stefan segal
11-17-2007, 04:31 PM
It appears that the inhouse "terrorists" demonstrate here that they mostly object to foriegn occupation...a symtom that would appear to most like patriotism.
It's not nice to attack families in their homes...it tends to piss people off. It is certainly not a program worth killing our sons and daughters for. We could possibly survive with a lot less oil by utilizing the war chest for alternative fuels and lifestyles.
Stefan
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1814062007
Attacks fall 90% since UK Basra pullout
ATTACKS have plunged by 90 per cent in southern Iraq since Britain withdrew its troops from the main city of Basra, their commander has said.
The British presence in central Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, was the single largest trigger for violence, Major General Graham Binns said.
About 500 British troops moved out of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in the heart of Basra in early September, joining some 4500 at a garrison at an airport on the city's edge.
Since then there has been a "remarkable and dramatic drop in attacks", General Binns said.
"The motivation for attacking us was gone, because we're no longer patrolling the streets."
Last spring, British troops' daily patrols through central Basra led to "steady toe-to-toe battles with militias fighting some of the most tactically demanding battles of the war", General Binns said. Now British forces rarely enter the city centre, an area patrolled only by Iraqis.
It's not nice to attack families in their homes...it tends to piss people off. It is certainly not a program worth killing our sons and daughters for. We could possibly survive with a lot less oil by utilizing the war chest for alternative fuels and lifestyles.
Stefan
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1814062007
Attacks fall 90% since UK Basra pullout
ATTACKS have plunged by 90 per cent in southern Iraq since Britain withdrew its troops from the main city of Basra, their commander has said.
The British presence in central Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, was the single largest trigger for violence, Major General Graham Binns said.
About 500 British troops moved out of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in the heart of Basra in early September, joining some 4500 at a garrison at an airport on the city's edge.
Since then there has been a "remarkable and dramatic drop in attacks", General Binns said.
"The motivation for attacking us was gone, because we're no longer patrolling the streets."
Last spring, British troops' daily patrols through central Basra led to "steady toe-to-toe battles with militias fighting some of the most tactically demanding battles of the war", General Binns said. Now British forces rarely enter the city centre, an area patrolled only by Iraqis.