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2006-07-29 Iraq

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-07-29 13:38|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Our Stryker brigade out of Fairbanks was scheduled to be back in Alaska after a year, but right at the last moment, the duty was extended another 120 days. It has been stressful on the families, but something must be up.

Maybe with all this Hiz activity, we want to have boots on the ground for contingency w/r/t either Syria, Iraq, or Iran. My uneducated guess.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-07-29 13:55|| 2006-07-29 13:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I've figured out why we are doing this!

They're gonna HANG SADDAM!

They want Baghdad so buttoned up that anyone who runs out on to the street yelling will have a net thrown over him before he can yell twice.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-29 14:36|| 2006-07-29 14:36|| Front Page Top

#3 For a city of over 7m, I'm sorry, I don't think 3,700 hundred more is going to make much difference.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-29 17:23|| 2006-07-29 17:23|| Front Page Top

#4 It's the Mexican technique. 2 soldiers and 2 cops on every street, and the cops know everybody on their street. Then have flying squads available for every group of about 10 blocks. The backup for that is the police stations, and US aviation. Add to that random checkpoints, informants who will quickly call in anything suspicious, and finally vehicle restrictions and you have a city that is buttoned up.

You can't keep up the full court press for too long, but even a day or two would be enough to suck the wind out of the sails of any agitators.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-29 19:07|| 2006-07-29 19:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I hope and pray you are right Anon.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-29 19:19|| 2006-07-29 19:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Not only are there these 3,700 troops being moved in, but putting some known items from the last week together: (And I'm way out of my league here, really have more questions about these happenings - this is in no way analysis.)

a) Bush has Iraqi PM to Washington, even presenting him to Congress

b) Troops already in Kuwait with just a couple of days from home, sent back in for 120 days

c) Bush announces more troops being sent over

d) Troops that had been delayed in deploying, now deploying

e) Blair, on short notice, arrives, meets first with Bush, but there has been little publicity that he is here for five (5) days. That's lots for a PM of Britain, on very short notice. Who else is he meeting with?

f) From Bush's and Blair's news conference, was this a mispoke that Bush sometimes does but isn't really a mispoke :

Q: Thank you. Mr. President, and Prime Minister Blair, can I ask you both tonight what your messages are for the governments of Iran and Syria, given that you say this is the crisis of the 21st century?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Want me to start? My message is, give up your nuclear weapon and your nuclear weapon ambitions. That's my message to Syria -- I mean, to Iran.

g) From post here from DEBKA: Our sources add that from Saturday, July 29, the tempo of the American munitions airlift to Israel, begun last Wednesday, as DEBKAfile revealed exclusively, has speeded up. During Saturday, giant US Air Force C-114 cargo transports en route for Israel touched down in Scotland for refueling every few hours.

Could it be, that someone is taking seriously, that August 22 date often spoken of by that idiot in Iran?

And from LFG

A former CSIS informant who once kept tabs on terrorists says the Iranian regime is mentally and spiritually preparing its people for war against Israel.

The Ottawa man, now in Tehran, says the hate campaign against Israel is everywhere on the streets of the capital.

It is not good. It is sad, he told the Citizen.

There are posters at intersections of (Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah) saying Israel must be erased from the map.

Opponents of the Iranian government in Canada say they have received similar reports describing huge posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hezbollah leader alongside the slogan: This war is our war.

Lots to ponder on what has been occurring the last week. And JPost is reporting AF bombing near the Syria border. Maybe using stuff brought in by those USA cargo plane?

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-07-29 20:00|| 2006-07-29 20:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Sherry:

Quickest way to get your neighbor to come out may be to kick his dog around a bit. As the seething neighbor comes out, the "mother of all" Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center bombing missions unfolds. The next few weeks will be most interesting.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-29 20:13|| 2006-07-29 20:13|| Front Page Top

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