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Posted on 05/23/2004 5:36:38 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup
Karbala, Iraq -- U.S. forces battled fighters loyal to radical Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (search) in his stronghold of Kufa overnight Sunday, and at least 18 people died. Many militiamen returned to their homes after abandoning the center of another holy Shiite city, Karbala, witnesses said.
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Good. We're kicking a--. Perhaps we'll be able to take this goober out.
Nobody is commenting dirctly, but it does seem that a lot more of those militiamen are dying than ours.
Hopefully his militia will decide to take their toys and go home.
I agree but could we use a different term than "militiamen"? That word has such a positive meaning. I don't know what word to use, even gangster is more positive than what these guys are.
To live to fight another day?
If captured, they should be executed. (Like we did with German insurgents post WWII).
let's play cowboys and terrorist!
They go around killing people, like the Mohammedan gangsters do all over the world?
Yeah I wouldn't call them militias either, more like a-holes.
I like to think of militias as the majority of American men with firearms who would be ready to take them up in the event of invasion.
Have we had an American combat death since last Sunday? I don't recall one.
They HAVE been executed. Their numbers have gotten thinner. Hopefully they will also give up Kufa and Najaf. We will see if Sadr is still preaching on Friday.
If you go back through the news stories from Fallujah to now, we are SLAUGHTERING these toads. It really is remarkable. While, of course, any American death is "too many," the kill ratios in these operations are approaching 15 or 20-to-one. No "army" or "resistance" in history has ever survived this kind of attrition.
Any sign that Sadr is still alive or on the loose? I wonder if they went in and took him from the mosque.
It's an excellent and important point.
We must insist on correct terminology. We have witnessed the devolution of language and outright deception in the abortion debates.
Child murder>abortion>pro-choice>abortion rights>women's health.
The folks who do this well know that perception is just as important as the content of an idea, if not more so.
Unless they were assisted by politicians who insisted on "negotiations" every time that army was threatened with defeat. Man, this is like a bad episode of Star Trek Next Generation. Every time Captain Lollypop should give the bad guys an ass kicking, Counsellor Troy calls for a frigging conference and whines about her "feelings". Screw that noise.
Do the math in Iraq. These "fighters," even with some immigrant nutsos from Syra and Iran, can't number more than about 5,000. We are killing 50-100 a day, not counting wounded. No one can survive that kind of attrition.
Big Head Ted Kennedy has his pudgy hands on the cord.
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