US troops patrol Baghdad on foot

[Barrett808]

US troops patrol Baghdad on foot
By Ross Colvin

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops are patrolling the streets in some Baghdad neighborhoods on foot in a new bid to win the trust of Iraqis, an unusual sight for many residents more used to seeing them travel in armored vehicle convoys.

Taking a more personal approach to Iraqis long critical of heavy handed tactics is part of the strategy aimed at reclaiming Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods from insurgents and easing communal strife.

Thousands of U.S. reinforcements have arrived in Baghdad in recent weeks to join a crackdown by U.S. and Iraqi forces on worsening sectarian violence between once-dominant minority Sunnis and majority Shi'ites in the city.

Mindful of the three-year-old Sunni insurgency fighting to expel them from Iraqi soil, U.S. commanders explain to residents that they aim to restore security in support of Iraqi police.

"I want to get this job done so I can go home and live with my family and you can live with your family," Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Peterson, commander of the First Squadron, 14th U.S. Cavalry, told one man through his interpreter in al-Hadar, an area of the notoriously violent southern Dora district.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060817/ts_nm/iraq_baghdad_dc

[Algorem]

1. Why not?Their commander in chief had to patrol Alabama on foot,or in a

car,whatever.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. I believe he patrolled on a barstool

[Algorem]

6. but that alcohol dehydrated him like a Bagdad day when Halliburton only

allows 12 ounces of recycled drinking water per soldier($180 per bottle).The man's a hero DAMMIT!

[saigon68]

2. "I want to get this job done so I can go home "

They need to stop distributing funny drugs to the people on the ground

This "WON'T BE OVER" until

1. The Fat Lady sings

2. We are all dead and buried.

Its phase 32 in the never ending religious Crusade.

[0007]

5. Its phase 32 in the never ending religious Crusade

[BlueJac]

3. Shit......

We need more men and women.....so they can be spread over the entire oil producing regions in the world and protect them for the Oil Companies. South America, Mexico, the Middle East, Alaska and Canada need our tax dollars for protection. The draft will begin at the first of the year. The states must also give control of the National Guard to King George, to be used against a growing concern of long gone freedoms.


:sarcasm: