Iraq Wants Quick Withdrawal of U.S. Troops

"...Once we are gone, there will be far fewer prisoners because they will be put on trial and executed according to Iraqi law and the UN will have nothing to say about it."

You got your whole response right, in my opinion. We continue to get such a barrage of mostly horse manor info no wonder many Freepers are a bit confused. Just an example of the supposed increasing terrorist insurgency. OK how come as our Marine units move into many areas of Al Anbar that where left untouched a half year back we see no major fights, no resistance from Abu Musab Zarqawi's goon squads.
As our Marines moved into cities such as Rawah, Hit, Ramadi and Haditha just to name a few, hardly any action after the initial entry was seen. These towns have been reported for going on two years as housing main terrorist cells, etc.. As our Marines and now Iraqi army units move through the many many towns spotted throughout Al Anbar, the only resistence we meet is the very unfortunate Marine being KIAed due to walking or riding over a IED. No battles of any type.
As usual the only things we see are the occasional suicide bomber that gets through check points, or in some cases some goons might blow up a bunch of people attending Friday night prayers in a mosque. Does that represent a growing in intensity resistance? And some day when you all read the books you may find it interesting just how many of the insurgents turn out to be common criminals (no different then some stupid un-educated drug gang leader type) simply
looking for easy money.

thank you all translation

"Please, listen well all of you. You have very well and respectful President in Washington; he understands reality of war and what is at stake. You need hold ship steady on danger waters; don't allow yourself be delusion by politicians who are far from battle field as they can be. They don't understand your President and his resolve for your country. People who want you to leave are same people who call terrorists insurgence. Same people who will sell you for anything. Wake up; there are countries that are very confident in your president; one of them is us so are others: fore that should give you on idea that you are not alone; but you need to stay on course of this battle."end

thank you all

Unfortunately, the Iraqi military is not ready to go, otherwise we would have been out of there by now. Let's face it, the modern middle eastern male is not a good soldier, overall. They are good at blowing themselves up, but not at becoming part of a well-oiled machine, like the US or some asian armies. Based on what I've read from the military people, not the MSM, the quality of the Iraqis as troops is not very good.

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