southsider2k5 Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...2/19/wirq19.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Blasphemy. They HATE us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUKE_CLEVELAND Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE!?!?! NOTHING IS GOING RIGHT IN IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MORE U.S. PROPOGANDA TO SHORE UP FAILING SUPPORT FOR THE ILLEGAL, IMMORAL, RACIST, OIL HUNGRY WAR OF AGGRESSION!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Wow. Now we are paying British newspapers to print positive stories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 McMaster should have been running the show in Fallujah as well. The contrast in how these two operatiosn were con ducted, and in the efforts to rebuild afterward, are striking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 05:06 PM) Wow. Now we are paying British newspapers to print positive stories? Let me correct that for you. Wow. Now we are paying American newspapers to print negative stories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUKE_CLEVELAND Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 11:09 AM) Let me correct that for you. Wow. Now we are paying American newspapers to print negative stories? Why waste the money? The leftist media is more than happy to dig up all the negativity they can possibly find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controlled Chaos Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 11:06 AM) Wow. Now we are paying British newspapers to print positive stories? Keep rooting for us to fail.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 But perhaps the key difference is that the American troops from the 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, based in Tal Afar, are different from the majority found in Iraq. Their commander, Col H R McMaster, is a counter-insurgency specialist who wrote a book about the Vietnam War, in which he criticised the US military's failure to understand the enemy's culture. Before deployment, his men were given extensive Arabic classes and intensive lessons on Iraqi history, customs and religion. Proper efforts were made to woo local tribal sheiks with banquets in which goats were slaughtered and concerns listened to. "The enemy is really good at disinformation and propaganda. We have to win the battleground of perception," he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 (edited) QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 12:16 PM) Keep rooting for us to fail.... No need to root. This administration seems to screw up just about anything it touches, whether I root or not. Edited December 22, 2005 by BigSqwert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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