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2008-09-08 Iraq

U.S. begins hunting Iraq's bombmakers, not just bombs

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-08 14:04|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

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I respect Kagan but he seems to forget that until we reduced the daily IED carnage we were in no position to attract the info needed to dismatle the IED placing networks.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-08 18:44|| 2008-09-08 18:44|| Front Page Top

#2 U.S. begins hunting Iraq's bombmakers, not just bombs

My first thought, "About damn time"

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-09-08 19:15|| 2008-09-08 19:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The Israelis have been doing this for years. Did no one think to ask them?

Posted by Iblis 2008-09-08 19:27|| 2008-09-08 19:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Yep, it's past time to give these guys a 9mm retirement notice.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-09-08 19:59|| 2008-09-08 19:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The Israelis have been doing this for years. Did no one think to ask them?

The Israelis have also had several generations of living next to the Palestinians, which provided them with many who speak Arabic fluently, live under cover and provide the necessary information to make surgical strikes effective.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-08 20:08|| 2008-09-08 20:08|| Front Page Top

#6 "prosecute the insurgents"

This is nto the "legal" use of prosecute (as to puton trial), but the military use of prosecute, to follow up or carry forward something undertaken or begun, usually to its completion: to prosecute a war.. So proscute the insurgents means to END them by taking thier lives.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-08 20:18|| 2008-09-08 20:18|| Front Page Top

#7 probably we've been hunting bombmakers since day 1 but only this year has the success rate gotten high

Posted by mhw 2008-09-08 22:48|| 2008-09-08 22:48|| Front Page Top

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