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2008-05-03 Iraq

Hospital attack update - Bill Roggio's Long War Journal

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-03 17:16|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 While I certainly understand the need to take out these guys it might not have been the right time or technique. I KNOW an important target located next to (or even in) a hospital is 'fair game', but I am not sure the 'message' sent is worth the bad PR in Sadr City - 'hearts and minds' and all that really IS important in this kind of fight. I suspect it was a tough call, and I know our guys have a lot more knowledge and information than I, but it does concern me.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-05-03 17:41|| 2008-05-03 17:41|| Front Page Top

#2 The Sadrist bloc ran the Health Ministry prior to withdrawing from the government in 2007, and the hospitals in Sadr City are known to be infiltrated with Mahdi Army and Sadrist bloc members. The Mahdi Army used hospitals as staging areas for sectarian attacks and weapons storage depots.

they obviously aren't "hospitals" in our way of thinking (I asked at my Kaiser Permanente where the weapons storage area and C-in-C area was and all I got was a referral to mental health). This activity is a war crime, but nobody calls them or Hezbollah, or Hamas, or...hmmm, what do these groups all have in common? Islam

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-03 17:46|| 2008-05-03 17:46|| Front Page Top

#3 the Iraqi national gov't is ultimately Islamic/Kurd too. My point being, the international community, msm, and WE should start inciting the war crimes standards again, not just for rationalization of attacks, but as reminder at every point that the enemy doesn't play by the rules we are held to. We do our part because of who we are, the other side needs to be painted in broad accurate colors of who they really are. It's not just PR, it's strategic in setting the battlefield for support, domestic and foreign. It DOES matter. If there's one thing teh Bush team has fallen down on, it's teh messaging on who/what/why/how we are fighting. It should be accurate, repeated, and relentless in the exposure of the AQI/Al Quds/Sadr-Mahdi war crimes

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-03 17:56|| 2008-05-03 17:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The paleos like to say "suicide bombers are our F-16s." I guess the hospital is the quds assholes' aircraft carrier. Fair Game. Bang...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-05-03 18:54|| 2008-05-03 18:54|| Front Page Top

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