Saddam forced his officers to read "Blackhawk Down" before Bush invaded

[NNN0LHI]

Attacks will continue until day the Americans leave, says report


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=465083

As George Bush arrived in London last night, an unprecedented and bleak assessment of the deteriorating military situation in Iraq was circulating among policymakers in Washington.

The report - contradicting many claims by the US administration - is based on briefings by Paul Bremer, the US de facto governor of Iraq; military commanders, unnamed intelligence officers and David Kay, the American who leads the hunt for Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction. It says attacks on Americans by Sunni Iraqis will continue "until the day the US leaves".

US army commanders are also learning how Saddam Hussein forced his officers to read Black Hawk Down - the account of the shooting down of US helicopters in Mogadishu during America's disastrous intervention in Somalia in the early 1990s - to convince them the US would leave if it suffered major casualties. The Iraqi resistance movement is believed to have a war chest of up to $1bn - with a further $3bn hidden in Syria - and it is paying between $25 and $500 for each attack on US forces.

It also says 95 per cent of the threat is from former regime loyalists and that suicide bombings are being carried out largely by foreigners.

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[frank frankly]

1. Bush, you fascist stupid evil little crackhead fool

what have you done, you POS idiot, what have you done?

[msmcghee]

2. *Bush and the pukes should pay close attention to this . .

. . Saddam is showing them how the military can not only be privatized, you can pay them piecework - by the attack or by the dead American.

But unlike our regime Saddam has this figured out. Even if Saddam paid out $100 for every dead Ameirican - that would only be a total of $150 million dollars to completely wipe out the American forces there - that's about 2/10 of one percent of the $78 billion we will spend just this year trying to stay alive there.

Of course, he could not do that - and that's good. But he will manage to kill a lot of Americans at a very low cost. How long will it take for the American sheep to finally figure out that we're spending a lot of money on a problem that will nor be solved as long as we are there - and probably not for a long time after we leave?

[dobak]

3. blame Clinton

I can hear the freepers now....

"Clinton caused 'Blackhawk Down'. Now they are using Clinton's mistake against us. That bastard."

[NNN0LHI]

5. Old man Bush sent the US soldiers to Somalia n/t

[LibInternationalist]

4. that also means, presumably

that they know the design flaws that allow an RPG to take out the Blackhawk's tail