Insurgents Keep Getting Smarter

[Phaedrus]

So today's "dozens killed in insurgent attack" story has an interesting twist: at least 29 are dead after what amounts to a crank call which led troops into an apparent ambush attack. An unmanned ambush at that: there was no one at the house at the time that it went BOOM except for Irai troops and policemen.

What are the ramifications of this tactic?

1) It's like a suicide bombing, but without the need to come up with a warm body who wishes to die for the cause. A single cell with a reliable supply of materiel could do as much damage as a widespread network of "kamikaze" attackers.

2) It potentially reduces collateral damage, perhaps dramatically so, thus causing less negative blowback among the Iraqi population.

3) It clogs up the system with disinformation: authorities can be led on a series of dead ends that sometimes result in terrorist arrests, often are just wild goose chases, and every now and then result in everyone involved on the state's end being killed horrifically. Smart insurgents might even consider throwing the occasional bone to the state by giving up intel, weapons, personnel etc. just to keep the investigators interested in pursuing the tips.

4) It discredits the system of anonymous tips, which could lead to authorities requiring verifiable contact info from tipsters, which would almost certainly dramatically reduce the number of incoming legitimate tips due to fear of reprisal.

2005 is going to be a bad year to be an Iraqi policeman.


Phaedrus

 

[docmercer--banned]

Phaedrus:

Wow ... this is gonna be great to see Bush's version of Moe & Curly on this board - better known as jdeuce and bblight Coulter - get on your ass for bringing down our troops in Iraq with this posting ...

How dare you ! You are a traitor and jdeuce will ramble with some "insightful" commentary as to how GWB has accomplished wonderful things in Iraq and the world is so damn lucky to have a man that defines leadership to the Max ... I cant wait to see the feedback from these 2 Limbaugh Fan Club Chairmen !

Yep .... we have us a bad scenario in Iraq ... Bush has a dream of Democracy in this country ... and will do whatever is necessary to get an election in Iraq so he can shrug his shoulders, watch civil war explode and add to the 100,000 civilian casualities and announce to the world:

"I, George Walker Bush ... member of the Satantic Cult Club that included Adolf Hitler .... have once again done the ol "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq ... I will be remembered in history as the Man who was able to remove the Man who tried to kill my Daddy at under a cost of 400 billion dollars to the American taxpayer .... I may have cost this country thousands of American's finest young soldiers, but hey, if they werent smart enough to go AWOL like I did, then what am I suppose to say? The best part is your children will get to share in this great Moment as they will be paying off this bill as I sit in retirement in Crawford sharing good times with friends like "Kenny Boy" Lay of Enron fame!"

 

[JinnRikki]

Doc, you don't REALLY think bush will retire to that shlt hole in Crawford do you?
He just uses that place for his photo ops, cuttin' wood, clearin' brush and drivin' his pick up. He'll have no need to look like a rough neck when he retires. He'll be residing in some posh digs somewhere taking bubble baths and living it up on his Halliburton cut.

 

[xpanda]

2005 is going to be a bad year to be an Iraqi policeman.

At best, engaging in the world's largest-ever game of Whack-A-Mole eventually has to become rather trite.

 

[bblight]

Doc Mullah will never miss an opportunity to bad mouth Bush. These poor Iraqi cops are blown up trying to do their job and this idiot see's it only as a chance to throw a rock at Bush.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Bush started this flappin mess ....

get lost bblight and get back to whacking off to Limbaugh's lies on the airwaves

 

[docmercer--banned]

hey, notice something ...

our kids get blown up and bblight Coulter is silent and shows no concern for kids dying in a war he is in love with ....

Why, Ms Coulter, have YOU NEVER ONCE posted anything showing disgust for the lies Bush used to get our kids into this mess? NOT ONE TIME ....

 

[HiloBoy]

President Lush has never been the same since he fell off the bike!

 

[docmercer--banned]

Hilo:

watch out for them damn pretzels!

Remember his old man upchucking in Japan?

 

[HiloBoy]

Not only did he throw up but he fainted as well.

 

[DarrylParsons]

How dare you ! You are a traitor and ...

Over/Under on the number of total lines Phaedrus will respond with (including the number of lines directly visible by clicking on his provided links) based on previous experience in similar situations:

Over 325.5 -110
Under 325.5 -110

Any bets?

 

[JDeuce]

...meanwhile, somewhere in Austin...

Doc Mullah is raising a glass to toast the Insurgent Minutemen. He'll probably kneel down on his prayer mat in honor of the event, then give a big smooch to his picture of Ted Rall hanging over his bed.

The America-Haters are in a self-congratulatory orgy of "I-told-you-so." Expect Doc to post another, oh, 900 or so articles over the next few days...as hundreds of the main stream media retards kill a couple thousand trees writing how Iraq is a massive failure, how we are mired in the new Tet Offensive, how it's a quagmire, etc etc etc.

Lets play "Did you Know":


- Did you know...14 of the 18 Iraqi provinces are ready for the election?

- Did you know...80 percent of Iraqis polled want the elections next month?

- Did you know...82 percent of Iraqis polled are glad the US led the coalition in removing Saddam?

Ain't none of that happenin' unless we did what we did.

It's a battle for time. We are not a traditional occupation force. We are simply biding time until the Iraqis take over for themselves. When dealing with disparate rebel groups who are not coordinated...the more you kill, the fewer remain. And because we've elevated the enemy-to-friendly kill ratio of atmosphere proportions, it takes on new meaning. We literally can kill more of them quicker than they can replace them. Because the insurgency is homegrown from a minority, there is a finite manpool from which they can draw. Sadr saw his force drained and couldn't replace his diehards, so he gave up the fight (probably doc's saddest day in a while).

 

[docmercer--banned]

JDecue Hannity:

Go sell your PR crap to someone dense enough to believe it ..

* BAGHDAD — Only a third of the Iraqi people now believe that the American-led occupation of their country is doing more good than harm, and a solid majority support an immediate military pullout even though they fear that could put them in greater danger, according to a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll ... But while they acknowledge benefits from dumping Saddam a year ago, Iraqis no longer see the presence of the American-led military as a plus. Asked whether they view the U.S.-led coalition as "liberators" or "occupiers," 71% of all respondents say "occupiers."That figure reaches 81% if the separatist, pro-U.S. Kurdish minority in northern Iraq is not included.

Iraqis interviewed in Baghdad say ordinary people have lost patience with the U.S. effort to crush the insurgency and rebuild Iraq.

"I would shoot at the Americans right now if I had the chance," says Abbas Kadhum Muia, 24, who owns a bicycle shop in Sadr City, a Shiite slum of 2 million people in Baghdad that was strongly anti-Saddam and once friendly to the Americans. "At the beginning ... there were no problems, but gradually they started to show disrespect (and) encroach on our rights, arresting people."

Sabah Yeldo, a Christian who owns a liquor store across town, says American failures have left the capital with higher crime and less-reliable services, including electricity. That is "making everybody look back and seriously consider having Saddam back again instead of the Americans."

By the way, JDeuce Hannity, lets breakdown the Massive "Coalition" that Bush bragged about:

* 92% of expenditures being picked up by American Taxpayers
* 91% of troops are American soliders

Wahhabism originates in Saudi Arabia and currently the hotbed is Egypt ... When Bush attacked Iraq, Israel did not have Iraq even in their Top 5 as far as security risks! And Israeli intelligence in this region is far superior to USA ...

JDeuce Hannity, your man Bush based his war on WMD's and Iraq being an Imminent Threat .. being King of the Flip/Floppers, Bush then sold this bill of goods as the USA "liberating" the Iraqi folks ... that is too flappin funny!!! That would be this administration and country would have to give a crap about Iraqis .... I dont see us rushing head first to Sudan or N Korea based on those parameters and the situation in Sudan is much worse than Iraq ever was

Again, go grab Bush's bio, wrap yourself in the fear umbrella and masturabate away you Dittohead Deluxe!

 

[Marco]

"Because the insurgency is homegrown from a minority, there is a finite manpool from which they can draw."

I suppose all those Iraqi civilians who lost a loved family member and had thier lives and businesses trashed, who had thier rights violated......those people are excluded from having hatred towards Americans and are just going to forget what an invading force did to thier family?

On a related note....anyone here want to do any travelling to the middle east anytime soon if or when we ever decide to cut our losses and get out? What, no takers?

Next time a wanted felon runs into a major US city why don't we just carpet bomb the city, because obviously the citizens living there won't mind a little death and destruction, and will have no grudge against the government.

 

[kayaman+]

"Lets play "Did you Know":


- Did you know...14 of the 18 Iraqi provinces are ready for the election?

- Did you know...80 percent of Iraqis polled want the elections next month?

- Did you know...82 percent of Iraqis polled are glad the US led the coalition in removing Saddam?

Ain't none of that happenin' unless we did what we did."

Did you know it was their own business to fight for their independance, not our responsiblity?
Did you know that liberating Iraq is nothing more than a rightie spin to justify the phuck up after no WMD were found?

 

[Marco]

kaya.....you'll have to forgive some of the people on this board.....

not everyone is getting a fat wad of dollars off this war like the upper crust being fed by Halliburton and Carlyse.....

Sad thing is the few hundred thousand they are receiving is at the cost of the American taxpayer to the tune of a few thousand troops and 300 billion dollars and both rising, with no end in sight. Not to mention the losses to the Iraqi civilian population and the contamination of both troops and civilians by depleted uranium.

I wish I could sell out and completely trash all my ethics and become morally bankrupt overnight and still sleep at night.

I guess this is why I never wanted to be a politician.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Marco:

Well said ...

Yep, how Cheney sleeps at nite is beyond me

 

[bblight]

What a bunch of hypocrites you lefties are! As long as there's plenty of gas for you to drive your SUVs and Doc Mullah to drive his Gremlin, you do nothing but whine about Iraq - but if the price of gas were to go up to $5 a gallon, all of you would be screeming for war!

Iraq has no impact on most of you - you wouldn't even dirty your tires by driving in the same working class naighborhoods most of the soldiers come from - and none of you would deign to serve!

You use Iraq only as a reason to besmirch Bush and his administration.

And none of you are bright enough to recognize that you and your hollywood heros have lost touch with the nation.

I read most of your posts and laments and they bring a smile to my face as I think of the upcoming mid-term elections in two years and the probability of more Republican gains - and the comedy of it is that none of you argue with me about Republican gains - it's as though you've finally figured it out - but you're too damned stuborn to change.

 

[Phaedrus]

posted by Darryl Parsons:

Over/Under on the number of total lines Phaedrus will respond with (including the number of lines directly visible by clicking on his provided links) based on previous experience in similar situations:

Over 325.5 -110
Under 325.5 -110

Any bets?

LMAO. Just saw this.

Happy New Year DP.

Phaedrus

 

[DarrylParsons]

Thanks, same to you!

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