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2005-07-14 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve 2005-07-14 08:59|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But the American vehicle was surrounded by over fifty Iranian children,....
Can we assume that StrategyPage meant Iraqi children?
How to win hearts and minds Al Qaeda style.

Posted by GK 2005-07-14 09:14|| 2005-07-14 09:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The terrorists haven't had a solid base anywhere since Fallujah. They are loosing, and they know it. Now they are hoping to terrorize the Iraqis into passivity, but even that is now backfiring with all the Iraqi deaths. Now children on top of that? There may be stonings before the week is out. :D

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-14 09:34|| 2005-07-14 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 the terrorists may be unpopular with the iraqis but at least they have Michael Moore and Ward Churchill and a good chuck of the dailykosites and demoundergrounders on their side

Posted by mhw 2005-07-14 10:38|| 2005-07-14 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 I assume the Democrats want us to pull out of Iraq and close Gitmo so that nice people like the 'scum' who killed these children can have a safe haven in Iraq to launch more 9/11 attacks against the US.

Posted by freddy">freddy 2005-07-14 10:55|| 2005-07-14 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The temperature in Baghdad appears to be heating up for Sunnis and anyone with ties to the former regime. Two Sunni contacts of mine have for several weeks told me "things are getting worse" around Baghdad. When I delve, it's clear it's not the attacks by so-called insurgents (down), or street crime (varies, but no trend or change), but something else -- Shi'a death squad activity against Sunnis and even Shi'a with a Ba'athist aroma.

When I hear this I think "hmmm, I'm not so sure this qualifies as bad news, or as 'worse'".

Bodies have been turning up. Sunni bodies. Including some gruesomely disfigured. There's been a sustained low level of revenge killings going on almost since the outset, but now the incidents are larger and making the news.

Little mention so far in the western press. But soon there will probably be a breathless feature with dark forebodings .... quotes from Sunnis who speak of a civil war, of living in fear, blah blah blah. All in the usual things-are-imperfect-therefore-quagmire!-miscalculation!-mistake!-disaster! mode. But when these stories start to come out, just remember that if the fear is induced in the right parts of the Sunni community, it's exactly what's needed, what's been missing, and the key to accelerating the decline of the opposition, already well in progress.

Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2005-07-14 12:03|| 2005-07-14 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 These people are monsters. Deliberately killing children, again and again, does not show you as a warrior of God, but rather an emmissary from Hell. How normal Muslims can support, actively or passively, groups who do this is beyond me.

Posted by remoteman 2005-07-14 12:16|| 2005-07-14 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Verlaine in Iraq, there is plenty of room for those Sunni's in Saudi Arabia. Infilitration routes work both ways. Everyone would be happier if they left.

Posted by Neutral Observer 2005-07-14 13:51|| 2005-07-14 13:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Same thing happened to Pablo Escobar in Columbia. Law enforcement put some pressure on him, but Los Pepes put the lives of his family and associates in check.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-07-14 14:37|| 2005-07-14 14:37|| Front Page Top

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