Comments for Understanding the Surge in Iraq and What’s Ahead at http://www.michaelyon-online.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.michaelyon-online.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:38:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.michaelyon-online.com/understanding-the-surge-in-iraq-and-whats-ahead.htm#comment-19157 Mr Ricks, like a lot of the left, was wrong in Fiasco and he is still wrong. Rather than admit it he tries to say that he is right but it will take a just little longer for his predictions to come to pass. He is as pathetic as Paul the-world-is-going-to-starve Ehrlick or Marxists that believe in the unstoppable forces of history while the walls crumble around them. What a loser. Millions should die before he admit he is wrong. Rather than help find solutions, he will gloat in his rightness. 15 years from now a generation of Iraqi kids will have grown up not living under a dictatorship. The world will be a radically different place. Michael, is this clown representative of your opinion? - NormD Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:09:00 +0100 http://www.michaelyon-online.com/understanding-the-surge-in-iraq-and-whats-ahead.htm#comment-19149 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin, 2006) and The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006ƒ??2008 (Penguin, Feb. 2009). Any idea why Mr. Ricks chose to just "Adventure" in each of the titles? I think the word tends to come to mind Indiana Jones-like escapades with the good guys winning in the end, and the bad guys getting their due. This implies a certain irony in the very brutal reality of what goes on over in Iraq. I've tried to locate an explanation to no avail. Just looking for a little insight! Thanks, Cat - Cathi Luytjes Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:41:00 +0100 http://www.michaelyon-online.com/understanding-the-surge-in-iraq-and-whats-ahead.htm#comment-19127 Mr Ricks analysis seems very weak. After all, most of the political objectives set by congress have been achieved, thus making 1/3 of his theory falsified. Emma Sky seems to be a particularly nasty woman. Who cares about the 30 million Iraqis liberated from Saddam eh Miss Sky? Much better to leave a brutal dictator in place, peace and quiet through oppression, its the colonialist way. - m.e. Fri, 29 May 2009 22:03:00 +0100 http://www.michaelyon-online.com/understanding-the-surge-in-iraq-and-whats-ahead.htm#comment-19120 Dear mr. Yon, how do you reconcile mr. Ricks's statements about the state of the war with your own? You claimed in your articles that the war was over. I really hope you were not being too optimistic, but am afraid that the end is not in sight yet. @ Jerry Hall: the only thing Saddam was hiding was his weakness. Desert Fox knocked out the WMD arsenal. A few convoys to Syria and flights to Russia would certainly not be enough to make any WMD programs just dissappear without any trace whatsoever. Especially programs of the size and magnitude claimed by the White House in 2003. - Rutger van Marissing Fri, 29 May 2009 16:57:00 +0100 http://www.michaelyon-online.com/understanding-the-surge-in-iraq-and-whats-ahead.htm#comment-19117 Anyone have anything recent on that yellow cake that was dug up and shipped to Canada? - Paul S. Fri, 29 May 2009 01:28:00 +0100 http://www.michaelyon-online.com/understanding-the-surge-in-iraq-and-whats-ahead.htm#comment-19116 Please excuse me, but I happen to disagree with some of Mr. Rick's premises. The circumstances that existed just prior to the war gave us few viable alternatives. The sanctions were failing....thanks to our "friends" the French, Russians and Chinese primarily. All of the intelligence reports for the previous decade had strongly indicated that Saddam still maintained substantial stocks of WMD weapons. Things were not likely to get any better either. I know....the "official" report says that the ISG couldn't find any WMD's in Iraq after the invasion, but politics has a funny way of changing "official" reports into something other than the truth. There are strong indicators that Saddam really was hiding something......something so important to him that he preferred the continued imposition of the UN sanctions rather than allow open access. and there were those mysterious convoys to Syria and flights to Russia.... Why don't you ask Dave Gaubatz, an investigator who worked in southern Iraq immediately after the invasion and let him tell you what he found? Remember always, Politics and truth, do not always mix well. - Jerry Hall Fri, 29 May 2009 00:43:00 +0100