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2006-08-04 Iraq

Thousands attend Tater's Million mullah march

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Posted by mhw 2006-08-04 13:37|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Maybe the Sunnis can send in a half dozen splodedopes to get this civil war thing started.

Posted by regular joe 2006-08-04 13:50|| 2006-08-04 13:50|| Front Page Top

#2 The important thing in the article seems to be later. With the withdrawl of US forces from Mosul to Baghdad, the insurgents tried a Tet Offensive in Mosul and it just petered out.

"...The violence erupted as 3,500 U.S. troops were being moved from the Mosul area to Baghdad to help bolster security in the capital.

Fighting raged in at least eight neighborhoods in Mosul, the largest city in Iraq's northern tier about 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

At least 80 insurgents drove vehicles into several neighborhoods and attacked police patrols and checkpoints, police said.

Two car bombs also went off. In one of the attacks, Col. Jassim Mohammed Bilal, a police battalion commander, and two other police officers were slain when attackers targeted his convoy in the eastern Noor neighborhood, said Nineveh province Gov. Duraid Kashmoula.

Police and civilians were wounded in the blast. The bodies of an unknown number of insurgents were strewn on the ground across the city."

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-04 13:56|| 2006-08-04 13:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Big mistake letting him off the hook back in the early days. Even then, we knew about his ties to Iran.

Posted by danking_70 2006-08-04 14:33|| 2006-08-04 14:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Three words: Target Rich Environment

Any questions?

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-04 14:36|| 2006-08-04 14:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Them AC-130's show up like I wanted?

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-04 15:27|| 2006-08-04 15:27|| Front Page Top

#6 To be honest I wouldnt want to see Sadr/Badgr take over Iraq but the idea of the Shia wiping the Sunni out just doesnt make me feel much pitty or regret at all.

I was one who early on actually had high hopes for the Sunnis who I considered wise and westernized enough to see that in a capitalist democracy their huge head start in education and experience of leadership would easily allow them to become the ruling elite of the economic, military along with ranking positions in the government due to experience. The US would have been willing to help them short the hardcore Sadamites but instead of participating they chose to gamble all and they have now lost on the edge of losing all. The Shia/Kurd has taken those places the Sunnis could have filled in both the military, government and quickly in the economic (hence Iraq operation taking almost 4yrs to get moving right instead of the earlier optimistic estimates). The Sunni if they are not driven out or slaughtered when we leave will never again be the ruling class in Iraq. They did it to themselves.

Killing women and children at the market for no reason but the 15second blip on the Western media does little but play to the pansies heart strings of uncontrollable fiasco cry babying but does nothing to the military balance and has drastic consequences for the future of the Sunnis in Iraq. With the Shia/Kurd no longer needing the Sunni expertise in the government and military the Sunni will soon be nothing more than a liability and in the Arab world liabilities are dealt harshly wish.

It make work out all nice and pretty in the end but I think we should prepare for the worst and not be discouraged of our end goal if along the way the Sunni are liquidated. They made their bed its theirs to sleep in. We should concentrate on making sure Sadr/Badgr and Iran dont take over because our PC warfare rules say we cant support them if they do certain things.

Posted by C-Low 2006-08-04 15:29|| 2006-08-04 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Killing women and children at the market for no reason but the 15 second blip on the Western media does little but play to the pansies heart strings of uncontrollable fiasco cry babying but does nothing to the military balance and has drastic consequences for the future of the Sunnis in Iraq.

And such rationality fits in exactly where with a Sunni universe which, to this day, remains entirely uncontaminated by even the remotest comprehension of Cause & Effect? [/snark]

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-04 15:38|| 2006-08-04 15:38|| Front Page Top

#8 I seem to recall seeing headlines proclaiming 'hundreds of thousands' not merely thousands. Somebody fall asleep in math class?

Posted by glenmore">glenmore 2006-08-04 16:01|| 2006-08-04 16:01|| Front Page Top

#9 it's the numerical conversion from the metric system...always gets journalists

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-04 16:12|| 2006-08-04 16:12|| Front Page Top

#10 "MATH is hard!" -- Journalist Barbi

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-04 16:29|| 2006-08-04 16:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Eyewitnesses estimated the crowd at tens of thousands, but the U.S. military said 14,000 attended the peaceful demonstration.

I wasn't there, but I bet we had planes counting up the numbers.

Posted by Chinter Flarong9283 2006-08-04 16:30|| 2006-08-04 16:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Infidels, this is muzzie math. Multiply by 72. QED.

Posted by ed 2006-08-04 17:06|| 2006-08-04 17:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Yu bastarde! you owe me millage Crazy Foo!

Posted by Gunga Barbie 2006-08-04 19:42|| 2006-08-04 19:42|| Front Page Top

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