battles of ramadi 2004/2006/2015

lieutenant colonel whiffy

moi

hey props to wikipedia for giving such up to date blow by blows of the battles in iraq since 2003.... it's kind of like going to china and finding the entire box set for a tv show you like and buying it and watching every single one of them..... can't wait to find out what happened in Tikrit and will keep you posted shortly..... looking at some of those u.s. incursions into Ramadi in 2004 and 2006..... it really reminds me of when i say to my son, 'what are you doing?' in a mock-incredulous and high-pitched and dumb sounding voice, which he always finds very amusing, but normally just use that for questionable situations.... a big no-no, like playing with the blinds would elicit something alot more annoyed sounding........ that's what i'm thinking as i read about the activities of the u.s. army in Ramadi in 2004/2006: what are you doing?.......   only because the entire population is so insanely hostile to them the whole time they are there, there's some tribal sheik they call a corrobborree with in 2006 that kind of gets them onside for a while...........

apparently all of anbar is predom sunni and the govt. in baghdad, shi-ite, has re-nigged on promises to cash/arm them and even has taken the trouble to arrest/kill some of their leaders, none of the anbar sunnis will trust the baghdad govt. after that for a few years.......... in dumbo tv land, what we notice is that we never see the iraqi president anymore, the guy that replaced Maliki, most westerners couldn't even tell you his name.........obviously, looking back, Bush's idea he couldn't get over was that they could have a functioning democracy there, all kinds of money got spent on that and you're just seeing it has spoilt the shi-ite baghdad govt's army as they are all corrupt and cannot win battles even with u.s. air support

it looks like the end game now is attacking baghdad over the next few years, for ISIS

i remember one time talking about it with my father and he was telling me that he could see all of the surrounding nations collapse to what i assumed he meant inner insurgencies....certainly he was right about that with regard to syria and iraq but we haven't seen iran or saudi arabia look seriously threatened although we did see some changes in govt. in libya and egypt.......... it would definitely be interesting to watch ISIS going forward under a four year Clinton presidency....... if Obama stayed president another eight years then i'd say they'd even conquer baghdad!

i predict ISIS will consolidate control in Ramadi, with their sure-fire, heavy-handed, brutal style of leadership (it'd be interesting to see the numbers of how many people they have actually crucified -- around a thousand, i'm guessing)....also the population in Ramadi aren't shi-ite anyway