Marne Avalanche
Another major offensive launched vs. al Qaeda, this time in Babil, south of Baghdad. Roggio with some details on that, and updates on Diyala and points north and west. Meanwhile:
Gen. Pace says Pentagon planning for September includes sending more troops to Iraq as well as bringing some back. Because depending on what generals tell the president, and what the president tells the generals, either of those could happen. Congress may get involved in there somewhere, too.
Gen. Mixon, foreseeing an opportunity to withdraw troops dictated by events on the ground ahead, counsels:
“It seems to me that we should first decide what we want the end state to be in Iraq, and how is that end state important to the United States of America, to this region and to the world, and then determine how we can reach that end state, and how much time that will take … It cannot be a strategy based on, ‘Well, we need to leave.’ That’s not a strategy, that’s a withdrawal.”
Pretty much.
Meanwhile, tribal leaders in Diyala swear “by God and his holy book Quran” to stop fighting each other and fight al-Qaeda instead.
Fightin’ 6th Marines in Anbar: “The bottom line is that we are freaking winning out here.”
Blackfive with one soldier’s mission.
Yon in Baquba with a mood piece on road hazards, and one Stryker crew’s lucky day.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:58 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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