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2004-11-29 Iraq-Jordan

Marines Widen Their Net South of Baghdad

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Posted by God Save The World 2004-11-29 12:28:30 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1751 views since 2007-05-07] Top

1 Things I continue not to understand -- fully aware I may be the one not getting it here:

* why is there an office of any sort anyplace festooned with enemy knick-knacks and manned by people who badly need to be dead?

* why has this area not long ago been choked into submission by check-points, raids, mass preventive detentions of males who test positive for explosive or firearms handling, and active incitement of the Shi'a rural types against the town? Why have we not been way up in their face 24/7 since they decided to follow their idiotic futile project of driving us out?

* why have areas seeing more than one incident not been circumvented to the extent practical with alternative road-building, to include bypassing Latifiyah? Local labor, mostly non-Sunni, but some of those too, to recruit sources.

* why have the clan leaders of this are not all been detained unless/until they play ball with gusto? (along with any sons, brothers, or brothers-in-law) Having occupied the country, and with all the $$$ and power at our disposal, how is it that anyone of interest on any roster (RG, govt, party, mukhabbarat) is either alive, walking around free, or not working for us under duress/bribery?

Posted by Verlaine 2004-11-29 1:08:47 AM|| 2004-11-29 1:08:47 AM|| Front Page Top

2 I keep seeing this footage on TV, taken by someone who is right there with the headwrapped terrorists. They seem to be pretty handy when an attack against our guys goes down. Who the hell are these people and why are they not informing our military about who they see, where, etc? If they are terrorist sympathizers, they deserve to be in the slammer or OUT of Iraq!

Posted by graduate flyboy 2004-11-29 3:51:00 AM|| [http://patriotflyer.blogspot.com] 2004-11-29 3:51:00 AM|| Front Page Top

3 they deserve to be in the slammer or OUT of Iraq!

I would propose a more radical approach... how about out of body? Permanently.

Posted by Conanista 2004-11-29 4:57:58 AM|| 2004-11-29 4:57:58 AM|| Front Page Top

4 Well, we have been arranging many out-of-body experiences for these types lately . . . maybe we just have to get around to them.

Posted by Jame Retief 2004-11-29 7:51:25 AM|| 2004-11-29 7:51:25 AM|| Front Page Top

5 Fallujah was a mistake because it is not possible to fight in a city,"

!!!!!!!
All hail the USMC and their advances in combat in urban condititions. This is an amazing statement, and is extremely positive (if the guy who said it is really someone knowledgable) in terms of our military's growing capabilities.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-11-29 9:13:11 AM|| 2004-11-29 9:13:11 AM|| Front Page Top

6 Having looked at the CIA and Mil maps the U of Texas has online... The current Iraqi road system is a minimal spanning tree. It needs lots more roads to provide more than one way to go from A to B. There are too many choke points.

The first thing I would do is add more roads from Kuwait, Jordan and Turkey as the current system leaves it too easy for supply convoys to be targeted.

Next alternate routes so everything going NS or EW doesn't have to go through the Triangle.

Seabees and Corp of Engineers should be hard at work making military roads.

Posted by 3dc 2004-11-29 9:26:32 AM|| 2004-11-29 9:26:32 AM|| Front Page Top

7 The first thing I would do is add more roads from Kuwait, Jordan and Turkey as the current system leaves it too easy for supply convoys to be targeted.

Screw Turkey. There's no reason to come into Iraq from there, or to even go through there.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-29 2:00:05 PM|| 2004-11-29 2:00:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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