Giorgio_Xo

My former employer, Knight Ridder, wrote an interesting article last week that didn't get much notice in the US because of Katrina. The news is... the US military has been fought to a stalemate by the insurgents in the Anbar province. Today, the Washington Post reports that Qaim, the largest city near the Suyrian is now in Zarqawi's hands!

Can it get any worse? Yes. Bush still has three years left in his second term. he will make it worse.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...090500313.html

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Rinaldo

so basically there was a battle and it was a stale mate.... yo udo realize that in wwI they had a stalemate for 3 years on one battle front

Giorgio_Xo

You are off. They have been battling since the US invaded. The Anbar province is the largest in Iraq (1/6 of the country). Falluja and many other cities are located in Anbar. Dozens of battles have been fought.

As to your second response, WWi has nothing to do with this conflict. In WWi they were several standing armies fighting at the regimental and divisional levels. This is a stalemate which shouldn't happen. The US should be too advanced for this to happen.

It means we are undermanned and unwanted. It means the insurgents have learned how to fight us effectively.

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cambaby

They run across the border when we start to attack them, we cant touch them in Syria(yet). Its the same fucking thing thats happening in AFghanistan with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. They run to fucking pakistan everytime we fart in that direction. Give me a break lol these ragheaded fucks cant win or even COMPARE to the US military. If we were unchained without half these liberal pukes riding our coat tails believe me that place would be a sheet of fucking glass by now. Nuke + Sand = Glass.

Joe Citizen

I thought you were supposed to be liberating the Iraqi people, not nuking them.

Yeah, the rest of the world always knew that was bullshit. Time to come clean, eh?

tony286

THey dont want us there and never will

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you idiot. there is no stalemate. especially not in a military sense. the insurgents hide amongst civilians and in mosques in hopes of luring an attack on innocents to increase civilian frustration. because the usa is not the monsters that the insurgents are, they do not attack these mosques and do what they can to avoid injuring innocent human shields the insurgents use. that is hardly a stalemate.

rambler

typical republican speaking out of both sides of your mouth, one day you are liberating the Iraqies, the next they're "a bunch of raghead fucks" that you should nuke.