Jan. 30 Baghdad Will make Tet look like Disneyland
 

I'm taking bets on the body count for Jan. 30.

I say at least 200 will be killed.

spoken like a true optimist......

I hope not..thats my birthday

Yeah, but he is kind of right in a way.

I pray that all goes well but I know those fuck heads will start killing the civilians just to disrupt the process....we are fucked up over here but at least we can vote without threats of violence. Sad world we live in.

then we can tell dem damn fools who reelected him........I hope your happy with another 4 more......cause its starting out soooo good.

oh its going to be a mess and disaster. Problem is the US keeps saying the key is to get the election done on that date and all will be well. You can elect anyone you want, but the violence will not stop, and the new president will not live or have any power.

They like to point to the "successful election" in afghanastan, but they fail to tell people the elected president has rule over the city of Kabul and thats it. He has to travel in large convoys and can't leave his city as he has no power and would be killed. You can make it seem like democracy all you want, but when the people and the country don't respect, recognize and follow your rule then you had an empty and pointless election.

Democracy does not equal peace, freedom, and prosperity. By the time the Republicans admit Iraq is fucked they will have found a way to turn it around and blame it on the Democrats.

is that the iraq election day ?

400 at least

Remember, I have just woken up and have only had 2 cups of coffee

Whats a Tet?

what is the US still doing in Iraq?

not something I wanna be betting on

Tet offensive in Vietnam?

If only 200 are killed it wont be anything like Tet
At Tet we killed 45,000 viet cong, another 12,000 civilians
and lost 4300 American soldiers killed with another 1000 taken POW
and somewhere around 10,000 injured over the month long battle.

Politically it will be about the same - Pres. Johnson used that battle
to get an extra 200,000 soldiers drafted and to justify the war to the
American public, however most of what really happened in the press
back then was lies. They were of course exposed as lies some 10 years
later after we had lost more soldiers for nothing.