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2007-01-17 Iraq

21,500 Troop Surge Has Baghdad Terrorists "Cutting and Running"

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Posted by Slinesh Angomock2573 2007-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yep - Baquba and the rest of Diyala are the obvious first hidey holes. I recall US forces coming across an actual "training camp" for bad guys in Diyala a few months back. Perhaps it's my lack of depth on military matters, but I thought that incident alone was a firing offense for Abizaid, Casey, Chiarelli - and perhaps the civilian bosses who indulged their costly experiment since early '05.

It's amusing - or is it depressing? - that the average Baghdadi is calling for some cordons and interception operations as the idiots flee Baghdad. I mean - do you think MNC-I thought of this too??

Reminds me of the first time I really got scared about how the civilians and military were handling Iraq - a wire service reporter quoted a street vendor as hailing the blockade of Fallujah that followed on the PSD incident, as it had of course interrupted the flow of car-bombs to B'dad, since everyone knew most of them came from Fallujah.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-17 00:35|| 2007-01-17 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 It's pretty bad when the common people know what the generals don't know.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-17 00:39|| 2007-01-17 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's not start celebrating our un-won victory yet.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-17 07:53|| 2007-01-17 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 The Boers was not an insurgency but state who fought with flexible units (called commandos) against the slow, rigid and stupid British Army (stupid enough to startthe war with those d...d red uniforms, so stupid they had managed to be crushed at Isandwalna by assegai wielding Zulus)

Boers had betterartillery than the British; their smokeless guns destroyed impunely their counterparts as teh Bristish artillery observers were unable to pinpoint them by the smoke of the Bruitih guns signalled them to the Boers observer

I don't know if the Boer had uniforms (but in history there have been examples of guerrilla campaigns led by uniformed units of regulmar armies). AFAIK they applied the (future?) Geneva conventions in their treatment of enemy prisoners, wounded and civilian populations. They also beat the British in set piece battles.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-01-17 08:37|| 2007-01-17 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Also the French didn't lose in Algeria, the insurgency was on the ropes (1). But De Gaulle thought that Algeria was not an asset but a burden for France, that she should look to Europe instead of the Mediterranean, that her engineer should be doing high tech in France instead of roads and bridges in Algeria so he decided to cut and run.

(1) The successful French offensive was led by paratrooper officers who had known the Vietmink prisoner camps, had drawn lessons about French errors in Indochina and were determined to not make the same ones in Algeria. BTW, well after Dien Bien Phu had become a death trap there was no shortgae of volunteers to parachute in it. Many of these volunteers had never parachuted before.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-01-17 09:07|| 2007-01-17 09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Oops the two former posts were intended for "Insurgencies really win".

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-01-17 09:09|| 2007-01-17 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 If they are running, I would assume the approriate cordons are already in place? Happy fishing!

Posted by john">john 2007-01-17 09:22|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-17 09:22|| Front Page Top

#8 So they're democrats now?

Posted by jds 2007-01-17 10:46|| 2007-01-17 10:46|| Front Page Top

#9 But, but, Billary wants our troops redeployed to Afganistan

Posted by Captain America 2007-01-17 16:56|| 2007-01-17 16:56|| Front Page Top

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