Town Leaders of Mosul Prepare Surrender to Allied Forces

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Cable News Reported that they have recieved word that leaders in Mosul are prepared to surrender to Coalition forces.

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[Trust but Verify]

This is shaping up to be another hugh news day from Iraq.

[Redcloak]

It's a quagmire!!!!

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[HapaxLegamenon]

It has been awhile since I have heard CNN refered to as Cable News Network. I guess it had to be the case, becuase no one takes CNN seriously.

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I wonder if Tikrit will fall without a fight since most of the former Iraqi leadership is in Syria.

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Another operational pause..

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And the ratings are showing it..

[HapaxLegamenon]

It reminds me of Bill Clinton suddently being called William Jefferson Clinton at the 1996 DNC.

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Actually, isn't his real name 'Blythe?'

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Zeph 2:13
He will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate and dry as the desert. (NIV)

Nahum 3:7
All who see you will flee from you and say, `Nineveh is in ruins-- who will mourn for her?' Where can I find anyone to comfort you?" (NIV)

(P.S. Mosul is the location of the ancient Assyrian capital, Nineveh)

[palmerizedCaddis]

Yer Dog Patch boy is the illegitimate offspring of former U.
S. Senator and general leftist knowit all Bill Fullbright.

Consider his speech at the 1988 commie convention and the vague, vaporous tale of the necessarily missing, Mr. Blythe.

In the south that I grew up in, folks looked with disfavor upon untruthful, frequenters of prostitutes, who were of illegitimate birth.

In this day, folks like that are quite well gualified for a post at the United Nations

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[PhiKapMom]

Just heard an MSNBC analyst that said he expects Tikrit to fall next as well with just scattered resistance remaining. This is the first time that a Governor of an area has surrendered as well as the highest ranking military general to surrender.

Looks like our military will be in mop-up mode shortly which could be really dangerous to our troops!

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Any timeline on Tikrit?

[PhiKapMom]

Not a timeline -- they are just expecting with no organized military left by the Iraqi's that Tikrit will fall shortly. With all the firepower of the US available now, they believe that Tikrit will also surrender.

Counterattack by the military is out of the question now by the Iraqi's. A lot of tribalism around Tikrit. Both analyst think there will not be a significant battle for Tikrit because they expect the tribal leaders in that area will switch allegiance since the Saddam regime has lost.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[KC Burke]

As for Tirkrit, its been said before:

How yet resolves the governor of the town?
This is the latest parle we will admit;
Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;
Or like to men proud of destruction
Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
If I begin the battery once again,
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
Till in her ashes she lie buried.
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
What is it then to me, if impious war,
Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,
Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
If your pure maidens fall into the hand
Of hot and forcing violation?
What rein can hold licentious wickedness
When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
We may as bootless spend our vain command
Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
As send precepts to the leviathan
To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
If not, why, in a moment look to see
The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Shakespeare? Henry IV?

[KC Burke]

Close, Henry V.

Act 3, Scene 3 before the City Gates of Hafleur (fittingly a French town)