1 posted on
08/18/2007 3:41:08 PM PDT by
Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Then why not coincide the British withdrawal with saturation bombing of Iranin facilities within 200 miles of the border?
2 posted on
08/18/2007 3:42:55 PM PDT by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Elections have consequences.)
To: Pokey78
British leadership lets down the British army. It is always the leadership, even in the US. God bless the Brit troopers who have risked and in some cases lost their lives for nothing.
Regrads
3 posted on
08/18/2007 3:44:00 PM PDT by
ARE SOLE
(Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment..)
To: Pokey78
It will do us no good to see an ally routed in defeat,
if a much stronger US presence is needed let us make it so
and come down HARD on the terrorists.
4 posted on
08/18/2007 3:46:07 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Pokey78
Gee, I kept hearing about how the British no-confrontational policy was so much more successful than the aggressive U.S. cowboy policy. Based on their decades of colonial experience, even if the last British official with any colonial experience has been in a nursing home for two decades.
5 posted on
08/18/2007 3:47:25 PM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: Pokey78
6 posted on
08/18/2007 3:47:59 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Pokey78
Oh, I sort of doubt that we're going to allow the Brits to take this one on the chin. For one thing they've earned better, for another, why allow the terrorists a propaganda victory when it can be prevented?
We surge south. The current British presence is around 5500 troops. Quadruple that with Iraqi augmentation and confront the Iranians directly. Break the local militias if they resist. This is absolutely attainable.
This article mirrors the infamous one in the NY Times of a few weeks ago in that it gives the impression that the military situation is so dire that we or the Brits would be lucky to be able to safely retreat. That may be what a lot of people on the Left are desperately hoping but it simply isn't the case.
To: Pokey78
A MILITARY adviser to President George W Bush has warned that British forces will have to fight their way out of Iraq in an “ugly and embarrassing” retreat.
and the same thing will happen to us if the RATS get their way...
course, maybe if it does happen to the British, Pres. Bush looks like a genius...again. A little parting gift from MR. Rove...
10 posted on
08/18/2007 4:00:36 PM PDT by
stylin19a
(Go Bears !)
To: Pokey78
What gives? Seems like Brits and the French are switching roles.
14 posted on
08/18/2007 4:07:18 PM PDT by
kimoajax
(Rack'em & Stack'em)
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15 posted on
08/18/2007 4:08:16 PM PDT by
kabar
To: Pokey78
Prior to withdrawal, they should send a regiment to capture and detain alll the staff of the BBC.’
The detained traitors should be shipped to Diego Garcia or a new facility in the Falklands where they can be closely interrogated.
17 posted on
08/18/2007 4:15:06 PM PDT by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Hillary's color is yellow.....how appropriate)
To: Pokey78
Maybe a play to get the bad guys to attack and fall into a US ambush ( I can hope can’t I )
18 posted on
08/18/2007 4:21:14 PM PDT by
uncbob
(m first)
To: Pokey78
They want to make it clear they have forced the British out.”
But they did for the British out.
20 posted on
08/18/2007 4:43:26 PM PDT by
DB
To: Pokey78
Just a preview of what we’ll face when the perfection-caucus sits home on Election Day and lets the Democrats win.
22 posted on
08/18/2007 5:19:44 PM PDT by
BfloGuy
(It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
To: Pokey78
boy oh boy, i’ve been hearing for years how well the UK was doing and how horrible we were...
I always knew it was a crock.
UK is finished as a Major Power. It’s also finished as a culture.
23 posted on
08/18/2007 5:23:39 PM PDT by
pacelvi
(In general, Democrats are the only real reason to vote for Republicans. - Thomas Sowell)
To: Pokey78
24 posted on
08/18/2007 5:32:01 PM PDT by
Earthdweller
(All reality is based on faith in something. (Fred/Newt '08))
To: Pokey78
I would think this would be an excellent opportunity for Britain and America to ambush those who try to attack the British withdrawal. Carpetbombing, the whole enchilada.
They may have an opportunity to kill hundreds or thousands of terrorists/insurgents in a single blow.
27 posted on
08/18/2007 5:53:39 PM PDT by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: Pokey78
This sounds like a trap we’re setting for an overconfident Mahdi Army backed by an overconfident Iran.
As the Brits withdraw, it’ll lure out the undesirables...making them easy pickins’ for U.S. forces.
30 posted on
08/19/2007 7:19:18 AM PDT by
bw17
To: Pokey78
Well, they can’t stay there forever. Might as well pull out and see what happens.
Basra has long been one of the tamer locales in Iraq. It’s fate should give us some indication as to the readiness of the Iraqis to govern and police themselves.
To: Pokey78
Britain needs another Churchill. Hell, WE need a Churchill!
34 posted on
08/19/2007 8:51:14 AM PDT by
ought-six
("Give me liberty, or give me death!")
To: Pokey78
The surge is working!!...wrong surge but it’s still a surge.
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