Posted on 11/27/2006 3:48:26 PM PST by ajolympian2004
The past four days during which we were under siege were long and rough for Baghdadis. Anxiety and fear haunted us at our homes and a flow of horrible news made the prison feel even tighter…it was a material and psychological siege that will not be easy to forget.
Thursday began differently for me, first thing in the morning I received very troubling news that one of our friends has been kidnapped. His shocked, terrified father came to us looking for any bit of information that might be possibly helpful in the search for his son who vanished a day before. We in turn became anxious because we too would be in danger if that friend fell in the hands of very bad guys.
We decided to go home earlier than usual that day and then we were met by the terrible news about the savage massacre in Baghdad that took away hundreds of innocent lives. I avoided looking at the news after I heard of the open-ended curfew and we had to get prepared for the worse.
Terrorists and militias started an open war; the battlefield is our city and the fuel is innocent civilians as always since those criminal groups find it easier to kill civilians than to confront each other (and rid us of their evil). The big problem is that the security forces are not strong enough to stop them, worse than that, some members of these forces let themselves become partners to the criminals.
(Excerpt) Read more at iraqthemodel.com ...
Yon's August 9th, 2006 article -
First Person Singular: Omar, Iraq the Model
http://michaelyon-online.com/wp/fps-itm.htm
Excellent interview with photos.
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Mookie must be killed and his militia wiped off the face of the Earth very very soon or else there might not be a second chance.
You mean terrorist propaganda like this lie our Freeper Generals spent days here screaming about and reposting that now turns out to by so much BS? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1744813/posts
I was just about to do that. Thanks.
I remember back when Iraq the Model used to post happy news, the "The media isn't telling you all the good things in Iraq!" kind of stories.
Sad that this is what we get now.
The WH and the Pentagon sat on their asses and let a monster like Sadr build a many thousand man militia and get away with attacking our troops and killing thousands of Iraqis.
As much as I support a peaceful stable Iraq, I have to give the WH, the Pentagon, and the State Dept a D- on Iraq.
Just about the only thing they have done right in Iraq is not giving up.
Someone should spray a little Polonium 101 on Mookie's fallafel.
Group,
We didn't hesitate to do a lot of killing (of innocent people too) in WW II. That's how it got over so quick. In Iraq, we're dorking around trying to be nice. As a result, more of our guys get killed, the war drags on forever, the bad guys get all fired up, and ultimately nothing gets resolved in our favor.
If you want to win this thing, you go into Sadr City and you kick ass....innocent, guilty, on the fence....everything and everyone. Believe me, this kind of message gets out pretty damn fast. Next, you start ordering a surrender (yes surrender) of anyone with weapons or a bad attitude. Again, some innocence get caught up in this, too...sorry...It's chaos and war, not knitting thge club. next, this is followed up by a house to house search and this step also includes killing many people...some who are just unlucky saps in the wrong place at the wrong time. Children will die too. It absolutely sucks and hurts to the core and makes men and women weep and the pain they our causing ..... It's called 'war' for a reason.
Now, if you can't stomache what I just wrote, then you are in favor of leaving that country to the hands of the barbarians, terrorists, and thugs. You see, it'll simply never work until we are feared more than the terrorist. It is just that simple.
Got it?
"Militias," which are really thug mob rings, should be outlawed, and their leaders shot (after a fair trial, of course). These people cannot be reasoned with, only dealt with.
"Next, you start ordering a surrender (yes surrender) of anyone with weapons or a bad attitude..."
An ultimatum: You tell your enemy they will be ready for inspection of whatever facility by the time that suits your schedule (hopefully, not more than a couple of weeks). Then, you send in a drone and if they ain't ready for inspection, no negotiation, no detaining, no proposals, no brochures from airplanes, no U.N. resolutions, and no blockades. You blow the whole friggin' place, and everyone inside or around it, to smitherines.
will Maliki give the OK?
Here is how I am hoping it goes down. Bush promises Maliki billions in extra money for the Iraqi Army and that we will stay around for as long as he as President and protect Maliki from being killed or couped if he lets us destory the Madhi Army.
In the perfect world that is how it will go down and Maliki will say yes.
But, we are living in the not so perfect world where Maliki could very well make more half promises to deal with the militias and renig on them soon thereafter.
We didn't hesitate to do a lot of killing (of innocent people too) in WW II. That's how it got over so quick.
Two reasons for that.
1 Technology, contrary to what some people thik the Norton bombsight was not that accurate.
2 Different knid of war. WWII was a conventional war, this is a guerilla war. You do not fight the former the same way you fight the latter.
If you want to win this thing, you go into Sadr City and you kick ass....innocent, guilty, on the fence....everything and everyone.
I can't think of anything the terrorists would us to do more.
What I have been hearing so far from Baghdad is US troops like after the Samarra mosque bombing have been ordered to play the bystander in Baghdad and let the Madhi Army pretty much do whatever it wants for the time being.
It isn't just Maliki that has been very cowardly when it has come to Sadr and his mass murdering militia.
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