Are you headed to MND-SE by chance?

al-Maliki, a Muslim…who’s been raised to believe in Sharia first, is putting his country ahead of his religion???

You go, al-Maliki! You’re putting our Dems to shame.

Connie on May 16, 2008 at 10:48 AM

I said wiser.

Reaps, you are indeed overestimating the AQ intel. When the locals can point you out in a flash, and the IA and INP roll in – you either fight and die or flee. But where to flee from Mosul? To the Kurdish areas – nope, the peshmerga would whack them right away. South – nope, that is where they have been driven from. That leaves Tall Afar and on to Syria. Tey are running out of room to run, and running out of places to hide. Tall Afar isn’t big enough for that. I’m not sure the Syrians want them back (it’s supposed to be a one way trip, so to speak). But if thhey do make it to Syria, then the IBP and IA can watch for them much easier than in Iraqi cities.

Per GEN Petraeus: AQ needed Baghdad to win and Mosul to survive. They lost Baghdad, and are about to lose Mosul.

Step 1. Convince as many coalition forces as possible that you’re laying down arms.

Step 2. Earn mad cash compensation

Step 3. Set up shop in another nondescript city in Iraq

Step 4. Find out who actually surrendered

Step 5. Kill them.

Perhaps I’m overestimating an insurgent’s intelligence. But really, one of the biggest problems with eliminating them has been how they melt away when the lights get turned on..

So why isn’t Juan McVain one upping that laggard Obamawan Barakobi, who seems to be oblivious to all this great success, and saying that he will have all American combat troops out of Iraq 8 months after his inauguration in January 2009 instead of Obamawan Barokobi’s 16 months?

I’m sure this is somehow a huge victory for al-Sadr!

BuzzCrutcher on May 16, 2008 at 9:42 AM

WaPo: al-Sadr’s got al-Maliki right where he wants him!

Even Moh the warlord used to allow his enemies a chance to repent, and join… its just plain part of the culture.

Romeo13 on May 16, 2008 at 9:31 AM

A strange culture, indeed.

And why is OUR Congress bitchin at them for not doing somthing political, when ours did not even pass a budget last year, but we continue on a continueing resolution?

Pot? meet Kettle?

Romeo13 on May 16, 2008 at 9:46 AM

The fact that the Iraqi government, as young and inexperienced as it is, is demonstrably working much better and more effectively than our own should completely shame the democratically controlled congress.

But it won’t.

Kafir on May 16, 2008 at 10:42 AM

Kerry?

What do people think about whether the current Iraq regime can survive an Obama presidency?

thuja on May 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM

I’m holding out hope (there’s that word again) that if and once he gets into office, he will be surrounded by men a lot wiser than he is who will advise him of the folly of pulling out of Iraq precipitously. Then, he can cover himself by saying that once in office, he had access to classified information that made him reconsider his quick withdrawal plan.

It serves as a final call before the destruction begins in earnest

Man, I like the sound of that.

And even worse, she had her facts wrong.

They have made significant Political progress as well.

But the bigger question becomes… why do all the Libs think that we can and should have control over their government?

And why is OUR Congress bitchin at them for not doing somthing political, when ours did not even pass a budget last year, but we continue on a continueing resolution?

Pot? meet Kettle?

Romeo13

Yep. So many televised hearings and very little actual work.

Step 1. Convince as many insurgents as possible to lay down arms.

Step 2. Kill the rest.

acleaver on May 16, 2008 at 9:38 AM

And even worse, she had her facts wrong.

They have made significant Political progress as well.

But the bigger question becomes… why do all the Libs think that we can and should have control over their government?

And why is OUR Congress bitchin at them for not doing somthing political, when ours did not even pass a budget last year, but we continue on a continueing resolution?

Pot? meet Kettle?

A couple of days ago, I heard a liberal talking head on one of the evening talk shows yelling about how the surge was supposed to give the political side a chance to work itself out, and although she finally had to admit that militarily that surge had worked, no progress was being made politically. I honestly wondered what hole in the ground she’d been living in. Seriously, people couldn’t admit that the surge was working, moved the goalposts to mean “political progress” and still won’t admit when that’s working out well too. As long as one suicide bomber or other violent person kills his/her target, the war is a complete failure. By that standard, the city of Chicago should be shut down.

He is allowing those who were forced by circumstance, or by others, to now see him as the “strong horse”, and join his side. VERY smart move.

Even Moh the warlord used to allow his enemies a chance to repent, and join… its just plain part of the culture.