Comments on: U.S. troops begin joint patrols of Baghdad area with … Sunni insurgents

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:32 +0000

The US should come right behind this development with bennies like rebuilding infastructure and mabey a community center with basketball courts? They could creat a little industry mabey a couple little factories making whatever bricks or concrete. Gainful employment would these guys another venue to get self esteme besides the hate/kill cycle.

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:22:21 +0000

Live=Life

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:21:41 +0000

We should just give the entire Middle East to Israel…Live would be easier.

By: TwinkietheKid

TwinkietheKid — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:52:08 +0000

Is it me or has the whole world gone nuts?

By: Mazztek

Mazztek — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:17:55 +0000

THAT"S MY PICTURE!! But, I added text at the bottom, "Ok, How 'bout NOW?" It goes with my baby pictrure. Anyway, this is still not the surge, but something has to change.

By: HerrMorgenholz

HerrMorgenholz — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:04:01 +0000

No nation wants to be occupied, and these Anbarians took up arms to resist. Later, they realized that to end the occupation required cooperation with the occupiers. This is only practical.

By: IrishEyes

IrishEyes — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:51:47 +0000

Look, we find out who al these interesting characters are, have ‘em help us nail AQ, and if they don’t play ball when we’re done with AQ, we whack em too. Win-win.

Iblis on June 5, 2007 at 6:04 PM

“As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want,” Rumsfeld said.

By: IrishEyes

IrishEyes — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:49:08 +0000

This is how Cortez defeated Mexico. Use one tribe against the other. It certainly wasn’t just a few hundred conquistedors that did it. Divide and conquer. Niiiice.

Mojave Mark on June 5, 2007 at 8:35 PM

New dogs, old trick.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:35:51 +0000

This is how Cortez defeated Mexico. Use one tribe against the other. It certainly wasn’t just a few hundred conquistedors that did it. Divide and conquer. Niiiice.

By: yo

yo — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:28:11 +0000

“The diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Good dog’, while you are searching for a big rock”

I love it.

If we’ve learned anything, it’s that we can’t defeat ‘em all at once without generating collateral damage – which is what they want, anyway. Like sands of the hour-glass …

Besides,AQ can’t garner casual media/Muslim-on-the-street support if they’re being hunted by other Muslims. It’s no longer a crusade.

Pick ‘em off one at a time.

Sit, Ubo, sit.

Good dog.

By: freebird

freebird — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:26:16 +0000

Glad to see a place for the Hell (MI) freezes over sign.

By: flipflop

flipflop — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:19:22 +0000

Not present: 131.

Well…that speaks volumes.

By: Lehosh

Lehosh — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:41:23 +0000

They were missing 131 representatives for the vote? Is that even a quorum?

By: Kini

Kini — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:05:49 +0000

AQ is primarily an Arab Muslim problem, so what better way to defeat AQ. This is who we are at war with. We know that AQ has been responsible for drawing out much of the sectarian violence.
This kind of out sourcing I like. I just hope it spreads to the other tribes and leads to some form of democracy, for what it’s worth.

By: darwin

darwin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:50:46 +0000

Whatever it takes so the Iraqi’s can clean house and start to form some sort of national identity … then we need to leave.

By: Steve LLamabutcher

Steve LLamabutcher — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:27:25 +0000

He said the group had decided it did not want to be known as ‘the Baghdad Patriots’ the name given to it by U.S. forces.

Because, as anyone who knows anything about Sunni political culture in Iraq, the tribes in that region are all Jets fans.

Duh!

Effing ignoramus Lil’ Chimperorers.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:27:02 +0000

‘Tis good to know that I’m not the only one that remembers the line “We’re going to turn them against each other.”

Kind of hard to do that if we’re not there to stir the pot.

By: rw

rw — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:24:40 +0000

Not to be confused with the Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review and Timing Association.

By: TexasDan

TexasDan — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:16:15 +0000

Bad Candy on June 5, 2007 at 6:04 PM

Can you tighten that up to an acronym for us?

By: Bad Candy

Bad Candy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:04:58 +0000

I hope this is really Operation Use Insurgents To Root Out And Kill Jihadists While Infiltrating And Gathering Intel So We Can Kill You Insurgent Ratbastards At A Later Time At Our Convenience.

By: Iblis

Iblis — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:04:28 +0000

Look, we find out who al these interesting characters are, have ‘em help us nail AQ, and if they don’t play ball when we’re done with AQ, we whack em too. Win-win.