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Iraq
Baghdad offensive set to begin - U.S. officers
2007-02-05
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S.-Iraqi campaign to stabilize Baghdad will begin soon and the offensive against militants will be on a scale never seen during four years of war, American officers said on Sunday.

Briefing a small group of foreign reporters, three American colonels who are senior advisers to the Iraqi army and police in Baghdad said a command center overseeing the crackdown would be activated on Monday.

"The expectation is the plan will be implemented soon thereafter," Colonel Doug Heckman, senior adviser to the 9th Iraqi Army division, said at a U.S. military base in Baghdad. "It's going to be an operation unlike anything this city has seen. It's a multiple order magnitude of difference, not just a 30 percent, I mean a couple hundred percent," he added, referring to previous offensives that failed to stem bloodshed.
Posted by:gorb

#8  You want fries with that magnitude ?
Posted by: wxjames   2007-02-05 19:12  

#7  LOL you guys; I guess because 100% has a couple of zeros in it he thought it must be a couple orders of magnitude. There's a future for this fellow in Washington.
Posted by: KBK   2007-02-05 14:29  

#6  I have an idea. Ear bounties. Like were used to get control of various varmint and vermin populations in our rural areas. Maybe $1 per ear would work. For no more than $50 million we could clean up the whole country.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-02-05 12:41  

#5  *giggle*
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-02-05 10:06  

#4  "This time soldiers will get pay bonuses to come to Baghdad and will be given a finite tour of duty, so they know their deployment will not be open-ended, the American officers said."

"One, two, three, what are we kurds fighting for, dont know, want to get back to Irbil bad, but im heading for old Baghdad..."
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-02-05 09:43  

#3  A good 1st rough estimate of the magnitude of increase, but let's not be so negative. Actually,

100% + 200% (couple hundred percent increase) =

3 units,

log10(3) = .47,

so 47% of a magnitude increase.

/nitpicking
Posted by: The Approximator   2007-02-05 09:39  

#2  It's a multiple order magnitude of difference, not just a 30 percent, I mean a couple hundred percent

That would be 20% of one order of magnitude.

/metaphor police
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-02-05 09:00  

#1  Prediction: the south Tigris sectors of Baghdad will be under martial law within a week. Then comes the house to house search for al-Qaeda and the Mahdites. After phase 1 is complete, then troops head north. First surprise: the people are so conflict weary that they will support the operation.
Posted by: Sneaze   2007-02-05 00:54  

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