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2007-01-03 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 US-led forces are likely to launch a limited new year offensive against Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army

Limited. Sigh. Sort of like saying "we're going to test the water by doing a half-a$$ed job, pi$$ a few people off when they don't get spectacular results, they'll get scared and whine about how we shouldn't do things like that, and then we'll quit it to get smacked by them the next day. I don't get it. Nobody likes the guy except some people we don't like anyway, why not just kill him and his stupid "militia" and everyone that we care about will be happy? Repeat as necessary until people feel confident that we are on their side and the problems will diminish to a policing level instead of a military one.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-03 02:14|| 2007-01-03 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Chicago Bears offensive line initiates passing strategy intended to acheive limited yardage gains against Packer defense.

Sound like something Lovie Smith would say?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-01-03 02:30|| 2007-01-03 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like either wishful thinking or someone pretending to "leak" something in order to get Mookie to straighten up and fly right. If it were really going to happen, I don't think anyone would be talking about it ahead of time.

That being said, a brigade of the 2nd Infantry has just arrived in Baghdad from Mosul which has been turned over to Iraqi forces.

Posted by crosspatch">crosspatch 2007-01-03 03:19|| http://crosspatch.townhall.com]">[http://crosspatch.townhall.com] 2007-01-03 03:19|| Front Page Top

#4 While we're at it, where is that cataclysmic backlash of revenge attacks from Saddam's grief-stricken supporters? Keep in mind that ominous warnings about this were almost the sole focus of mainstream media reports leading up to Saddam's hanging.

There is plenty of mayhem, torture, and murder in Iraq just now, but at no more than the usual levels; and there are some indications that violence may actually be down a bit.

It is a little early yet, but we may end up consigning this one to the dustbin of history, along with various other dire warnings of the past five years: the brutal Afghan winter, the invincible ten-foot tall Pashtun warrior (slayer of empires), Robert Fisk's "masters of concealment" digging in to stop the American juggernaut dead in its tracks before Baghdad, Fallujah as an Iraqi Stalingrad, and, of course, the mythic uprising of the fabled Arab street.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-01-03 03:54|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2007-01-03 03:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks, AC - I got a chuckle out of the 'dire warnings' that failed to materialize.

Posted by Bobby 2007-01-03 06:18|| 2007-01-03 06:18|| Front Page Top

#6 "masters of concealment" lol forgot that one...

Posted by RD 2007-01-03 06:47|| 2007-01-03 06:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Does any body have the time the limited New Year Offensive will begin? And at what location? I missed the ad in the paper this morning. But I did hear that quantities of terrs are limited and all deaths will be final.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-01-03 06:57|| 2007-01-03 06:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Fred - you missed an ACTUAL "I can say no more" in there. That's not like you....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-03 08:14|| 2007-01-03 08:14|| Front Page Top

#9 AC - you forgot the dire warning about the Allan's Giant Spiders of Doom!

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-01-03 08:26|| 2007-01-03 08:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Is this any way to repay the mooks that hanged Sammy? ;)

Posted by imoyaro 2007-01-03 15:40|| 2007-01-03 15:40|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sure they have a paypal account somewhere! :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-01-03 17:22|| 2007-01-03 17:22|| Front Page Top

#12 I can say no more

LOL LOL LOL LOL ROFLMAO

Posted by KBK 2007-01-03 21:31|| 2007-01-03 21:31|| Front Page Top

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