U.S. Launches Offensive After Iraq Ambush

[fryguy]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041229/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

U.S. forces launched a new offensive Wednesday against insurgents in an area south of the capital dubbed the "triangle of death," while militants ambushed an elite Iraqi police unit in a Baghdad neighborhood known for its loyalty to ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, killing 29 people, most of them civilians.

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[amber dog democrat]

1. Don't you suppose the "insurgents" anticipated a retaliatory response ?

Not that I have a clue as to what we should do besides pack up and leave.

[fryguy]

2. no way

they're justs a bunch of silly evil-doers without any ability to plan like that
<<sarcasm>>
:eyes:

[amber dog democrat]

4. I am sure the offensive will go far

towards winning more hearts and minds. Isnt Freedom grand ?

[reprobate]

8. Freedom grand? I wouldn't know.

We haven't seen freedom here for four years. The thing we have seen starts with the same letter. Fascism.

[amber dog democrat]

10. My guess is we won't see it for more years to come

I do not support this war or the government that started it. God knows what it will take to change things. I am kind of hoping the Chimp admin will self destruct from hubris and stupidity.

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. Don't look at this

Have you seen the tsunami? What a mess!

[jmcgowanjm]

5. Heavy bomb blows up US Humvee in al-Mahmudiyah.

IRR122804

A heavy Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded and destroyed
a Humvee in al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad at 10:30
am Tuesday, sending wreckage of the vehicle flying over a
wide area and killing four US troops.

Just one of the more than 100 attacks on US/day.

Notice how no mention of US casualties in house
bomb trap and yet there are many US guarding, on
top of wreckage?

And BTW -Only few places in Indian Ocean that got
warning of tsunami-

Diego Garcia was one

"One of the few places in the Indian Ocean that got the
message of the quake was Diego Garcia, a speck of an
island with a United States Navy base, because the
Pacific warning center's contact list includes the Navy.
Finding the appropriate people in Sri Lanka or India was
harder." (NYT, 28 Dec 2004, emphasis added)

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO412C.html

[merwin]

6. It seems like we are trying to "teach them a lesson" by blowing up their

shit whenever they try to blow up ours. Every time there's an incident of insurgents blowing up things, there's another article almost immediately afterwards labeled "U.S. Launches Offensive After Iraq Ambush"...

So, does the event of the iraqi insurgents attacking us give us new information that would cause us to know where they are hiding, so that we can launch another attack? Or is the military just wagging it's collective dick's?

[Skink]

7. What makes this different is there was no suicide attacker..

[Just Me]

9. "DENIAL" still being imposed by OCCUPIERS.

That should be the headline.

There will be NO happy ending to this neoCONimperialist endeavor.

Thirty or forty years from now, the embittered victims will be seeking justice.

This selfish endeavor will haunt the world for quite some time.

I just hope the BFEE and their constituents PAY down the line.

I fully expect that,...they will pay,...in some form or another.