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Iraq |
Brits Spin Basra Surrender as Victory |
2007-11-28 |
![]() “We thought, ‘If 90% of the violence is directed at us, what would happen if we stepped back?’,” Gen Binns said. About 500 British troops moved out of one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces in the heart of Basra in early September, joining some 4,500 at a garrison at an airport on the city’s edge. Since then there has been a “remarkable and dramatic drop in attacks,” Gen Binns said in an interview in Baghdad on Thursday. Applying this logic, attacks on British forces would be down an amazing 100% if they withdrew from Iraq entirely. Achieving a zero-attack level on forces is not the mission - in Basra or elsewhere. Binns continued… “The motivation for attacking us was gone, because we’re no longer patrolling the streets,” he said. This is a disturbing matrix for calculating success. |
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
#3 Apparently, these folk have not yet read the recent Michael Yon posts... |
Posted by: Bobby 2007-11-28 21:22 |
#2 This worked great with the Germans too until about May 1940. |
Posted by: Excalibur 2007-11-28 20:51 |
#1 Should have tried this in North Africa. |
Posted by: ed 2007-11-28 17:47 |