U.S.: 300 Militants Killed in Two Days

AP ^ | 08/06/04 | TODD PITMAN

[Puppage]

Good!

[mikegi]

No wonder Sadr wanted to return to the "truce".

[LS]

We are slaughtering these guys by the bushels, folks. NO ONE in the media is "keeping score" of this, because this is the MAIN FRONT of a war, and we are winning overwhelmingly. But the way this is reported---in dribbles and drabs---no one is getting the full picture.

[AmericanInTokyo]

To writer of news article and headline:

ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! ENEMY! .....

Not "militants", dammit! We are at WAR.

[skeeter]

Al-Sadr blamed the United States for the violence in Iraq in a sermon read on his behalf Friday in the Kufa Mosque close to Najaf.

I'd blame the Americans for violence too if they were greasing my "fighters" at a rate of 100 to 1.

[sheik yerbouty]

Allahu Fubar!

[RagingBull]

921 soldiers in 15 months vs an estimated 300 terrorists in 2 days. sounds like a quagmire all right. Good thing help is on the way.

[wideawake]

Each side blamed the other for breaking the cease-fire. The U.S. military accused the militants of repeatedly attacking police in Najaf, and al-Sadr loyalists accused U.S. forces of surrounding the cleric's house Monday.

Let's see - killing policemen or stationing guards around a house, which action violates a "cease-fire"? Hmmmm . . .

[Guillermo]

Until we decide that it's not the height of insensitivity to capture or kill Sadr, the fighting will continue.

We cannot win a war of attrition against these animals.

[BillyCrockett]

"We estimate we've killed 300 anti-Iraqi forces in the past two days of fighting,"

300 less men trying to kill American soldiers. Go get em guys! Nice work.

[LS]

Dude, you don't get it. Why are we killing so many of these guys? Because they are in one place. Why are they in one place? It's brilliant to let Sadr stay alive. He's like a human roach motel.

BTW, you seriously need to study up on Grozny. Take a look at http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/FMSOPUBS/ISSUES/RUSN_leslrn.htm.

It speaks directly to, especially, Fallujah in lesson #1 and #2.

[WOSG]

Oh it gets worse... yesterday I heard the BBC report on the capture in Saudi Arabia of a 'militant linked to Al Qaeda'.

Excuse me?!? Osama Bin Laden himself would be called a 'militant' by the BBC - they've simply determined *not* to call anyone a terrorist, as if it is not a real term.

Here's an article I wrote on the theme ...

http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/2004/07/naming-terrorist-enemy.html

[Natural Law]

"We call on the Islamic world and the civilized world to save the city."

At least he recognizes the difference.

[squirt]

Semper Fi

[Rebelbase]

Any bets they were mostly Syrian, Palestinian, Arab and Chechen?

[Guillermo]

Yeah, it's brilliant.

Appease no one, but Sadr...nice policy.

If we had of killed this guy 9 months ago, he would have been nothing but a distant memory.

And the ones who would have remembered him would have remembered him for being a loser.

These animals understand one thing: force.

Appeasement never works.

[COBOL2Java]

It's brilliant to let Sadr stay alive. He's like a human roach motel.

LOL! I like that imagery. Smelly terrorists check in, but they don't check out [alive].

Another thought I had is that we're slowly but surely removing the terrorist gene pool. Sure they multiply like rabbits, but the available pool of sperm donors is dwindling day by day.

[goodnesswins]

Yeah.....Sadr......the MAGNET for terrorists.....they all wanna be where "their leader" is......so let them be there....kind of like an ant pile and its queen ....

[Ann Archy]

MORE! MORE!!