Iraqis use guerrilla tactics to slow advance

Reuters | 3/23/03 | Douglas Hamilton

[Pushi]

DON'T WATCH THE OSCARS.

[denydenydeny]

Reuters=shameless whores for Saddam.

I could spend all day identifying the outright lies in this piece, who why bother.

[Blennos]

Washington's hopes that U.S.-led forces would be welcomed into Iraq as liberators bled into the sand on Sunday, the fourth day of war, as Iraqi troops fought back with determination and guerrilla tactics.

Always expect an anti-American spin from the Saudi-controlled "Reuters". Take them with a grain of sand.

[willieroe]

DON'T WATCH THE OSCARS.

Stop "spamming" all of the threads with the same message, please. Why not contribute to the discussion instead?

[demlosers]

Like feigning surrender and then shooting. Hmmmmmm.

We may take no quarters fools!

[demlosers]

Iraqi troops were fighting with machinegun-mounted Japanese pickup trucks against squadrons of the world's most formidable battle tank, the U.S. Abrams.

Do they have Sh!!-for-brains or what?

[CrimeOf73]

Washington's hopes that U.S.-led forces would be welcomed into Iraq as liberators bled into the sand on Sunday, the fourth day of war, as Iraqi troops fought back with determination and guerrilla tactics.

Did Reuters lift this from the official Baath party newsletter?

I don't know anyone in Washington who said, "Iraq's army will welcome us as liberators and will not fight back", yet Reuters is implying that someone did.

U.S. concern to avoid civilian casualties

Not a single drop of American blood should be shed because of political pressure causing hesitation and uncertainty.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Clearly releasing POW's and telling them to return home is a bad idea. We need to round up every single one of them and imprison them for the duration.

[no-s]

The Iraqis, while massively outgunned, were also using rocket propelled grenades, machineguns and small arms to good effect to pin down U.S. forces reluctant to risk casualties.

"reluctant to risk casulties" - them's weasel words. They are reluctant to risk civilian casualties, but the article implies Americans are reluctant to risk their own forces to achieve the objective. I watched a small action on TV the other day, it was obvious they could have turned that town to ashes in a few minutes.

Also the tactic of sending a small force out to make contact, surrender, and targeting it with artillery is out of the iran-iran war playbook. I wonder what they tell the guys who surrender - "Oh, we'll be right behind you..."

[Marathon]

Washington's hopes that U.S.-led forces would be welcomed into Iraq as liberators bled into the sand on Sunday, the fourth day of war, as Iraqi troops fought back with determination and guerrilla tactics.

Oh gee, but the Bush administration told us that everyone in Iraq would love and adore us.(Set Sarcasm=Off)

"Conservatives" have long pointed out that there is all the difference between banning guns with a law, and actually getting them out of the hands of criminals. So what can't "conservatives" on Free Republic (which I abandoned years ago as no longer conservative) understand that lashing out with hatred and violence at other nations, fomenting backlash and long-term animosity even while you seize an occasional weapons lab, etc., just makes the problem worse in the future?

Real progress in peace and security worldwide will be built from foundational principles lived out consistently by people who are sincere in desiring such, and by living out those principles to create a winsome atmosphere that others will seek to learn and replicate. A childish rambo mentality will not solve difficult problems, it will aggravate them. Shame on FR. You are just another faction of liberals now.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Carpet bomb Iraqi troops now! Be humanitarian about it. Let them know they have a few minutes to surrender. If they don't a B-52 squadron will overfly them shortly, after which the offer will be repeated--if they can receive the offer. The bombing will continue until the entire troop concentration surrenders unconditionally, or until the entire troop concentration is dead. And, W, don't let Powell talk you into holding back out of fear of looking bad!

[doodad]

(which I abandoned years ago as no longer conservative)

Then please abandon and stop posting.

[Free Vulcan]

I never got the impression that we were suprised by local pockets of resistance or guerrilla tactics. This in fact was the very thing we feared. This makes it look like we walked into this thing cocky and overconfident. Obviously this is pure propaganda, deliberately subversive diatribe by anti-American, ultra-leftist extremsts assisting the Islamic fundamentalists terrorist effort.

[demnomo]

Yup. Between Reuters and Peter Jennings, the Coalition Forces are losing this war and will be destroyed because there are more than zero casualties and the entire Republican Guard (many of whom are war criminals and hate us for taking away their power, prestige and cover from the EUroweenies) has not surrendered en mass.

It wont be long before the victorious Iraqis march down 42nd Street in NYC and make us pay for our humiliating defeat. Guess I better start sewing that Burkha--NOT.

[Alas Babylon!]

I have seen numerous threads and uncountable requests for prayers, folks worried about our troops, and those who think the fight is deadly, but still righteous. I don't know who you're selectively refering to (as you are), but your analysis of Free Republic is flawed.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Before I get out my guitar to sing Kum-Bay-Ya with you, I'd like to remind you that the world has always been full of murdering tyrants, thugs and rapists who don't want to hold hands and put a flower in their hair. You can't reason with the Hitlers, Stalins, Pol Pots, and Saddam Husseins of the world. You want a world of responsible, peace-loving people. We don't have such a world and never will. That is why we have to kill people and blow up things rather regularly before the ever-present rat bastards blow up our things and kill us first.

[KantianBurke]

Damnit Mr. President. When are we gonna stop messing around with these punks!? They've gotta be stopped now!

[Free Vulcan]

If a childish Rambo mentality breeds nothing but war and death, then how exactly do we react to people like Sadaam Hussein, Fidel Castro, and Kim Jong Il and their childish Rambo mentality? Do we sit back and let them breed war and death throughout the world?

[JasonC]

Oh horsefeathers. The Iraqi regime is tens of thousands of extremely evil men, professional murderers, torturers, and extortionists, who have no future in any just society. Everybody knew and knows they will fight to the death, and we will oblige them. Evil men do not become angels because their evil leader dies. The Iraqi people's reaction to being freed from those evil men, is something we will only see when they are dead and can no longer threaten those people.