The Freeps have Iraq all figured out: "Bomb the shit out of them from 30,000 ft"

[Human Torch]

Bush, Maliki to discuss Iraq security in Jordan
Yahoo ^ | 55 minutes ago 22 November 2006 | Staff

Posted on 11/22/2006 7:21:00 AM PST by shrinkermd

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742614/posts

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To: shrinkermd

Yes, the message is "Get your act together and arrest those malitias"

2 posted on 11/22/2006 7:28:45 AM PST by W04Man (Bush2004 Grassroots Campaign We Did It! NOW.... PLEASE CONTINUE ON TO VICTORY!)

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To: shrinkermd

Something up?

Bush: "Hey Nuri, I need you to look the other way when 20k additional troops come in to kick Sadr's arse. After that, you guys better be ready to take over because we're gonna start our pull back next summer."

4 posted on 11/22/2006 8:52:19 AM PST by Go Gordon (I don't know what your problem is, but I bet its hard to pronounce)

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To: humint

Y'all better learn fast what direction Mecca is. We're gonna hafta know which way to pray in the comin' years...

'06 mattered.


6 posted on 11/22/2006 10:41:17 AM PST by epluribus_2

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To: shrinkermd

I smell a Christmas "announcement" coming.

He'll get a rousing ovation at the SOTU speech a few weeks later.

7 posted on 11/22/2006 11:06:35 AM PST by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush if given a chance.)

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To: shrinkermd

I hope that the message is that we will not stand by while our soldiers are slaughtered while the Arabs descend into their typical squabbling. They either get it together NOW or we will bomb the shit out of them from 30,000 ft (like we should have from day one).

11 posted on 11/22/2006 7:41:22 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Democracy: The worst form of government, except for all the others.)

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. When will they realize that there is only money, not nations.

They should watch "Network" and pay close attention to Ned Beatty's speech and realize that Bush won't bomb his money buddies.

[Sherman A1]

2. Ah, "The Victory Through Air Power" - Solution

It works oh so well, based upon history.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. To be fair, it worked reasonably well in Kosovo

In as much as it was sufficient to prevent the total ethnic cleansing of the place by the Serbs.

The difference it made to the middle stages of WWII is debateable, but it's certainly not self-evident that it wasn't important (although obviously there it was supported by ground troops eventually).

But air power is only useful when you have a clearly defined enemy to beat, and either they have a proper army or you don't mind killing lots of civilians, as opposed to a bunch of groups of people you want to stop killing one another so that you can set up a functioning state, and who are in essence civilians with guns in many cases.

"Bomb them" is sometimes a workable way of stopping B doing bad things to A, but very seldom a viable way of intervening in civil war or unrest.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. It only worked when the Russians pulled the plug.

The Serbs only pulled back when they lost support from Moscow. The air campaign was not all that effective. Besides, the foamers over at the fart repugnant want to nuke Iraq, not conduct some soft conventional air campaign.

[Sherman A1]

17. I have to agree with post #11

That air power only worked when the Russians pulled their support. The air campaign alone theory is pretty much doomed to failure. Combined arms is a completely different approach and as conflicts devolve into such as we currently see with insurgent (freedom fighters and/or terrorists your choice) or irregular warfare air power can only be in a subordinate role to boots on the ground.

[BOSSHOG]

3. They are so complex, yet so simple

- bomb the shit out of them is the christian thing to do apparently.
- and actually its the implied "you" bomb the shit out of them because I'm gonna stay home and whine about what liberals are gonna do which will benefit me in the long run but I'm too manly to admit it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Your second point: Ha! How true. If they care, they'd join the army.

[marmar]

4. This explains why someone like * would even have a shot at the presidency....

There are way too many dolts like him roaming around.

[SpiralHawk]

6. A strategery lacking in all honor and wisdom

Just what you'd expect from the chickenhawk republicons.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. That has been the lunatic right opposition theory from day 1.

It is the libertarian-hawk position espoused most vocally by Jay Severin. The war was bad not because it was a war crime to attack Iraq for no good reason but because we put our soldiers in harm's way when we could have simply nuked Iraq into irrelevance.

This is part of the mythology that is being constructed to explain the defeat in Iraq and blame the left, liberals, the media, homosexuals, aging hippies, atheists, Democrats (of course) and nefarious false flag elements within the Repugnant Party. We will need convenient long term victims as well, substitutes for the phantom POWs still it seems held by Vietnam 30 years after the end of that war.

What color will the flag be for this catastrophic failure? What will the narrative be? I can't wait to find out.

[wryter2000]

8. I thought we loved them

I thought we loved them so much we had to liberate them. Where are the purple fingers now?

[JeffR]

10. "a rousing ovation at the SOTU"

Yeah, that's gonna be somethin', huh?

Frei Republik: the short bus of the internets...

[Evergreen Emerald]

12. But, why?

Why bomb innocent Iraq citizens? Why is that ok to bomb them? Are they still believing Fox News and Bu*h's assertions that Iraq was responsible for 911?

And if they were so concerned about the Iraqi citizens that they wanted to liberate them, why do they now want to bomb them?

I don't understand these people who tout Christian morals and yet are comfortable bombing to death innocent Iraqi men, women, and children.

[alfredo]

16. They don't value human life. They are frustrated that their

king and his armies can't defeat a bunch of guerrilla fighters.

They don't understand that if we nuked an unarmed nation, the world would turn on us, cutting off trade, calling in debts and generally starving us to death. Remember, we do not have a viable manufacturing base anymore. We also don't have the productive farmland we used to have. Too much of it is now urban and suburban sprawl. We have built upon the fertile, flat land, leaving the marginal and un tillable land.

[Mz Pip]

13. "malitias"??

Sounds like an exotic drink with rum and fruit juice.

And didn't we already bomb the shit out of them? I think it was called "Shock and Awe." So how did that work out for us?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Clark2008]

14. I was getting ready to post nearly the same thing!

[Union Thug]

15. "malitias" This is HUGH!!111!!, they are SCREWN!!!!

Always a gem to be pulled from the writers at Free Republic!

[KitSileya]

18. Perhaps we should take a leaf out of their book...

By we I mean the rest of the world, and the book I'm refering to is their ever-thumped Bible...there's something in it about an eye for an eye, isn't there. Perhaps we should bomb American cities from 30 000 ft - maybe that'll open the eyes of the gutless cowardly Americans.


No? Well, perhaps they should try to explain how bombing people who actually have experienced war will miraculously make them meek and grateful.

[butterfly77]

19. They will bomb them and sort them out later...

they have killed so many people we don't know how many that were killed in shock and awe. These are the same people they claim to be liberating, they will only bring more hate these are some stupid people who continue to follow these lies. They will bomb them and then claim victory and call us the cut and runners when they leave. I heard some this morning claiming that the violence is their because we refuse to follow their stupid president. One lady said if we only would have gotten behind stupid after he so called won the 2004 election...they just don't get it...

[qwlauren35]

20. Dumb question here...

They are already bombing the sh*t out of each other, how will it help to bomb them some more???