U.S. Forces in Iraq Facing 'Guerrillas'

[StrongBad]

Middle East - AP

U.S. Forces in Iraq Facing 'Guerrillas'

By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists are fighting an increasingly organized "guerrilla-type campaign" against U.S. troops, and terror groups are reviving, too, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq (news - web sites) says.

But Gen. John Abizaid said the threat was nothing that American troops couldn't handle. "They're not driving us out of anywhere," the four-star general said Wednesday.

Still, Abizaid's use of the term "guerrilla warfare" was a striking departure for a top military leader. As recently as last week, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other Pentagon (news - web sites) officials refused to use the term, saying attacks on U.S. forces were too sporadic and disorganized to qualify as a guerrilla campaign.


Abizaid credited attackers with improved organization, tactics and financing as he suggested American soldiers may face deployments of a length seldom seen since the Vietnam War...

More:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030717/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_military&cid=540&ncid=716

[Enraged_Ape]

1. Q

I said Q-U
Q-U-A
Q-U-A-G
Q-U-A-G M-I-R-E
Quagmire! Doodle-doot-DOW-da-doodle...

[mikeytherat]

2. I know this is a very serious matter, but

glad to know someone else knows "Ragg Mopp" (quagmire, do-do-do-die-die)

mikey_the_rat

[chiburb]

3. I see this as "Shinseki's Revenge"...

Maybe, just maybe, the brass at the Pentagon who hate Rummy and Wolfie are smelling some blood in the water? For this general to go so far off-script with "guerrilla" and "year-long" deployments, only a week after Rummy angrily denied it was anything like "guerrilla", seems like a clear message: We're telling the truth, and FU Rummy if you don't like it.

[NYC]

4. Since Abizaid used the word "guerilla", I've heard it on every news

station I've watched, every program.

[damnraddem]

5. U.S. troops 'may face deployments of a length seldom seen since the ...

the Vietnam War?

U.S. troops may face combat of a type seldom seen since Vietnam.

U.S. troops may face casualties of a type seldom seen since Vietnam.

U.S. troops may face situations they can't handle of a type seldom seen since Vietnam.

U.S. troops may be driven out of places in Iraq in manners seldom seen since Vietnam.

U.S. policymakers may experience popular protests of a type seldom seen since Vietnam.

The U.S. may be trapped in a quagmire not seen since Vietnam.

The U.S. may have to relearn in Iraq (and Afghanistan) lessons painfully learned in Vietnam but hastily forgotten under the Bushistas.

[study_war_no_more]

6. JIHAD? who said anything about a Jihad.

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