When Americans want to be Super Patriotic...,When the World wants to promote agendas for World Peace...,
When every where I turn it's another cause to "FIGHT" for...,
I wonder...,
How many times do you repeat a mistake till you learn?
Soldiers can say Mission Accomplished, but can we admit because God said so that the Mission we should be on is for the Salvation of the Soul not the band aid on a regime that in less than four years will fall and be once again our foe?
Iraq is destined. We know that. When it falls, will we help, hinder, or heed the call from God to be about His Business and not our own?
Politicians send us to war, God sends us to peace in the midst of the War for your Soul. Are you willing to die for your country?
Then Why not for Jesus,,,,,WHY NOT FOR JESUS? WHY NOT FOR ETERNAL LIFE?
The Mission for Iraq has just begun, when it falls....
Will we go and save souls?
Michael James Stone
Iraqis can contain surge in terrorism, says Petraeus
Friday, 21 August 2009
David Petraeus, the US general who masterminded the "surge" in Iraq, yesterday ruled out a review of the US decision to withdraw troops from Iraqi cities despite an upsurge of violence which claimed the lives of nearly 100 people in a single day this week.
A string of suicide attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday – the worst day of bloodshed since February 2008 – and another bombing in the city yesterday, have caused dismay among Iraqis, and shaken confidence in the ability of the country's own security forces to keep the peace and contain the threat from extremists.
The attacks have also reopened questions about Barack Obama's troop withdrawal timetable. But the head of US Central Command said Iraq was no longer facing "an insurgency". Instead he termed the current spasm of violence "a terrorist threat" – and one that the Iraqi army and police were equipped to contend with.
General Petraeus conceded that while al-Qa'ida and its Sunni extremist affiliates in Iraq had been considerably weakened, they retained a "capability", bolstered by a small but steady supply of foreign fighters and money channelled through Syria. Iraqi authorities have said Wednesday's attacks were "archetypal" of the style favoured by al-Qa'ida and said they had detained two alleged members of the organisation in the west of the capital.
"There is no question that there are elements that are trying to reignite the cycle of sectarian violence of 2006 which necessitated the surge," said General Petraeus. Shia extremists were also still active, he added, and they were being trained and supported by Iran.
While there had been a splintering of Shia militant organisations, their continuing presence remained worrying, the US general said. However, he insisted that the Iraqi security forces were "more than capable" of performing their security tasks.
According to the withdrawal timetable, US troops were pulled back to bases at the end of June and combat forces are to be fully out of Iraq by this time next year.
Concerns have been growing about northern Iraq where territorial and oil tensions between Kurds and Arabs have raised fears of a new civil war. And Anbar, the province once held up by the Bush administration as a model of reconciliation, has also seen a recent spate of attacks.
