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2005-06-27 Iraq-Jordan

US confirms direct meetings with insurgent leaders

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-06-27 02:21|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ansar al-Sunna was negotiating. They didn't agree to terms, though, apparently. Now we've caught their leader.

Things seem to be happening in Iraq fast.

Keep the negotiating going with the remaining groups. Continue to honor the negotiations.

Separately, keep up the intensity on the insurgents. Keep hitting them hard.

Posted by Whomong Shavique3752 2005-06-27 08:49|| 2005-06-27 08:49|| Front Page Top

#2 divide and conquer

Posted by 2b 2005-06-27 09:17|| 2005-06-27 09:17|| Front Page Top

#3 "US officials and Iraqi officials are looking for the right people in the Sunni community to talk to in order to ensure that the Sunni Arab community becomes part of the political process. And clearly we know that the vast majority of the insurgents are from the Sunni Arab community. It makes sense to talk to them."

While a proper response would be to tell the Sunnis to phuque off due to them blowing off the elections when they did, it would only be fair to give them one more chance, but only after hitting the bastards with a massive club and exacting a heavy price.

They aren't in a position to run the show anymore, and this point should be driven home.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-27 10:04|| 2005-06-27 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 It'd be nice if they'd leak a few names...particularly if they weren't the names of the folks with whom we're really negotiating. Could stir things up, no?

Posted by Captain Pedantic 2005-06-27 15:28|| 2005-06-27 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I knew it. Bush's Iraq policy makes a good case for banning smart bombs. Give me a B52 magnesium cluster drop over whimp war, any day.

"bomb-a-rama": you should take a name that matches your actual level of beligerence (cough).

Posted by Free Thinker 2005-06-27 16:14|| 2005-06-27 16:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Magnesium cluster? LOL! Cheap thoughts indeed.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-27 16:16|| 2005-06-27 16:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Magnesium is the main ingredient in Fire bombs, as 200,000 former citizens of Tokyo couldn't possibly tell you. Surprise: peat moss (no kidding) was the second main component.

Posted by Free Thinker 2005-06-27 16:48|| 2005-06-27 16:48|| Front Page Top

#8 LOL! A Baby LeMay in our Midst! Good going!

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-27 17:08|| 2005-06-27 17:08|| Front Page Top

#9 you should take a name that matches your actual level of beligerence (cough).

If a decision was made for the USAF to begin widely using napalm canisters when attacking insurgents/terrorists, I'd have no objections whatsoever. ;)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-27 17:26|| 2005-06-27 17:26|| Front Page Top

#10 toughguy-a-rama: Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?

Posted by Free Thinker 2005-06-27 17:50|| 2005-06-27 17:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Nothing scarier than a Baby LeMay. Please don't laugh BAR, it's unkind.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-27 18:26|| 2005-06-27 18:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Ima say Doom. Better look out. ;-)

Posted by eLarson 2005-06-27 18:38|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-06-27 18:38|| Front Page Top

#13 I thought it was currently against the rules to use napalm as a war weapon. If that's the case, of course we wouldn't use it, regardless how satisfying Mr. F. Thinker might find it. Besides, smart bombs are so much more effective when one is committed to rebuilding a society afterward.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-27 21:37|| 2005-06-27 21:37|| Front Page Top

#14 "...the newspaper said that among the Sunnis in attendance was a representative from the Ansar al-Sunna Army, which claimed responsibility for killing 22 people in the dining hall of a US base at Mosul... "

Better not be true. Wouldn't want to be carrying that history into a room full of war widows/widowers.

Posted by jules 2 2005-06-27 22:34|| 2005-06-27 22:34|| Front Page Top

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