Basra Is Looking Goooooooood!

[leftchick]

Is this what success looks like congress?? Is anyone going to ask The Great general Patraeus about this next week? I didn't think so.





Mahdi Army militiamen celebrate the withdrawal of British troops from Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Sept. 7, 2007. British soldiers withdrew Sunday from their last base in Basra and moved to the local airport about 19 kilometers (12 miles) to the north. The move ended the British military's permanent presence in the city and is viewed as a sign of British plans to cut its 5,500-strong force in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

[bahrbearian]

1. Nothing to see here.

It was a NRA sanctioned event. Thats how democracy works,,The powerful dictate the laws.

[NickB79]

2. The US began replacing the Iraqi Army's AK-47's with M4 carbines this year

Spending hundreds of millions on the new guns and ammo. They assured us they wouldn't fall into insurgent hands. "We have the serial numbers of all the guns, and know who they're issued to, so no one will try to sell their rifles."

Now, here we see insurgents with military M4 carbines, complete with M203 grenade launchers and AimPoint red-dot optic sights!!!

[leftchick]

4. is that the fancy shmancy weapon he is holding?

I wouldn't know but I thought it looked rather new and fashionable. Great to know our tax dollars are arming both sides of the civil war. That is what the neocons call success!

[NickB79]

5. Yep, the top one has an AimPoint sight

That short tube over the barrel is the red-dot scope, which costs about $400 each. The lower pic shows an M4 with the M203 grenade launcher mounted below the barrel. It also looks like it has a Leupold scope on it, which is a $300-$500 scope usually used for designated marksmen who engage targets past 300 yards. Those two guns are worth a few grand easy, will punch through US body armor (unless you hit the trauma plate in the chest) and are in the hands of what look like average Iraqi citizens. Just fucking great.

[leftchick]

6. fucking incredible!

and with our great auditing system in Iraq I am sure it is only a mere several thousand or so of these babies in Shiaa/Sunni/godknoswho's hands?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I heard that 4 American soldiers were killed in Basra after prez shit-for-brains left.

Also 2 bridges were blown up.
Real peaceful...Riiiiiiiiiight.
:puke: :mad: :silly: :spank: :nuke:

[rucky]

7. I've always wanted a car with a sunroof.

they're so damn lucky!

[SOS]

8. Cheney said they would celebrate the US/UK arrival

But in reality they celebrate their departure.

[leftchick]

9. ironical

:)

[Igel]

10. What? This isn't success?

Why, just a couple of weeks ago the British in Afghanistan were complaining that the Americans were interfering with their replication of the great British achievements in Basra.

This must be good. The British way was always considered so much better. Destined for success. The height of sophistication and intercultural/intertextual awareness.

Reductio ad absurdum, no? Doesn't mean the US way will work; it just shows the British way didn't.