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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 08:54 AM
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lied to again....u.s special ops were in basra all along
as i was leaving the house this morning barbara starr on cnn said the pentagon just had a press conference where they admitted that u.s. troops were in basra all along......

so this tells us that even with u.s. troops in basra the iraqis couldn't defeat al sadr


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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 09:01 AM
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1. Well, fog of war and all that
Hard to tell who's where all the time. And it wasn't a loss, it was a TIE! And Al Sadr isn't brokering a peace, he's, uh, surrendering. Or something.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 09:06 AM
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2. Keane said several days ago...at the start of the recent blow up
that the US was already looking to be in Basra...and hoping to "urge" Britain to "surge" there

that they were going to finish an offensive in Mosul and then move to Basra...which meant that US troops (forward and others, specialty forces) were already in Basra. US troops don't generally move into any region/area "cold"... there's almost always a forward advance(special forces, intelligence, psy-ops).

Keane created the "surge", by the way.

Also, his talking point was "there is no political strategy"..."Iraq needs a security strategy" ...which boost Bush's and McCain's "stay the course" talking point...and belittles any person calling for a "political strategy" in Iraq.



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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 09:14 AM
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3. and the British were too..
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