More bombings certainly in the short term in retaliation. Baathists will wither on the vine, hard core wackos and foreign Arabs (Saudi and Egyptian mainly I think with a melange of sub Sharan loons joining in too) will continue to pot shot at us and generally cause chaos for the forseeable future, but at a much reduced frequency.
Hopefully the same thing that happened after German Admiral Karl Doenitz signed the surrender: Most of the SS decides, okay, the war really is over and goes home. A few hardcore wackos keep going for a few years or so but with no generally recognized leader to fight for lose steam.
German Gureilla activity continued until 1948 but the last wackos were eventually hunted down by the Germans and that was that.
I hope that's the result. I'd like to see a peacful Iraq and the soldiers come home.
I don't think the whackos realised the true effect of what they were doing. Instead of driving the allied forces out, they pissed them off and made them more determined to stay.
Mako is right. This is good news. The Iraqi reporters in the new conference certainly seemed happy.
<mode="way too cynical for my own good"> Now what? Now the US military decision makers will announce that since the primary objective has been achieved, there is no more need for Our Boys to be over there getting killed and wounded, and will withdraw all forces from the area. This will leave Iraq in much worse shape than before we arrived, fomenting further hatred of the US. </mode>
Now the Unelected Fraud has a sudden, undeserved boost to his credibility just when his poll numbers had started dropping, just in time for election year.
The American Sheeple continue to buy GWB's act and re-elect him.
GWB will use OBL as an excuse to remain in Iraq in the "interest of Iraqui freedom" (I.e. they have more oil than they need, and seeing as how they are getting all this free money to rebuild, what's a few million gallons between friends?:P). OBL is no the perfect excuse to remain to protect our vital interest (oil).
I didn't vote for him. He *stole* his office, and he knows it.
Until now, it looked like they actually might have started a movement to IMPEACH. We can expect a patriotic media frenzy and a show trial to distract us from *that*. And we get to see him go "Nyah" at all the countries who refused to be involved.
I heard it yesterday while shopping and started singing along with it and didn't care if people thought I was a loonie:
"WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT! WAR IS OVER NOW!"
-John and Yoko/ Merry Christmas.
Makes me wish I had a chip that blocked out anything with Dubya in it.
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Still fantastic news regardless!
CYa!
Mako
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Hopefully the same thing that happened after German Admiral Karl Doenitz signed the surrender: Most of the SS decides, okay, the war really is over and goes home. A few hardcore wackos keep going for a few years or so but with no generally recognized leader to fight for lose steam.
German Gureilla activity continued until 1948 but the last wackos were eventually hunted down by the Germans and that was that.
Scott
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I don't think the whackos realised the true effect of what they were doing. Instead of driving the allied forces out, they pissed them off and made them more determined to stay.
Mako is right. This is good news. The Iraqi reporters in the new conference certainly seemed happy.
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We all do, Pal. We all do. :)
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Now what? Now the US military decision makers will announce that since the primary objective has been achieved, there is no more need for Our Boys to be over there getting killed and wounded, and will withdraw all forces from the area. This will leave Iraq in much worse shape than before we arrived, fomenting further hatred of the US.
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AfghanistanIraq, aren't we? GWB said we would...no subject
We, in the U.S., get a moron for a president for 4 more years with more tax cuts for the wealthy and a huge budget deficit. *sigh*
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It's a sad day when your response to the capture of an admittedly Very Bad Man is "CRAP! Not another four years!"
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Then he goes to trial.
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I guess that was a bit to sarcastic this early in the morning..
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GWB will use OBL as an excuse to remain in Iraq in the "interest of Iraqui freedom" (I.e. they have more oil than they need, and seeing as how they are getting all this free money to rebuild, what's a few million gallons between friends?:P). OBL is no the perfect excuse to remain to protect our vital interest (oil).
I didn't vote for him. He *stole* his office, and he knows it.
Until now, it looked like they actually might have started a movement to IMPEACH. We can expect a patriotic media frenzy and a show trial to distract us from *that*. And we get to see him go "Nyah" at all the countries who refused to be involved.
I heard it yesterday while shopping and started singing along with it and didn't care if people thought I was a loonie:
"WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT! WAR IS OVER NOW!"
-John and Yoko/ Merry Christmas.
Makes me wish I had a chip that blocked out anything with Dubya in it.