Comments on: Iraq & The Month of Lowered Expectations

By: Shaun Mullen

Shaun Mullen — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:02:42 +0000

AustinRoth:

Thank you for the help, but I’m gonna wait until TMV has made the big move and comment tags are a bit easier to use.

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:40:29 +0000

Well, what now. Every attempt to show the syntax is failing, becuase it is parsing and interpreting the tag.

SO, do this. Google ‘HTML tags”. Select the first entry (http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm). Scroll down to the second tag, its name is ‘anchor’. That shows how to use it.

And ALL the tags shown on that page work in the comments section.

Go wild!

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:34:06 +0000

Shaun -

Ok, lets try again.

First you put

Then with no quotes The Name of The Post

Then

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:32:12 +0000

Shaun - To link a long URL -

Name you want to appear in post

So, to do a real one: Spiderman 3 Review

By: kritter

kritter — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:14:06 +0000

Shaun-The problem goes back to the Republican base which blindly buys into the victory-defeat rhetoric put out by the right. These folks adamantly believe we cannot leave before the ‘job is done’, well you know the litany.The Dems will have to give in because they can’t muster the votes to override. The 20% who still support this war are in the Republican base. I believe they have given it their best effort despite being labelled as traitors by their own countrymen.

They need to turn off Rush, Sean and Bill’o and take a hard look at Bush’s dismal record of credibility on news about the war. Also, why don’t they stop going on about their meaningless “victory” and realize that the US military does not have it in their power to deliver one- even the war-God Petraeus has spoken thus. It is telling that the WH is running out of candidates to proposition for the plum post of war czar, lol.

By: Shaun Mullen

Shaun Mullen — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:12:18 +0000

Kritter:

It’s worse than that.

The sound you hear is the Democrats capitulating. Bush will veto their spending bill. The Democrats will then give him and General Petraeus political cover by introducing a bill that will put the onus on the Al Maliki government to meet (totally unrealistic) benchmarks. Bush will have succeeded in buying another six months (his declaration that Petraeus will report back on “progress” in the fall).

The six-month mark will come and there will be no progress of consequence to report and Bush will again say that more time is needed . . .

And how many more people will have died.

By: Shaun Mullen

Shaun Mullen — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:05:28 +0000

Robert:

it is indeed Stephen. Fixed. Thank you.

By: kritter

kritter — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:59:51 +0000

Shaun- The kicker came for me when they built a Palestine-style wall in Baghdad, so that the government could achieve reconciliation and strive towards national unity. The Iraq government’s role in all of this has been the plan’s fatal flaw all along. How long will the administration keep up the farce of great progress this time? In January, Rice went on record as saying that the US would give the government 90 days to try to meet its benchmarks, as its last chance. I guess she doesn’t own a calendar.
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Meanwhile, As was reported on this site yesterday, while American troops’ tours are being extended and their families greatly inconvenienced, the Iraqi Parliament is planning a well-deserved 2 month holiday in June, I guess they need a rest from all of that quibbling. We also recently learned that under Maliki’s orders the Iraqi army has continued to purge leaders that have tried to stand up to the Shiite militias. (kinda reminds me of the US atty scandal over here,lol) I’m sure the loyalists were promoted. Maybe they are more like us than we initially realized.

By: Robert Bell

Robert Bell — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:47:28 +0000

Did you mean “Robert Hadley” or “Stephen Hadley” in your last paragraph?

Please delete my comment after reading …

By: Shaun Mullen

Shaun Mullen — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:31:16 +0000

Speaking of Riverbend, I put up a post at my own blog today that puts her blogging into a much needed perspective.

There is no ability to cleanly link from TMV comments at the moment and the URL will override the sidebars, so just go to my blog and scroll down beyond the Month of Lowered Expectations post.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:11:02 +0000

Shaun – Things are going so man-Coulter swimmingly that Riverbend and her family are leaving Iraq. The surge is even better than Operation Together Forward. Maybe Sadr will stage a coup when the Iraqis Paliment takeds their two mounth vacation. Back to a serious note, Riverbend has been there from the start, I wonder if her family will take their generator to continue blogging in Syria or where ever they go.