Posted on 08/06/2007 1:03:16 PM PDT by Sulsa
After fueling the trucks in the convoy, we headed to Baghdad to get the food. The trucks took an exit down a route that we did not follow, because it had not been cleared of bombs. Sometimes bombs are so large they are buried under roads using earthmoving machines and sit for months waiting for someone just like us, taking a shortcut only to get launched to God. The shortcut caused an hour difference in arrival times, and the break in contact led to frustrating hours of additional delay, tooling around Baghdad trying to find the warehouse, and re-establishing contact with all the trucks. But if there were any huge bombs waiting for us, we avoided them, and this dispatch got written.
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I recalled one of the bureaucrats comments, upon hearing that al Qaeda had scattered like rabbits out of Baqubah. He seemed at first not to believe that news, but once he got confirmation, he made a point to tell us what that news actually meant: if al Qaeda was done in Baqubah, al Qaeda was done in Iraq.
I hope he is right.
A lot of signs are pointing to his being right.
Fingers crossed.
That’s the one... I had a friend that served in Iraq that commonly does impressions of one Iraqi gentlemen who was suspected of hiding weapons. Initially, he said “no guns mista... no guns.” After being pressed and being shown a few weapons found in the residence, his tune changes... “Ok, maybe one, mista, maybe one...ok, two, maybe two...”
The point being, I will believe there’s no AQ in Iraq when there’s no AQ in Iraq. We all know to take what a bureaucrat says with a grain of salt...
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