Should we attack Iraq? Let's hear your two cents...
No, not right now. Here is why..
USA forces would be spread too thin fighting a war on several fronts with mounting casualties on all fronts.
If I thought an Iraq attack would have a good chance of success I would say yes go ahead. Right now I would expect a ground attack to peter out in street fighting at the edges of the major cities including Baghdad. Even if victory is declared we just have a greater Palestine with suicide bombers and security forces casualties every day.
After the Islamic worlds absorbs all the Arab propaganda coming out...civilian deaths, atrocities etc, then all hell lets lose as several hundred thousand attack in Afghanistan. btw I think binny is there too. Those guys have been sitting in the mountains twiddling their thumbs for some time now.
ananova.com
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New secret Army threatens US troops
A new pro-Taliban group calling itself the Secret Army of Mujahedeen has emerged in Afghanistan.
It is claiming responsibility for attacks on US troops in Arabic-language leaflets found in the east of the country.
The group, which has never been heard of before, also vows to avenge the deaths of Afghan civilians killed in US "friendly fire" accidents.
Although similar pamphlets have appeared since the US went to war in Afghanistan, this one is unusual because it is written in a language relatively few Afghans speak and even fewer can read.
That suggests the document could have been written for the several thousand Arabs, most of them suspected al-Qaida members, who may still be hiding in the remote mountains of the east.
The authors of the rambling six page leaflet did not refer to themselves as an offshoot of either al-Qaida or Taliban, but said their group had three goals: "To avenge the innocent martyrs of the brutal US bombing of Afghanistan; to continue jihad until the last foreign soldier is expelled from Afghanistan; and to defend the Muslim faith and freedom to establish an Islamic order."
At the US military headquarters in Bagram, US spokesman Colonel Roger King said he was unaware of the group and refused to discuss threats, if any, which American forces have received.
However, if the Secret Army of Mujahedeen exists, it would mean a new group has emerged as a united force against the coalition 10 months after the hard-line Islamic Taliban regime collapsed.
The pamphlet, which Arabic speakers said was written by someone with a good command of classical Arabic, described Afghan President Hamid Karzai as a US "slave" because of Washington's support for him.
Story filed: 08:42 Tuesday 3rd September 2002
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Best wait for other guys to make mistakes. Finnish up binny and co in Afghanistan, wait for an opportunity in Iraq. I don't think an invasion is the way to go though. |
