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2007-07-10 Iraq

Michael Yon: General Petraeus visits Baqubah

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Posted by Mike 2007-07-10 09:47|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Even for some of you who have seen inhumanity in war up close, reading the whole article, especially the end piece may be a little too much. Michael being ex SF's understands what his writing will mean if taken in context. But if it is true his interpretation of what the elder told him then we are certainly dealing with an enemy more monsterous and evil than anything faced before, including the Nazis or suicidal Japanese (i.e. Iwo Jima and Attu, etc.). The only way then is total annilhation of the vipers nest starting at about 53E-38N.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-10 11:30|| 2007-07-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#2 But on D+18, when a most important visitor came to Baqubah, not only did he not seem to cause a hiccup, but everyone I talked with was happy to see him.

I think we [at least those of us who are actually paying attention to the real war and not the one painted in the MSM or by the Wormtongues] are witnessing real combat leadership not seen on the field of battle by a senior commander since Gen. Ridgway turn the 8th Army around in Korea after the collapse with the first Chinese offensive in 1951. In this case the collapse has been a political one in Washington, but the shift in strategy and operational execution by someone willing to go down into the line to show the troops that we can still beat the enemy, anyplace and anytime, has the stuff that in early times would have been 'the news' of the day. Of course, that was a time when the MSM thought of itself as part of the country, not agents of the enemy's war machine to demoralize the American public.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-07-10 13:27|| 2007-07-10 13:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, What did he say? Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family.

If 'moderate muslims' cannot react to this, then genocide becomes a viable resolution. END Islam NOW !

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-10 15:05|| 2007-07-10 15:05|| Front Page Top

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