Camden Commentary: Now they're getting somewhere in Iraq

Friday, March 26, 2010

Now they're getting somewhere in Iraq - maybe.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/03/26/former-pm-allawi-wins-iraqi-elections/

4 comments:

hannah said...: Ah, back where we started.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/politics/09ALLA.html?pagewanted=1

The CIA showed Allawi's group how to make car bombs when the objective was to destabilize the rule of Saddam Hussein. It didn't work, obviously.

What it did do was teach a whole lot of people that detonating a bomb on or in the ground has much more destructive potential than exploding something in the air because of the shock waves which travel through the ground. You'll recall that McVeigh just left his truck parked on the street to bring half of the Murrah building down.

Car bombs are an Allawi signature. Their object is to intimidate the populace.
Somebody, apparently, still thinks Iraqis are rubes and can be outsmarted.; March 27, 2010 at 8:17 AM
Jay Moreno said...: What cracks me up is when I go to my blogmaster's comment moderaqtion screen, it does not show me who the comment is coming from. Immediately recognizing yours is child's play.

Do you ever have any original thoughts that do not come from The Daily Kos?; March 27, 2010 at 8:40 AM
hannah said...: Can't say really. After six years, it's probably a chicken/egg thingy. UID numbers are sequential, so you can figure out how long I've been posting there.
Good on you for broadening your horizons.; March 27, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Jay Moreno said...: I've never visited The Daily Kos. Never will. Just know of their reputation as the clearinghouse for the radical left-wing BS du jour.; March 27, 2010 at 1:05 PM