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2008-06-06 Iraq

Recruitment of suicide bombers down - Job market tight

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-06 12:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I think 6,000 Al Qaida elements [killed], compared to more than 4,000 American casualties, despite the American superiority in intelligence, weapons and surveillance, also represents a blow to the American forces.

Moron. We also killed 600,000 innocents.

Well, at least according to George Soros and Lancet.

Posted by Bobby 2008-06-06 12:25|| 2008-06-06 12:25|| Front Page Top

#2 So the industry is past the explosive growth phase?

Posted by gorb 2008-06-06 13:37|| 2008-06-06 13:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Too many early retirements!

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-06 14:16|| 2008-06-06 14:16|| Front Page Top

#4 we've been killing sunni insurgents who werent actual AQ members (though allie dto AQ) and also Sadrists.

So that explains the casualty divergence issue.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-06-06 15:02|| 2008-06-06 15:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Far more importantly, the Roach Motel Theorem has been proven.

That is, we exterminated their best and brightest, or at least most lethal, because they first had to have the wherewithal to travel and train. And only a tiny minority have the chutzpah to do that. When they are gone, there ain't no more.

We did the equivalent of wiping out an armies elite forces, leaving only draftees behind.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-06 16:57|| 2008-06-06 16:57|| Front Page Top

#6 2008-2010/2012 > POST-DUBYA POTUS SUCCESSOR > IMO, its more a [aesthetic] LULL = TEMPOR BREAK than per se defeat of AL QAEDA.

Again, iff Dubya-USA mostly stays put in Iraq and Afghanistan, and refuses to iattack and invade Iran now as per OSAMA-MOUD's END TIMES ISLAMIST APOCALYPSE, IRAN + MILITANTS WILL USE THE INTERIM TO GO NUCLEAR AMAP ASAP.

*ASYMMETRIC WARFARE > for Iran in NEAR-TERM to defend agz US = US-ALLIED attack, inavsion, and occupation, ONLY NEED A HANDFUL OF RELIABLE HIGH-YIELD STRATEGIC NUKE-WMDS WEAPS + DELIVERY SYSTEMS, BUT WOULD NEED MOSTLY BATTLEFIELD = TACTICAL LEVEL NUKES-WMDS + DELSYS [VSRBMS, SRBMS, MBMS, IRBMS], aka LIMITED WARFARE, ESPEC AGZ ISRAEL's VAUNTED AIR-GROUND FORCES = ARMOR.

ONCE IT BECOMES ABSOL CLEAR THAT THE JIHAD = ISLAMIST RADICALISM IS GOING NUCLEAR, OSAMA BIN LADEN . etc > THE US MAY HAVE TO ATTACK-INVADE IRAN REGARDLESS OF THE MERITS + REGARDLESS OF ANY RISK OF ANTI-US "GREAT POWER" CONFONTATION AND INTERVENTION.

Lest we fergit, IRAN's RADICAL MULLAHS > ASYMMETRIC WARFARE > have no qualms/scruples detonating NUKES-WMDS on IRanian soil in order to defend agz US = US-Allied invasion and occupation.

* ANTI-US SECULARISM-GOVTISM-GLOBALISM, etal. > PCorrectness = "AUTHORITARIAN" USA-Washington DC may have to devol into "TOTALITARIAN" USA-Washington DC in the name of NATIONAL-GLOBAL SECURITY + ANTI-NUCLEAR TERROR = ANTi-NUCLEAR RADICALISM-MILITANTISM.

RIGHTISM >= LEFTISM, "FASCISM" >= COMMUNISM, "INDIVIDUALISM" >= GOVERNMENTISM, LIBERATRIAN-"LAISEZ FAIRE" >= REGULATION, etc.

ION, BOSTON CELTICS beat the LAKERS in GAME 1.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-06 22:14|| 2008-06-06 22:14|| Front Page Top

#7 "Al QAEDA will need DECADES to again recruit..." > wel-l-l, ISN'T WHAT HIDDEN IMAMS-MAHDIS, + DYNASTIES, ARE FOR.

SHIA ISLAM - IS NOT THE HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI A DESCENDANT OF MOHAMMED [and Babe FATIMA, etc.], OF ISHMAEL MOSES AND ABRAHAM, DISTANT COUSIN TO THAT CRAZY WEIRDO RADICAL CHRISTIAN JESUS???

IOW, WOT > Surreally, WAR BWTN MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN = "DIVINE/HOLY" FAMILIES = GODS-HEAVEN, correct!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-06 22:27|| 2008-06-06 22:27|| Front Page Top

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