Army Chief Warrant Officer Chris tells Iraq like it really is. (Do yourself a favor)

The Hugh Hewitt Show ^ | 1/18/07 | Chief Warrant Officer Chris / Hugh Hewitt

[sirchtruth]

It would take a 2000 pound bomb going off in front of their own home to wake them up to the dangers this world faces from these terrorists.

No it wouldn't, because these type of people do not comphrehend what terrorist really want. They wilfully ignor who terrorist really are because that would bring their world view crumbling down.

This is a spiritual war that will last until every last one of these terrorist are either dead or converted.

That's what scares them so bad because they know it true.

[jude24]

As Chief Warrant Office Chris says, it's a few bad apples -- and they make the headlines. The good never hits the news wires here.

That's because the "few bad apples" are really good at creating an amazing amount of havoc. The damage they do is really bad.

[Stars&StripesNE]

Very true. And the 'bad apples' know they will get the coverage and not the Medics immunizing the Iraqi children. They know they will hit the front pages and not the Engineering Corps who are rebuilding the ancient power grid in Iraq or the schools, hospitals and other facilities. They know the press will put their killing of their own people on the front page and not cover our Military personnel working side by side with the Iraqi people to build a better Iraq.

God Bless America and God bless our brave men and women in uniform.

[RedRover]

Thanks very much for posting.

[Kaslin]

It would be to much for the Drive by Media to report the good that is going on there

[Cailleach]

ping

[Valin]

WHAT! A Freeper angry! I find that hard to believe.

[SoldierDad]

Ah, yes. The bomb wouldn't bring them into seeing this war for what it is, but it would result in their wanting to take revenge for the wrong done to them. That's the way narcissists are.

[U S Army EOD]

I realize the Sunnis and the Shias have problems and sooner or later they can be solved. Some of the best fights I have ever seen are between the Methodists and Baptists here in Lincoln County Georgia in the Church Soft Ball league.

[Uriah_lost]

"It keeps me warm"...to quote a certain '80s era movie "freedom fighter"!
heh

[secretagent]

Col McMaster describing Tal Afar:

"I'd like just to briefly characterize the enemy, describe who we're fighting here. This is an enemy, who when they came in, they removed all the imams from the mosques, and they replaced them with Islamic extremist laymen. They removed all the teachers from the schools and replaced them with people who had a fifth-grade education and who preached hatred and intolerance. They murdered people. In each of their cells that they have within the city has a direct action cell of about 100 or so fighters. They have a kidnapping and murder cell; they have a propaganda cell, a mortar cell, a sniper cell -- a very high degree of organization here. And what the enemy did is to keep the population from performing other activities. To keep the population afraid, they kidnapped and murdered large numbers of the people here, and it was across the spectrum. A Sunni Turkmen imam was kidnapped and murdered. A very fine man, a city councilman, Councilman Suliman (sp), was pulled out of his car in front of his children and his wife and gunned down with about 30 gunshot wounds to his head. The enemy conducted indiscriminate mortar attacks against populated areas and wounded scores of children and killed many others. The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine, in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child's body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents. Beheadings and so forth."

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2005/tr20050913-3901.html

And then he goes on to describe how they beat the enemy:

(snip...)"And we were able to gain access to intelligence here by a very good relationship with the people, who recognized this enemy for who they are and were very forthcoming with human intelligence. In one raid in the beginning of June, for example, we were able to capture 26 targeted individuals, some of the worst people here in Tall Afar, within a 30-minute period. And the enemy began to realize this isn't working either, they can't hide in plain sight anymore.



So what the enemy did in response -- and this was part of this continuous interaction we've had with them since our arrival in this area -- is they intensified their campaign of intimidation over the people. They conducted more sniper attacks against innocent civilians, more mortar attacks.



And in response, we targeted their mortar teams. We killed four of their mortar teams and captured two. We killed about 12 of their sniper teams. And we relentlessly pursued the enemy until the enemy realized that a lot of our power was building now toward Tall Afar because we wanted -- as we were figuring this enemy out, we were preparing for operations to destroy their safe haven in a particular neighborhood of the city.



So as the specter of coalition operations became apparent to the enemy, as we isolated the city, as we improved the effectiveness of our traffic control points to limit their movement, as we continued to pursue the enemy, the enemy responded by sending their fighters, many of them, into the outlying communities to hide in the outlying communities until the operation was over.



But what we did is we conducted effective operations in the outlying areas. Simultaneous with our operations in Tall Afar, we were establishing a permanent security capability along the Syrian border in Rabiya, south of Sinjar Mountain and the town of Sinjar. We took over the town of Bosh (phonetic) from the insurgents and established -- reestablished the police force and the Iraqi army there. We went to the town of Afgani (phonetic) about 12 kilometers north of here. We captured, just out of that one town, one small town of Afgani (phonetic), about 116 of the enemy in three separate operations."...(snip)

Quite a bit more at above link.

[Liberty Valance]

Thanks for posting Valin. Excellent and enlightening read.

[Valin]

Thanks.