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2007-06-24 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-06-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 We are enveloping the enemy into a kill sack

Bwahaha! [Wringing hands in anticipation and thinking "faster, please!"]

Behind this was a large chair from which judgment was apparently delivered

Brave.

fruit was not allowed to be placed next to vegetables in the market

Ooh, that's going to be make them popular!

The military was using air strikes and precision-guided bombs and missiles to destroy such targets

Precision-guided 2000# bombs, I hope?

Posted by gorb 2007-06-24 01:14|| 2007-06-24 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Not carpetbombing. How nice. So how many houses is a soldier's life or leg worth?

Posted by Perfesser 2007-06-24 07:15|| 2007-06-24 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 fruit was not allowed to be placed next to vegetables in the market

"Idiot! You put the tomatoes with the vegetables!"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-06-24 09:25|| 2007-06-24 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 "We're not carpet-bombing these things. People know if we get resistance from a house, we'll take that house out and the people in it, but not take out the entire street," said Baker. Soldiers on foot are also having to negotiate booby-trapped houses and so-called deep-buried, improvised explosive devices -- large bombs up to three metres (10 feet) under the ground.

I'm with you Perfessor. This is what's wrong with this whole operation. Our military seems perfectly content to sacrifice OUR soldiers life and limbs( and what sort of life have you got left after loosing limbs or suffering massive brain impairment) instead of inflicting damage to the locals who are cooperating or being coerced by the thugs. Take them out in big bunches. When the pain threshold is high enough they'll come around as certain Sunni sheiks have started to do. Why are we willing to lose our guys to protect these dirtdevils ? When did this idiot thinking start ? And they wonder why they have trouble meeting recruiting levels ? What a bunch of dumbshits.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-06-24 11:33|| 2007-06-24 11:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Totally love the phrase 'kill sack'...

I think the Islamists believe they're boiling a frog and so therefore continue to snipe and attrit the US forces and will of the people, all the while safe in the knowledge that the US won't 'notice' until its too late.

I think they're wrong. I think they're dealing with an entity that is doing all it can not to unleash the power it has. God help them if the US decides 'the hell with it', because sure as shit, there's not going to be a power on Earth that will be able to help them then...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-06-24 14:45|| 2007-06-24 14:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Tony, the Arab image of America is one that they have simplified for their own understanding. In my mind the Iranian backed Jihadis are engaged in something akin to simultaneously siphoning gas while smoking a cigarette, talking on a cell phone and engaging in self-pleasure. I think the end will be both rather quick, unexpected and not as pleasant as anticipated for the perpetrators.

I won't use the term tragic. There is no tragedy to a death by auto-erotic asphyxiation. It is well deserved.

Unlike many Americans, I won't propose facilitating regime change in Iran. Their society is more complex and disfunctional than what is present in Iraq and well beyond any one person's prediction of the outcome. As for a policy of enagement, I would as soon invite OJ Simpson for an X-mas houseguest.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-06-24 15:45|| 2007-06-24 15:45|| Front Page Top

#7 SuperHose - 'thanks' for that visual. It rather sums up the current situation though, doesn't it?

Were you thinking just Baquba or wider...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-06-24 16:52|| 2007-06-24 16:52|| Front Page Top

#8 This Orca is make smiles at the Hose

Posted by Shamu 2007-06-24 20:58|| 2007-06-24 20:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Tony, I was thinking globally. Americans for instance, try to extrapolate Tony Blair, Harry Potter and Sean Connery to cover the entire male population of London .. then they catch an episode of the Young Ones and become very confused.

I am currently wading through In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs to try to understand Iran since the Hostage Crisis. The book has not been an easy read for me. I am now more interested in Iran than I was before I started reading, but I don't feel like anyone can accurately predict what is going to take place there in the next ten years.

I do feel like the best American course of action is to remain disengaged from Iran and to scald them wherever possible with respect to their international mischief in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-06-24 22:46|| 2007-06-24 22:46|| Front Page Top

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