U.S. no longer occupying Baghdad

[FightingIrish]

The U.S. is now using artillery barrage, a tactic more appropriate to an invasion or a siege than to an occupation. In a desperate attempt to make it look like the surge is working, we seem to be starting the war all over again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[PATRICK]

1. I see the point

but the post description is a bit deceiving as actual "abandonment of Baghdad". then who knows from the MSM exactly how much we really are deployed outside the green Zone and whether this is increasing or diminishing in favor sortie forward locations near the green Zone, more Rumsfeldian air or artillery barrages.

[cliss]

2. It's probably a survival tactic right now.

Iraq has about 22 million people (well, I've heard they lost about 1 million give or take a few hundred thousand).

Baghdad has several million inhabitants. I believe at last count, the U.S. had about 133,000 troops in Iraq (give or take a few hundred).

The mere attempt to try to subjugate an entire country was a wild gamble anyway. There were never enough troops to pull it off. I believe Gen. Shinseki (now retired) said it would take about 500,000 to do it right.


JUST EXACTLY like going to the Dog races, and putting your mortgage money on the Little #9 Dog. It was a complete Crap shoot, and they lost.