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Iraq - British to evacuate consulate in Basra after mortar attacks
Daily Telegraph (UK) (excerpt) ^
| October 30, 2006
| Thomas Harding
Posted on 10/29/2006 7:32:27 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: bnelson44; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; AirForceBrat23; Ajnin; ...
USMC ping to the Army. Must see: bnelson's link.
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posted on
10/31/2006 3:07:11 AM PST
by
freema
(Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: lp boonie
He is another one percenter libertarian.
Not that I don't like him, but if one truly believes that Bush invaded Iraq because of a plot to kill dad, then...well, nuff said.
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posted on
10/31/2006 3:07:28 AM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: gcruse
"Maybe if Saddam had tried to kill Blair's daddy the Brits be more willing to bankrupt themselves forcing democracy onto people who don't want it." Oh yea, our economys bankrupt and falling apart. Your insight into Bushs character is as brain dead as your perception of economics.
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posted on
10/31/2006 4:03:02 AM PST
by
elfman2
(An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
To: HAL9000
and this guy trying best he can to appease that POS cleric Sadar
BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the lifting of joint U.S.-Iraqi military checkpoints around the Shiite militant stronghold of Sadr City another apparent move to assert his authority with the Americans and appeal to his Shiite support base.
All barricades and checkpoints around Sadr City and elsewhere in Baghdad must be lifted by 5 p.m., al-Maliki said in an order issued in his capacity both as prime minister and commander of the Iraqi armed forces.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226357,00.html
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posted on
10/31/2006 4:26:14 AM PST
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: TomasUSMC
Plan B should have been started on 9/12. THEN, they would have been more interested in plan A. Had Plan B been used; this war in the middle east would be finished by now and we would have a whole lot less dead on our side. As it is now, we will lose more people and the war will still not be won. I certainly do not understand our strategy. We can win this war in thirty days or less, if we have a mind to do so. So what are we afraid of.....?
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posted on
10/31/2006 5:08:54 AM PST
by
From One - Many
(Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
To: From One - Many
Afraid of? Simple:
(1) the Democrats.
(2) see (1).
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posted on
10/31/2006 6:40:48 AM PST
by
OldArmy52
(China & India: Doing jobs Americans don't want to do (manuf., engineering, accounting, etc))
To: freema
What is not dicussed are the Brits plans to perhaps go after those that are lobbing the mortar shells into the compound.
I do hope they start to take a more aggressive approach to the over all situation that has been brewing in southern Iraq for a few years. They do not have adequate forces in place for one thing, and they had farted around entirely to much with marginal dangerouse groups associated with both the Badr brigade and the Mahdi army.
Diplomacy only goes so far in this type scenario.
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posted on
10/31/2006 8:34:44 AM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: HAL9000
...a private security assessment has advised the consul general and her staff to leave the building...
Yeah, they had ACME Security come in and do an assessment. They got skerred at the first boom, crapped their shorts, and said we gotta get the #(*& outta here!
They should have relied on the MILITARY assessment. Sandbag the roofs, and sit tight.
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:20:10 PM PST
by
SFC Chromey
(We are at war with Islamofascists, now ACT LIKE IT!)
To: From One - Many
We can win this war in thirty days or less, if we have a mind to do so. So what are we afraid of.....?
====
EX ACT LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
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posted on
10/31/2006 4:45:13 PM PST
by
TomasUSMC
( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
To: Marine_Uncle
As does farting.
There I was, reading another of your great analysis and you throw in 'farting'?! I'm absolutely cracking up!
Can't quit chuckling. : )
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posted on
10/31/2006 6:34:59 PM PST
by
freema
(Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: freema
Mom. Glad I made you laugh. Sometimes we get so absorbed in the details of often sad things, we forget humor should be introduced upon occasions where warranted.
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posted on
10/31/2006 9:02:28 PM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: HAL9000
So... instead of establishing a 'no man's land' around the consulate that is greater than the range of the mortars, the British decide to evacuate the consulate?
Yeah, that'll ensure the terrorists learn the right lesson... that lobbing mortars will drive out the 'invaders'.
Whereas the other option would ensure that the terrorist learn that lobbing mortars would... hurt their fellow countrymen while not affecting the 'invaders' at all.
Hmmm...
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posted on
11/01/2006 11:19:42 PM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(I criticize everyone... and then breathe some radioactive fire and stomp on things.)
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