US troops fighting losing battle for Sunni triangle

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 10/22/2005 | Adrian Blomfield

[muawiyah]

No, no, not just the "Ba'athist" who brutalized the Shia for 30 years ~ it's the Sunni who brutalized the Shia for 1300 years!

Beats the heck out of what the Anglo-Saxons were doing to the Brits and Irish ~ that was only 900 years or so (off and on).

[vbmoneyspender]

We don't have the stomach for the brutality it will take to cow the Sunnis.

Go educate yourself about what happened to Fallujah. After you've done that, then come back and explain to me why you believe our troops lack the ability to impose their will on the Sunnis that are backing the insurgency.

[BenLurkin]

This will be there fight soon. I would not to see atrocities on either side but I fear it will get ugly.

Nevertheless, it will be an internal Iraqi matter

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

flamethrowers...Give them to the Kurds and the Shia. "You may spare the females if you have a use for them. The men are yours. These are the Ba'athists that made your people suffer for thirty years."

Sounds like a plan to me, lets roll!

Regards,
GtG

[Termite_Commander]

Okay, fine.

Let's pull all our troops out of Iraq, and nuke the entire country into oblivion.

It's quite obvious from the article that Iraqis are incapable of higher thought, and therefore, we cannot ever hope to ever gain any type of control over the situation.

You're right, British Newspaper. How could we have ever been so stupid? Thanks for showing me the light, the fact that the Iraqis are barbarians.

Where can I subscribe for your enlightening newspaper?

[jmc1969]

DU picked up the story.

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Sorry but I have no sympathy for those contractors and I'm losing my patience with our troops.they have become trigger
happy killers as well as thieves and rapists.

http://tinylink.com/?mpoQ7goksO

[Banjoguy]

Saddam knew.

[norton]

"Nobody was hurt but the mutual distrust between the Americans and the local community deepened just a little bit more."

OK.
I'm sick of hearing this stuff (descriptive wording omitted)
"Distrust" and "hurt" do not equate to "out of power" or "executed".
Let's see one reporter, who has been in or around actual combat - with weapon in hand and on orders - report the same situation!

War sucks,
there are people out there who support you...
and those who don't.
there are feel good stories,
and the others.

Bottom line is that the 'sunni triangle' won't be the same tomorrow as two years ago,
won't be the same tomorrow as today.
Iraq WILL be a changed state when we leave - almost certainly for the better.

The other bottom line is that the MSM and large parts of the settled world will be saddened by that fact.

Xin Loi.

[wigswest]

Wait, wait:

when I google "Duluiya" or "sunni triangle" and "contractors", all I come across in News is this story...

If this story is true why haven't others picked it up yet?

Something isn't right about this....

[A. Pole]

Is this something that actually just happened, or is it a retelling of the last time contractors were murdered and their bodies desecrated?

It is new but similar.

[bnelson44]

Sorry but I have no sympathy for those contractors and I'm losing my patience with our troops.they have become trigger happy killers as well as thieves and rapists.

Your reference is a disquised link to DU???

[jmc1969]

Duh, the link to the DU thread and me saying DU picked up the story was a pretty obvious give away.

[wigswest]

guys -

the telegraph is the ONLY source I've found that's carrying this story-

doesn't that seem strange?

[acapesket]

YO! What you be talkin' about Cain't even read that in "MaHEAD"

[Candor7]

This incident is not a measure of who is winning the Sunni Triangle.

The measure is in the voter turnout in the Sunni Triangle. The Iraqui people deplore this incident as much as anyone.

The Islamofascists are on a campaign to dehumanize us in Iraq. We need to fight back by humanizing ourselves.

The liberal media goes along with the dehumanizing of Westerners in Iraq. Otherwise they would be showing photos of dead and captured terrorists as well.

[bnelson44]

Sorry, I only read what was under the line. Thought the line delimited someone else' post.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Go educate yourself about what happened to Fallujah.

Quite true of course. And the reporters of the left, the AP dogs and Kevin "Let's Backstab Some Marines" Sites, now of Yahoo, reported that our guys were brutes.

This story illustrates how the bestial -ists will be brave when they are armed and face the unarmed. When we are armed they are contemptibly craven.

This street needs to die. The men, the women, the livestock, those beasts of children, the buildings and the very cobblestones. Americans won't do it. Iraqis will. Give them their head.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Frank Sheed]

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2005/09/oil-spots-and-maneuver.html

For accurate news, go here or to Winds of Change.net.

If things are so bad, why is Syria now on the hot seat as Wretchard has documented for the past 5 weeks? The Anbar area is getting hammered with one assault after another. One began again on the day of the election.

Frank

[TADSLOS]

This street needs to die. The men, the women, the livestock, those beasts of children, the buildings and the very cobblestones. Americans won't do it. Iraqis will. Give them their head.

You got that right. Unleash the Kurds.