As retired Lt. General William Odom commented in an interview the other day: "The surge has sustained military instability and achieved nothing in political consolidation.... Things are much worse now. And I don't see them getting any better. This was foreseeable a year and a half ago. And to continue to put the cozy veneer of comfortable half-truths on this is to deceive the American public and to make them think it is not the charade it is.... When you say that the Lebanization of Iraq is taking place, yes, but not because of Iran, but because the U.S. went in and made this kind of fragmentation possible. And it has occurred over the last five years.... The al-Maliki government is worse off now... The notion that there's some kind of progress is absurd. The al-Maliki government uses its Ministry of Interior like a death squad militia. So to call Sadr an extremist and Maliki a good guy just overlooks the reality that there are no good guys."
The Iraqi army has taken Basra and smacked around Sadr's boys pretty good. This was an operation ordered by Maliki and carried out by ten divisions of Iraqi army and police. Coalition forces were not involved. It was entirely an Iraqi show from top down.
LtG. Odom wasn't on the ground in Iraq recently, was he? No, he wasn't. Nony Mouse needs to get up to date on current events.
It was interesting, a couple weeks back when the action got going in Basra, to read accounts by Coalition troops of an Iraqi armored company pushing past to stick the boot in the Sadrists.
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Uh, the Iraqi army is taking front line initiative. This cartoon is stale MSM propaganda.
A little dated....
Dated?
As retired Lt. General William Odom commented in an interview the other day:
"The surge has sustained military instability and achieved nothing in political consolidation.... Things are much worse now. And I don't see them getting any better. This was foreseeable a year and a half ago. And to continue to put the cozy veneer of comfortable half-truths on this is to deceive the American public and to make them think it is not the charade it is.... When you say that the Lebanization of Iraq is taking place, yes, but not because of Iran, but because the U.S. went in and made this kind of fragmentation possible. And it has occurred over the last five years.... The al-Maliki government is worse off now... The notion that there's some kind of progress is absurd. The al-Maliki government uses its Ministry of Interior like a death squad militia. So to call Sadr an extremist and Maliki a good guy just overlooks the reality that there are no good guys."
Definately dated: Half of the IA in Anbar is now in Basrah.
As to your favorite general, WTF does he know. His last war was Vietnam. He has been retired for 19 years...
The Iraqi army has taken Basra and smacked around Sadr's boys pretty good. This was an operation ordered by Maliki and carried out by ten divisions of Iraqi army and police. Coalition forces were not involved. It was entirely an Iraqi show from top down.
LtG. Odom wasn't on the ground in Iraq recently, was he? No, he wasn't. Nony Mouse needs to get up to date on current events.
It was interesting, a couple weeks back when the action got going in Basra, to read accounts by Coalition troops of an Iraqi armored company pushing past to stick the boot in the Sadrists.
The IA isn't fully on, but they're getting there.
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