Gates Shows Up In Our Colony To Tell The Expeditionary Troops They Probably Won't Leave
Gates: Iraq Drawdown May Be Delayed
"FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday endorsed, for the first time, the idea of pausing the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq this summer.
"A brief period of consolidation and evaluation probably does make sense," Gates told reporters after meeting with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. Petraeus has indicated in recent weeks that he wants a "period of evaluation" this summer to assess the impact on Iraq security of reducing the U.S. military presence from 20 brigades to 15 brigades.
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In his remarks at this U.S. base in southern Baghdad, Gates said Petraeus had given him his view on the drawdown, which some fear could result in giving up some of the security gains of recent months."
Iraqi collaboration looks a little nervous getting photographed
Let's all pretend to be surprised. This is how they operate - just blather and bloviate and point to phony watersheds while time passes and the blood orgy grinds on. They knew the hardest part was to invade, now that the US occupies the country it's never going to withdraw until the green zone is a smoking ruin and american forces have their final helicopter moments.
Speaking of smoking ruins, it's ironic that Gates would choose the site of the worst military disaster to occur to the US in Iraq, Camp Falcon, to hint that troops are going to stay put. Does the pentagon feel there may be a long, hot summer ahead?
"The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the arsenal, located in the as-Saqr Base in the south of Baghdad is the main supplier of equipment to the US forces. It came under Resistance rocket attack late on Tuesday night. At the time of reporting, mountains of American arms and ammunition were continuing to explode in the sky in a huge fire unprecedented in Baghdad’s history.The source admitted that dozens of Americans had been killed or wounded in the blasts that were still ripping the American arsenal apart. The source said that the US forces were unable to do anything to stop the massive inferno of flame and explosions that was lighting up the Baghdad sky like fireworks.
When the flames had been brought under control on the morning of the 11th of October, primarily because the entire camp had been gutted, nine large American military transports with prominent Red Cross markings were observed by members of the foreign media taking off, laded with the dead and the wounded. Over 300 American troops, including U.S. Army and Marines, CIA agents and U.S. translators were casualties and there also were 165 seriously injured requiring major medical attention and 39 suffering lesser injuries 122 members of the Iraqi armed forces were killed and 90 seriously injured members of same, were also evacuated to the U.S. military hospital at al-Habbaniyah located some 70km west of Baghdad.
Satellite pictures and aerial photographs from neutral sources showed that Camp Falcon suffered major structural damage and almost all the U.S. military’s supply of small arms ammunition, artillery and rocket rounds, tons of fuel, six Apache helicopters, an uncounted but large number of soft-skinned vehicles such as Humvees and supply trucks were damaged or totally destroyed. Foreign press observers noted “an endless parade” of military vehicle recovery units dragging burnt-out heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers to another base outside Baghdad."
If you haven't done so I'd urge you to take a look at this YouTube which is footage of the raging camp inferno taken from a tower in Baghdad 11 miles away. A series of gargantuan explosions, one of them 4 minutes in, positively leveled the place. Gunships then retaliated in the neighborhoods surrounding the disaster. The violent catastrophe was promptly covered up by the despicable MSM.
"FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday endorsed, for the first time, the idea of pausing the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq this summer.
"A brief period of consolidation and evaluation probably does make sense," Gates told reporters after meeting with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. Petraeus has indicated in recent weeks that he wants a "period of evaluation" this summer to assess the impact on Iraq security of reducing the U.S. military presence from 20 brigades to 15 brigades.
(...)
In his remarks at this U.S. base in southern Baghdad, Gates said Petraeus had given him his view on the drawdown, which some fear could result in giving up some of the security gains of recent months."
Iraqi collaboration looks a little nervous getting photographed
Let's all pretend to be surprised. This is how they operate - just blather and bloviate and point to phony watersheds while time passes and the blood orgy grinds on. They knew the hardest part was to invade, now that the US occupies the country it's never going to withdraw until the green zone is a smoking ruin and american forces have their final helicopter moments.
Speaking of smoking ruins, it's ironic that Gates would choose the site of the worst military disaster to occur to the US in Iraq, Camp Falcon, to hint that troops are going to stay put. Does the pentagon feel there may be a long, hot summer ahead?
"The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the arsenal, located in the as-Saqr Base in the south of Baghdad is the main supplier of equipment to the US forces. It came under Resistance rocket attack late on Tuesday night. At the time of reporting, mountains of American arms and ammunition were continuing to explode in the sky in a huge fire unprecedented in Baghdad’s history.The source admitted that dozens of Americans had been killed or wounded in the blasts that were still ripping the American arsenal apart. The source said that the US forces were unable to do anything to stop the massive inferno of flame and explosions that was lighting up the Baghdad sky like fireworks.
When the flames had been brought under control on the morning of the 11th of October, primarily because the entire camp had been gutted, nine large American military transports with prominent Red Cross markings were observed by members of the foreign media taking off, laded with the dead and the wounded. Over 300 American troops, including U.S. Army and Marines, CIA agents and U.S. translators were casualties and there also were 165 seriously injured requiring major medical attention and 39 suffering lesser injuries 122 members of the Iraqi armed forces were killed and 90 seriously injured members of same, were also evacuated to the U.S. military hospital at al-Habbaniyah located some 70km west of Baghdad.
Satellite pictures and aerial photographs from neutral sources showed that Camp Falcon suffered major structural damage and almost all the U.S. military’s supply of small arms ammunition, artillery and rocket rounds, tons of fuel, six Apache helicopters, an uncounted but large number of soft-skinned vehicles such as Humvees and supply trucks were damaged or totally destroyed. Foreign press observers noted “an endless parade” of military vehicle recovery units dragging burnt-out heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers to another base outside Baghdad."
If you haven't done so I'd urge you to take a look at this YouTube which is footage of the raging camp inferno taken from a tower in Baghdad 11 miles away. A series of gargantuan explosions, one of them 4 minutes in, positively leveled the place. Gunships then retaliated in the neighborhoods surrounding the disaster. The violent catastrophe was promptly covered up by the despicable MSM.
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