Iraq II
No, I wasn't crazy. I did hear the president announce the encirclement of Baghdad with trenches and berms.
Also in this article, are they just writing off Anbar, the center of Al Qaeda in Iraq, supposedly the terrorist element we're in Iraq fighting by pulling a battalion out to Baghdad? (UPDATE: Yes, they are according to Gen. Chiarelli.)
And, same article, another US soldier is missing,
If you pray, pray for him.
(Also: CNN is actually showing video of wounded US troops rolling into the Baghdad CASH. Unprecedented. It's on their site, but I can't link it directly. Go to an Iraq article and look about halfway down on the left under video "Casualties mount in Iraq conflict.")
Also in this article, are they just writing off Anbar, the center of Al Qaeda in Iraq, supposedly the terrorist element we're in Iraq fighting by pulling a battalion out to Baghdad? (UPDATE: Yes, they are according to Gen. Chiarelli.)
And, same article, another US soldier is missing,
Neither U.S. military officials in Iraq nor in Washington would say whether they believed the soldier had been abducted or whether he may have been killed in the attack, and his remains had not been recovered.
If you pray, pray for him.
(Also: CNN is actually showing video of wounded US troops rolling into the Baghdad CASH. Unprecedented. It's on their site, but I can't link it directly. Go to an Iraq article and look about halfway down on the left under video "Casualties mount in Iraq conflict.")
posted by mikevotes at
1:01 PM
3 Comments:
Hmmm....trenchhes around Baghdad...so is that essentially making it a light green zone?
Putting Iraq into the context that Bush likes to use, is this sort of like the wall around Berlin?
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zen, at 1:23 PM
, is this sort of like the wall around Berlin?
It's more like Saddam's attempt to ring Baghdad with trenches of oil and smoke as we invaded Iraq.
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-epm, at 1:49 PM
Zen, "light green zone." I like that.
Zen, EPM, I would equate it more to Fallujah, (I'm sure that's where the strategy came from,) and Fallujah's a relatively small town, 400,000 before the US cleared it out, 100,000 (?) now, and it hasn't worked all that well there with two access points.
Are we going to put in biometric scanners? Are we going to inspect every truck going in? Are Iraqi documents that hard to buy/forge from your friends in the ministry?
I think this falls into the "it's what they can do" category. And when done, it will buy about a month while the insurgents work out the patterns (and US elections are held.)
Mike
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mikevotes, at 1:57 PM
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