Posted on 04/11/2007 7:29:50 PM PDT by Eurotwit
Yeah he’s a real god, I’m sure. Thanks for the uninvited and month-late input, loser.
I didn’t say he was a God.
He, unlike yourself, has years of experience in bringing the fight to the enemy. Idiots such as yourself sit on your fat butts and pretend to have a clue. After you post, you waddle to the refrigerator and have a nice late night snack. As for the uninvited and month-late input comment, you can just stfu you old idiot.
Brilliant retort. Just how old am I, by the way?
Old enough to know better!
“This doesn’t seem like any way to win a war.”
Funny, because posting arm-chair general advice on an internet message board doen’t see like a way to win a war either.
OK — I’ll let an Iraqi general speak for himself...
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/010013.php
“The Guardian has a scathing report on the British efforts in southern Iraq and the resultant influence of Iran in the Shi’ite militias vying to fill the power vacuum around Basra. It demonstrates the futility of the approach used by the British in engaging militias instead of marginalizing and defeating them, as even the Iraqi commanders on the ground explain:
When he finished his conversation, the general - who didn’t want his name published because he feared retribution from militias -stretched out his hand to me and said: “Welcome to Tehran.”
I asked him about British claims that the security situation was improving. His reply was withering: “The British came here as military tourists. They committed huge mistakes when they formed the security forces. They appointed militiamen as police officers and chose not confront the militias. We have reached this point where the militias are a legitimate force in the street.” ...”
All I can say is don’t believe everything you read on the internet, especially when it’s from a blog that quotes the British ‘newspaper’, the Guardian. It is a liberal, left-wing rag that a good conservative like yourself shouldn’t be reading....
Obviously, this ‘battle-hardened’ Guardian reporter knows what he’s on about .....not!!!
Rather than getting out on the streets with British forces in Basra, he (or she) chose to have a conversation with a so-called Iraqi General (quite convenient he didn’t want to be named, eh?), who was most probably a cattle herder, but hey, the Guardian has to back it’s reporting up, I guess!
I read the blog, and I can honestly say that I can in no way identify it with the Basra I know, and I can assure you that i’ve visited Basra more, and for longer than any journalist has, left or right wing. I have never seen or heard of any visits from the Guardian or any one freelancing for them.
I myself, have never engaged with any of the so-called local militias that are apparently vying for power to run the city.
There were no claims that the security situation was ‘improving’, why would there need to be?
To my knowledge, the British didn’t appoint anyone as police officers, this was done by local Iraqi ‘govt.’ When British forces suspected that the police had been infiltrated by militias/terrorists (whatever you want to call them), they sent forces in to confront them which resulted in police stations being razed to the ground....doesn’t sound too much like the British choosing not to confront them to me, eh?
Yes, there has been a rise in militia numbers, but this is representative across Iraq, not just Basra.
Don’t ask me to source what i’ve written above, i’m not an internet trawler, but am a media sceptic, unless I witness something myself...
EVERYBODY uses cellphones in Iraq. You’d have to kill everybody. It would make d@mned unpopular.
One favorite use for ‘em is to phone in tips on terrorists. Iraqis with cellphones are giving them hell.
Another is to detonate IEDs. US convoys run cellphone jammers as part of their IED defenses. Dunno if the Brits do the same.
And apparently using sing kids with cellphones to scout targets is yet another.
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