Comments on: Another miss in Sadr City http://ballgunner.freedomblogging.com/2008/04/14/another-miss-in-sadr-city/33/ Snarky commentary on global military affairs Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:30:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Anonymouse http://ballgunner.freedomblogging.com/2008/04/14/another-miss-in-sadr-city/33/#comment-104 Anonymouse Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:02:02 +0000 http://ballgunner.freedomblogging.com/2008/04/14/another-miss-in-sadr-city/#comment-104 Wonderpig, I think I love you. Wonderpig, I think I love you.

]]> By: wonderpig http://ballgunner.freedomblogging.com/2008/04/14/another-miss-in-sadr-city/33/#comment-98 wonderpig Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:53:23 +0000 http://ballgunner.freedomblogging.com/2008/04/14/another-miss-in-sadr-city/#comment-98 They are back in Sadr City because over 300 rockets and mortars were fired from there into the Green Zone, where all the diplomats, state department officials and politically privileged contractors live. Like the pooh water being given to our troops, where nothing was done about it until some enterprising fobbits replaced the water designated for an ice sculpture at a KBR bigwig party with the pooh water, the neocons only react to threats that personally affect them. A mortar attack on the green zone while they are in the middle of an American propaganda push to support the war here in the states would naturally lead to some serious reprisals. But I seriously doubt that an American patrol went into Sadr City, which has a population of close to 800,000, the majority of them hostile to our guys. Most reports are of hellfire missile or air strikes into residential areas to combat the attacks on the green zone. The Americans have taken no casualties in Sadr City recently. General Dave Petraeus has done wonders and gave the Bush administration a much needed lull in which to accomplish some political shoring up in Iraq, and they have done.........nothing. The Bush administration then responded in their usual cowardly fashion and hung the good general out there to fend for himself when he made his report in Washington. Letting the democrats snipe at a successful American general may do wonders for their political cause come November, but it also makes it crystal clear that there will be no leadership coming out of the White House until next January, when the new president is sworn into office. And by that time, all of Petraeus's hard fought for gains may have to done again, and this time with less resources. This is what I've been saying since the fall of 2003, when Rumsfeld was posing as the worlds most phony Field Marshall, that the solution to Iraq would not start until the Bush administration was gone. They have no plan for Iraq, the only plan they have is to start a war with Iran, hoping that all their crimes in Iraq will be glossed over in a wave of patriotism. Our guys in Iraq are magnificent. They have no mission, they are being treated as spare parts, they are steadily being lied to by the worst group of senior officers ever to disgrace the American military and they are still performing at a high level. And they are at great risk, for according to both the American Conservative magazine and the foreign press, Cheney's recent trip to the Middle East was to gather support for his upcoming attack on Iran. It would ruin the American economy and put both the fleet in the Persian Gulf and the Army in Iraq at high risk, but since when has Cheney ever given a damn about Americans anyway? They are back in Sadr City because over 300 rockets and mortars were fired from there into the Green Zone, where all the diplomats, state department officials and politically privileged contractors live. Like the pooh water being given to our troops, where nothing was done about it until some enterprising fobbits replaced the water designated for an ice sculpture at a KBR bigwig party with the pooh water, the neocons only react to threats that personally affect them. A mortar attack on the green zone while they are in the middle of an American propaganda push to support the war here in the states would naturally lead to some serious reprisals.

But I seriously doubt that an American patrol went into Sadr City, which has a population of close to 800,000, the majority of them hostile to our guys. Most reports are of hellfire missile or air strikes into residential areas to combat the attacks on the green zone. The Americans have taken no casualties in Sadr City recently.

General Dave Petraeus has done wonders and gave the Bush administration a much needed lull in which to accomplish some
political shoring up in Iraq, and they have done………nothing. The Bush administration then responded in their usual cowardly fashion and hung the good general out there to fend for himself when he made his report in Washington. Letting the democrats snipe at a successful American general may do wonders for their political cause come November, but it also makes it crystal clear that there will be no leadership coming out of the White House until next January, when the new president is sworn into office. And by that time, all of Petraeus’s hard fought for gains may have to done again, and this time with less resources.

This is what I’ve been saying since the fall of 2003, when Rumsfeld was posing as the worlds most phony Field Marshall, that the solution to Iraq would not start until the Bush administration was gone. They have no plan for Iraq, the only plan they have is to start a war with Iran, hoping that all their crimes in Iraq will be glossed over in a wave of
patriotism.

Our guys in Iraq are magnificent. They have no mission, they are being treated as spare parts, they are steadily being lied to by the worst group of senior officers ever to disgrace the American military and they are still performing at a high level. And they are at great risk, for according to both the American Conservative magazine and the foreign press, Cheney’s recent trip to the Middle East was to gather support for his upcoming attack on Iran. It would ruin the American economy and put both the fleet in the Persian Gulf and the Army in Iraq at high risk, but since when has Cheney ever given a damn about Americans anyway?

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