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2008-08-20 Iraq

Iraqi forces don't need no stinking foreign support -- Karbala governor

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-08-20 11:17|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Politicians are all the same.

Posted by tipover 2008-08-20 13:23|| 2008-08-20 13:23|| Front Page Top

#2 We've been able to bring many of the troops home to rest and recover before three brigades go off to Afghanistan because the Iraqi forces have stood up as well as they have. Yes, they still need support, but they've mostly fought well, based on the articles and commentary I've read here, and their counterinsurgency effort seems to be progressing nicely. A little national pride does no harm, especially from a provincial governor who has no say in domestic and foreign troop deployment anyway.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-20 13:33|| 2008-08-20 13:33|| Front Page Top

#3 This clown may just be a blowhard politician, but in this case, I do like the attitude. If Iraq is to cut the apron strings and stand up as an independent country, they need this attitude.

Posted by Slats Glans2659 2008-08-20 13:53|| 2008-08-20 13:53|| Front Page Top

#4 This can be interpreted in two ways, one is resentfulness, and the other is pride in their soldiers.

I suspect the latter, because he accurately points out that the Iraqis still have some gaping holes in their defenses, which both indicates that he is a realist, and can distinguish real problems from fantasies.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-20 13:57|| 2008-08-20 13:57|| Front Page Top

#5 A: This can be interpreted in two ways, one is resentfulness

Actually, I think it's resentment at our getting in the way of the ending of elections in Iraq. My prediction is that if GI's aren't in Iraq, the government will revert to dictatorship in a matter of years, much as postwar Germany or Japan would have.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-20 15:12|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-20 15:12|| Front Page Top

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