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2008-05-20 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-20 11:21|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 pisslamic sensibilities are the main reson for all the ordnance stashed in the mosque...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-05-20 12:07|| 2008-05-20 12:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Im beginning to get optmistic again. Basra, this, and Mosul. Its beginning to look like the IA is sufficienly advanced, there will be room for announcements in late summer of further US withdrawls on a scale large enough to take the wind out of antiwar sales (and to help with US Army overstretch issues) without endangering continued security progress. Say another 5k to 10k troops (including support) by end of calendar 2008.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-20 15:12|| 2008-05-20 15:12|| Front Page Top

#3 But the Sadrists rejected calls by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to surrender weapons, saying Mahdi fighters have no "medium or heavy weapons."

Do the materials that go into making IEDs count as contraband, or were they lost in a loophole?

Posted by gorb 2008-05-20 18:07|| 2008-05-20 18:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Of COURSE they don't have any medium or heavy weapons - the Iranians keep those locked up until opns start.

Posted by lotp 2008-05-20 18:25|| 2008-05-20 18:25|| Front Page Top

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