Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that Iraqi forces would launch a new effort - with U.S. troops in a supporting role - to wrest control of Baghdad's neighborhoods from militias and other sectarian killers.
Iraqi forces were to begin a neighborhood-by-neighborhood assault on militants in the capital this weekend, even before the White House announced a long-awaited new strategy to contain Sunni insurgents and Shiite death squads.
"The Baghdad security plan will not offer a safe shelter for outlaws regardless of their ethnic and political affiliations, and we will punish anyone who hesitates to implement orders because of his ethnic and political background," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in a speech at the 85th anniversary celebration of the Iraqi army.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070106/D8MFRKT00.html
2007-01-06 02:23:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Why the negativity, isn't this what you wanted? Or do you just want and expect failure?
2007-01-06 02:35:23 · update #1
yet Iran was still afraid of them.- yes because they also believed he had WMD's as he has used them before!
2007-01-06 02:37:15 · update #2
That's great news! Thanks for sharing. I'm very happy about it. I'll be even more happy when they do that all over Iraq, and our guys can come home.
2007-01-06 02:25:37 · answer #1 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm not very happy that are troops are over there Still. But I guess that the Iraqi Troops aren't knowledged enough with their training skills to actually take full control and hold full control. So with this said The Americans are over their anyway and they aren't leaving any time soon, So Yes its good.
The reason why I think its good is because Now we have a small force that we have trained and are still training to take our places when we leave. If we do not help the Iraqi Troops become stronger then we will never be able to pull our troops out of Irak because their will be no one to do our Jobs to keep the people safe.
The Objective of backing up Iraki Troops is so we can build a stronger power over there inorder for us to someday leave.
We have to keep this inmind that, if we dont come to some sort of progress over their to show that we are winning and that now the Iraki people can stay safe and remain safe our President wont pull troops out.
2007-01-06 02:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by slimb20413 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your assessment isn't fullyyt marvelous. collectively as they truthfully have a protracted thank you to circulate, there are some provinces interior the south the place they have secured the peace virtually single-handedly. The Kurdish north of Iraq is as shelter as any American city can boast of being shelter. the challenge is Baghdad. even with the gloomy image that the media paints in certainty that the coalition forces have been considered one of those fulfillment that the insurgency has had its impact constrained regularly to the capitol (its best, maximum sprawling city the place it incredibly is least puzzling to cover in). it incredibly is there the place the Iraqi and coalition forces have their palms finished preserving the peace collectively as the insurgency and the militias do their superb to stir a civil warfare. decrease them boys some slack. that they are combating back in any respect is sufficient reason to maintain our desire, faith and help persevering with. A historian stated that insurgencies take 9-10 years to extinguish. call me a fool in case you like, yet i actually have confidence Bush will do it in record time. I mean that the lion's share of the combating would be carried out until now he leaves place of work ( lots can happen in 900 days!); and the subsequent Republican president will ba in a position to convey back 2/3's of the troops homestead as we talk and leave something in the back of to help the Iraqi forces mop up and turn the lights out in this warfare as quickly as and for all.
2016-10-30 04:00:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has been tried before, and it doesn't work. The Iraqis will need to step it up a notch this time, or the U.S. will start to take a more active role in the security of the city.
2007-01-06 02:32:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really. I think the iraqi's are too lame. The US should maintain totall control. This war might be over now if we would just fight it the proper way. By bringing the greatest amount of death and destruction upon the enemy in the quickest amount of time.
Why wage war if you aren't ready to do it right?
2007-01-06 02:34:31 · answer #5 · answered by ally_oop_64 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Am I happy?
No - Iraq was far better off 4 years ago.
They were contained by U.N. sanctions.
They had no weapons of mass distruction.
They had no military to speak of - no ability to project power beyond thier own borders - and yet Iran was still afraid of them.
There was not one SINGLE islamic terrorist within that country.
And now we are supposed to jump for joy because a bunch of 7th centrury religious nut cases are in control?
We should have left well enough alone.
The way to control the middle east is to STOP BUYING THEIR OIL. Stop giving them the economic power to be overgrown children with very big guns.
2007-01-06 02:35:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Very, I wonder if they'll hold out longer than the N. Vietnamese did.
2007-01-06 02:26:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like Bush is still failing miserably 4 years into his bloodbath.
2007-01-06 02:25:40 · answer #8 · answered by The answer guy 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Isn't that our goal? We can't stay there forever. Of course, we never should have gone in in the first place.
2007-01-06 02:26:03 · answer #9 · answered by notyou311 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Good news...I hope it works.
2007-01-06 02:41:41 · answer #10 · answered by kissmybum 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋