Here come the sons of dogs."

[rodeodance]

We do not trust the new Iraqi guards to watch our backs and they do not trust us. Things are not better.



http://slate.msn.com/id/2108790/


A frontpage NYT piece says the U.S. and Iraqi allies are "quickly losing control" of the provincial capitol Ramadi, which the Times says is larger and "strategically more important" than its sister city: Fallujah. (Really?) "The city is chaotic," said one sheik. "There's no presence of the Allawi government." Allies of the U.S. are regularly murdered, Iraqi security forces are suspected of collaborating with guerrillas, and there's little reconstruction since no contractors are willing to work with the U.S. At one point, Marines walked towards some Iraqi national guardsmen, who muttered, "Here come the sons of dogs."

"It's difficult to describe 'sense of control' in terms of insurgent activity," one Marine captain told the NYT. "The insurgent activity is everywhere. It's at our firm bases here. It's among women and children, those cowards."

[Nlighten1]

1. "those cowards."

The cowards are in Washington.

[leftchick]

2. "amazing success"

so said trickie dickie of 2004.

[sendero]

3. Once again......

.... how could anyone be surprised at this turn of events? You are asking countryman to turn against countryman. This rarely works in the real world but then Bush* and the neocons rarely operate in the real world.