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Iraq
Iraqi: 'I killed her with a machine gun'
2008-05-22
  • Residents of Basra have begun telling stories of militia massacres
  • Mom says one son was killed for drinking alcohol, two others slain for their car
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  • Dad in park says, "It's the first time that we have dared to come here in two years"
    • Posted by:Fred

    #8  embedding with Iraqi units as advisers

    Some Iraqi units are willing to embed with the Brits to advise them?
    Posted by: Glenmore   2008-05-22 19:18  

    #7  Welcome to the real world ZF. That's why over the last 6 1/2 years I've come to advocate bringing the troops home and raising tariffs. Maybe we will return when needed and maybe we won't. Much depends on their attitude and willingness to share the burden.
    Posted by: ed   2008-05-22 12:34  

    #6  ed: It's not their war. The Brit's are doing a lot more than any of our other allies.

    The US lost 100,000 men in WWI in a war that wasn't technically our war. In WWII, we also lost 350,000 men fighting the Germans and Italians in a war that wasn't really our war either. Note that in neither instance were we attacked first by our adversaries in Europe. The Brits clearly think it's a big deal to be helping us out in Iraq, but their losses have been nugatory. I think there's this perception that we are obligated to fight their wars, but that they're not obligated to fight our wars.
    Posted by: Zhang Fei   2008-05-22 12:03  

    #5  Besides which, the Brits have a situation at home that defies imagination. The quaint old Briton loosely surrounding pockets of third world milieu amid modern urban sprawl.
    Posted by: wxjames   2008-05-22 11:23  

    #4  True, no more theirs than ours.
    Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-05-22 10:39  

    #3  It's not their war. The Brit's are doing a lot more than any of our other allies.
    Posted by: ed   2008-05-22 10:18  

    #2  The Brits have neither a Bush nor a Petraeus.
    Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-05-22 10:08  

    #1  British troops have returned to the city, adopting the U.S. approach of embedding with Iraqi units as advisers. The Iraqi prime minister also has flooded the city with additional troops, bringing in soldiers from western Iraq along with their American advisers.

    Why did this take so long? Remember the Brit generals ragging on the US approach earlier on? I fear they've become EUro-ized
    Posted by: Spot   2008-05-22 09:51  

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