Situation in Iraq

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-04-08 05:18pm

What are you people complaining about? The insurgents are just doing what George W. Bush himself instructed them to do, remember?

KrauserKrauser · Post by **KrauserKrauser** » 2004-04-08 05:20pm

Well if we could get the damn country working correctly and I don't know eliminate these psychotic fundies then it could become quite the prosperous country. Too bad the fuckers are too stupid to realize this and keep fucking up their own futures.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-04-08 05:23pm

As if any of this was not accurately predicted by the antiwar crowd before the war.

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2004-04-09 03:58am

Is the situation really as bad as the Media makes it out to be or is it isolate pockets? The only voice you hear is the voice that is loudest and that right now just so happens to be the radical fundies; you never hear about the other parts of the country. Does the general consensous really want the US out? But doesn't the general consensous also want protection? Its like make up your fucking mind. But not to digress, what really is the REAL DEAL in Iraq? Its so hard to get an unbiased news report anymore.

banquetbear · Post by **banquetbear** » 2004-04-09 05:47am

...recent news...

Kut retaken...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1084727.htm

and the US troops suspend combat operations in Fallujah...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/ ... index.html

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-04-09 07:56am

Darth Wong wrote:As if any of this was not accurately predicted by the antiwar crowd before the war.

what, quagmire? they predict that before every war. A broken closk is right twice a day. Hey you know what, Nostradamus predicted Hitler.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2004-04-09 10:52am

Darth Wong wrote:As if any of this was not accurately predicted by the antiwar crowd before the war.

As if Rumsfield didn't say the exact same thing back in 91. Wonder what he say now.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-04-09 12:16pm

Col. Crackpot wrote: what, quagmire? they predict that before every war. A broken closk is right twice a day. Hey you know what, Nostradamus predicted Hitler.

Where did "they" predict a quagmire where "they" were wrong?

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-04-10 05:57am

Remember this guy?

2003, famous photo:

now:

Triumphant Marine badly hurt on anniversary of Baghdad's fall

KEN KUSMER

Associated Press

A Marine from Indiana whose smiling, cigar-smoking image symbolized the fall of Baghdad a year ago suffered severe head injuries in fighting this week in Iraq.

Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch, 36, of Terre Haute marked Friday's one-year anniversary of the fall at a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Surgeons removed a piece of shrapnel that lodged near his optic nerve when a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into his tank Tuesday in Fallujah, his wife said Friday.

"He had to have his right eye removed. He's very concerned about that," April Popaditch said from Twentynine Palms, Calif., where her husband is based.

The two spoke for 45 minutes after his surgery ended.

"I cried to him like anyone would to their loved one. Everything just came out," she said.

She said she told him, "I thank God that you have your two arms and two legs. I thank God for the wonderful Marines who were right around your tank to get you off to safety."

The two also exchanged anniversary greetings. The two were married 13 years ago Thursday, a few days after Nick Popaditch returned from his first tour of duty in Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. They have a 10-year-old son, Nicholas Jr.

April Popaditch spent their anniversary a year ago watching video footage of her husband's tank in Baghdad. An Associated Press photograph captured him smiling and holding a cigar in his hand with a statue of Saddam Hussein looming in the background shortly before Iraqis toppled it.

His company finished its tour last year, but he joined another company that left for the region at the end of February, April Popaditch said. It was sent to the Sunni triangle city of Fallujah west of Baghdad, where four Americans were killed and mutilated last week. Fighting this week in Fallujah has killed four Marines and more than 280 Iraqis.

"He is one of those Marines who has his hand raised anytime there's something overseas," April Popaditch said. "He says he goes for the people we lost on September 11."

Popaditch may be a legend in the making. In a story making the rounds at his California base, Marine Commandant Gen. Michael Hagee approached Popaditch as he lay on a gurney with bandages over his eyes. Hagee identified himself, at which the prone Popaditch snapped to attention and let out the Marine motivational cry, "OohRah!"

"That was pretty good spirits and motivating for a gunny to do that, considering what had just happened to him," a fellow "gunny," Gunnery Sgt. James Luksza, said from the base.

Popaditch called his parents, Dolores and John Popaditch of Terre Haute, before going into surgery Friday morning. A Hammond native, he graduated from Terre Haute North Vigo High School.

"He's a Marine. He's proud of what he does and so am I," Dolores Popaditch said.

Her son probably will be moved to a hospital in the United States within a few days, said Maj. Daniel Smith, executive officer of the 1st Tank Battalion based in Twentynine Palms.

Losing an eye will end his tank career, since eyesight is critical in identifying the enemy in battle, Smith said.

"He's been in the tanks enough, so he will be fine with that," April Popaditch said.

However, she and his parents hope the Marines can find a position that will allow him to continue in the service.

"He loves the corps so much," Dolores Popaditch said.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-04-10 06:58am

Darth Wong wrote:What are you people complaining about? The insurgents are just doing what George W. Bush himself instructed them to do, remember?

Oh yes, the bring it on challenge ... You know I actually forgot about that little fuckup.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-04-10 07:00am

Crown wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:What are you people complaining about? The insurgents are just doing what George W. Bush himself instructed them to do, remember?
Oh yes, the bring it on challenge ... You know I actually forgot about that little fuckup.

Funny, I was thinking about the statement Bush Sr. made to the Kurdish people during the first Iraq war about rising up against Saddam. The irony of this of course seems to be lost on GWB.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-10 07:19pm

Vympel wrote:Remember this guy?

2003, famous photo:

*snip*

That really makes it all hit home.