Tinfoil hat or credible threat?

[Speck Tater]

Is Doomsday Coming for U.S. Forces in Iraq?

The upshot is that U.S. troops, now spread thin and in many cases isolated from supply lines have been lured into a trap and that the "missing" 2.5 million Iraqi army regulars that mysteriously vanished shortly after the invasion are in hiding, and getting ready to spring the trap and wipe out the over-extended occupation troops in one fell swoop. Rumor has it that this was Saddam's plan all along. Token resistance and wait patiently for the chance to spring the trap.

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It is not yet possible to provide enough hard data to fully support the following speculations. It is all told by way of "scuttlebutt" from rank and file, military-on-the-job rumors, and old fashioned soldiers' and sailors' gossip and intuitions. It is offered in that "for what it's worth" category, in the hopes that it will make a few more folks think about the hell on Earth that is the day to day reality for U.S. "boots on the ground" in Iraq.

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It is impossible to forget the bizarre scene that appeared on the televisions of the world, in the live, real time broadcasts coming from the Iraq war, on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, BBC, etc., et al, immediately after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces. For three, entire, mind bending days the cameras revealed, from dawn until dark, the sight of thousands, upon tens of thousands, upon literally uncountable numbers of unarmed, unburdened Iraqi men, all able bodied and roughly of military age, all clean and in civilian clothing, all walking casually in an endless stream down the main highway of Iraq, from North to South.

They were many miles out in the middle of nowhere, without so much as a backpack on their shoulders or a hobo's bindlestiff in their hands, heading South. That is all we really ever knew for sure of their destination, just South, despite the speculations of reporters that they were going home to Baghdad, and all we ever really knew for sure of their origin was that they had mysteriously appeared from the North. They were miles from any town or city when the first TV camera crews spotted them. All we really heard about them was the speculation from the cable and network news reporters.

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The story goes on to say they told reporters they were headed for their homes in Baghdad, but somewhere along the road they just vanished, and never made it to Baghdad.

http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060411_IsDoomsdayComingForUSForcesInIraq.php

Make of it what you will, but it doesn't sound completely impossible.

[ClintonTyree]

1. I'd say....

:tinfoilhat: Hiding and supporting that many troops would be a near impossibility. Someone would tip the "coalition" off. I wouldn't put too much stock in this.

[0007]

2. From same article - who indeed knows?

In Iraq, many, perhaps most, of the American forces in the forward operations areas are essentially pinned down. They stay huddled for safety within their small, fortified (as best possible) bunkers and camps, both rural and urban, emerging only upon direct commands, to conduct their assigned patrols and sweeps while looking first and ever more exclusively to their own survival in all regards. They are literally stressed and terrified out of their minds, and most of them are also physically ill, many seriously so, from the effects of Depleted Uranium poisoning. Many of them, especially with their psychopathic "leaders" giving them almost carte blanche to do such, have taken on a "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" modus operendi, at all times and in all circumstances when they're outside of their bunkers.

The truth of this "scuttlebutt" is now being born out by numerous Iraqi eyewitnesses and by the latest statements and sworn testimony coming from members of Iraq Veterans Against the War and in a Canadian courtroom where an American army deserter is pleading for political asylum to keep from returning for another tour of duty in Iraq. Those soldiers who do still have empathy and conscience alive within themselves post Iraq War will suffer hell's own psychological and spiritual torments for the rest of their lives, as have a majority of Vietnam combat veterans. Their having either engaged in or witnessed daily massacres of civilians, including women and children, will leave them broken for life in the deepest parts of themselves. But, their having been driven to the point of unflinching barbarity in Iraq is also very understandable, just as it was among combat troops in Vietnam where the "kill 'em all" sobriquet originated.

[Warpy]

3. Tinfoil hat material at present, but may become a credible threat

once the country finally unites, IF it unites under a government palatable to the Baathists. I'm not talking about an official government, I'm talking about a country willing to unite to throw the invaders out.

The pattern for this is Vietnam.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Agt a certain level it does seem

probable