CBS: Baathist insurgents fighting together with US troops

CBS News via Live Leak ^ | June 8 2007

[ASC2006]

CBS reports Baathist insurgents and Sunni nationalists are fighting al-Qaeda together with US forces

[Jet Jaguar]

bump

[NorCalRepub]

..the enemy of my enemy is my friend.... *kind of*....

[ASC2006]

The Baathists are mostly secular and educated. They will almost certainly be better allies then the uneducated religious Shia masses.

[Perdogg]

Muqie is going to lose sleep over this.

[Stultis]

But John Edwards says we have more enemies and fewer allies?

[NorCalRepub]

oh yeah.....they want no part of the strict Al Qaeda code or laws.....though I have little sympathy for them either.. but kill off one first....then work on the others....

[ASC2006]

More to the point the Iranian leadership along with al-Qaeda stands to lose the most over this.

[ASC2006]

ping

[george76]

Thanks for the good news.

[Thrownatbirth]

I’d keep an eye on the ex-Republican Guards, though. They’re indoctrinated ideologs who’ll garrot you the moment you turn your back.

[griswold3]

Heard some general talk about this. I thought ‘it’s about time they tried a ‘bottom up’ approach. The top tier sucks.

[jveritas]

It is very hard to hide this great success and the most important turning point in the war since the fall of Saddam regime. Even the liberal media cannot hide it.

[HardStarboard]

>>>The Baathists are mostly secular and educated. They will almost certainly be better allies then the uneducated religious Shia masses.<<<

I wonder when we will cut the Kurds loose on the Iranian backed Shia's like Mookie and the infiltrating alQuds troops?

The whole place is a dogs-breakfast of allegiances....but there is no harm in pitting the relative good guys against the demonstratively bad guys!!