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2006-03-31 Iraq

Iraq Shi'ite ayatollah wants US envoy sacked

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-03-31 09:23|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Never shun the chance to talk with your enemy. Such talks often reveal huge gaps in planning, secret weapons, timetables, and a vertitable cornucopia of other critical intelligence data.

Of course, such unintentional exposures can work both ways, so if possible you want the meeting recorded and heavily analyzed, to detect both their, and your own departures from discretion.

Imagine what information could be gleaned with just a few carefully crafted questions, later analyzed by audio lie detection?

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-31 10:12|| 2006-03-31 10:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Sadr and his fellow institutionalistas need to keep talking. I hope someone in Washington is paying attention, so that when the final decision is made about what to do with Sadr and friends, their comments like this will move "whack and stack" to the top of the list of options.

Our biggest problem in Iraq is that we've been too nice. The islamofruitcakes believe we can't be mean enough to defeat them. We need to disabuse them of that silly, incoherent, and totally inaccurate idea. We need to come down HARD on Sadr and his minions in a way that is totally anal. I don't think we'd have any problems after that, even with Iran.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-03-31 16:15|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-31 16:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I have heard it described that Iraq now has the second best military in the Middle East.

The militias do not stand a chance. America won't have to deal with this problem.

Would explain why Sadr and his minions are deparate to con the media into blaming the US, even to arranging hoax massacres. The Jenin Strategy? Just a ploy to keep the Coalition from letting the Iraqi army go to it.

Posted by john">john 2006-03-31 21:07|| 2006-03-31 21:07|| Front Page Top

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