Wretchard provides subtext to a Department of Defense news briefing related to operations in Haditha, Iraq and wonders if something large is underway.
Here’s the first hint that this operation is qualitatively different from anything previous. The implication of Gen. Ham’s statements is that in the past the coalition only had the ability to drive out insurgents locally, like chasing a soap bar around a tub. He strongly suggests that this time, there is no place to hide and the loss of the 21 Marines was in line with this new and offensive goal.
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Recently, retired General Jack Keane kicked up a public relations hornet’s nest� by saying that US forces had killed or captured 50,000 insurgents in 2005. That enormous lethality would suggest that, despite the loss of the Marines, the ongoing fighting must be lopsided. Nothing to do but await events.
Last week I surfed through a Canadian blog that dismissed the Belmont Club as “inexplicably” popular.
I suppose that explains why I can’t recall its name.
Civilian defence fears draft
HALIFAX (CP) – The union representing Canada’s civilian defence workers is bracing for a battle over compulsory service in war zones, as hundreds of uniformed soldiers pack their kitbags for lengthy stints in Afghanistan.
>>> CP, aka Canadian Press, aka Communist Press, a bugleized mouthpiece of the Librano$, uses the language of war: “bracing for a battle”.
This, of course, is a sly, sneaking, dishonest method of building sympathy for their pals in the “union”; such union is not a union. This “union” is a coterie of Canadians who work (?) for the Librano$ regime. It’s a method of agit/propaganda.
Are the “civilian defence workers” going into battle? Baloney.
Yes, it’s clear now; the increasing US casualties are proof that the enemy is desperate, victory is just around the corner of the last throes, the boys will be home by Christmas, and we can WIN the war in Vietn…er Lebano…er Iraq!
Seriously, they’re sending inabout 1,00 Marines, with a token Iraqi force, to clear out an area they’ve cleared out before. The bad guys will slip away, the Marines will leave (`cause they don’t have the manpower to KEEP 1,000 of them in the area) and the bad guys will slip back in.
The name “Sysiphus” mean anything to you?