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2006-11-14 Iraq

Basra boat bombing blamed on rogue Shias: Tatertots Gone Rancid

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-11-14 04:45|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time to go to war again.

Draw these militias out - sanitize whole towns in a cordon and clear.

They want to fight, lets fight them Fallujah style.

More troops and a bigger hammer.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-14 09:02|| 2006-11-14 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen, OS.

Posted by Brett 2006-11-14 09:43|| 2006-11-14 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 No. It's time for the various forces in Iraq to forge their own equilibrium. All the US has to do is guarantee Iraq's borders.

Sure, we'll get whining about ethnic cleansing, but when it's done it's done, look at the ex-Yugoslavia.

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-14 09:47|| 2006-11-14 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Phil I was in KFOR briefly. I have lots fo old firends who served there as well. Let me tell you that is NOT a solution. You're simply wrong. Allowing them to kill each other only results in more chaos and the Terrs thrive on that. Its not the right solution unless you want to hand over the entire country to the terrs, and watch the peopel we promised to help build the country become headless corpses. Yours is the wrong answer.

Fallujah is the right answer, although bloody. Fallujah kills the most bad guys, draws in their most dedicated, destroys them and their weapons and supplies, thier command and control infrastructure and tactical leadership in an entire population cetner, and allows the IP and IAF to roll in and keep it clean as long as they have been trained. The harvest of weaponry and bomb parts, etc, is what hurts them the most.

If we did that against several cities at the same time, like Ramadi etc, we'd knock the militias on their heels for long enough that the IAF would be able to get on its feet and administer the follow-on beatings that will be needed.

Securing the border is important, but drawing them in and beating them down on OUR terms FIRST is the way to be sure we aren't closing the barn door and locking the horses in a burning barn.

Clear those cities, and move the Iraqi troops in on our heels. Then set out for the borders and lock things down hard against wepaonry, etc coming in.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-14 13:02|| 2006-11-14 13:02|| Front Page Top

#5 It's really simple...as OS has stated:

1. Surround a city (e.g., Ramadi). Give everyone 2 weeks to vacate. After 2 weeks pound the city to rubble. Hand every returning a check for $25,000 USD and help them rebuild.

2. Declare the border regions of SA, Syria, and Iran a free fire zone from evening twilight until sunrise. Anything, and I mean anything with a heat signature is a target.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-11-14 16:21|| 2006-11-14 16:21|| Front Page Top

#6 fuck the infrastructure, kill all the heads of the shia malitia, waste, destroy, let them come begging.

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-11-14 23:11|| 2006-11-14 23:11|| Front Page Top

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