Posted on 04/06/2008 5:47:37 PM PDT by moderatewolverine
One of our most faithful readers writes from Baghdad, where he is serving as an officer in the Army Reserve:
I'm back over here for my fourth Army Reserve stint since 2004. What a difference a year makes. In late 2006 and early 2007, just after surge had been announced, many commentators and thinkers -- in uniform and out -- thought that Anbar was hopeless, a lost cause. Just google "Anbar Lost" to see what I mean. Nowadays, it has been weeks since we lost a soldier in Anbar. More incredibly Iraqi Army units, composed of Anbari Sunnis, have deployed to Basra to engage in the fighting, under PM Maliki's lead.
A year ago, the mere thought that the much-maligned PM would announce a major Iraqi-led offensive against fellow Shia would have been met with guffaws. Yet he announced it in late March this year, did not seek Coalition permission, and ordered 30,000 Iraqi Army and Police troops to deploy. More incredibly, they did deploy in good order, arriving in less than a week, with some units traveling hundreds of miles. And they fought. And they evacuated their own wounded using their own aircraft back to medical facilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
I luv hearing good news from the front lines, it warms my heart...
Love this !!!
Thanks Ernest!
Iraq: Sadr Party Faces Rising Isolation
AP via ABC News | Apr 6, 2008 | Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Posted on 04/06/2008 2:49:46 PM PDT by james500
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997666/posts
As my Mom used to say “Nothing succeeds like success!”
Amen!
I wonder where we would be if the military had listened to the armchair generals who wanted to just ‘bomb them back to the stone age’?
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