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2007-11-15 Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2007-11-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 That's gotta hurt.

I like the idea of being able to follow them. That's gotta be unnerving.

Posted by gorb 2007-11-15 01:29|| 2007-11-15 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Me like, me like.

Not enough detail to know, but I wonder whether this (and other, similar incidents) indicates a more aggressive ROE with respect to air (targets were engaged based on perceived threat, doesn't appear that a committee of JAGs, chaplains, and inspector general staff back in the US was given a written proposal to approve before structures were hit with lethal force). Or did the circumstances just allow for fairly free use of air power.

Would be nice to know how many of the harvested ones were Iraqis. But regardless, this sort of attrition of the enemy and demonstration of will and capacity are one of the principal benefits of continuing engagement in Iraq, even if the administration never imagines hinting at the fact, and 90% of Beltway types can't seem to figure it out for themselves.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-11-15 08:17|| 2007-11-15 08:17|| Front Page Top

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