Thursday, January 15, 2004
Some Good News
Compared to September-October, the number of hostile incidents in my brigade's area of the battlefield is down 80% this month.
Khamis Sirhan--a guy we've been closing in on for months--is finally in prison. Probably happily betraying the people who most trusted him, all for a couple of extra cigarettes.
It doesn't take much to turn most of these scumbags. Saddam didn't really attract the kind of people who were motivated by anything like a sense of honor.
And today, in Ar Ramadi, there was a demonstration of over a thousand people--marching on the government center, calling for "free speech, and an end to terrorist attacks."
Perhaps best of all: all of the crowd control was accomplished by the brand new Iraqi Civil Defense Corps police.
We had a presence close by, but it was an Iraqi show.
You gotta walk before you can run. Americans are no different.
They're walking.
Here's to ya, sayeed.
Khamis Sirhan--a guy we've been closing in on for months--is finally in prison. Probably happily betraying the people who most trusted him, all for a couple of extra cigarettes.
It doesn't take much to turn most of these scumbags. Saddam didn't really attract the kind of people who were motivated by anything like a sense of honor.
And today, in Ar Ramadi, there was a demonstration of over a thousand people--marching on the government center, calling for "free speech, and an end to terrorist attacks."
Perhaps best of all: all of the crowd control was accomplished by the brand new Iraqi Civil Defense Corps police.
We had a presence close by, but it was an Iraqi show.
You gotta walk before you can run. Americans are no different.
They're walking.
Here's to ya, sayeed.
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