Can you be more specific in your comment?

You sort of skirted that with misdirection about Iran being in the Iraqi south. Iran is doing their dangdest to gain influence in the Iraqi south, and Iran is succeeding to some extent. But your Iran ranting is effectively an evasion of my original question: what was your point in promoting a video about one (dead?) puppy and one (supposed) marine?

Well, Iran will continue trying to control Iraq for as long as the Mullahs are in power. Iran will have agents trying to gain influence inside the Iraqi government. Iran will be trying to gain influence amongst the clergy, and in the mosques. Iran will be sending snipers and bombers and military agents in to sow chaos, and to financially and logistically support Al Qaeda, as well as to support any insurgents who are willing to try and prevent Iraq’s Democratic government from succeeding. Iran will do what it can to try and discredit the U.S., and to try and discredit the U.S. military. Iran will coordinate with Basher Assad in this effort.

If Iran has the upper hand at this point, their upper hand is invisible, both to me and to you.

What is visible is the U.S. in the Green Zone, coordinating military successes against Al Qaeda and against Iranian agents in Iraq.

What is visible is the U.S. advising the Iraqi Government in how to conduct a democratic process.

What is visible is the U.S. advising the Iraqi Judiciary.

What is visible is the U.S. creating an Iraqi Army and an Iraqi Police Force.

What is visible is the U.S. helping the Iraqi Oil Industry massively increase their production.

What is visible is Iraq making agreements to allow Sunnis back into the governmental process, and Iraq distributing its oil wealth throughout the country.

What is visible is the U.N. coming back into Iraq.

What is visible is other nations beginning to recognize the Iraqi Government as legitimate – including Iran (at least publicly) – when it sends Ahmadinejad to visit Iraq.

What is visible is that violence is lessened; Baghdad is much safer and more under control; other provinces such as Anbar are safer and more under control; Sunni Sheiks in Anbar and other provinces are joined with the U.S. and the Iraqi forces in the “Awakening”.

What is visible is the Iraqi government, and the Sunni sheiks want the U.S. to stay in Iraq a while longer.

What is visible is has called another 6 month ceasefire. This is not the sign of a Mullah who is powerful enough to survive confrontation with the U.S. and Iraqi Forces.

What is visible are Shiite Mullahs issuing fatwas against attacking American forces, and Sunni Sheiks taking oaths that their tribes will work with the American forces.

What is visible are newspapers from London to the the NYT, which once predicted only doom for Iraq, openly noting that Iraq has experienced a shift in favor of peace and stability.

What is invisible is Iranian control of Iraq. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It might exist invisibly. It does mean you cannot make the case that Iran controls Iraq. You would be speculating at every turn. What is visible is U.S. and Iraqi Government control of Iraq, with Iran attempting to gain(as they always will), and Iran currently not succeeding very well in any visible fashion.

gcotharn look who wasting his time man,

look who promote (fake?) puppy videos. and who waste your time on puppies,

We still waiting answer us, do not hide behind hyperactive NEW questions.

Do not change the suject and answer what I asked gcotharn

Answer us first you will get answers to yours. is that clear gcotharn

How would your policy help Iraq and the Iraqi people?

How would your policy help America and the American people?

How would your policy help to solve the Jihad problem in the world?

BTW- neo’s blog has looked at claims of numbers of Iraqi dead since the U.S. invasion in March 2003. The accurate number is not 1M. The accurate number is more like a tenth of that false claim – which brings a question to mind – to which everyone has their own, personal answer: is freedom worth fighting and possibly dying for?

I am legitimately interested in learning what you would do if you were suddenly President of the United States.

Suicide operations caught the Arab imagination in 1983, when Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim guerrillas trained by Iran blew up 241 American servicemen and 58 French paratroops in a simultaneous operation in Beirut.
The technique – and the cult of martyrdom characteristic of the Shi’ite branch of Islam – was transferred to the Palestinians, leading to a series of bombs in Israeli buses and market places. Islam condemns suicide as a way to hell and damnation.
Before 1983 there were few suicide bombings. The Koran forbids the taking of one’s own life, and this prohibition was still generally observed. But when the United States stationed Marines in Beirut, the leaders of the Islamic resistance movement Hizbollah began to discuss turning to this ultimate terrorist weapon. Religious authorities in Iran gave it their blessing, and a wave of suicide bombings began, starting with the attacks that killed about sixty U.S. embassy workers in April of 1983 and about 240 people in the Marine compound at the airport in October. The bombings proved so successful at driving the United States and, later, Israel out of Lebanon that most lingering religious concerns were set aside.

Now that I escape sleep walk away
those who convolate knows the world they hate
Jails bars ain’t golden gates
those who fake they brake when they meet they four hundred pound mate
if i could rule the world, everyone who have a gun
and together of course we’d get the up in our their horse
I kick a rhyme drinking moon shine
I poor sip on the concrete, for the deceased
but no don’t weep, Wyclef in a state of sleep
thinking about the robbe-RY that I did last WEEK
Money in the bag, bank a look like a drag
I wanna play with pelicans from here to Bagdad
Gun blast, think fast I think I’m hit
My girl pinch’s my hips to see if I still exist
I think not, I send a letter to my friends
A born again, hooligan only to be king again

Gee.. maybe because the Arab/Muslim culture is deranged. It isn’t Americans who are killing that many people (not that I accept your outrageous number).. it’s Muslim killing Muslim. Religion of Peace vs Religion of Peace.

Inshallah

You should ask yourself and other follow American first this question why GWB elected TWO times to WH? What’s that mean Americans prefers war?

What should be between neighbors is the respect of Iraq.

If these “mad mullahs” as you said behave like normal neighbors which in Iraq case no one of its neighbors have show Iraqi any respect and while united state struggle to build Iraq which make terribly hard to help Iraqi they struggled to get every thing in order .

This is the problem that US went through; Iraqis paying very height price for that their blood.

BTW, some survey suggested there are 1 Million Iraqi killed in this war, so let think for a moment why this number of Iraqi killed?

if Iraq in 8 years lost million here we got one million in 5yeras and still the Iraqi bleeding due to his neighbors who do not love to see Iraq free, prosperous country.