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Baghdad Push Just the Start

"News that an Iraqi Army brigade and 2,000 American troops have begun an operation in [Baghdad's] Sunni dominated neighborhood of Azamiyah has kicked off speculation the Baghdad Security Operation is now underway in full force," serial embedder Bill Roggio notes. "But the fact is the operation to stabilize the capital and the surrounding provinces is only in its infancy. Today's positioning of forces Azamiyah is but one more opening move on the chessboard."

From what I understand, Gen. David Petraeus, the new American commander in Iraq, only now just got to Iraq. So it doesn't seem like the moment for the be-all-, end-all push the papers are trumpeting.

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Yeah, I'm with u on this one let's send in the B-52 and level the whole country and bury the population and then we'll send in the neo-cons to 're-populate' the entire country and make that a 'beacon' of American ingenuity and humanity for the entire world.

Posted by: mum at February 8, 2007 2:30 PM

Of course its not a last chance attempt at victory. We can easily defeat the insurgents if we simply take the handcuffs off of our military.
Thats all it will take. You cannot win by trying to fight a politically correct war, or for that matter a pr war. You simply kill the enemy and you win, thats all you need to do.

Posted by: Jonathan at February 8, 2007 12:22 PM

Petraeus is the reason why the Iraqi Army isn't wiping out The Other Sect like the Iraqi police. But one way or another you need way more troops to suppress a counterinsurgency then we have at hand. America invaded the Phillippines and put down an insurgency with 100,000 men, the same amount we have down in Iraq, but in a vastly smaller area and all that.

Posted by: Charles at February 8, 2007 12:36 AM

At first I was skeptical of General Abrams err Petraeus when he was first proposed because of his support for this wave of reinforcements. Now seeing his crew of anti-establishment colonels and hearing about a CLEAR plan for battle, I am now fully in support.

I just hope general Westmorland err Casey does not get the Army top spot. We should not reward losers. Someone needs to take a paper bullet for all the f##k-ups in Iraq. Everyone can't just blame the media.

Posted by: Average_Joe at February 7, 2007 2:09 PM

Baghdad Push Just the Start

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