6 troops died today, 17 already this month. That’s nearly two a day. We’re playing whack-a-mole again, only this time we are doing it in Diyala.
But more to the point: If the goal in Iraq is to bring US causalties down, then there is an even better way to do that: Withdraw. Withdrawing carefully but quickly is the best way to eliminate US casualties. It’s also the best way to pressure the Shia government to reconcile with the Sunni opposition. As it stands now, the Shia have no reason to reconcile.
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Withdraw. Withdrawing carefully but quickly is the best way to eliminate US casualties. MK the goal is NOT to reduce US casualties...can you not grasp that? The goal is to leave a BETTER Iraq! Jesu Christi man, the goal of life is not always safety.... |
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Joe
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I had heard that the goal was to allow the Iraqis to get there sh*t together......well...........
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darohu
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http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/moment-of-truth-in-iraq.htmBy 2007, the Iraqis were doing most of the fighting. And . . . this is very important . . . they see our Army and Marines as serious allies, and in many cases as friends. Please let the potential implications of that sink in. |
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Keith_Indy
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My blog today (click if you’re interested) deals with the fact that things not only seem to be heating up in both Iraq and Afghanistan, but that the political structures in each country are weak and relatively powerless. It is starting to look like the ’surge optimism’ of late 2007 will soon give way to seeing that claim of success as just another in the long litany of false hopes (’slow progress, stay the course, etc.) |
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Scott Erb
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U3B17O0&show_article=1Iraq’s western province of Anbar, hotbed of the Sunni Arab insurgency for the first four years of the war, will be returned to Iraqi control in March, a senior U.S. general said Thursday.
In a telephone interview from Iraq, Marine Maj. Gen. Walter E. Gaskin, commander of the roughly 35,000 Marine and Army forces in Anbar, said levels of violence have dropped so significantly—coupled with the growth and development of Iraqi security forces in the province—that Anbar is ready to be handed back to the Iraqis.
Thus far, nine of 18 Iraqi provinces have reverted to Iraqi control, most recently the southern province of Basra in December. The process has gone substantially slower than the Bush administration once hoped, mainly because of obstacles to developing sufficient Iraqi police and army forces. But Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that he expects the process to continue. |
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Keith_Indy
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