Defeat Of Al Qaeda Close, Iraqi PM Says

[sabra]

Source: CBS News/AP

Optimistic Comment Follows Day Of Bombings That Killed Nearly 60 People

(CBS/AP) A day after nearly 60 people died in a series of bombings in four cities in northern and central Iraq that were blamed on al Qaeda, the country's prime minister claimed Iraq would soon defeat the terrorist group.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki voiced optimism Wednesday that his government would conquer al Qaeda in Iraq. "We are today more confident than any time before that we are close to the point where we can declare victory against al Qaeda ... and its allies," he said Wednesday in an address to the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.

The deadly bombings struck directly at U.S. claims that the Sunni insurgency is waning and being replaced by Shiite militia violence as a major threat.

Also Wednesday, an unmanned U.S. drone fired two Hellfire missiles at militants attacking Iraqi soldiers in a Shiite militia stronghold in the southern city of Basra, killing four of the gunmen, the military said.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/16/iraq/main4019126.shtml

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1. Iraq has learned the carrot and stick trick.

[rurallib]

2. So - even if the 1000 AlQieda in Iraq are defeated -

how will that stop the civil war that is going to erupt? Will that be enough to get our troops back home? What does this have to do with why we went into Iraq? More diversion Mr. Maliki? He's learned all he needs to do is say AlQieda and he stays in power another day.

[saigon68]

3. Mr. Maliki = another Chimpanzee meat puppet

Mouthing the NEOCON line for the voting sheep

[underpants]

4. I missed him

[Javaman]

5. moron* and his puppets in iraq are trying has hard as they can

to "wrap" this cluster fuck up as quickly as possible so they can concentrate all their efforts on Iran.

It will be amusing, come the day, when the factious al qaeda is "defeated" only to have a press conference proclaiming victory, shelled

[4dsc]

6. How do you defeat a movement??

Al qaeda is not an army that can be defeated in the military sense here..

[Hugabear]

7. "We've got them where we want them, we only need 100 more years"

I guess we *could* look on that as a bargain, considering that tensions in this region go back hundreds or even thousands of years. :sarcasm:

[Finite]

8. For christs sake..

When is the US media going to get over Al-Qaeda? They had nothing to do with Iraq before the invasion, and they have had very little to do with the ensuing civil war.

'deafeating' Al-Qaeda will do very little to fix the problems of Iraq. But of course in order to maintain the 'TERRORISM' narrative, media outlets such as Fox have to keep shouting 'Al Qaeda!' every so often.

It's much easier than explaining the hugely complex conflict going on.

[sabra]

9. in last weeks hearings Gen. Petraeus said "al-Qaeda" possibly one thousand times

[Finite]

10. Exactly

The Repubs know it's the only way they can justify the occupation to the US public, keep up the AQ connection. The alternative is Americans realising that their troops are doing little more than refereeing a civil war.

[VWolf]

11. Ok, so let's take him at his word

Let's say we "defeat" Al-Qaeda tomorrow. That puts us where? Well, right back where we started, because THERE WAS NO AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ BEFORE WE INVADED.

So we've spent hundreds of billions and killed hundreds of thousands to get nowhere. Thanks.

[liberal N proud]

12. How will bu$h justify Iraq if the Al Qaeda isn't there?

[sabra]

13. easy - Iran

[uppityperson]

14. al Qaeda has been defeated in my rural neighborhood too!

blah blah blah blah blah. So, does that mean the USA can pull out of Iraq?

[libodem]

15. Where did this so called Al Qaeda

come from? Afghanistan? I don't think there is a group anywhere that personally refers to its self as 'Al Qaeda'. The Al Qaeda is a term meaning 'list' was was a loose reference to foreign fighters who trained in the Afghanistan camps and then returned home. It was a way to keep track of who had been there. We have been so duped with false media information. I still don't know why Osama Bin Ladin was targeted as the villain over Saudi Arabia. The whole thing stinks to me as a conspiracy. It was reason to take over the opium trade and then go after Iraqi oil. We have some real bad actors in the WH and instaled the same in Iraq.

[pinniped]

16. The captured al-Qaeda docs must have pleaded for reinforcements.

Seriously, this is the greatest discovery since the Rosetta Stone.

[Parche]

17. How Do You Defeat A Ficticious CIA Named Group?

:sarcasm: :grr: :sarcasm: :grr:

When will the American people wake up....

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