Just a week or so ago, it was reported the US would hold off ....

[kentuck]

...on any offensive maneuvers in Iraq, until after the election. Remember? Well, exactly the opposite has happened. There has been full-blown war in and around Fallujah. Were we fed a clever bit of propaganda? Don't believe wha you see, just believe what we tell you?

[aquart]

1. Whatever Bush says, believe the opposite.

[librechik]

10. so effin true

you can mark your calendar with that info!

[OneBlueSky]

17. as in "there won't be a draft?" . . . n/t

.

[ewagner]

2. I remember that too

but I've come to believe that an assault on Fallujah is part and parcel of the "October Surprise". I think we're seeing a softening up exercise going on around the city as a prelude to a major military action within the next week...or maybe sooner.

I suspect there will be a bloody battle but victory will be declared in time for the pre-election news cycles....

oh yeah...and they'll throw in Zaqawi's (sp) death as a bonus....

[gratuitous]

3. I've warned you before, Kentuck

Quit remembering stuff! This is the last time I'm gonna tell you.

[kentuck]

12. I know gratuitous.....

My memory has always been a curse for me....

[underpants]

4. Why do you hate America so much?

You aren't supposed to remember things after a news cycle is over that is the rule...now would you like some Kool-Aid?

[gratuitous]

6. You hold him down, underpants

I'll funnel the Kool-Aid right down his ungrateful gullet!

[underpants]

13. Hurry up...he's slippery

:bounce:

[gratuitous]

14. IT'S . . . FOR . . . YOUR . . . OWN . . . GOOD

You'll feel ever so much better if you just drink it down, Kentuck. Why are you making us do this to you, you unpatriotic whelp?

[underpants]

15. HAHAHA

Hey unpatriotic whelp stop hitting yourself in the face Oap! you did it again and again.....

too funny gratuitous :thumbsup::bounce:

[kentuck]

16. Stop it !

Stand back ! I have my hemlock and I will take it!

[underpants]

18. Sh*t it didn't take gratuitous quick get over here

Slippery f**ker

[kentuck]

19. Slicker than snot on a doorknob..

:)

[gratuitous]

20. Okay, now he's REALLY pissing me off

You're seriously cutting into my "Yankees suck" posting in the Lounge, and I'll not brook that!

[kentuck]

22. Vinnie! Get the boys and take care....

of this little problem. Don't hurt 'em too bad. We need their vote on Nov 2nd... :)

[Inland]

5. No, its confusion and flip flopping and lack of strategy

Assaults create civilian casualites and hard feelings. Negotiations empower the insurgents. Both can fail. So the US just keeps trying each. Attacks, followed by truces and talks, then attacks, then talks.

The US just doesn't know what to do. It doesn't know how to bring about stability, much less a civil society.

But who, who could have ever predicted that we would ever be in a situation like this? Besides every person opposed to the war, the State Department, the War College, and a billion pundits and advisors? Bush's war, Bush's mistake, Bush's fault.

[ParrotheadTerp]

7. They will start a lot more too...

There is no doubt that we will be back to a full blown war in Iraq. People in this country rally around a war, and that will be shrubs hope.

[Beetwasher]

8. THERE IS NO BULGE! THERE IS NO VACCINE CRISIS! THERE ARE NO JOB LOSSES!

THAT NEVER HAPPENED EITHER!! YOU ARE MISTAKEN AND LYING AND A TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER!!

"There are four lights"

[WilliamPitt]

9. Despite a lot of talk, the US does not have the initiative in Iraq

The battles will happen when the Iraqi people want them to.

[gratuitous]

11. Full sovereignty, baby!

Oh, and MARS, BITCHES!

[liberal N proud]

21. Flip/FLop