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2006-11-23 Iraq

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Posted by .com 2006-11-23 12:51|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11142 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't we have 24/7 aerial surveillance of the whole of Baghdad? We should have real time video of the blasts. Why don't we rewind the tape and see where the trucks came from and take care of the problem.

By now, our analysts should know Baghdad better than their home towns.

Posted by Penguin 2006-11-23 13:20|| 2006-11-23 13:20|| Front Page Top

#2 I thougt Sadr would protect them.

Posted by plainslow 2006-11-23 13:45|| 2006-11-23 13:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, you'd think they should have some sort of witnesses or surveillance that they could use to find those responsible for something this size.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-23 13:45|| 2006-11-23 13:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Nothing says "Muslim love" better than a mass killing. It's like these stupid fucks just can't help but slaughter each other like sheep. How can anyone fool themselves into believing that Islam is the Religion of Peace? [spit] You'll sooner see the KKK marching in a gay pride parade.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-23 13:46|| 2006-11-23 13:46|| Front Page Top

#5 This is just a taste of what is to come once the moonbats get their way and the troops are pulled out.

Once there are literally rivers of blood in Iraqi streets, those same moonbats will be saying, "Well who'd o thunk it"?

Posted by Nemesis">Nemesis 2006-11-23 14:21|| http://www.nemsplace.co.uk]">[http://www.nemsplace.co.uk] 2006-11-23 14:21|| Front Page Top

#6 And they'll be demanding that we send troops back in and settle the whole mess under UN command, Nemesis.

Which would be about as smart as anything else the Dhimmis have ever done.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-23 14:30|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-23 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 One problem is that Sunnis, globally, are supporting al-Qaeda in Iraq. Americans have to get better intelligence on that association of 9-11 murderers.

Again: land in mass in sectors of Baghdad and pick up 100 young Iraqis from each sector under the cover of investigative detention. Most will not inform on terror financing, incitement or arms caches. Enough will to yield good targets for 500 pounders. Detainees will be suspected of informing, but the terrorist won't kill all of them, in deference to morale, which is extremely high among al-Qaeda. Check out their website:
http://press-release.blogspot.com/

Try anything except maintaining the status quo. If its broke; fix it.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-23 15:01|| 2006-11-23 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Pull all American troops out of Baghdad...and tightly surround it. Tell the entire city to strip naked and march out within 24 hours.

Then level the entire city (including those too stupid, evil or SHY to leave).

Posted by Justrand 2006-11-23 15:26|| 2006-11-23 15:26|| Front Page Top

#9 If its broke; fix it.

I trust that you're using the word "fix" in the veterinary sense.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-23 15:27|| 2006-11-23 15:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Considering the crap that Sadr is pulling, I kind of want to sympathize with the Sunnis on this one.

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-11-23 15:33|| 2006-11-23 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 "killed 133 people in a Shi'ite militia stronghold"

It's a possibility we just buttered up some popcorn and watched this one.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-23 16:07|| 2006-11-23 16:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Again: land in mass in sectors of Baghdad and pick up 100 young Iraqis from each sector under the cover of investigative detention. Most will not inform on terror financing, incitement or arms caches. Enough will to yield good targets for 500 pounders. Detainees will be suspected of informing, but the terrorist won't kill all of them, in deference to morale, which is extremely high among al-Qaeda.

Sounds like something Saddam would have done - except he'd have executed the 100 picked up and then gone back to kill their families too.

I believe the Israeli's have some experience doing this and it hasn't gotten them very far with the Paleo's either.

I do not want our soldiers to use these kinds of tactics. I want them to win, but not at the cost of our humanity.

Far better just to gun them down in the street than foment the kind of outcry and outright rebellion and complete hatred these kinds of tactics would inevitably generate IMO.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-23 16:23|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-23 16:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh, and BTW, we and our soldiers are men not animals (men being used in the collective civilized sense here).

We are fighting animals. We do not have to descend to their level in the process.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-23 16:25|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-23 16:25|| Front Page Top

#14 I do not know what time-line we are thinking about now for giving democracy a chance.

If we lose patience:

Take the oilfields and distribution facilities not only in Iraq but in Saudi and Iran. Alternatively, deny Iranian production by knocking out their island distribution center in the Gulf. Any UN member who objects (esp. China) is denied the oil. All oil proceeds can either be kept in escrow for some hypothetical future states in the region capable of civilized behavior. Alternately, we simply keep the oil as a cost of the policing the high-seas and for other worthy causes such as weapons systems procurement, space exploration or hookers for every member of the US armed forces.

Just a thought.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-23 16:56|| 2006-11-23 16:56|| Front Page Top

#15 I want them to win, but not at the cost of our humanity.

And if the cost of our humanity is our lives or our civilization/nation, will you sleep peacefully then?

You do not win against animals that crave death, by holding the moral high ground. You win by killing them and their support systems without mercy. And you continue to kill them until they give up or there are none left. Pity we have forgotten that.

What Excalibur said.

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-23 17:30|| 2006-11-23 17:30|| Front Page Top

#16 Latest update (AP via JlemPost)
Civil war feared after bombers kill 161
Sunni insurgents blew up five car bombs - three of them suicide attacks - in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City slum Thursday, killing at least 161 and wounding 257 in an act of carnage that sent the US ambassador racing to meet with Iraqi leaders and moved Iraq a step closer to all-out civil war.

Shi'ite mortar teams quickly retaliated, firing 10 shells at Sunni Islam's most important shrine in Baghdad, badly damaging the revered Abu Hanifa mosque and killing one person. Eight more mortar rounds slammed to earth near the west Baghdad headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars, the top Sunni Muslim organization in Iraq. Nearby houses were set on fire

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-23 17:36|| 2006-11-23 17:36|| Front Page Top

#17 FOTSGreg, did you study any history in school?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-23 17:37|| 2006-11-23 17:37|| Front Page Top

#18 My favourite bit of history nobody bothered to teach me is an aside in a book about the "Werewolves"; Nazi dead-enders during the Allied occupation. It involved Canadian troops using bulldozers to level houses as a reprisal for sniping against Canadian troops.

If anything, Canada was more civilized at the time than it is today.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-23 18:33|| 2006-11-23 18:33|| Front Page Top

#19 You do not win against animals that crave death, by holding the moral high ground. You win by killing them and their support systems without mercy. And you continue to kill them until they give up or there are none left.

Weren't we supposed to have learned this lesson fighting the Japanese in WWII?

I have no fear of us losing our humanity. I'm concerned about us losing our lives to a bunch of intolerant suicidal zealots. Our culture is strongly enough based in honor and decency whereby we can always pull back to those norms once we're finished mopping up our enemies.

As mentioned in today's article about a Jordanian terrorist:

Jihad is the precise equivalent of the Lord's Supper in Christianity and the Jewish Sabbath, the defining expression of sacrifice that opens the prospect of eternity to the mortal believer. To ask Islam to become moderate, to reform, to become a peaceful religion of personal conscience is the precise equivalent of asking Catholics to abolish Mass.

It is increasingly clear that Islam has ZERO intention of reforming itself. There is no will to do so and I cannot foresee it arising any time in the near future. There are far too many obstacles implanted within the very creed itself that effectively prohibit even minor reinterpretation of its call to violence and global domination.

The West needs to face this fact and understand that neither containment nor isolationism will provide sufficient security against this virulent threat. The uncertainty and fear that terrorists mean to instill in the West should be repaid in spades. The entire MME (Muslim Middle East) needs to quake collectively under a nuclear sword of Damocles. We have already wasted enough precious blood and treasure on the matter as it stands. No further proof is needed to show that this intractable situation will only come back to haunt us should we abandon the field to our enemies.

Islam must be made to understand that it is skirting disaster in the form of nuclear annihilation should they refuse to curtail international terrorism. Each new Islamic atrocity should be repaid with stunningly disproportionate reprisal. Only when thousands of Muslims are dying for each victim of these endless atrocities will the ummah rise up against its zealot masters and demand a halt. Until then massive reprisals are in order.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-23 18:38|| 2006-11-23 18:38|| Front Page Top

#20 The book I mentioned:

Charles Whiting "Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944-1945"

http://www.command-post.org/oped/2_archives/007763.html

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-23 18:41|| 2006-11-23 18:41|| Front Page Top

#21 "You'll sooner see the KKK marching in a gay pride parade."
Your right Zenster, look at Robert Byrd.

Posted by plainslow 2006-11-23 21:16|| 2006-11-23 21:16|| Front Page Top

#22 I am just a soldier. The battlefield looks like a neighborhood. People pass by going about their business. I am one of a unit who is assigned to hold this corner and take out enemy combatants. I am just a soldier. I have a family back home. I don't want to die, and I don't want to make a mistake. Some are men, some women, some children. Some are walking, some are standing and talking, some are on the rooftops looking around at their city. Two blocks away, a boy approaches a parked tank. If I knew who the enemy was, I would point my weapon toward them. I wonder how I can tell who is the enemy. As he approaches the tank, he rolls his soccer ball under it, then runs. The tank explodes. The enemy is not dressed like me, but they are all dressed like civilians. I am just a soldier. Must I kill them all ? This question begs an answer. The great leaders and conquerors of history said yes. Those who said no are not remembered. They grieve over the dead men in the tank and say we are not like them.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-23 22:19|| 2006-11-23 22:19|| Front Page Top

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