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2006-06-11 Iraq

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-11 00:06|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Seems the apologists, admirers, and talking-head "experts" should take a look at al-Baghdadi's pleas. He sounds a bit desperate - making them sound exceptionally stupid.

Posted by flyover 2006-06-11 00:48|| 2006-06-11 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 QUAGMIRE!

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-06-11 01:03|| 2006-06-11 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 A lot of the outcome will depend on what kind of "leader" Zarqawi was. If he promoted the best in the organization, then the network could reform itself fairly quickly. If he was conducting purges of anyone who he found remotely threatening and was surrounding himself with yes men and dullards, then the network may recover slowly or never at all.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-06-11 01:11|| 2006-06-11 01:11|| Front Page Top

#4 My thoughts are along the lines of calculating how many IED's, how mny kidnappings, how many other violent attacks will NOT be carried out in the coming week - because the perps were pre-empted - how many coalition and Irqui Army and police forces will not becme casualties.

Any success that yields intel that thwarts a significant number of future attacks ultimately produces a cascade of pre-emption. The more good guys AREN'T whacked, the more there are to chase down the miscreants.

The best defense is indeed a good offense. Hunt the bastards down here they live.

What we need are more "honey pot" fake jihdi websites, encouraging all jihadi recruits to "report for duty" at some isolated location - which we can then obliterate.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-06-11 02:37|| 2006-06-11 02:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Keep after it. Don't let up on these jihad turds. Stress the fact we are winning keep pounding it home. Our Warriors are winning and are winners. Jihadis are losers and failures.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-11 07:40|| 2006-06-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Did Zarq die with his ~~boots~~ New Balance sneakers on?

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-11 07:50|| 2006-06-11 07:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Send ~~lawyers~~ martrys, guns and money ole Zark has lost his tan

Posted by 6 2006-06-11 08:22|| 2006-06-11 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Dang, where's Ogetia RBs MasterTune Smith?

Ole Zark is ded,
ole Zark is ded.....

Posted by 6 2006-06-11 08:25|| 2006-06-11 08:25|| Front Page Top

#9 17 raids, but how many dead? We don't need more prisoners and seizing supplies is a temporary paliative. We need to be killing Zarq's friends, just as we killed him.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-11 10:52|| 2006-06-11 10:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Old Zark is dead, a candle lights his head.

From Oklahoma

Posted by Criger Ebbung6193 2006-06-11 12:22|| 2006-06-11 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11 New Balance are the last ones still made in the USA.

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-11 12:22|| 2006-06-11 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 We may not need more prisoners but we might want more intel, NS.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-11 12:24|| 2006-06-11 12:24|| Front Page Top

#13 More Prisoners mean more dead Jihadis. Got to keep a few alive to root out the others. There are still plenty of ~~"insurgents"~~ terroists to be dealt with. AQ in Iraq is not the only terrorists group.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-11 16:48|| 2006-06-11 16:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Good hunting TF 145.

Posted by TweedleDee 2006-06-11 17:20|| 2006-06-11 17:20|| Front Page Top

#15 #10 my thougts exactly,
"Poor Zarq is dead
Poor Zarq is dead
He's lookin' oh so peaceful and serene and serene)
He's all laid out to rest
With his hands acrost his chest
His fingernails have never been so clean

He loved the birds of the forest
And the beasts of the fields
He loved the mice and the vermin in the barn
And he treated the rats like equals (which was right)

Poor Zarq is dead
Poor Zarq is dead
His friends are weepin' wail for miles around
The daisies in the dell
Will give out a different smell
Because poor Zarq is underneath the ground

Poor Zarqis dead
A candle lights his head

He's lookin' oh so purty and so nice
He looks like he's asleep
It's a shame that he won't keep
But it's summer and we're runnin' out a' ice"

Posted by bruce 2006-06-11 18:51|| 2006-06-11 18:51|| Front Page Top

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