Avenue-X--Roberston89 tells an Iraq War Veteran That His Take on Iraq is Delusional Bullshit

[quote]Northern Kurdistan a "haven of peace"?

By the way what was it that thing you said once about Northern Kurdistan being so different, a "haven of peace" bla bla bla?

Check that story above. How many attacks has there been there too, at this point? [/quote]

Again, you're overlooking the forest because of a few trees.

Those attacks don't change my statement's validity. Northern Iraq is farther ahead in progress and development, and in the peace process, than the rest of Iraq. Your argument is like saying that we're not enjoying peace here in our own country... because our cops sometimes get involved with shoot outs.

You're pulling straws. It speaks volumes when people in Northern Iraq can go about and party at times when the rest of Iraq would have to stay indoors.

You can't even do that in some parts of many U.S. cities.

Here's another flaw in your argument. These attacks took place in Kurdish areas shared with other sects.

Updated to add:

Iraq of today is progressing exponentially... the Iraqis can now go out and about at night to have a good time.

[quote]Might be time to revise your bullshit self-delusional wishful-thinking kinds of claims. One of the consequences of the surge has been to extend the violence to areas that were previously relatively untouched like Northern Kurdistan.

You see? That, too, is what is called a "blowback" (see previous post). Blowbacks occur and keep occurring when the "policy", "tactics", or "strategy" is rotten and misguided at its core. Stay the course, buddy, stay the course.

But what do you actually know and understand about all this, besides your pathetic quotes from Fox News...and face-sitting web sites [/quote]

What do I know? You still don't realize who you're talking to, don't you?

My take on a war that I participated in, one that you didn't participate in, isn't "delusional bullshit." I don't recall you even serving a day in uniform. This plays a large role in what I know as compared to what you don't know.

So, you need to compensate, for not being a veteran, by accepting what I say about the Iraq War. Your only recourse, in this fight, is to thank me for giving you a clue.

This is war.

You attack the enemy, they fight back. As usual, they get the short end of the stick and fall back/retreat elsewhere. In Al Qaeda and AIF's case, they retreated to other locations. The coalition cracked down in the Baghdad area, and caused these rats to go outside the Baghdad area.

But guess what happened after the military took the city under control? They started working their way outward. They attacked Al Qaeda and AIF where they ran to. This caused the Iraqi leader to declare that many of these murderers didn't let international borders stop their retreat.

Where are these attacks now? If anything, they're few and sporadic. They don't come anywhere near the strength and persistence they were at when you quoted the above article.

Simply put, we're making progress. Thanks to the surge, larger amounts of the country are under control.

You need to realize something.

My assessments are based on professional experience, research, facts and logic. This is one of the reasons to why my projections have held, and yours are consistently proven wrong.

I know allot more about the topic of this argument than you'll ever know.

Instead of ranting about what you think you know, or what you think is reality, you should thank me. I'm giving you an accurate perspective... one that your cherry picked information won't give you. I'm giving you the reality and facts behind the Iraq War.

I doubt that you're a Ph.D. holder. Your conduct here smacks of intellectual dishonesty.

Updated to add:

I've recently combat deployed to Iraq. My experiences confirmed the fact that I was right. It also confirmed the fact that your assessments were wrong. I didn't need to revise my assessment back then, my projections were spot on. Most my projections happened like I said they'd happen.

The radical Islamic resistance is a joke, those cowards run away when they hear that we're coming in. They attack when they think we're not paying attention... like in the middle of the night when we're pulling force protection on an outpost we're shutting down.

Again, what do I know about this topic? I've combat deployed to Iraq twice. You've never served a day in military uniform.

I've been all over the AO that our battalion assigned to us... I didn't see the Iraq that you talked about.

That Iraq only existed in your head.

Do realize that your persistence in this fight makes you come across as a fool. You're the armchair general to my boots on the ground experience.

[quote]"Injured Iraqis lay on hospital beds in Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 13, 2007. A suicide truck bomber crashed into the offices of a Kurdish political party, killing at least 30 people and wounding scores, including a mayor, officials said. It was the second suicide attack in Kurdish areas of the north in four days. Associated Press © 2007"[/quote]

A jihadist can go anywhere and take himself, as well as a few of his targets, out. They don't even need to go to that extreme. They could remotely activate something whether it's in Iraq, or in another country.

Look at Spain. It's not a war torn country. YET, they had major terrorist attacks on their soil.

Using your argument, peace doesn't exist inside Spain because of those terror attacks.

Here's another point to demonstrate that you shot yourself in the foot. Remember the terror attacks in London? Using your own logic, the UK "isn't" making any progress because of that attack.