AP: Insurgents are preparing "an all out assault" on Baghdad

[Quixote1818]

Just read this in the local newspaper. The article also said that attacks soared by 40% in Baghdad this past week. Attacks are now averaging 34 a day when they had been at 24 a day between June 14 and July 13th.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060721/NEWS06/607210451/-1/ZONES04

[still_one]

1. If this is true, and the military knows about it

They better be doing something about it

[Quixote1818]

2. They know

The OP title was a direct quote from an American general. The article didn't say what they were going to do about it though.

[CuteNFuzzy]

5. doubtful that anything can be done at this point

[Pepper32]

9. Yep

Here comes more shock an awe :(

[NYC]

6. I think they are doing this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2405615

... More troops to be deployed to Baghdad, general says

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – The top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Friday that the escalating sectarian violence in Baghdad had become a greater worry than the insurgency and that plans were being drawn up to move additional forces to the Iraqi capital.

[JackDragna]

3. WRONG! Typical librul propaganda!

It's actually a massive candy assault. The Iraqi people are going to bombard us with shells filled with Hershey's kisses and flowers. Why doesn't the media ever report on all this good news? :P

[C_U_L8R]

4. God help our men and women

because the Republicans have abandoned them to the slaughter.

The repukes need to GO !!! They are simply NO GOOD !!!!

[roamer65]

7. Remember Dunkerque, 1940?

This may just be a repeat of that for US troops. Turkey and Iran may just have to invade to stop full blown chaos.

[kineneb]

21. or Galipoli, 1915. n/t

[roamer65]

26. Ah, yes Gallipoli, where the British used chemical weapons

against the Ottoman Turks.

[benburch]

8. Everything is going to shit at once.

How long before the Pakistan/India conflict flares up?

[Quixote1818]

10. It's cus God hates fags

Blame the fags and librals for all the sodomy and gamora that's been going on here in the US of A since the 60's. We must cleanse ourselves of there disease for God to love us again.

[TomInTib]

11. I am seeing a circling maneuver around Baghdad with a kinetic

nucleus rapidly shrinking and enveloping the Green Zone.

I think that it will happen within the next eight weeks, before the end of hot weather.

It will be this "war's" Tet68.

They could do it with less than 10,000 men.

We would be forced to level Baghdad, an absolute disaster.

Hope I am wrong.

[MadMaddie]

12. Hey Tom....we have saying Tet offensive for awhile

we could see it coming...I am sure military commanders have it in mind....

God save our soldiars.....

[TomInTib]

14. There will be Hell to pay...

I just know it.

We have withdrawn into the safe, insulated Green Zone.
Classic, catastrophic mistake.
How can our commanders be so foolish?

We fortified the GZ and made it our sole firecamp in Baghdad because we thought this would be finished right away.
No options.

Fools

[Quixote1818]

16. I believe it was yesterday that two explosions went off in the Green Zone

If I am not mistaken, that is the first time thats happened. I know they have launched missiles into the green zone but that was the first time I have heard of someone getting into the GZ with a bomb in hand.

[TomInTib]

17. Classic American/Euro/Sino mistake

Circle the wagons, define the defensive perimeter.

They taught us to always avoid that pitfall, maintain a fluid defense. But what did we know? We were just Special Forces and the guys calling the shots had been schooled at Annapolis.

That's why we lost in Vietnam and that is why this shit is on the verge of implosion.

[MadMaddie]

25. Actually it has been happening for awhile...it's just now being

reported...

When Kathy Griffen the comedian went over last Nov/Dec 05 soldier was walking to the mess hall with his fiancee...a morter came in and killed her and he ended up in the field hospital....

We are starting to hear the stories because the * cabal can't keep it hidden any longer..

If there is anything similar to the Tet offensive ...this administration is done....

[benburch]

19. I think I've read this scenario before.

It was Dien Bien Phu.

[TomInTib]

28. I could go into all kinds of detail. But suffice to say, we should

know better.

While we were being schooled at Coronado (SEAL School) on this very issue, evidently the Fish at Annapolis never heard a word.

37 years later and the curriculum evidently has not changed.

[benburch]

29. Detail would be good, actually.

I see this as a Dien Nien Phu because of the supply lines, and the lack of evacuation routes to use in a retreat. The Green Zone is a parcel of land bordered by the river on two sides and by urban baghdad on the other two. The river is not fordable at that spot, and there is not sufficient riverine transport to evacuate across it. There is one main road out. If cut off at the choke point, only destroying the enemy or the use of vertical resupply and evacuation is possible, but the enemy already knows how to take out helicopters. The main airport is fairly distant, and is itself vulnerable.

[TomInTib]

30. You have provided all the "detail" needed, benburch.

This is a classic fuck-up.

Logistical nightmare.

[Quixote1818]

31. Is Saddam in the Green Zone?

Can you imagine if they ended up freeing Saddam and then he was back in charge? Crazier things have happened.

[TomInTib]

32. OK, extreme tinfoil here...

remember when SH said he would be freed by the Admin?

Remember all of that other weird shit?

How could we achieve our goal of destroying Iraq ( and that WAS the goal) and somehow lead the ME down some perverted road?

Restore Saddam?

Thinking about it brings me vertigo.

[Quixote1818]

33. Nothing would surprise me with this bunch of nuts

If someone had come up with a movie with this story line and all the perverted sub plots, people would have said "Na, that could never happen". Well, it's happening and it gets more weird evey day! Who knows what the end of this bizarre movie will be?

[TomInTib]

35. The end of the movie will just freak out the entire Planet

This one is headed down the rabbit hole.

Lewis Carroll couldn't have writ it any better.

[Quixote1818]

20. I would hate to be in the green zone right now

It doesn't sound safe at all. More like a green powder cake about to turn into a red powder cake. Perhaps the battle of Little Big Horn all over again? Very scary and unfortunate!

[RagAss]

18. Interesting...Tet..with a "Stalingrad circle" tactic.....n/t

[TomInTib]

23. It is all too obvious

and that is why we will miss it completely.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

13. Oh I think it already has.

India test fired a missile a couple of weeks ago and Pakistan had a shit fit about it.

[jsamuel]

15. yes, this is bad, it is a direct result of a failed policy.

Invading/blowing up a country does not stop terrorism

[Quixote1818]

22. It's amazing this isn't getting much MSM coverage

Perhaps because of all the attention on Israel.

[Arkham House]

24. "Bring it on"...

...Christ, do I hate the worthless piece of shit in the White House who got us into this mess. I mean *hate*. I never hated Reagan, or even Nixon, personally...but this man, I hate. I hope somehow he ends up paying for what he's done...I know he won't, but I can hope. God help our soldiers over there...and the people of Iraq...

[MadMaddie]

27. I with you....he is a pure evil sociopath....

[cynatnite]

34. I'm still waiting for the damn flowers

If we stay there long enough, they'll welcome us as liberators and throw flowers. It'll happen...someday. (I'm guessing it'll be the day we leave Iraq)