U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq (an emergency deployment of 3500 to Anbar)

Washington Post ^ | May 30 2006 | Ellen Knickmeyer

[jmc1969]

This is a decient start, but we badly need another division to be sent to Anbar.

[Btrp113Cav]

we need to carpet bomb ramadi and wipe it off the map. We would kill a lot of terrorist. We dont have the spine for this though, unfortunately.

[SevenMinusOne]

Agree - This is a good move (but one in all actuality has been planned to a degree for some time).

[ASA Vet]

we need to carpet bomb ramadi and wipe it off the map

Comments?

[GodfearingTexan]

seal off the province TOTALLY using every available coalition asset, then start a thorough, 100% search of every village and every house and every alley, one at a time. restrict movement to and from homes and villages during this time. detain every suspicious male and give them oodles of human pyramid treatment.

the resulting intelligence information (and perhaps capture of zarqawi himself) would be worth the expense.

[oceanview]

we won't do that.

we should cordon the city off, and tell the iraqi forces to prepare to go door to door. that aspect of the fight there now, belongs to them. we can't do another fallujah door to door operation, in ramadi.

[JSteff]

Why don't we just warn them so they can go to cover or evade our troops efforts? Safer that way for our casualty counts.

Oh never mind we just did that. How stupid.

[JSteff]

Oh yeah, that means they know they can safely step up their activities elsewhere. Great idea.

Who is thinking these operations up? Who is thinking up our media contacts? Do they really need to know this much in advance?

I smell political people and not soldiers issuing this sort of info to the press.

[ASA Vet]

but one in all actuality has been planned to a degree for some time

Aw come on, you aren't trying to say the US Military is active not reactive? < /sarc >

[SevenMinusOne]

we should cordon the city off, and tell the iraqi forces to prepare to go door to door. that aspect of the fight there now, belongs to them. we can't do another fallujah door to door operation, in ramadi.

We most certainly can if we decide we need to - And will do it right along side our ally units - Fallujah was a huge success - Ramadi has been a long time in the making for being dealt with - And our forces most certainly will be right in the lead (side by side) with Iraqi units during the next phase there -

[SevenMinusOne]

I hear ya! -

[MinorityRepublican]

I know that this is the Compost but where are the insurgents getting their support from in the Anbar province?

[Spruce]

Unfortunately, Zarqawi's fist is stronger than the Americans

Nuts

[ASA Vet]

where are the insurgents getting their support

Much of it comes from

430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003

[jmc1969]

This article is correct at this point in time that Zarqawi's power permates Anbar. He gets his support from having an almost limitless supply of money coming in from Gulf Oil barrons, Iran, and Syria which he uses to maintain a terrorist army of thousands of unemployed young men from Anbar as well as many extrmists from nearby countries.

[Berlin_Freeper]

We should do another Fallujah style attack.

Remember back then how Zarqawi was openly squealing about "... the clerics committed treason when they turned their backs on the sons of Jihad who are dieing for Islam" or something close to that.

We never heard Zarqawi bitterly squeal, like he did when Fallujah went down. We need the next Fallujah.

[blasater1960]

The Generals need to kick some major butt, I hope they have been corralling them into Ramadi for the kill. If not, some military heads need to roll.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"...We need the next Fallujah."

Do it during the World Cup that starts on June 9.

I guarantee nobody outside the US will even notice.

[HardStarboard]

"Nuts" works when your surrounded and intend to fight to the death - a la the Battle of Bastione, WWII.

"Nuts" doesn't work when you intend to live, and hope that your family does too, and you have been infiltrated by an enemy that believes in cold-blooded murder at the drop of a hat and doesn't mind dying in the process.

Like it or not, we are fighting this war on the terrorists terms....and there isn't much we can do about that until the our Iraqi allies are willing and able to infiltrate al-Qaeda-In-Iraq and roll heads.

[shield]

We need to carpet bomb ramadi and wipe it off the map. We would kill a lot of terrorist. We dont have the spine for this though, unfortunately.

The military does, it's the wussies in DC that don't.