A surge of their own: Iraqis take back the streets

The Guardian ^

[UKrepublican]

A surge of their own: Iraqis take back the streets - Under the embers of the wintry evening sun the Tigris river, usually as brown as old boots, had turned almost blood red. Its waters were calm but its oily sheen was disturbed by the oars of a rower as he sculled his way through the city's fractured heart.

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[milestogo]

Guardian??!!!?? WTF!!

[ken5050]

What’s surprising to me is why we don’t give them some kind of uniform..and is should be easily distinguisable from US BDUs..it would given them a sense of unit cohesion..of belonging to something..seems silly and shortsighted not to do so..

[RedRover]

Knock me over with a proverbial feather.

[MoMagic]

Since uniforms are easily sold or stolen, I’d prefer we let them sort out their own set of uniforms and colors. What they are doing now is working ...

[MuttTheHoople]

Funny that a left-wing broadsheet would have such a positive article about Iraq's liberation.

Democrats have never wanted brown-skinned people to succeed. The party was founded by slaveholders. The Civil War was started by a bunch of Southern Democrats too lazy to pick their own cotton. The Democrats kept an entire race of people in slavery over 100 years after our constitution was officially amended....and the only reason the Democrats (and their military arm, the KKK) stopped attacking blacks was because they became a reliable black vote. Democrats cut off funding to SE Asia, leading to the slaughter of millions in the Killing Fields. The Democrats cut off the Shah and Somoza at the knees and allowed retarded Mullahs and communists to take over. They opposed Reagan's quest for liberty everywhere he went.

And now they oppose and loathe the man who liberated 50,000,000 people in Iraq and Afghanistan from brutal dictatoriships, giving brown-skinned people a chance at liberty.

[SMARTY]

I thought about that, too. Maybe it works because they don’t have uniforms.... ??? I don’t know.

[PfromHoGro]

Oh (they will have) known it all along. Their complaining at every turn will be assigned the reason for the improvements.

[ken5050]

They can obviously recognize each other....they are neighborhood based..I think some type of uniform would be a fairly big morale booster

[Tarpon]

Dims left town, it’s safe to come out again and tell the truth.

[Balding_Eagle]

"Muhammad is one of the thousands of young Baghdadi men to have joined neighbourhood security groups, which have mushroomed over the last year and are a crucial factor in the dramatic decline in civilian deaths. US soldiers call them "concerned local citizens"; Iraqis just call them sahwa (awakening) after the so-called Anbar awakening in western Iraq, which has seen Sunni tribal sheikhs take on foreign-led Islamists."

Excellant read. And full of good news and hope.

[jagusafr]

The Guardian is probably trying to justify the Brits’ withdrawal, assuming there’ll be all sorts of criticism, which I didn’t see much of.

Colonel, USAFR

[UKrepublican]

Absolutely. Glad you enjoyed it.

[sono]

Even al-Guardian is more upbeat than Dingy Harry.

[numberonepal]

I think some type of uniform would be a fairly big morale booster

Maybe they should get some cool jackets:

[bukkdems]

From the article, “The Americans also gave them combat boots and reflective vests as a kind of uniform.”.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

But... Harry Reid said Al Queda is winning! This report must be wrong!