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The news from Basra isn’t all bad

David Frum
Posted: April 04, 2008, 3:15 PM by Marni Soupcoff

What the hell is going on in Basra?

According to the major media outlets in New York and London, the answer is: a major defeat for U.S. and British policy in Iraq.

This is how the well-regarded Michael Gordon of the New York Times reported the story:

“… Mr. Maliki overestimated his military’s abilities and underestimated the scale of the resistance. The Iraqi prime minister also displayed an impulsive leadership style that did not give his forces or that of his most powerful allies, the American and British military, time to prepare.

“’He went in with a stick and he poked a hornet’s nest, and the resistance he got was a little bit more than he bargained for,’ said one official in the multinational force in Baghdad who requested anonymity. ‘They went in with 70% of a plan. Sometimes that’s enough. This time it wasn’t.’”

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As cogent an assessment as any.

So now Maliki deserves most of the credit for the Anbar awakening.  I thought it was the Petraues’ surge.  ??

Please, wake me when the neo-con aplogists get a clue about waging and winning at war.

william wallace - 06 April 2008 01:15 PM

So now Maliki deserves most of the credit for the Anbar awakening.  I thought it was the Petraues’ surge.  ??

The real credit for the Anbar awakening goes to the Iraqi people themselves who just got fed up with seeing their friends, family and neighbors killed and oppressed by the jihadis.
Secondary credit goes to the IslamoNazis themselves who gave them so much tyranny and death the Iraqis couldn’t take it anymore.

Please, wake me when the neo-con aplogists get a clue about waging and winning at war.

Neo-cons don’t have to be apologists: the United States of America knows very well how to wage and win wars.
And please, wake me up when you Leftist whiners stop running down this country, its military and the rest of us in it who don’t think like you Leftist morons!

william wallace, my *ss!
The real William Wallace would think you are a p*ssy!

Jen: “william wallace, my *ss!
The real William Wallace would think you are a p*ssy!”

No Shiíte.

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