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1 posted on 05/07/2006 6:14:19 PM PDT by blam
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Quick, someone get the Brits squirt guns. That'll teach the ragheads!


2 posted on 05/07/2006 6:15:59 PM PDT by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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I repeat, "Islam is incompatible with Western Civilization." Totally incompatible, might I add.


3 posted on 05/07/2006 6:19:38 PM PDT by davisfh
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Basra is slipping out of the control of British forces.

Such hyperbole nonsense -

With that said this WH / GOP PR machines (and our U.S. military PR machine) need to wake the F up and start putting together a complete campaign to re-inform the public along with a daily process of informing the public.

The current press releases aren't working nearly well enough - The MSM simply ignore them and tout ANY negative news items they can over and over -

5 posted on 05/07/2006 6:21:56 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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7 posted on 05/07/2006 6:22:23 PM PDT by fso301
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This is just great....my son is headed there this summer...I wasn't too worried until I saw this on the news and read this....it's gonna be another long year in this household...


11 posted on 05/07/2006 6:25:59 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Army Wife and Army Mother.....toughest job in the military)
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In the Middle Ages, Europeans Christians referred to Mohammed as Mahound, a devil. The more I look into it, the more it strikes me that Islam is a Satanic religion.


12 posted on 05/07/2006 6:26:23 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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honestly, I am not sure why military occupation of an undefeated people while allowing political elements that openly HATE you to control their own territories, use private armies/militias, etc., is going to be expected to have a substantially different result.

Once you allow armed and ruthless radical elements to participate, you are going to see moderate elements (the people who just want to get on with their lives) marginalized if not outright removed from positions of political power.

Whatever else you want to say about this invasion and occupation, it absolutely floors me that the al'sadr variety of cleric have been allowed to flourish, even forming their own militias and holding areas, in the US occupation. Anyone who wants to tell me that this was the original US plan and/or that this is a good thing from the view of US interests please feel free.

It is not hard to see part of the 1991 rationale for leaving hussein in power.


16 posted on 05/07/2006 6:36:11 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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Not even the most optimistic intelligence assessment believes that Iraqi security forces will be strong enough to combat the fanatics.

What does FR think now almost 5 years into this?

19 posted on 05/07/2006 6:40:40 PM PDT by wardaddy (I am buying Shelby Steele's new book: White Guilt)
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What they need to do is this:

Have a couple of platoons of expert riflemen with the very latest cutting edge weaponry...set a trap/ambush.

Crash a drone into the neighborhood where our guys are set up and you can eliminate a whole lot of those three hundred problem people.

They come out to dance, make them dance.

39 posted on 05/07/2006 8:05:54 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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Send the snake eaters in to snuff al Sadr. He should have been snuffed long ago.


49 posted on 05/07/2006 11:35:07 PM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Enhance Capitol security: Censure Cynthia!)
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