Richard WarnickBasra Update: US Has Few Options
From the Washington Post:
U.S. Has Little Influence, Few Options in Iraq’s Volatile South
As U.S. warplanes attacked targets in Basra yesterday, Bush administration officials acknowledged that their hands-off strategy toward southern Iraq in recent years has left them with little knowledge of the conflicts among competing Shiite groups there and few ways of influencing them.
Iraqis’ Basra fight not going well
Reuters: Maliki says Sadrist foes “worse than al Qaeda”
The Real News: Iraq battle deadlock: US bombs Baghdad’s Sadr City as rockets and mortars hit Green Zone again. Militants defy curfew in Basra
AP: US Airstrikes In Iraq Continue, Iraqi Police Report 8 Dead
AP: Shiite Leader Al-Sadr Defies Iraq Government
Washington Post: 19 Tense Hours in Sadr City Alongside the Mahdi Army
After nearly a year of relative calm, U.S. troops and Shiite militiamen engaged in pitched battles this week, underscoring how quickly order can give way to chaos in Iraq. On this block in Sadr City, the cleric’s sprawling stronghold, men and boys came out from nearly every house to fight, using powerful IEDs and rockets.
Daily Kos: Rockets Overhead, Sprinting For The Bunker….Again
March 30th, 2008 at 12:24 am
“Bush administration officials acknowledged that their hands-off strategy toward southern Iraq in recent years has left them with little knowledge”
Quoted as posted from the Wapo if I am not mistaken.
We’ve been in Iraq for 5…6 yrs now, and the result is ‘little knowledge’ ? I’m afraid ‘little knowledge’ is what was had by this administration before we went in and the learning curve has not been usefull in any way shape or form ever since.
Can we get the hell out of there already!
March 30th, 2008 at 1:30 am
What’s wrong with cutting and running?
Lt. Gen. William Odom talks to Amy Goodman on October 4th 2005. Lots of soldiers lives and untold billions could have been saved if we had listened.