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2008-05-08 Iraq
Residents says Iraqi soldiers warn them to leave Sadr City
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Posted by Steve 2008-05-08 08:47|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 In that the Mehdi thugs are firm believers in human shields, this is probably very good advice.
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-08 09:14||   2008-05-08 09:14|| Front Page Top

#2 This should have been handled several years ago.
High time we got it over with.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-08 09:16||   2008-05-08 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 "time to tent the house to rid it of pests. You'll have to leave for a couple of days"
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-05-08 10:10||   2008-05-08 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Start warming up the innocent women, children, kitten and baby duck counter.
Posted by DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 2008-05-08 10:40||   2008-05-08 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Instapundit:
GETTING READY FOR A BIG PUSH IN SADR CITY, and a media-related prediction: "This will likely take weeks to complete. Once the battle starts, expect to read and hear plenty of media reports emphasizing civilian deaths, setbacks in the battle, defections in the Iraqi Army, and statements of defiance from Sadr. What we won’t hear is progress by Maliki and the US in finishing off Sadr’s forces until it suddenly becomes impossible to ignore it — and then we will hear about how inept the Iraqi forces were in achieving victory. Call it the Basra Narrative. Just because it failed in Basra doesn’t mean the defeatist media won’t use it again, and again, and again."

The basic rule of press coverage is that if there's fighting, we must be losing.
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-05-08 11:07||   2008-05-08 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 The UNICEF spokeswoman is, in effect, a Madhi Army propagandist.

The Iraq govt needs to begin denouncing these types.
Posted by mhw 2008-05-08 11:13||   2008-05-08 11:13|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree with bigjim-ky.

It's about frakin' time.

I'm sure the MSM will spin the upcoming battles as "loss of control."
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2008-05-08 12:34||   2008-05-08 12:34|| Front Page Top

#8 This should have been handled several years ago.

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda.

The strategic and political situation was not conducive until recently.
Posted by Pappy 2008-05-08 14:29||   2008-05-08 14:29|| Front Page Top

#9 It all comes down too she ROE again. I mean hell just let our guys shoot the shit out of anyone bt=rave enough too leave the house
Posted by sinse 2008-05-08 14:59||   2008-05-08 14:59|| Front Page Top

#10 What people seem to be missing is that the Iraqi Army and Police are the ones doing the heavy lifting in this set of battles, not the US Army. This is the result of all of that training and equipping of the past 3 years - Iraqi forces that CAN take the battle to the enemy. Plus with the Iraqi forces being trained to go for single aimed shots and equipped with M-16/M-4 carbines, anyone doing a spray-and-pray with an AK is an automatic target, cause he ain't one of the good guys. It takes time to train a proper army, instead of the rent-a-thugs operation that most armies in the Arab world are.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-05-08 15:47||   2008-05-08 15:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Shieldwolf makes a good point: though the Iraqi Army is nowhere near US quality, they are already the most professional in the Arab world, a fact that has to make an impression on Iraq's neighbors.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2008-05-08 18:59||   2008-05-08 18:59|| Front Page Top

#12 And they're not a bunch of theocratic nut jobs. I'd suspect we've done a lot of weeding in the last 3 years, too.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-08 19:06||   2008-05-08 19:06|| Front Page Top

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