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It's Game On In Ramadi: Long Awaited Operation Underway, Fierce Fighting in Center of City
Iraq Slogger ^ | March 2 2007 | ROBERT Y. PELTON

Posted on 03/02/2007 9:56:46 AM PST by jmc1969

The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (1-3ID)is currently engaged in street to street fighting in central Ramadi. The much anticipated attack follows months of hands off policy as troops were routinely sniped and attacked with orders not to retaliate.

After much planning U.S. forces along with a collection of hired local tribesmen from nearby Sofia (a suburb of Ramadi) and other groups are attacking and clearing the are house by house. The tribes have been formed into paramilitary units called "Emergency Response Units" and are linked with U.S. troops.

The 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (1-9), 2nd Infantry Division has been given the dirty job of house to house combat in Ramadi's center. Many of the houses have been booby trapped in anticipation of the attack. The U.S. Military estimates that there are around 60 insurgents remaining in the area of 15,000 people. Initial estimates put the insurgent numbers at between 100 and 200.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abizaid; frwn; iraq; ramadi
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To: SandRat
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The 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (1-9), 2nd Infantry Division has been given the dirty job of house to house combat in Ramadi's center. Many of the houses have been booby trapped in anticipation of the attack.
41 posted on 03/02/2007 11:36:40 AM PST by vigilante2 (Thank You Troops)
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To: ichabod1
"Why do we have to do door-to-door fighting?"

Because going room-to-room is the only way you can be certain of having gotten them all.

42 posted on 03/02/2007 11:41:45 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: ichabod1

"I suggested we should flatten buildings..."I get your point and agree.A well aimed 500lb'er would do the trick.Unfortunately PC'ness dictates no unnecessary civilian casualties.


43 posted on 03/02/2007 11:48:57 AM PST by Thombo2
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To: jmc1969
Nothing, debates on FR over Pub candidates' conservatism- straw polls - DOW Jones Averages etc. whatever, is more important than our Armed Forces' success at anytime at any place they might be. Godspeed Troops!
44 posted on 03/02/2007 11:52:03 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Gen. Patton's granddaughter? I know one of them. Does her name start with an M? The one I know should be a general, cuz she's a real *****, LOL!


45 posted on 03/02/2007 11:57:53 AM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams

God bless and protect our troops, and give them victory!


46 posted on 03/02/2007 11:58:28 AM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: jmc1969
This is a dirty job especially fighting an enemy that hides behind civilians then alerts the hostile US press who are salivating for negative stories to focus on.

When our heroes return, I will be in an ass-kickin mood if any Cindy Sheehan-style protesters try to go to the airport and spit on them like they did after Vietnam.
47 posted on 03/02/2007 11:58:33 AM PST by ParaVet93 (Proud to be a MINO...Moderate in name only)
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To: Abigail Adams

"Gen. Patton's granddaughter? I know one of them. Does her name start with an M? The one I know should be a general, cuz she's a real *****, LOL!"

Sounds like her! She was quite nice, actually, though she was a little weak on radical Islam. Can't remember her first name, she is tall, blonde, slim, rather attractive, and a very good public speaker.


48 posted on 03/02/2007 12:11:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Boycott all Leftist Media, ignore them and they will go away...)
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To: dandelion
God go with our fighting men; guide their hands, that their aim be true - guide their minds, that justice be served - Guide their hearts, that they go with You.

AMEN to this prayer. They are the best of us.

49 posted on 03/02/2007 12:13:52 PM PST by daybreakcoming
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To: SaxxonWoods

Well, the one I knew was short, not blonde but brown hair, and I wouldn't call her skinny. So it must be a different person. She looked a lot like Patton in the face, though, especially the eyes! And she could swear real good, LOL!


50 posted on 03/02/2007 12:16:10 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: jmc1969

Thoughts of joe terrorist: "Well, for every one of us they kill, we will kill 10 of our own people, especially women and children. Yeah, that will show them."


51 posted on 03/02/2007 12:52:29 PM PST by Blowtorch
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To: vigilante2

God speed to the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (1-9), 2nd Infantry Division. Prayers for your safety and success of mission.


52 posted on 03/02/2007 1:41:20 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: jmc1969
The tribes have been formed into paramilitary units called "Emergency Response Units"

Pay them by the scalp.

53 posted on 03/02/2007 1:48:11 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Domicile of Doom

Part of our problem over there is that they have a perception that we don't have the guts to finish this. A bomb taking them out is not what they respect.

What do you think they really consider shock and awe... A missile that can get them through a window or men who can be more brutal in combat than they are?

Also, I agree aviation leaves no prisoners, but you better have boots on the ground to make sure the rubble doesn't get re-populated.

That being said, you need to know that we wouldn't be here years later if we were the ones setting the rules of engagement.

"It always made me mad to have to beg for opportunities to win battles." General George S. Patton

I do wish we would use a Neutron bomb or two.


54 posted on 03/02/2007 1:48:30 PM PST by Patriot Hooligan ("God have mercy on my enemies because I won't." General George S. Patton)
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To: ichabod1

Part of our problem over there is that they have a perception that we don't have the guts to finish this. A bomb taking them out is not what they respect.

What do you think they really consider shock and awe... A missile that can get them through a window or men who can be more brutal in combat than they are?

Also, I agree aviation leaves no prisoners, but you better have boots on the ground to make sure the rubble doesn't get re-populated.

That being said, you need to know that we wouldn't be here years later if we were the ones setting the rules of engagement.

"It always made me mad to have to beg for opportunities to win battles." General George S. Patton

I do wish we would use a Neutron bomb or two.


55 posted on 03/02/2007 1:49:34 PM PST by Patriot Hooligan ("God have mercy on my enemies because I won't." General George S. Patton)
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To: Thombo2

I'm all for it!


56 posted on 03/02/2007 1:51:34 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: jmc1969
The big mistake in this war was trying to do it on the cheap. I hate to say it, but McCain was right with regard to needed troop levels...

Mike

57 posted on 03/02/2007 1:52:25 PM PST by MichaelP (Gotta be a cracker to know about peckerwoods)
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To: Patriot Hooligan

Screw all that boots on the ground stuff. B-52's - B-2's and B-1's 24/7 for 2 years. Start at the four ends and work your way in. Collateral damage be damned. I'm not worried about respect, I want to see bodies being vaporized day after day for months until nothing lives - that my friend is brutality. That would end Islam.


58 posted on 03/02/2007 1:57:07 PM PST by Domicile of Doom
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To: Patriot Hooligan

Again, I simply don't like telling our guys to walk through a door to a target that somebody else can reduce relatively safely. You know as well as I do it's not so they can look macho to the jihadis, it's so the jihadis don't get maaaad at us for blowing up their hovels. I'm not talking strategy here, I'm not talking about reducing our boots on the ground in any way, I'm simply discussing what the best tactical means of neutralizing a given city block is.


59 posted on 03/02/2007 2:12:05 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: jmc1969

If that was done in December 2004, perhaps we would be on the edge of winning in Iraq and perhaps the midterm elections in 2006 wouldn't had turned into a bloodbath.


60 posted on 03/02/2007 2:17:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican (Everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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