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2006-10-30 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-10-30 07:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's see - where would I begin?

First, send a Ranger battalion (supported by a couple of Spectre gunships) to bring in Sadr - with orders to obliterate anything and anybody who interferes. Once he's in custody, string him him from the ceiling by his balls - and start skinning him alive with a blowtorch - until he's begging to be waterboarded - or until he provides the location of the missing translator.

Separately, line up a couple of divisions on either side of Sadr City - one as the "hammer", and the other as the "anvil." Put a guy named William Tecumsah Sherman in charge. Start clearing buildings, looking for the missing man. As soon as a building is determined to not contain the man, level it - and move on to the next building. Drive all the inhabitants - empty-handed and screaming - into the rubble fields behind you.

Let all the world watch and understand the consequences of fucking with the US Army.

I liked the lines from a recent article I read by Ralph Peters entitled "Kill Muqtada Now" that read: "If we can't leave a democracy behind, we should at least leave the corpses of our enemies." Amen.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-10-30 08:26|| 2006-10-30 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 JDAM a Mahdi HQ every day - it may not get him released (he's proll dead) but it's just the good and right thing to do

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-30 08:27|| 2006-10-30 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 This is getting queerer and queerer.

visiting an Iraqi woman whom he had secretly married three months ago, his in-laws said.

showed pictures of the couple in Egypt for their honeymoon.

Ahmed Qusai al-Taei, 41, an Iraqi-American, was actually a translator for the American military, something his wife's relatives said they did not know until after his kidnapping.

bu Rami, the Mahdi Army commander, had been living in the abandoned Ministry of Defense building just up the street that is now inhabited by squatters, relatives said.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-30 08:30|| 2006-10-30 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Ranger is right. Enough of this pansy schit.

This guy smells. Ahmed Qusai al-Taei a double agent, sounds that way to me. You never know.

Posted by Icerigger 2006-10-30 08:35|| 2006-10-30 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 What a great excuse to annihilate the entire Mahdi Army's chain of command. Get out the industrial size package of pink panties.

Anyone have a clue how a US Army soldier (whether Iraqi born or not) was allowed to slip off post every few days? Piss poor force protection.

Posted by ed 2006-10-30 08:48|| 2006-10-30 08:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Icerigger, my first impression was this guy did a reprise of that Lebanese Marine's kidnap/desertion stunt. But this article makes it clear he really was kidnapped.

Unfortunately for Mr. al-Taei, I expect he has been either taken to Iran or all this joints have already become familiar with power drills and his body disposed of.

Posted by ed 2006-10-30 08:55|| 2006-10-30 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Tater. Breathing 3 years too long, and counting.

This clown is now reaping the rewards of his stupidity. His fate surely sucks, and I am not immune to the tragedy, but good grief, how stupid can someone get? On top of it all, this is someone who should've known it would blow up in his face, one way (with the US military) or another (asshats discovering his identity and doing this). I'd love for us to get him back, alive, but I doubt that's in the cards, so what's left is to I wonder what intel they have scraped off his hide to use against us...

I like LR's approach. Simplifies things and yields a solid feeling of satisfaction.

BTW, LR's gonna hafta explain the hammer 'n anvil thingy to the more disingenuous types. Seems back when Turkey was wearing its Muzzy face and wouldn't allow the northern anvil, there were a few RBers who pretended it didn't mean anything to have no anvil, meaning no beat-down of the Sunni Triangle, meaning a base of Opns for the Ba'athists and alQ. I guess it wuz cuz they were trying to soft-peddle the Turk perfidy - for some dumbfuck squishy-assed reason or another. Purdy damned expensive in American lives just so's they could maintain a fucked world-view. But that's what's important - no inconvenient bits allowed. Numbnutz dinks.

Posted by .com 2006-10-30 09:30|| 2006-10-30 09:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Agreed, LR and .com.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-30 10:07|| 2006-10-30 10:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Lone Ranger,
The US won't show us the brains of a Sadr kill on the sidewalk, such as the Israelis did with Sheik Yassin! It hasn't been shown that Sadr has personally killed anybody to date...and we all know, the US doesn't kill anybody from just hating alone!

Posted by smn 2006-10-30 10:24|| 2006-10-30 10:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's an Amir Taheri piece that does a good job of detailing Tater's place in the game. Note that he was charged, along with others, for the murder of rival cleric Abdul-Majid Khoi. The charges ended up being negotiated away / dropped for political BS reasons. In the end, Taheri blows what was decent background and analysis with some premium political BS at the conclusion, i.e. inclusion of Tater in the "government". That his triangulation attempt was tried is why we are looking at the mess we are in the south and in Baghdad today.

A pox on all who refuse to do the obvious, and take the State Dept-style inclusionary accommodation / appeasement route. We ALWAYS end up paying for it, two or three times over. Pfeh.

Posted by .com 2006-10-30 10:43|| 2006-10-30 10:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Shit. Link.

Posted by .com 2006-10-30 10:43|| 2006-10-30 10:43|| Front Page Top

#12 A hammer without an anvil is like clapping with one hand.

Working Between Two Shores: Hammer and Anvil

Two images seem to me to best capture the work of the translator: the image of a river with its two shores, and that of hammer and anvil and what comes between the two.
The image of the river is as pretty as it is familiar. The translator crosses this river with his precious cargo, the stuff of translation, either as a ferryman with his bark or on foot as St. Christopher. The picture of a hammer and anvil is less endearing since a degree of violence is involved in their use.

However, the idyllic image of the river is also deceptive and is mainly deployed in too simple and ahistorical a way, in the question of the means by which the cargo will be transported over the river. The answer to that question only provides information about translation procedures and techniques. However, in the context of current discussion about cultural exchange or dialogue between cultures another question seems to me to be important where the river metaphor is concerned - namely, that of the nature of the two river-banks. The question of where the material is being transferred from and where it is going, the nature of the origin and of the destination, informs us about cultural differences, cultural dependences, cultural prescriptions, and much else besides.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-10-30 11:36|| 2006-10-30 11:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Some claim by being tough we will create more terrorists. I do believe that, however, we have the military might (maybe not the public will) to punish them a lot harder than they can punish us. Eventually, after enough bodies and rubble pile are created, they will capitulate. LR, Amen. Fallujah was quiet for along time after Nov 04.

Posted by Bama Marine 2006-10-30 12:26|| 2006-10-30 12:26|| Front Page Top

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