U.S. Turns Tips Into Military Success

(CBS)  The Army announced today that it captured the ringleader of a rocket attack on an American base last month thanks to a tip from an Iraqi.

"They are bringing these tips to us, telling us there is a bad guy here, a bad guy there, there's a cache there, and we are going out and killing and capturing them," said Col. Wayne Grigsby of the 3rd Infantry Division.

One hundred more helicopters were sent into Iraq as part of the surge, and in the last seven weeks have killed 63 of the enemy, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.

Overall, the U.S. military claims 2,000 al Qaeda operatives have been killed this year. But the surge deserves only partial credit.

"It didn't create the dynamic that's most responsible for our progress against al Qaeda in Iraq. That came before the surge actually got there," says Steven Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Biddle says the tide turned against al Qaeda when Sunni tribes came over to the American side. One U.S. commander says tribal chiefs can do things he can't.

"I could spend an entire day emphasizing the importance of security and the need to join the police and army, but get nowhere," says Col. John Charlton of the 3rd Infantry Division. "But if the sheiks step forward and if they tell their young men to join the Iraqi police and the Iraqi Army, you can bet that it's going to happen."

Tips from Iraqis are leading to a growing number of air strikes, but as one senior military officer put it, "we can't kill our way out of this."

"Even if every last al Qaeda operative in Iraq were killed or captured tomorrow morning, the underlying problems, sectarianism and factionalism, would still be there and would still be driving a lot of violence," Biddle said.

The U.S. could win the battle against al Qaeda and still lose the war.

[j-whitman]

One_American,,,, I used to sell the Wall Street Journal when it was good news --- I wouldn't line a cat box with it now.

[j-whitman]

One_American --- Rupert Murdoch Of Fox,,,, Owns the Wall Street Journal --- You can take it with a grain of salt ----- It's now another outlet for the GOP propaganda machine.

[radiob-2009]

One hundred more helicopters were sent into Iraq as part of the surge, and in the last seven weeks have killed 63 of the enemy, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.


Killed 63 in the last 7 weeks how many US soldiers died in the last 7 weeks? 150? or more?

One_Hypocrite wrote:

"...During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness...."

And now they aren't tales.

Thanks to GW Bush's invasion of Iraq based on lies, tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed by GW Bush's war of lies and deceit.

And that is a fact.

[one_american]

From Wall Street Journal's "Opinion Journal":

"Propaganda Redux"

"Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush."

"...During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness...."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010438


Read it and weep for yourselves, liberal moonbats.

[mh4cbs1]

Great News!!

We killed 30 Al Qaida, and only 9 of them were civilians this time. Meanwhile, last week, 26 US Troops were killed and even more insurgents joined up to fight the foreign occupiers who are after their oil.

VICTORY!

We were LIED into this NEEDLESS War Of Aggression by a gang of murderous thugs, with the help of the spineless, complicit corporate-owned Democrats.

Bush and Cheney are responsible for more civilian deaths than Osama! Sickening. They deliberately LIED us into this WAR OF TERROR.

JAIL CHENEY!!!! JAIL BUSH !!!!