Posted on 05/26/2005 9:11:06 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Time for a housecleaning.
Sounds like a good move. On many levels.
I wonder if this new offensive is in any way related to the reported wounding of the "Z" man....hmmmmmm?
No, the troops do not get the bounty. My guess is it would be rolled back into the WOT.
My question is... If this operation has not started yet, why are they broadcasting it? Won't this give the terrorists a heads up to evacuate now before the checkpoints are set up?
That's what I was thinking. Announcing it is good public relations but is it the best way to kill the enemy or does it just give them more time to slip away like they are so good at when the heat is on?
Pray tell, why is it being announced in advance?
No idea why, but the new government is running their own show....perhaps trying to show that they are taking action.....
Exactly. Keep it on the QT.
The cowards will just go to another city to kill people now.
no the troops wouldnt get it, although they would get rewarded in other ways, like medals and stuff like that....
the bounty is to get people outside of the military to find him. Motivation and whatnot....
Maybe that's their tactic. Make a lot of noise, beat the bushes, and see who runs (and see where they run to).
Way to do it: massive numbers.
We are very clearly at WAR with SYRIA in the WESTERN region, and IRAQ is going to join us, OFFICIALLY over the next few days or weeks. THEY are going to announce OUR war plans, with SYRIA in stages, and WE are going to wipe out Assad....
Syria is at war with us, and has officially cancelled their so-called diplomatic relations with us, and also pulled their troops from lebanon BECAUSE they are worried we are going to invade from our bases in IRAQ, worse than they are an attack from Israel via the border with Lebanon.
WAR WITH SYRIA is what is going on, and these 'announcements' will be used to introduce the necessity of this war taking place, via IRAQ's political system, rather than ours... initially to softe us up to the idea of taking OUT another muslim terrorist nation.
Afganistan, Iraq, Lebanon, have all three in some measure gotten new governments purged of the radicals. Syria is next. Iran WILL be toppled imo.
Upon reading that sentence I looked back at the heading and noted, "Yes, it is Reuters."
How boringly predictable the MSM is. Their downfall may be tedium as much as bias.
"The cowards will just go to another city to kill people now"
Down in the fine print DM Duly said there would be "a stringent blockade around Bagdad." presumably to solve that problem. We'll see if he's got the horsepower. It's not been done yet because our entire force has never been large enough to isolate and sweep Bagdad---it's a big place with a lotta people. Gen Franks and no one else ever visualized the old Iraqi army being so gutless as to disband enmasse and not hang around to look after their own country. As others have noted it's time for the rags to suck it up and help clean up their own mess.
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