Comments on: Big push coming in Sadr City

By: Classical Values

Classical Values — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:13 +0000

Is The US Tooling Up For War With Iran?…

There is a whole lot to cover on this subject so I’m going to give mostly links and let you make up your own mind. Be sure to read the comments at the links provided as they tend to add……

By: JetBlast

JetBlast — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:36:08 +0000

Sanatonian,

I’m not military so anything I know is common knowledge around here. I have no access to any classified info although I will be more careful in the future. Thanks for the heads-up.

By: major john

major john — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:26:58 +0000

Once the battle starts, expect to read and hear plenty of media reports emphasizing civilian deaths, setbacks in the battle, defections in the Iraqi Army, and statements of defiance from Sadr. What we won’t hear is progress by Maliki and the US in finishing off Sadr’s forces until it suddenly becomes impossible to ignore it — and then we will hear about how inept the Iraqi forces were in achieving victory.

Media reports? Heck, you have commenters here that will do that.

Thanks for the update, but…. Don’t you have OpSec concerns about what you are posting?

Jet – that is getting close to the line, I think. I am here too. Did MNF-I announce these yet? If so, then no worries. I am going to follow up on this on my own blog, when everything comes out. I can relate that I saw some personal courage exhibited by two Iraqi general officers (!)

By: platypus

platypus — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:59:57 +0000

MB4 questions how we nail the bad guys since they are relatively anonymous in appearance.

The same way we are kicking AQI ass in Anbar Province – the decent people are telling us who the bad guys are. Then we go and test our weapons on the bad guys.

Our guys are so superior to any other life forms that it is impossible to imagine failure. Just sit back and watch the show, which is a luxury that their sacrifices provide to us.

By: platypus

platypus — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:49:49 +0000

As for Olby, well, I see the potential for a tragic friendly fire accident.

Syd B. on May 8, 2008 at 10:23 AM

Uh, no offense but it’s only friendly fire if it’s one of our team that gets shot.

By: sanantonian

sanantonian — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:14:15 +0000

If you’re looking for an update from Basrah, I’m here.

It’s been relatively calm the past few weeks…until today. We got hammered in the middle of the afternoon with 15 rockets fired from out outskirts of Basrah which is about 12 miles from our camp. Several landed in camp and there were fatalities.

Thanks for the update, but…. Don’t you have OpSec concerns about what you are posting?

By: DavePa

DavePa — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:35:35 +0000

Dare I say it? Iraqi and US Forces consolidate Iraqi Govt control over Basra city and province; Iraqi and US Forces destroy Al Qaeda in their last stronghold, Mosul; Iraqi and US Forces destroy the Al Sadr Iranian proxy militia in their remaining stronghold, Sadr City area of Baghdad … and the War in Iraq is essentially won.
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(The mourners will include: Al Qaeda and all it’s Arab Islamist supporters; the Iranian Mullah dictatorship and it’s flunkie Mookie Sadr; our “friends” in the Saudi royal family and govt; the Syrian dictatorship … and last and certainly not least, all the anti-American hard left of the Western nations, and most of the leadership of the Democratic Party.)

By: Ace of Spades HQ

Ace of Spades HQ — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:26:42 +0000

As Iraqi Army Prepares the Battlespace for Coming Sadr City Siege, So Too Does the MSM…

The declarations of defeat and quagmire will be deafening. Sorry to steal so much from Hot Air today, I just can’t seem to find crap on my own. Iraqi soldiers for the first time warned residents in the embattled Sadr……

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:25:43 +0000

The Mahdi Army militia must and will be destroyed as an effective military force, period. Maliki knows this and will make it happen.

By: JetBlast

JetBlast — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:02:08 +0000

If you’re looking for an update from Basrah, I’m here.

It’s been relatively calm the past few weeks…until today. We got hammered in the middle of the afternoon with 15 rockets fired from out outskirts of Basrah which is about 12 miles from our camp. Several landed in camp and there were fatalities.

We were told that there was a huge fight in Basrah yesterday and the militia got their butts kicked pretty bad. There were several cashes of weapons/rockets discovered and the huge news is that they determined that some of the rockets were built in 2007. Not sure ‘where’ they were built but I would guess that some expert can determine that pretty quick. Everyone’s guess is Iran but that hasn’t been verified.

By: MB4

MB4 — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:40:08 +0000

What we won’t hear is progress by Maliki and the US in finishing off Sadr’s forces

How will Maliki and the U.S., it would be mostly the U.S. of course, finish of Sadr’s forces? They are not implanted with GPS tracking devices, nor do they all have “666″ tattooed on their foreheads and would just “go to ground” well before anything like that could happen.

By: MB4

MB4 — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:31:45 +0000

Iraq war architects shrug off truth So there I was, listening to a few of the major "architects" of the war in Iraq — Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas J. Feith, Peter Rodman and Dan Senor. They had assembled at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., for a discussion of Feith's new book, "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism," but what they were drawn to discuss was what went wrong with the war in Iraq. The classic clueless moment, however, came later in answer to a question from the floor: Did the administration ever tell Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia to bar combatants from crossing their borders into Iraq — or else? And if not ("not" is clearly the answer since these borders have been Grand Central Station for jihadists), why not? Wolfowitz owned up that the United States had said something or other at some point, but, overall, the consensus on the dais came down to a big, shrugging non-answer. I got one of those answers myself, at least from Feith. I asked: What did these gentlemen think the United States would ultimately get out of Iraq in exchange for our massive investment of blood and treasure? And had they learned anything to make them doubt the president's often-repeated promise that Iraq would become an "ally" in the "war on terror"? Shrug. Not interested in answering. In other words, to these men, there would seem to be nothing new worth pondering — like, for instance, the havoc Islamic ways wreak on Western-style nation-building. Shrug. - Diana West

By: LtE126

LtE126 — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:06:35 +0000

Daisy cut or what is it now?…MOAB their asses.

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:56:15 +0000

This is three years overdue, at least. This thug Sadr has been asking for an ass-kicking, and we ought to give it to him good and hard.

Tally-ho, gentlemen, and Godspeed.

By: The Thunder Run

The Thunder Run — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:20:29 +0000

Web Reconnaissance for 05/08/2008…

A short recon of whats out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

By: Syd B.

Syd B. — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:18:28 +0000

This mission also functions like a gigantic warning shot against the Iranian regime.

indythinker on May 8, 2008 at 11:04 AM

…and if that doesn’t work, Israel will be delivering a warning shot with a cloud.

By: Geronimo

Geronimo — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:08:21 +0000

God speed soldiers. God be with you and keep you safe.
Kill ‘em all.

By: indythinker

indythinker — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:04:08 +0000

resident Bush should also announce that the Iraqis will pay us a 5% royalty on every barrel of oil they sell

Nope. We are not a conquering army. We are there to take care of our own national security interests. We didn’t go in trying to get spoils of war. We’re the good guys. As our mission gains in success, the fear factor will come out of the oil price.

This mission also functions like a gigantic warning shot against the Iranian regime.

By: LtE126

LtE126 — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:59:17 +0000

“And that’s just with the lawsuits…

tree hugging sister on May 8, 2008 at 10:51 AM”

Wink.

By: indythinker

indythinker — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:57:44 +0000

God bless our troops, our allies and their troops, the Iraqi people and their army.

By: tree hugging sister

tree hugging sister — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:51:03 +0000

They’d have a rougher time.

And that’s just with the lawsuits…

By: LtE126

LtE126 — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:13 +0000

Holy s–t. Sadr city is as big as Chicago. Amazing. We should have the military come here and clean out the Vice Lords, Latin Kings and the like. They’d have a rougher time.

By: Dr.Cwac.Cwac

Dr.Cwac.Cwac — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:47:05 +0000

Fallujah V3.0. Let’s roll.

By: LtE126

LtE126 — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:45:33 +0000

XXX throwdown!!! Go get ‘em.

By: franksalterego

franksalterego — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:23:40 +0000

Mookie is all done.
–dogsoldier on May 8, 2008 at 10:12 AM

So, the question is, who gets dibs on his hat?

Kerry?