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Oct. 14th, 2004 12:26 pmBombs blasts slay at least eight people inside the "green zone". Its unclear if any military personal were killed, perhaps all civilians. Yahoo reports four American contractors, most likely mercenaries working for U.S. security firm DynCorp, (*cough*...CIA...*cough*) were slain in the blast.
Despite the insurgents several recent successes attacking the green zone, Colin Powell claims progress.
A female kurdish TV journalist was gunned down. An Iraqi judge was assassinated. Five people have been assassinated in Baghdad today.
Roadside bombs claims another soldiers life and wounds two in East Baghdad. As of today 1084 US soldiers have fallen in Iraq, and we do not have an accurate count of the tens of thousands of Iraqi prematurely liberated of their life.
Air strikes continue to bombard Fallujah, which has to be mostly rubble by now. (CI-)Allawi threatens to attack Fallujah (with who's army???) insurgents, however the people of Fallujah claim they do not shelter al-Zarqawi.
Who could be happier that our man (CI-)Allawi is pushing for the return of the Baath party (he used to be one before his bombing and CIA days). So, out of the Saddam's Baathist frying pan, into the Sistani/al-Sadr's radical Islamic fires, and perhaps back into Allawi's Baathist frying pan. Was that really worth all this killing?
In other news, the Saudi's have blamed the U.S. invasion and occupation for worsening terrorism. I agree, however, it seems a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.
The bloody US invasion and the existence of U.S. occupation forces legitimizes and assists the terrorism. Our very presence means that Tawid and Jihad may be viewed as legitimate resistance. A hierarchical military cannot, I repeat cannot, defeat a cellular terrorist resistance in an urban setting full of unfriendly civilians (save simply nuking everyone). The low boil guerrilla war will not stop. The only way to defeat a resistance with a cellular structure is with good intel and infiltration. The only ones who can do that are Iraqi, and Iraqi who are not viewed as American influenced. American Brute force simply will not work, and in fact, we will end up recruiting for the resistance with sloppy bombings that kill lots of civilian locals, fueling the resistance. Every act of terror we commit, will be met with another from the resistance. We should pull out American soldiers and contractors and concentrate solely up training Iraqi to police and rebuild themselves.
The thing is about this war, its an elaborate armed robbery, as usual, full of corruption:
Sigh. Everyone go study, "The Battle for Algiers", now out on a criterion DVD. Its lessons are still valid, though not parallel to Iraq.
Despite the insurgents several recent successes attacking the green zone, Colin Powell claims progress.
A female kurdish TV journalist was gunned down. An Iraqi judge was assassinated. Five people have been assassinated in Baghdad today.
Roadside bombs claims another soldiers life and wounds two in East Baghdad. As of today 1084 US soldiers have fallen in Iraq, and we do not have an accurate count of the tens of thousands of Iraqi prematurely liberated of their life.
Air strikes continue to bombard Fallujah, which has to be mostly rubble by now. (CI-)Allawi threatens to attack Fallujah (with who's army???) insurgents, however the people of Fallujah claim they do not shelter al-Zarqawi.
""Zarqawi is like the weapons of mass destruction that America invaded Iraq for," Mr Maddab said, alluding to Saddam Hussein's arsenal of banned arms that proved not to exist.Fighting erupted along the syrian border killing 15 Iraqi national guardsmen. When I read stuff like that, Iraqi on Iraqi attacks, I suspect some sort of old scores are being "settled". (UPDATE: Special Forces are now attacking Fallujah full tilt, again)
"We hear about that name (Zarqawi), but he is not here. More than 20 or 30 homes have been bombarded because of this Zarqawi and his followers but only women, children and the elderly have been affected," the negotiator added. "
Who could be happier that our man (CI-)Allawi is pushing for the return of the Baath party (he used to be one before his bombing and CIA days). So, out of the Saddam's Baathist frying pan, into the Sistani/al-Sadr's radical Islamic fires, and perhaps back into Allawi's Baathist frying pan. Was that really worth all this killing?
In other news, the Saudi's have blamed the U.S. invasion and occupation for worsening terrorism. I agree, however, it seems a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.
The bloody US invasion and the existence of U.S. occupation forces legitimizes and assists the terrorism. Our very presence means that Tawid and Jihad may be viewed as legitimate resistance. A hierarchical military cannot, I repeat cannot, defeat a cellular terrorist resistance in an urban setting full of unfriendly civilians (save simply nuking everyone). The low boil guerrilla war will not stop. The only way to defeat a resistance with a cellular structure is with good intel and infiltration. The only ones who can do that are Iraqi, and Iraqi who are not viewed as American influenced. American Brute force simply will not work, and in fact, we will end up recruiting for the resistance with sloppy bombings that kill lots of civilian locals, fueling the resistance. Every act of terror we commit, will be met with another from the resistance. We should pull out American soldiers and contractors and concentrate solely up training Iraqi to police and rebuild themselves.
The thing is about this war, its an elaborate armed robbery, as usual, full of corruption:
""It’s just a gravy train", Former Haliburton auditor"The Iraqi people are being ripped off and the American taxpayer is paying for the crime.
Sigh. Everyone go study, "The Battle for Algiers", now out on a criterion DVD. Its lessons are still valid, though not parallel to Iraq.
