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2007-05-01 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-05-01 08:05|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Come on 7!!!!, err... I mean 12!!!! Hey, don't be surprised, I am shiite. I hate that sunni infidel :).

Posted by The Twelfth Imam 2007-05-01 08:28|| 2007-05-01 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "DNA tests should be done and we have to bring someone to identify the body."

I'd settle for his head on a stick...

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-01 09:06|| 2007-05-01 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Use a very pointy stick for that probe please. Nice and sharp.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-05-01 09:17|| 2007-05-01 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 The "aka's" are puzzling. Was this guy also known as al-Baghdadi?

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-01 09:17|| 2007-05-01 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a carpetbagger thing. Much like Hilary Rodham goes by al-Newyorki.

Posted by ed 2007-05-01 09:45|| 2007-05-01 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't get too excited, people. This war is still lost.

Posted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. 2007-05-01 10:16|| 2007-05-01 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Either way, more splodydopes whacked.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-05-01 10:24|| 2007-05-01 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ...you know, when we killed ADM Yamamoto (who at least had some kind of honor), it was hailed among those in the know as a landmark - we had taken out the best they could send out, and anyone who succeeded him was going to be inferior and it would reflect in their efforts. And, as it turned out, that was indeed the case.
This is, what - the THIRD time we've whacked the Abdul the Bul-Bul Emir for Iraq - and all we ever hear is, "It's not going to make much difference..."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-05-01 10:25|| 2007-05-01 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 #4 - Reidy al-Vegas

Posted by 3dc 2007-05-01 10:45|| 2007-05-01 10:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Kind of a tangent, Mike, but after reading Shattered Sword, Yamamoto's strategic value to Japan certainly seems a question mark. He rammed the Midway operation through the senior command by threatening to resign, then burdened it with a bizarre design that probably contributed to the depth of the catastrophe for his forces.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-05-01 11:09|| 2007-05-01 11:09|| Front Page Top

#11 No fair. Stop the surge. Too successful.

Posted by danking_70 2007-05-01 11:11|| 2007-05-01 11:11|| Front Page Top

#12 48-hour rule, I'm sure.

But, I love the smell of red-on-red in the morning.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-05-01 12:04|| 2007-05-01 12:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Much like Hilary Rodham goes by al-Newyorki.

I read something the other day that the honourable senator is dropping her maiden name during the campaign. It confuses the punters, I s'pose.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-01 12:34|| 2007-05-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#14 hey! Ima the real hidden one! and it's cold as a well diggers a** down here!

/$5 will gitya $2 ifya keep on gamblin.

Posted by The Twelfth Imami">The Twelfth Imami 2007-05-01 12:34|| 2007-05-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Verlaine: Great book, isn't it? Probably the best nonfiction work I've ever read.

Posted by Mike 2007-05-01 13:10|| 2007-05-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#16 anyone who succeeded him was going to be inferior and it would reflect in their efforts. And, as it turned out, that was indeed the case.

It will always be the case, too. This is Islam's glass jaw. High context cultures are ruled by those who marshall and restrict access to essential resources or knowledge. Regardless of whether or not we've nailed this maggot, top-down elimination of al Qaeda's power structure is the only way to go.

A one-bullet-at-a-time war-fighting strategy is NOT going to work against terrorism. Not unless each of those bullets are fired from a sniper's gun into the heads of Islam's top clerics and terrorist planners. Cannon fodder is a dime a dozen in the MME (Muslim Middle East) shitholes.

If you need proof, just consider how much progress would be made in Iraq if Iran's ruling elite were taken out. The flow of shaped charges, mortars and other weapons would probably dry up overnight. Sadr's militias would become fair game while Hamas and Hezbollah would see their sugar daddy vanish overnight.

Finally, this is why the top al-Qaeda leaders keep getting capped in Iraq. Just like with the Palestinians, where a "senior operative" is all of 25 years-old, the knowledgability and depth of consecutive replacements in Iraq becomes ever more shallow as we weed our way through these turds.

Incidentally, for those of you with your salt shakers out, AOL is reporting this as a hit.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-01 15:37|| 2007-05-01 15:37|| Front Page Top

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