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Offline Hangtime

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« on: October 06, 2005, 09:40:07 AM »
His Imperial Highness just said the Iraqi's have 80 Battalions in the field...

WTF?

Dammit, just once I'd enjoy hearing the truth.

But what is it?
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Offline soda72

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« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2005, 09:47:54 AM »
Yeah,

I caught that to...  

:noid
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Offline Westy

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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2005, 10:05:49 AM »
He said eighty "brazillion" Iraqi's. Not eighty "battalions."

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Offline oboe

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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2005, 10:09:18 AM »
Was he wild-eyed and clenching his fist as he spoke?   Any veins popping out on his forehead or anything?    

Seriously, 80 battalions?  Sounds good.   Let's bring ours home then.
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Offline Mighty1

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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2005, 10:16:11 AM »
The number could be correct.

What I heard the other day was that only a few of those battalions were able to be trusted on their own.

That may be were your lower numbers came from.
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Offline Tarmac

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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2005, 10:38:30 AM »
That was quick.  Wasn't it just last week that some General told Congress that there was a whopping 1?

See, we're winning teh war on terrer!
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2005, 10:59:10 AM »
The problem is I just don't know what to believe anymore.

How can any of us fairly determine the competence of the decison making with regards to Iragi considerations with so much contradictory info flowing about from supposedly 'informed' sources?

Arrrgh!
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« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2005, 11:01:08 AM »
There's a lesson in this... don't let them do anything. :)
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Offline AKS\/\/ulfe

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« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2005, 11:01:11 AM »
Smoke, ass.
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Offline VOR

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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2005, 11:38:01 AM »
Maybe we have too many informed sources running around informing us.
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2005, 11:46:01 AM »
why do you guys keep refering to brazillion?

the word is "Bazillion"  we are talking about 80 bazillion iraqi battalions, not 80 brazillion.
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Offline indy007

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« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2005, 11:47:15 AM »
The statements last week said only 1 was able to combat the insurgents on their own. Makes sense. They could very well have 80 battalions available, but it takes alot of time to start with remnants and recruits and train them up to American standards. Especially when you don't have anything like our stateside infrastructure & training facilities available on the ground there. On top of that, counter-insurgency is the hardest type of warfare to combat so the learning curve is pretty brutal. We're still learning things about it constantly, and we have the most experienced army on the planet.
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« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2005, 11:53:02 AM »
regardless the number, the problem lies in the fact that they still can't find their arse with both hands and if we left them, Iraq would make Iran and Syria look like sweden and france
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« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2005, 11:53:20 AM »
"why do you guys keep refering to brazillion?"



Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing on the war in Iraq. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
    “OH NO!” the president exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
    His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head in hands.
    Finally, the president looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”


Only Skuzzy told it differently in another topic.
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Offline Toad

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« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2005, 12:47:59 PM »
Iraqi army is improving

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...In a Pentagon briefing Wednesday, Petraeus said 36 Iraqi battalions of troops and special police, totaling almost 29,000 troops, were now able to take the lead in combined U.S.-Iraqi operations. Petraeus said the wider role for Iraqi forces would free some U.S. combat forces to focus on other targets in a preliminary step toward eventual U.S. troop withdrawals.

"It will understandably take quite some time before substantial numbers of (Iraqi) units are assessed as being fully independent and requiring no assistance," said Petraeus, who is completing his assignment as commander of U.S. combat training for Iraqis....

...Petraeus played down the combat prowess of Iraqi forces, and he praised them for continuing to enlist despite enduring casualties at twice the rate of U.S. forces.

"The Iraqis are in this fight," he said. "They are fighting and dying for their country and they are fighting increasingly well."

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Petraeus is supposedly one of the sharper knives in the drawer.
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