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2007-07-10 Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2007-07-10 14:30|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Get the water boards ready for intel surfing. Notify the second shift that more raids are pending. It's collection time !

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-10 14:38|| 2007-07-10 14:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Cool story. Intelligence is starting to shape up.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-10 14:52|| 2007-07-10 14:52|| Front Page Top

#3 While a welcome development, please let me know when this happens on a daily basis. Only then will the Iraqis even begin to deserve the tremendous boon that has been handed to them on a silver platter.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-10 15:10|| 2007-07-10 15:10|| Front Page Top

#4 They only do this when they see we are winning in their area and giving them at least some safety from AQ. Thats why more such stories since the surge. And from areas where the surge forces have been concentrated.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2007-07-10 16:31|| 2007-07-10 16:31|| Front Page Top

#5 LH is absolutely right (and James, you're absolutely wrong). Civilians are just that -- civilians, or as Bill Whittle would call them, sheep. Nothing wrong with being a sheep, that's what most of us are.

But you have to be a mighty brave sheep to go messing with the wolves when there's no sheepdogs around to protect you. Most folks won't do that.

'Clear and hold' means that we keep the sheepdogs around (either our troops or sufficiently capable Iraqi troops), so that civilians are willing to risk their necks to provide information. When they see that the sheepdogs are honest, aren't brutal (that's the point, wxjames), and risk their own lives to protect the population, then the civilians will step up, just like this.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-07-10 16:47|| 2007-07-10 16:47|| Front Page Top

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