Comments for Friendly Fire? Another Look at Brazen Raid in Iraq at http://www.atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.atlanticfreepress.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:43:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/825-friendly-fire-another-look-at-brazen-raid-in-iraq.html#comment-1007 Maybe it was Americans disguised as Americans. Maybe a Shiite death squad linked to Moktada's militia. Or maybe the kidnapping and execution of four American soldiers by fake American soldiers driving General Motors SUV's was a signal of what's in store, a taste of the tactical response to George Bush's big upcoming surge into Sadr City and other Baghdad neighborhoods that are anti-American, anti-Maliki strongholds. Please note that the bold, sophisticated Karbala operation took place at the same time that mortar and rocket attacks into the "secure" Green Zone are also on the rise, along with reports of successful assaults upon US helicopters using shoulder-fired weponry like the Stinger missles the CIA long provided to Afghan mujadaheen for use against the evil Russian occupation forces. These disturbing recent field developments may be coincidental. They may however be a sign of trends to come. Welcome back to Baghdad, General Patraeus. Urban guerilla warfare against an unpopular occupying force insures that the local civilians will always have superior day-to-day intelligence, particularly when the "friendly" Iraqi military and police forces are tasked to fight alongside the western infidel outsiders. Those indigenous forces are riddled with double agents and casual informers, most of whom understandably hold stronger allegiance to various (often competing) insurgency factions than their current mission. The inherent imbalance of snitches created a perpetual, horrendous security problem for US ground operations throughout the Vietnam war, especially when search & destroy & secure & hold was supposed to be coordinated with our South Vietnamese allies. The Iraq occupation promises to be many times more Byzantine, and much more dangerously worse. Friendly fire? Sorry to be a pessimist, but when 85% of the grassroots wants US troops pulled out yesterday and over 60% consider it moral to shoot Americans on sight, please tell me how a surge in violence in Baghdad will win friends and influence people. If the Karbala false flag murders and other foreboding developments foreshadow what's likely to come, when the surge surges into Sadr City expect the Mahdi army to temporarily melt away like good guerilla warriors usually do, popping back up along the supply routes from Kuwait, the air corridors, and right inside those sanitized, Americanized security bubble military installations that haven't been much targeted before. And the White House will try to pin it on Iran. - a guest Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:19:45 +0100 http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/825-friendly-fire-another-look-at-brazen-raid-in-iraq.html#comment-1004 Yeah! not to healthy to be an Iranian in the ME these days. Call yourself a Canadian! It seems to work for most Americans traveling around the planet . ;D - a guest Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:12:59 +0100 http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/825-friendly-fire-another-look-at-brazen-raid-in-iraq.html#comment-1003 Seeing American calls to murder Iranians scares the sht out of me as an expat-Iranian. I don't want a holocaust against Iranians. - a guest Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:58:03 +0100 http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/825-friendly-fire-another-look-at-brazen-raid-in-iraq.html#comment-1001 To justify a war the US would need a more significant attack on their own, so I agree this is unlikely to be American on American, though one shouldn't entirely discount competitive rivalries among regular troops and US mercenaries, the latter often not being much more than organized criminals. - a guest Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:11:11 +0100 http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/825-friendly-fire-another-look-at-brazen-raid-in-iraq.html#comment-1000 Both arguments importantly pointed out that things aren't always what they appear to be. The idea of Americans dressing up as Americans for the purpose of blaming Iran doesn't work for me. It sounds like the author is trying too hard to villify the US. I'm curious how the troops are managing the threat of "friendly" fire. - a guest Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:50:04 +0100