What a novel idea...give the Iraqi Army the guns they need to fight the insurgents themselves. Then we don't need American troops to carry guns and get killed.
I am no expert in military strategy, but it kind of has me wondering why somebody didn't think about this - or at least mention it - sometime in the past 4 years. Why has this light bulb suddenly turned on all of a sudden just recently? Oh, that's right, now I remember. The last time we gave Iraqis guns, the insurgents used them to make life miserable for the soldiers who came to their country to liberate them.
Pity the 3000 young soldiers who have died in Iraq for a cause where the US government didn't trust the locals enough to give them guns to help fight their own war.
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That's probably the most sensible thing I have ever read of your posts regarding Iraq. What you said is probably going to happen, though the surge will help clear the rats nest and really indicate if the Iraqis are serious about their autonomy.
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Since the President revealed our strategy on TV telling exactly how we are going to use 20,000 extra troops, you don't really think the rats are going to be so foolish to hang around in their same old nests and wait to be killed? From what I have observed, both rats and insurgents are clever enough to figure out how to get out of harms way before the bullets start to fly.