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2006-11-17 Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2006-11-17 09:14|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "No damage was done to the mosque"

When the war for freedom from islam hots up, we'll react a lot differently to religious arms dumps.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-11-17 09:28|| 2006-11-17 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "No IEDs or munitions were destroyed within the mosque itself."

I think all that stuff was too dangerous to be moved and should have been detonated in place.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-17 10:07|| 2006-11-17 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I still advocate exploding these devices when and where found--homes, mosques, roadsides, orchards, etc. Maybe the imam's will be a little more cautious about storing explosives in the mosques.

Posted by GK 2006-11-17 10:10|| 2006-11-17 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 GK, Some problems are simple to resolve.
Imams included => no further caution necessary.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-17 10:13|| 2006-11-17 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll bet Rumsfeld would have blown that mosque to bits.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-17 10:14|| 2006-11-17 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 wxjames, Rummy didn't blow the mosques. That's why we're losing. It is totally irresponsible to leave that mosque standing.

Posted by Elmereter Hupash6222 2006-11-17 11:41|| 2006-11-17 11:41|| Front Page Top

#7 How can you expect the American people to support a war when it's being fought in such a half-assed manner?

Posted by Elmereter Hupash6222 2006-11-17 11:42|| 2006-11-17 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Dammit. How can you expect your enemies to have any fear or respect for you when you don't even make them pay? Tomorrow that mosque will be full of sh|t again and good people will die because we didn't demolish it.

Posted by Elmereter Hupash6222 2006-11-17 11:47|| 2006-11-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Nothing but armories. These should be targeted with 2000 pound ordnance from the heavens. There really is no chance of dealing with this pack of useless trash. The thing that should have been done from day one was to eradicate all evidence of mosks/imams. If Iraqis object, eliminate them too. We'd be far ahead in the hearts/ minds department today. The area, though it probably still be under martial law even today, would be peaceful. Anyone causing disruption should have been publicly executed. There is no other way forward. Since there is no will for this course, leave. Never go back. If further trouble occurs there, simply wipe out the area.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-17 11:55|| 2006-11-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

#10 If the Mosque was "cordoned" by our troops, where did the emplacers go? The location needs to scanned for tunnels and the mosque should have been searched by coalition forces once the Iraqis weren't able to turn up the suspects.

Then they should have leveled the mosque, preferrably with its imam inside of it. This is just one more reason why Islam needs to lose its status as a religion. Once that goes, these are buildings, not churches. Hey, ~~sh!t~~ demolition happens.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-17 12:17|| 2006-11-17 12:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Since there is no will for this course, leave. Never go back. If further trouble occurs there, simply wipe out the area.

This is why I continue to predict that the next major show of force in the MME (Muslim Middle East), won't involve any troops. Unless we take down Iran, instead of leaving it to Israel, our return to the area probably will have a more ballistic trajectory.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-17 12:22|| 2006-11-17 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 I've got a mosque being built 200 yards from my house. I would like to submit this site as a candidate for a cordon/search op.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-11-17 13:17|| 2006-11-17 13:17|| Front Page Top

#13 I think this war needs more oversight. I mean real oversight, microscopic, from people in the know, from someone like me. And me is one of us, and us is always right.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-17 15:11|| 2006-11-17 15:11|| Front Page Top

#14 well said Mr. ShipRight! »:-)

/w

Posted by RD 2006-11-17 19:49|| 2006-11-17 19:49|| Front Page Top

#15 I believe that any mosque found to contain explosives and/or weapons should be razed by the Iraq government. It wouldn't have to happen too many times before they started to get the message. So they took the weapons out of the mosque and destroyed them. Fine. I will bet they have already been replaced with new ones.

I wonder why they even bothered reporting this story, it isn't any kind of a success, it is another pointing out of a failure. It says "you can take our ammo but you can't destroy us". Screw that.

Posted by crosspatch 2006-11-17 20:06|| 2006-11-17 20:06|| Front Page Top

#16 "any mosque found to contain explosives and/or weapons should be razed by the Iraq government." - right on. The failure to do so by the Iraqi gov't is another one of several of their blind spots, along with the long lines of applicants repeatedly bombed by terrorists and repeated episodes of unarmed government workers being kidnapped.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-17 21:01|| 2006-11-17 21:01|| Front Page Top

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