Well, In X days -X division are are going to engage -

[Joe for Clark]

And that is going to happen.

And god help me, I wish there was some variable -but the truth is there isn't one.

So X divisions units are going to engage in the (guess the capital of Iraq) and there is not a god damn thing we can do about it.

It is like some preordained future.

You know - you guys at DU are extrermely responsible. I respect it very much. That is so hard right now to do.

But man, I am not working for Fox news, and I REALLY understand the consequences - fully.

You guys really think I could EVER give up an American unit - I MEAN EVER!!

Shit, that is MY KID.

But there is a really big fight coming - damn, it really is coming.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Okay. Any chance of translating this code?

[Joe for Clark]

7. Well, I don;t thinkthere was until DU unlocked other threads.

Guess they did.

I am not quite sure how to phrase this.

There is a big fight coming now - I guess that is good -

If we don't win we loose - And nothing we can do to determine the fight - how is that??


Can you translate that??


Joe

[Joe for Clark]

8. It is not ulocked - I am sorry.

Joe

[et in Arcadia ego]

2. talk to us

Tell us specifically what you're talking about. Did you hear something from your kid?

[Joe for Clark]

5. I guess iIdidn't.

Specifically - well, I am not sure I could do that properly.

Yes, I heard a lot from the boy. More than I wanted to know.

All hell is going to break lose right now - and that is a fact.

Soon to be, anyway - apparently.


Joe

[alfredo]

9. I heard that the insurgents were migrating to Baghdad

for a big push at the green zone. I hope the reinforcements being sent in are enough to protect our units and positions.

[knowbody0]

3. I feel it too. a knowing that you are right

If you have a kid over there right now, God bless you both. I am so sorry things are so fucked.

[Buzz Clik]

4. If that's the case, I concur.

I've have family over the twice now, and it made for long nights.

All the best.

[Joe for Clark]

6. It was a feelihng a few moths ago.

More than that now.

[knowbody0]

11. Before he leaves Crawford

[Alcibiades]

10. So far, we have ticked off the Sunnis

Who really did want to see Saddam go, but then we rounded their young men up and placed them in Abu Gharib, right next to bona fide Al Queda guys in the next cell, and sexually humiliated them. As if the goal was to get recruits for the Sunni insurgency.

After the bombing in Samara, all bets were off for the Shia, too, and they've been killing Sunnis left and right, for some time now, in the heart of the capital, while working for the Army or the interior ministry. And now we are sending guys in to stop it, I think. Whatever their intentions, however, two things seem certain to me:

1. Our intervention in Baghdad will not stop the violence there.
2. Taking troops from other areas will increase the violence everywhere but the de facto state of Iraqi Kurdistan.
3. The real effect of this mission will be to get the Shia ticked off at us for good. Once that happens, the occupation of Iraq becomes immediately untenable (that is to say, even more untenable than it is already).

Did I say two? No, I mean three, THREE things seem certain to me.

[Ouabache]

12. So how does an Iraqi say 'Tet Offensive'?

I figured about a year ago that this day was coming...