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2007-06-15 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-06-15 05:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 But will the tribes, so recently allied with al-Qaida, be dependable long-term allies?

With the likes of Reid and Pelosi, can the Americans be dependable long-term allies? Just ask a couple hundred thousand Vietnamese boat people or about a million and a half Cambodians who died in the third Holocaust of the 20th Century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-15 08:34|| 2007-06-15 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Allen said he tracked Anbar's 43 or so tribes in green and red on a map. He declined to show the map to a reporter.

Apparently, they're not all as incompetent as General Peter Pace. I ought to know.

Posted by Harry Reid 2007-06-15 09:13|| 2007-06-15 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 ''When you walk into a town and hand out soccer balls you might feel good about yourself but you shame all those boys' fathers,'' said Marine Brig. Gen. John Allen, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Anbar. ''This society is not driven by winning hearts and minds. It's driven by shame and honor.''

...compared Anbar's tribes to the mafia. ''Every tribe is like some organizations in Northeast America,'' Petraeus said. ''It's an import/export business.''

''We didn't trust them and we still don't trust them...They've always tried to link themselves with the rising star,'' he said. ''We're the rising star, and that's pretty apparent to everybody.''

They figured out the key bits for that part of the country.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-15 11:32|| 2007-06-15 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe our people should start laying a grid of IEDs for future use against our new allies.
Boggle !

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-15 12:09|| 2007-06-15 12:09|| Front Page Top

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