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Old 05-20-2008, 06:32 AM
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No sir you did not. I asked how long the push was. Not how long the whole thing was.

Your earlier statement clearly differentiates between the push and the SASO ops we have been conducting.
What's SASO?
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Old 05-20-2008, 06:33 AM
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.....as promised.



3,500 U.S. troops to head home

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A "surge" brigade deployed to Iraq last year is heading back to the United States, the U.S. military said Monday.


U.S. and Iraqi soldiers walk away from a helicopter in a wheat field near Baghdad last week.

1 of 2 About 3,500 soldiers from the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team will go back to Fort Benning, Georgia, over the next few weeks. It is the third surge brigade to leave Iraq, as planned, and two more are scheduled to leave by the end of July.

The U.S. troop increase in 2007, referred to as the surge, was designed to take on the insurgency in and around Baghdad and provide stability for Iraqi politicians to develop legislation and reach accommodation on key national issues.

"The continued drawdown of surge brigades demonstrates continued progress in Iraq," said Gen. Dan Allyn, chief of staff of Multi-National Corps - Iraq.
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What's SASO?
What we are doing now.
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What's SASO?
Security and Stabilization Operations
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Old 05-20-2008, 06:40 AM
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What we are doing now.
Then a push is a major combat operation since we had to increase troop levels to conduct it and Bush said major combat operation were over long ago.
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Security and Stabilization Operations
A euphemism for "we're still at war folks".

We've been moping up for 5 years now and over 95% of our deaths have occurred during this time.
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A euphemism for "we're still at war folks".

We've been moping up for 5 years now and over 95% of our deaths have occurred during this time.
Moping? or Mopping?
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Then a push is a major combat operation since we had to increase troop levels to conduct it and Bush said major combat operation were over long ago.
Are you going to answer my question?
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So minor combat operations are deadlier than major combat operations?

Bush's problem is he spoke too soon. He figured Iraq would be a cake walk. Now he's mired in a civil war with no exit strategy whatsoever. He shoulda listened to papa.
Urban guerilla operations are tougher than traditional combat operations. This isn't rocket science.
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We've been moping up for 5 years now and over 95% of our deaths have occurred during this time.
Tell the truth, did you spend most of 2002 asleep? We were told, clearly, by every major administration official that this operation would take years. The troops realized that the most dangerous parts of their job would be in the urban areas.

Is it that the far left just doesn't understand these things, or doesn't want to? Or, have Americans just been dumbed down by soundbyte news so that they can no longer comprehend complex issues?
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