Baghdad plan is a dazzling success

[BT]

I agree with the author that there are limitations to the surge. Absent a total lockdown, people will still get killed.

I don't recall anyone claiming that civil strife would disappear over night.

[Mucho]

I agree with the author that there are limitations to the surge. Absent a total lockdown, people will still get killed.

I don't recall anyone claiming that civil strife would disappear over night.

The limitation on the surge is directly related to the lack of intelligence of the surgers. Not only overnight, but over eternity as long as the US are there.

[BT]

The limitation on the surge is directly related to the lack of intelligence of the surgers. Not only overnight, but over eternity as long as the US are there.

Hillary among other leading dems were early advocates of a surge type offensive.

Are you calling them dumbasses?

[Mucho]

The limitation on the surge is directly related to the lack of intelligence of the surgers. Not only overnight, but over eternity as long as the US are there.

Hillary among other leading dems were early advocates of a surge type offensive.

Are you calling them dumbasses?

Yes I am, but they at least came to their senses. The Bushidiot doesnt have any sense to come to.

[Plane]

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070313-111506-2933r

[R.R.]

Mission Accomplished? Iraqis push Al Qaeda out of last stronghold in Baghdad

11/16/2007


An armed Sunni group has ended Al-Qaeda?s tight two-year grip on north Baghdad?s volatile Adhamiyah neighbourhood and is now in control, an AFP correspondent witnessed on Friday.

A local militia calling itself the "revolutionaries of Adhamiyah" took over the Sunni district on the east bank of the Tigris on November 10 in a swift and audacious raid that sent Al-Qaeda fleeing from its last stronghold in Baghdad.

On Friday, members of the "revolutionaries of Adhamiyah" controlled main roads into the neighbourhood as well the square housing the famous Abu Hanifa mosque where Saddam Hussein made his last public appearance before fleeing Baghdad in 2003 as US-led forces invaded the country.

"Our men seized 11 car bombs and discovered several clandestine bomb-making workshops,? said the chief of the ?revolutionaries of Adhamiyah", surrounded by armed bodyguards.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=101396

[Michael Tee]

Sounds like the secular Sunnis (Saddam's old base) have taken enough shit from the religious Sunnis, who aren't even Iraqis. 

If al Qaeda in Iraq is smart, they'll try to figure out where they lost their allies.  And start building some bridges.  Maybe some heads will have to roll first - - the ones who caused this potentially disastrous split in the first place.  They need to keep their focus: the enemy is still Amerikkka and only Amerikkka can profit from the schism.

Ultimately, the responsibility lies with the leadership of both factions.  If they can't bridge their differences and present a united front to the occupation forces and their collaborators, then they deserve to be subjugated by infidels as the Arabs always have been in the past.  The Vietnamese bridged their differences and put up a united front (the NLF) against the foreigners.  God helps those who help themselves.