“AQ Will Try To Re-Take The City”
Which is an overstatement, because they never “had” the city. It was their capital, but they didn’t operate with free reign. That’s CNN shit. But I get the officer’s point, he’s just made an overstatement.
Michael Totten, “Hell Is Over”:
RAMADI, IRAQ – In early 2007 Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar Province, was one of the most violent war-torn cities on Earth. By late spring it was the safest major city in Iraq outside Kurdistan.
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq had seized control with the tacit blessing of many local civilians and leaders because they promised to fight the Americans. But Al Qaeda’s rule of Ramadi was vicious and cruel. They turned out not to be liberators at all, but the Taliban of Mesopotamia.
Al Qaeda met resistance, after a time, from the Iraqis and responded with a horrific murder and intimidation campaign against even children. The Sunni Arabs of Ramadi then rejected Al Qaeda so utterly they forged an alliance with the previously detested United States Army and Marine Corps and purged the terrorists from their lands.
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“Americans are very different people from what they had been led to believe. They finally figured out that the Americans truly want to help and are not there to oppress them or steal from them ”
What we have learned and obtained from this war geo-polically is priceless.
September 18th, 2007 at 7:10 amYeah, and it only took four years of war and strife to un-do the impression that the media had programmed these folks with to begin with.
Would’ve saved a lot of trouble by JDAM-ing the NYT years ago.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:55 amGood point. We have been hitting the wrong targets. The real enemies are the NYT, WAPO, LAT, Code Fink, ACLU, CAIR, Moveon.dick.
The real heroes in Muslim lore should be the Shieks and the people of Al Anbar.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:08 amHow about dropping a daisy cutter on the Daily Kos convention…
September 18th, 2007 at 8:56 pm