Friday, May 27, 2005
The Battle for Baghdad
Reuters.com reports that Iraqi and U.S. forces are poised to launch an offensive to re-take the streets of Baghdad. Iraqi "Defense Minister Sadoun al-Dulaimi said 40,000 Iraqi troops would be deployed in Baghdad for Operation Thunder, the biggest Iraqi military operation since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Backed by the 10,000 U.S. troops in Baghdad, they will set up hundreds of checkpoints and block roads into the capital." Now I'm a little confused at this since I distinctly remember George Bush saying something at some press confernce on some air craft carrier about how the military mission was "accomplished" or something like that. If that really was the case, and who can tell with George Bush since it's all just carefully focus grouped babble, it makes this Crank wonder why we need some 50,000 troops to secure the streets of Baghdad. I do hope "Operation Thunder" is able to finally secure the road to the Baghdad airport. Of course, as everyone knows thunder doesn't really have any effect, it's the lightening you have to watch out for. Which means that for all its sound and fury "Operation Thunder" most likely won't have much of an effect on taming the streets of Baghdad. The solution to the Iraqi violence isn't more violence.
Reuters.com reports that Iraqi and U.S. forces are poised to launch an offensive to re-take the streets of Baghdad. Iraqi "Defense Minister Sadoun al-Dulaimi said 40,000 Iraqi troops would be deployed in Baghdad for Operation Thunder, the biggest Iraqi military operation since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Backed by the 10,000 U.S. troops in Baghdad, they will set up hundreds of checkpoints and block roads into the capital." Now I'm a little confused at this since I distinctly remember George Bush saying something at some press confernce on some air craft carrier about how the military mission was "accomplished" or something like that. If that really was the case, and who can tell with George Bush since it's all just carefully focus grouped babble, it makes this Crank wonder why we need some 50,000 troops to secure the streets of Baghdad. I do hope "Operation Thunder" is able to finally secure the road to the Baghdad airport. Of course, as everyone knows thunder doesn't really have any effect, it's the lightening you have to watch out for. Which means that for all its sound and fury "Operation Thunder" most likely won't have much of an effect on taming the streets of Baghdad. The solution to the Iraqi violence isn't more violence.