see, when you invade, destroy and occupy a country, each and every citizen of that country immediately becomes an "insurgent". Rounding up "suspected insurgents" and imprisoning them means basically, rounding up anyone who can carry a stick or a rock, not to mention an AK-47. What the heck, they are little brown people anyway. I'll bet Saddam is looking pretty damn good to them by now.
Posted by T2 at May 15, 2007 07:17 AMT2, exactly---every Iraqi who opposes our continuing occupation is an "insurgent".
Talk with each other? There appears to be absolutely no coordination between the US and its Iraqi "ally". The irony is that even though Maliki likely loathes Bush (and probably Americans in general), his "government" is now forever tainted as collaborationist as a result of things like this indiscriminate, incompetently handled sunni round-up.
National reconciliation, it's right around the corner! Riiigghttt.....
This team literally doesn't think even one step ahead. All of our technical "superiority" is squandered by Bushco hubris and cretinism. What wasteful folly.
Posted by euzoius at May 15, 2007 07:33 AMHey, give the administration a break. Look at how long it took them to come up with the term "surge". And you expect them to plan for eventualities? You guys are hard task masters.
Republi-cons. The single most incompetent group of people on this planet.
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I heard a program on NPR last night about Iraqi medical facilites (or lack thereof). When an Iraqi soldier is wounded, they got nothing to do but wait around to die. The US has field hospitals, but keep them for our own guys. The Iraqis have no medics or field doctors, nothing. It doesn't seem like the US is really trying to upgrade things over there....I think Scout is right..its just a big concentration camp sitting on an oil field.
Posted by T2 at May 15, 2007 08:07 AMT2, it's not nearly as organized as a concentration camp! It's anarchy and (un)civil war, as well as a foreign occupation. And it's an escalation, not a surge. The professional class who had the means (doctors, engineers) have left Iraq long ago - it'll be a long time before they come back. In the meantime, we're just making things worse.
Posted by iamcoyote at May 15, 2007 08:45 AMIt was reported to Congress late last year that the Iraq Army simply has no "tail" whatever--no logistics, no communications, no medical corps, nothing. Of course we all know it also has no heavy weapons, armor, or tactical air power.
We'd have to supply (and pay for) all those things, not to mention train for them, and I doubt we're gonna do it.
It's a charade. All you can do is throw up your hands in utter futility. Bushco.
Posted by euzoius at May 15, 2007 09:34 AM3400 GI's lives now wasted in Bush's Iraq War.
Posted by T2 at May 15, 2007 09:49 AMNo training, no hospitals, no schools, no power generation, no roads, no nothing...where are our (kids) tax dollars going? I know, I know, there are a few giant companies making obscene profits off the so called reconstruction effort. Wake-up America! Nothing is being rebuilt over there and the bill for that nothing is going to come due when your kids are trying to raise their own families. Do you think that there is going to be dollars to pay for schools, roads, and power plants in this country in 10-20 years? Good luck.
Posted by Trieatalot at May 15, 2007 09:59 AM