23 Replies to “Inside Sadr City”

  1. I’d personally like to invite Jack Layton (and his beyotch Stephanie) to attend the next “intervention” our boys in A’Stan are asked to participate in. I’m sure he’ll be pleased to walk in the middle ground at the beginning and encourage the participants to shake hands before they drop their robes and begin.
    A firefight like this is a horrific experience to participate in. It takes iron underwear and nerves of steel to come out of these whole.
    Its instructive to understand that the viewers are watching this through the filter of a high quality night vision sight. Without it, your vision is hammered by the bright flash of fire in a pitch black night. Try to imagine what being in the middle of this is like. Now try to imagine sticking your head up to participate because the lives of those around you depend on it.
    This is the very real horror that we demand our troops participate in. This is the very real effort that is needed from time to time in order to be able to stand in parliament and bitch about rights of gays, women, minorities and the marginalized.
    It matters not a whit that this particular fight occurred in Iraq (so park your faux BushHarper outrage). There will always be Sadr Cities as long as the right to freedom is believed.

  2. Something that should be mentioned as well, is that this is the so-called ineffectual Iraqi army working alongside Americans.

  3. I don’t understand why the Iraqi army/U S Special Forces didn’t go in and finish off Fatboy al Sadr’s band of ragtag thugs. The only reason the fighting ended is because the “militants” were getting routed. This is not the first time we have seen this situation. How many more times and lives will it take before a cease fire by this enemy will not be accepted. Al Sadr has been a constant pain in the a$$ and that porky little terrorist needs to be taken out.

  4. Different Bob, the expediencies of politics have ever been the bane of generals and their brave men.
    Great video.

  5. Another thought comes to mind. Given that the efforts of Americans to train a competent Iraqi army seem to be paying off, I wonder whether a Turkey-like state would be a plausible final status for Iraq. Particularly as they these countries share a border, and share a desire to NOT have the Kurds in an independent nation.
    It’s not quite like Turkey, but the point is that the Turkish army is a stable, relatively pro-Western, non-religiously motivated institution that has done much to keep that country stable, even though Turkey is a democracy more or less.

  6. I’ve supported the war from the beginning because I think it will trigger reform of the Middle East. I’m pro-American because I think it’s been the bulwark for a free and prosperous West.
    But when I watch that video I can’t help thinking that in the final segment, when they’re withdrawing, there seems to be a lot of untargeted outgoing fire into houses along the road out.
    I know video can’t show everything that is going on, but I can’t imagine it’s accepted procedure to open up on every house in range with a .50 cal.

  7. You make a good point Lori. Colleagues of mine who served in Cyprus found the Turkish army to be the far more professional force in comparison to the Greeks. Whether over the long run the Iraqi army will be a stabilizing, homogenizing influence in Iraq politically and culturally remains to be seen, but they certainly appear to be establishing their professional bona fides.

  8. Chip: They are hitting points of fire targeted at them. These are special force Iraqis … if you’ll note at one point when the Iraqi call for cease fire comes, they stop almost immediately. There’s a lot of discipline on display. Often when these operations withdraw, they are followed by sadr militia who shoot at them … so the result is an overwhelming response. Works for me.

  9. They’re not firing at militia behind them, they’re firing at every house they pass on the way out.
    And if every one of those homes did have someone firing at them as they withdrew, I wonder how wise it was to execute a mission with such a perilous exit route.
    I’d be interested in hearing what Michael Yon thinks about it.

  10. I don’t think they want to kill Sadr as that would make him a martyr. As articulated in the Post yesterday, better for the Iraqi forces to show leadership, balls etc and quietly strangle Sadr politically and militarily over time.
    God bless all our troops.

  12. The real funny part is the depleted uranium they use.
    A few thousand years from now it will be ok to live there again.
    We must be at 700,000 civilian deaths by now.

  13. The part I find funny is the occasional sound of a SAW or similar weapon, and seeing the tracers from an AA gun. Obviously someone thought they were being hit by A-10s as well as a ground assault.

  14. Gee just what we need more of .To be cut off from the world. Next we will have them after the internet, than comes the jamming of all signals. This is not about the buses, its a bunker mentality anti capitalist in character, (The arts community is now being turned into political teat sucking infants as well)if not anti Democratic. Another nail in our heads against free expression, because we all know who the Canadian content exults.
    Ontario sets Canadian content rule for transit funds
    Maria Babbage
    THE CANADIAN PRESS
    http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/349229

  15. My apologies. I meant my post for the tips thread & hit this one unintentionally.
    As for the video. Wow those guys deserve the best when they get back. For those who are enablers or submissive to Islamofacism, the head choppers faction. How many Allah Akbars did you count, as they shot at the troops.
    Than ask yourself why these nuts have made war on us for so long while the dimmies ignored it since the American embassy take over , culmunating in the twin tower horror. With many acts of brutality towards people who had no beef with them in between. Great vid

  16. Morningstar
    That lancet study that nobody believes has yet to release their base data so people can review their claims, funny you think they would be happy to. Iraqbodycount who are no friends of Bush are far more accurate.
    Also I notice people making claims about DU use the unfired packaged weight of the round as a means to inflate the amount used, the DU dart amounts to approx 10% of the total weight. You also forgot to mention that Saddam is responsible for 2 of the greatest manmade environmental disasters in the region, in fact I bet you can’t even tell which one they were.
    On DU
    Radiological hazards
    External exposure to radiation from depleted uranium has generally not been considered a major concern because the alpha particle emitted by its isotopes travel only a few centimeters in air or can be stopped by a sheet of paper. Also, the uranium-235 that remains in depleted uranium emits only a small amount of low-energy gamma radiation. According to the World Health Organization, a radiation dose from it would be about 60 percent from purified natural uranium with the same mass. Approximately 90 micrograms of natural uranium, on average, exist in the human body as a result of normal intakes of water, food and air. The majority of this is found in the skeleton, with the rest in various organs and tissues.
    The radiological dangers of pure depleted uranium are lower (60 percent) than those of naturally-occurring uranium due to the removal of the more radioactive isotopes, as well as due to its long half-life (4.46 billion years). Depleted uranium differs from natural uranium in its isotopic composition, but its biochemistry is for the most part the same. For further details see actinides in the environment.
    Source:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium

  17. The Iraq invasion has been one of the biggest blunders in history.
    Bush will go down in the history books as one of the worst embarrassments.
    McHarper’s pro-Iraq invasion views have been flushed down the Orwellian memory hole

  19. Well morningstar, you are at least the second poster here today to show their utter ignorance of facts and or reality.
    Yer in really lousy company so far.
    Can you point out a weapon in that video that was using DU rounds? 17 years in the mob and never seen DU rounds for M4s, 50s, mini-guns, AKs……. There were a distinct lack of M1A2a there firing anti-tank sabot rounds or A10s unloading their 30mm.
    Spent 3 years handling DU rounds for the CIWS, until we switched over to Tungsten rounds. KNow what the dosimeter I wore everyday at work for three years showed? Background radiation levels, like you are recieving right now. And why did we switch to tungsten rounds you ask? Someone figured out that you do not need armour piercing rounds to knock down a missile with a 1/8th inch aluminum body.
    The 700,000 figure? I won’t even go into that with someone stupid enough to believe it.

  20. Great video. Peace through superior firepower.
    When will the stupid sand – uh – monkeys realize when you mess with the best, you will die like the rest.
    Persia has been at war with civilized culture since the beginning of time, in their case there are no innocent bystanders. Get with the program, or the video illustrates the alternative.
    Btw, I love the sound that Vulcan makes, the sweet song of freedom!
    God bless our men and women in uniform for taking care of the wetwork.

  22. You realize of course Shere that at one time Persia WAS the Civilized world.
    About 7000 years ago with ups and downs up to about 2000 ago…. since then … not so much.

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