dictator and put in another.

    excellent point! however, we need some clarifications;

    how many of our own people will Obama have killed, tortured and/ or raped prior to our liberators ‘helping’ us?

    we will get to freely elect our next leader like iraqi folks have?

    will we ever have to pay anyone back for this help?

    once here, will these people go away when we tell them to?

  • sayanything-4625

    Rugby drags out the ole “chicken hawk” argument. By the way, what made the war “illegal”? What made it unconstitutional? I seem to remember Bush going to congress and asking for permission just like the Constitution required. I thought he did a good job justifying the war. You may not have liked the justification but you don’t have the final say. I like you use of the royal US. I know people that are pro war and people that are against the war. The most pro war group is my National Guard unit that just got back from Iraq. The anti war group is dominated by people that wouldn’t serve if Hitler and Satan invaded because, “war never solves anything!”. (The most historically inaccurate and stupid statement ever to cross the lips of mankind.)

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    And…he can’t get away from skin color while also using the “tolerant” slur of “redneck hick”.

    Rugby Reader, you defeat yourself with your arguments. Keep talking! You only make our points for us.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Hey dude, anything to help the cause. Rock on!

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    No, the “US” is the United States of America.

    “America, fuck yeah!”

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Freedumb is on the march.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Your bullshit is bullshit, as usual.

    We had no business attacking, invading and occupying Iraq. I dare you post one legitimate justification for what we have done to our military, and for what we have done to Iraq.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    Dino:

    I’d like to see how this country would react if they had lost tens of thousands of lives due to an invasion that pretty much took out one dictator and put in another.

    We don’t have dictators here. We have elected politicians we are free to unelect regularly when enough people decide to. Thus, there’s no need of invasion to save us unless you count yourself in which case Canada is due north, Mexico to the south, don’t let the border gate hit you in the backside on the way out.

    I know your kind distrust your fellow man so much that you cannot believe they have any positive attributes or potential, but I believe otherwise. The Iraqis will learn to take charge of themselves as a people and join the rest of the world in self-determination punctuated by regular debate and chaos. They can do this. If they don’t, well… Someone had to try and someone will have to try again.

    Kind of why I and others bother to talk sense to you.

  • WOOFX

    Meet the victors,
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  • WOOFX

    Appeasement

    All but 10,000 of the 94,000 Sunni militiamen — many of them former insurgents who agreed, for cash, to stop killing American soldiers – had been turned over to the control of the Iraqi military.

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