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2007-09-02 Iraq

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Posted by lotp 2007-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Geez, British involvement in Iraq was trully stellar and an example of how things are done right!

/ must I?
// oh well, to be sure:
/// sarc

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-02 01:37|| 2007-09-02 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Keep talking losers.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-02 02:00|| 2007-09-02 02:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Success has many fathers, but failure is always an orphan.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-09-02 08:22|| 2007-09-02 08:22|| Front Page Top

#4 That's because Phailure killed it's parents with a cliche while they were drunk.

Posted by Throper Ghibelline9098 2007-09-02 10:10|| 2007-09-02 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 We'll probably have to call in the Australians to mop up and secure their area when the brits leave. They've shown that they can handle stuff like that unsupervised.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-09-02 11:13|| 2007-09-02 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 I have doubts that any other approach to Basra would have done any better than the Brits. Given the proximity to both Iran and our key supply route, and the limited forces of the Coalition, I don't think a full confrontation would have been feasible. Plausibly deniable appeasement may have been the least unpalatable option. It's a problem, but ultimately a problem IRAQ has to deal with itself. Nobody can impose and enforce a solution from the outside without unacceptable casualties (to one or all sides.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-02 20:28|| 2007-09-02 20:28|| Front Page Top

#7 a "flood the zone" might have worked. The Brits went with "soft patrols". The results speak for themselves

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-02 20:42|| 2007-09-02 20:42|| Front Page Top

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