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2008-04-16 Iraq

Mahdi loses in Basra, 400 KIA, 1000 WIA & 400 POW - Roggio

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-16 02:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Follow the numbers:
RIP and God's speed for our Best, the US Armed Forces.
and the God Bless the killed and wounded Coalition and Iraqi Forces

Mahdi loses in Basra, 400 KIA, 1000 WIA & 400 POW - Roggio Loverly Numbers, more plz.
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Follow the numbers:

Iraqi CRUDE @ $110.00 +/- per Barrel:

Bodes well for Iraq now that Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki & the Iraqi government can wrest some of the Hi-Jackers mitts off Iraqi CRUDE.

Iraq's revival boosted as oil production rises to 2.4m barrels a day

hummmm $113.00 x 1,000,000 = hummmm

IF the Sunni political Blocks, Kurdish political Blocks and the Shia political blocks can do the friggin CASH MATH and simutaniously do the friggin bad neighborhood DARWIN SURVIVAL MATH then perhaps for the sake of *LIVING & CASH UNITY* Iraqis can cut up the CASH together and SURVIVE together.

/oh damn it, there's that Western Logic getting in my way again! sheech...

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-16 04:10|| 2008-04-16 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 400KIA X 72 Virgins per "Pious Muslim" = 28,800 Virgins.

That's a pretty tall order. Where the hell is Allan going to get 28 thousand virgins?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-16 06:22|| 2008-04-16 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Where the hell is Allan going to get 28 thousand virgins?

I'm sure there is a chicken ranch he can contact.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-16 08:21|| 2008-04-16 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 The captured guys are not POWs. They are irregular combatants that are not part of a recognized army, working for an independent actor inside of a sovereign nation. They are rightly called criminals. POW is a term that they do not deserve.

Posted by Peter 2008-04-16 08:32|| 2008-04-16 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem with rushed jobs is the virgin quality isn't up to what mohammed promised.

Posted by ed 2008-04-16 08:37|| 2008-04-16 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I think there were also a huge number of Mahdi forces which, in effect, left their Mahdi "units" and also left the field of battle.

Although the MSM concentrated on the non performing ISF forces, the non performing Mahdi forces were also, no doubt, significant (although I saw nothing in the WaPo or NYT about that.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-16 09:35|| 2008-04-16 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 For the side that is supposedly winning, the Mahdis don't seem to be doing too well.

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-16 09:43|| 2008-04-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Best news is still in last graf:

Sadr and his political movement have become increasingly isolated since the fighting began in Basrah, Baghdad, and the South. The Iraqi government, with the support of the political parties, said the Sadrist political movement would not be able to participate in upcoming provincial elections if it failed to disband the Mahdi Army. On April 13, the cabinet approved legislation that prevents political parties with militias from contesting provincial elections this year. The bill will now be sent to parliament for approval. Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the senior most Shia cleric in Iraq, said the Mahdi Army was not above the law and should be disarmed.

Posted by KBK 2008-04-16 09:50|| 2008-04-16 09:50|| Front Page Top

#9 LALALALALALALALALALALALLLALALALALALALALALALA..........

Posted by MSM (with fingers in ears) 2008-04-16 10:49|| 2008-04-16 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 One of the best things about this is that it gave the Iraqi Army and Police a chance to let the Mahdi moles in their midst identify themselves and be purged. The fact that the unreliable elements of the police and army that did not fight has been basically ignored by the MSM, except for the mention that Sadr demanded they be rehired. Now he will have to pay them.

Posted by RWV 2008-04-16 11:17|| 2008-04-16 11:17|| Front Page Top

#11 28,800 virgins nothing, where am i going to get enough chocolates to pass out to celebrate all these scalps?

(airlift from the Hershey plant, STAT!)

Posted by Querent 2008-04-16 12:55|| 2008-04-16 12:55|| Front Page Top

#12 ed, that is COLD! coffee alert needed.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-16 14:20|| 2008-04-16 14:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Read Roggio's column in the Weekly Standard. That gives a much clearer overall view. If this keeps up, we're in very good position as far as "standing up" the Iraqi Army is concerned. According to Roggio (and Yon, and Totten) there has been a tremendous improvement in less than a year. That's damned good news. As for the car bombs and suicide bomber of yesterday, they're tragic. They also sound like the last throes of a dying snake. Look at what the OAS did in its last months in Algeria before the French pulled out. It's the same thing.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-04-16 17:09|| 2008-04-16 17:09|| Front Page Top

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