Now which is it we kicked arse in Basra or we didnt? Conflicting news reports. ????
“We” were in a support role. Measured in terms of a US or UK miltary op, it was a train wreck. Measured in terms of a fledgling Iraqi Army with troops and officers that wouldn’t even be allowed in a US or UK force as janitors, it was a big win, if severely flawed from a modern ops perspective.
The Iraqi Army just finished clearing out the last criminal
strongholds in Basra. The Iraqi Army is in complete control of ALL of Basrah, except foe some small arms fire in a few neighborhoods where they are going through, house by house. Most of rrhe criminal gangs have fled Basta, and are likely fleeing north, hoping to join up in Sadr City. Those forces no longer needed to hold Basra, I expect will be chasing after them, all the way north.
“We fired our guns and the British kept a’comin.
There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin’
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.”