More good news in the war on terror inside Iraq. News you won’t find in our MSM. News you won’t find on DummiesU or in the KOSKiddie playground. Bill Roggio:
Over the past 24 hours, U.S. and Iraq security forces conducted multiple major raids, with scores of al Qaeda, Mahdi Army, and Special Groups operatives killed or captured.
U.S. and Iraqi forces conducted two major raids against the Iranian-backed Shia terror groups on August 19. Special Operations Forces captured a leader of the Iranian-backed Special Groups who also smuggles weapons, including armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators, from Iran into Iraq. While conducting the raids near Qasirin, which is north of Baghdad, Coalition forces killed eight members of a Special Groups security team and captured two others.
Iraqi Special Forces, backed by U.S. Special Forces advisers, killed 17 members of the Mahdi Army during two separate operations in Baghdad. Six members of the Mahdi Army were also captured during the operations against the Mahdi army cells, which were involved in IED attacks and extra judicial killings.
As the Iranian-backed Shia cells are targeted, U.S. and Iraqi forces are heavily targeting al Qaeda’s network. On August 17, Iraqi Army soldiers, backed by U.S. Special Forces advisers, captured 31 suspected al Qaeda in Iraq operatives while conducting a meeting in Sayafiyah. The al Qaeda cell is believed to be behind IED attacks, weapons smuggling and extra judicial killings in the region. U.S. forces launched Operation Marne Husky on August 17 in the Sayafiyah region.
Three al Qaeda operatives were killed and 28 captured during raids against al Qaeda’s network in Baghdad, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Mosul, and Bayji on August 18 and 19. Also, in Baghdad on August 19, the local neighborhood watch in the Mechaniks area of the Rashid District captured 11 suspected al Qaeda operatives and turned them over to U.S. forces operating in the area.
The Iraqi Army and the local neighborhood watch inside the country are doing the job they were trained to do by our troops. They are doing it well.
But the left just covers their ears and pretend not to hear it while the enjoy their echo chamber inside KOSland. They are told that we are losing, that the Iraqi’s are losing, by their heroes so it MUST be true right?
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There’s no doubt the political process in Iraq is difficult and disappointing, but its really no different than here in the USA. At the state and local levels, government runs far more effectively and efficiently than at the federal government. We see in Iraq the same phenominon; government struggling in gridlock at the national level but flourishing at the local levels.
There’s no doubt we are winning the war in Iraq. The political process cannot proceed in Iraq without military presence. Period. So when Dems talk about there being “no military solution”, they’re taking “no military solution” totally out of context. There can be no political progress without military presence and no military solution without political progress.
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The Good News? lol Wow! We’re ‘winning’ in Iraq! So, that means will only be over there for 10 more years? Awesome, by that time it will only have cost us $500 Trillion! Tack that on to the $8.9 Trillion in national debt (nearly $80 Trillion thanks to the welfare state) and I’m sure we’ll be able to pay that back! Oh, but I guess that might be in jeapordy because the Federal Reserve keeps printing more and more money and lowering interest rates, reducing the value of the dollar, which will stop foreigners from buying US Treasuries.
It’s amazing how this website is so concerened about “Islamo-Fascists.” Tell me, how is it that these “Islamo-Fascists” are going to create their “caliphate” across the Middle East, when not all Muslims are Fundamentalists and there are so many different tribes, sects, and ethnicities that it takes dictators to hold most Middle Eastern countries together? Assuming that happens, pigs fly, and I win the lottery 100 times in a row they still have to build an army, navy, and air force and catch up with us technologically.
See what retarded and illogical thoughts enter your brain when you follow Neo-Conservative ideology?
I’d next like to address the stupid assumption of left-leaning media bias. Hey, remember that mainstream news organization that opposed the Iraq War from the beginning? Me either!
Oh wait! There was Phil Donahue on MSNBC, but was subsequently fired for his “left-leaning” views (as if only the left opposes pre-emptive war).
So, yeah woo-hoo! We’re winning in Iraq! Forget about the illegal immigrant invasion in America (because in the ‘War on Terror’ the last perimeter we secure is our own), our crumbling infrastructure, what looks to be a Democratic victory by Hitlery Clinton in 08, the coming North American Union, our nation going broke and our hard-earned dollars being devalued via inflation thanks to the privately owned Federal Reserve, while our manufacturing base is sent overseas, leaving only service sector jobs that are quickly being gobbled up by illegals, as a growing minority of half-wits and chickenhawks obsess over a greatly exaggerated threat and needless and endless war.
Get your priorities straight.
D
D: 4:06 AM is a little early, or a little late to be hitting the crack pipe. But I guess if you are a crack pot anytime’s a good time?
You seem to think that the Islamists are no threat. I wonder if you even recall the September 11th attacks?
Do you care what happens to this country, the good ole U.S. of A. or do you just care about yourself?
Do you have any clue about how important it is for us to succeed in Iraq?
I don’t see ONE THING in your comment that represents original thinking with an eye towards offering any practical and effective alternative which addresses the truly life and death issues we face.
And if you really do care about that laundry list of problems you flushed at the end of your screed, wouldn’t it be better to reach out and begin working with the only people (us) who just might be sympathetic to your concerns?
But if you insist on just sitting out there spitting nails at everyone who doesn’t share your priorities 100% you might as well crawl back under your rock and let the adults get on with the business of keeping you free.
Very good news. And, remember, this is only a small slice of what’s really happening on the ground. The additional forces have allowed us to step up the tempo of operations considerably, and the enemy hasn’t been able to adjust to that tempo.
Curt, there’s your standard rhetoric from the Left. What “D” stated above is indicative of how/why the Left is willing to cede defeat and withdraw the troops: they have neither the strength nor will for a long, protracted war, yet one that is so vital it almost incomprehensible. At first of conflict, they’re gone, tail between collective legs.
D,
You spend way too much time listening to the garbage that is coming out of your television. Did you ever think that our peacetime military cost around four hundred billion dollars/year? This number times the four years we have been in Iraq is a big number. The extra costs have been the supplemental budget requests. A relatively small number…Stop worrying about costs of the Iraq War. Take your fight to the politicians who are wasting nearly five trillion dollars per year, mostly to entitlement programs. We are killing terrorists and bringing freedom to tens of millions in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a noble cause after all.
D: 4:06 AM is a little early, or a little late to be hitting the crack pipe. But I guess if you are a crack pot anytime’s a good time?
Well, apparently you would be the one to know when the best time to hit the crack pipe would be! You tell me mofo!
You seem to think that the Islamists are no threat. I wonder if you even recall the September 11th attacks?
Oh yes, the 9/11 attacks, that had a lot to do with Iraq which was a 1st-world secular nation in which females were an equal to males!
Do you care what happens to this country, the good ole U.S. of A. or do you just care about yourself?
Oh, I love the good Ole U.S. of A.. Why would assume otherwise?
Do you have any clue about how important it is for us to succeed in Iraq?
hahahah. for us to suceed in Iraq?! Do you have any clue of the neo-conservative movement? Forget the neo-con movement, what does Iraq have to do with the U.S. of A. national security?! I’ll tell you what, absolutely nothing you ignorant retard!
I don’t see ONE THING in your comment that represents original thinking with an eye towards offering any practical and effective alternative which addresses the truly life and death issues we face.
hhahahaha. here’s my comment to such idiocy! withdraw our troops immediately, secure the border between the US and Mexico with Marines and end the drug war and the human slavery war!! hahahaha! how fucking practical is that?!
And if you really do care about that laundry list of problems you flushed at the end of your screed, wouldn’t it be better to reach out and begin working with the only people (us) who just might be sympathetic to your concerns?
No, becuase the people that read this blog are more concerned about war, which puts profits in the pockets of those that make money off of war. You retards can’t stand the thought of actually spending federal revenue on our own crumbling infrastructure!
But if you insist on just sitting out there spitting nails at everyone who doesn’t share your priorities 100% you might as well crawl back under your rock and let the adults get on with the business of keeping you free.
Oh, lookie here! We have a specimen of Americana that suggests that serving in Iraq somehow has to do with the 1st amendment! hey, RETARD! The pink helmet is mandatory on the short bus~!
Curt, there’s your standard rhetoric from the Left. What “D” stated above is indicative of how/why the Left is willing to cede defeat and withdraw the troops: they have neither the strength nor will for a long, protracted war, yet one that is so vital it almost incomprehensible. At first of conflict, they’re gone, tail between collective legs.
No sir, this is where your brain and fiscal conservatism meets the concrete. If I want to play laser tag forever, but don’t have the money to do it, I borrow my money from that Chinese kid, or the Japanese kid. Guess what, the Chineses or Japanese or the Europena kid won’t keep loaning me money you moron! How do you like the fact the manufacturing base in AMerica is gone? You must like that, becuase you protest not~!
D,
You spend way too much time listening to the garbage that is coming out of your television. Did you ever think that our peacetime military cost around four hundred billion dollars/year? This number times the four years we have been in Iraq is a big number. The extra costs have been the supplemental budget requests. A relatively small number…Stop worrying about costs of the Iraq War. Take your fight to the politicians who are wasting nearly five trillion dollars per year, mostly to entitlement programs. We are killing terrorists and bringing freedom to tens of millions in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a noble cause after all.
Whatever your name is,
I dont watch TV. I’m not a retard such as your ilk. I POINTED OUT THE ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS! what’s your point!?
We’ve been killing ‘terrorists’ all over the world for 100 years. Killing people in Afghanistan for the Caspian Sea Oil pipeline is not noble you stupid nazi!
Nice site, brutha. I worked with Mark overseas when he was a contractor and I was still active duty SEAL officer. Nice kid – I remember trading stories with him when were were getting ready to go into Iraq. Thanks for honoring him. As for this idiot “D”, when you call someone a Nazi, you already prove yourself to be intellectually vapid – that means you are a dumbass liberal who simply shouts people down. Iraq “was a secular country where women were equal to men”..?? Your statement – that’s complete crap. Women were thoroughly abused under Saddam. Iraqi Christians told us of the persecution they underwent as many fled Iraq to Detroit. Try doing some research. You sound like those “loose change” 9/11 conspiracy theory idiots, whom, by the way, have been COMPLETELY debunked; the reason they are doing a 3rd edition. Trylistening to some radio talk…killing Taliban in AFG for Caspian Oil? When I heard remarks such as this, I turn and look at a picture on my desk: it has people hanging out the windows of the WTC. They didn’t have a chance at life that day, only which way to die. These people want YOU dead, D. Grow up! http://www.specialwarfaresolutions.com