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2007.04.22 Dem Perfidy // Islamism Delenda Est Roundup
See previous: 2007.04.21 Dem Perfidy // Islamism Delenda Est Roundup 3 Suspects Talk After Iraqi Soldiers Do Dirty Work
BAGHDAD, April 21 — Out here in what the soldiers call Baghdad’s wild west, sometimes the choices are all bad.
In one of the new joint American-Iraqi security stations in the capital this month, in the volatile Ghazaliya neighborhood, Capt. Darren Fowler was heaping praise on his Iraqi counterparts for helping capture three insurgent suspects who had provided information he believed would save American lives.
“The detainee gave us names from the highest to the lowest,” Captain Fowler told the Iraqi soldiers. “He showed us their safe houses, where they store weapons and I.E.D.’s and where they keep kidnap victims, how they get weapons, where weapons come from, how they place I.E.D.’s, attack us and go away. Because you detained this guy this is the first intelligence linking everything together. Good job. Very good job.”
The Iraqi officers beamed. What the Americans did not know and what the Iraqis had not told them was that before handing over the detainees to the Americans, the Iraqi soldiers had beaten one of them in front of the other two, the Iraqis said. ...
See-Dubya and Ed Morrissey have worthy comments here and here.
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Below the fold:
- Edwards: Iraq war is a "bleeding sore"
- End the war: Right message sent to the wrong address.
- Dems To Stop All Highway Funding
*** *** Edwards: Iraq war is a "bleeding sore"
Michelle Malkin
Well, this will get people to forget about his $400 Beverly Hills haircuts... Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards told Michigan Democrats Saturday night that the United States must quickly get out of Iraq, which he called a "bleeding sore."
"America needs to be leaving Iraq, this is very, very simple," said Edwards, a 53-year-old former U.S. senator from North Carolina, making his second bid for the White House.
Edwards was the keynote speaker at the Michigan Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. More than 2,000 Democrats packed a ballroom at Detroit's Cobo Center. They each paid $150. The proceeds go to the state party.
Edwards said that the war has already cost this country more than $500 billion. He also said President Bush's plan to increase troop levels won't work.
"We have had multiple surges, none of them worked," he said.
First, Harry. Now, Silky. The Middle Eastern media sends its thanks and praise. ...
Don Surber: Edwards raises money for 750 more haircuts
*** End the war: Right message sent to the wrong address.
Dems To Stop All Highway Funding
Dan Riehl
With an average fatality rate of over 1,000 per year, upon realizing that more Americans have died building and maintaining the US highway system than in Iraq during the course of the Iraq War, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has pronounced the Federal Highway system as lost. He went on to suggest it's simply another sign of Bush administration incompetence, though the fatality rate is down from that under former President Clinton.
"The cost is too great," said Reid. "It's time for American drivers to step up", he went on, suggesting that American drivers begin carrying shovels and containers of asphalt to effect their own repairs as they make their way.
Representative Jack Murtha (D) is said to be crafting legislation to re-deploy all American highway workers to golf courses, hedgerows and ...
*** "Not Responsible for Advice Not Taken"
[I've moved the excerpt and link that were here to my 4/23 roundup where they're less likely to be overlooked -- BF]
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