You know, I'm a lot less concerned with whether or not we have an exit strategy, as I am with making sure that the enemy doesn't:

...the devastation left behind by our gunships is only part of a very big U.S. win:

* Thanks to resolute military action by Ethiopia's government (quietly backed by Washington), the terror regime in Mogadishu crumbled overnight - collapsing the lie that extremist Islam is on the march to an inevitable victory.

* The speed of the Ethiopian advance cornered hundreds of hardcore Islamist fighters in a forlorn backwater, where they can be killed out of sight of their media defenders. And be killed they will.

* Islamist outrages and subversion inspired unprecedented cooperation between moderate Somalis, Ethiopians, Kenyans and Americans.

For its part, the Kenyan government grew sick of Somalia exporting hatred, weapons and terror. Now Kenyan troops have sealed their border so al Qaeda's agents can't escape.

(sarcasm tag)
Too bad Bush ruined international good will by invading Iraq. It sure would be nice to have a coalition fighting the terrorist in Somalia.
(sarcasm tag)

What part of the fight in Iraq helped in this battle in Somalia?

Let's see wha thappens in 6 months, if the islamic courts are
running the rural regions, we have a real problem

Well anonyarse, for one thing the war in Iraq has attracted a large number of islamofacist minded AQ types to Iraq and concentrated them on a battlefield where they are relatively easier to kill than were they scattered over numerous battlefields. I imagine there are a large number of people alive in other parts of the world due in part to their local AQ types leaving out for Iraq instead of practicing their violence closer to home.
Drawing the enemy to a battlefield of your own choosing is a military tactic as old as warfare itself. As has been stated many times it is better that we are fighting them there rather than here.

The chimpanzee in chief talks about fighting AQ in iraq.
Apparently you follow his stupidity with rapt attention.

How many AQ fighters are in Iraq?

How many AQ fighters are in Iraq?

You mean that are still alive?

The speed of the Ethiopian advance cornered hundreds of hardcore Islamist fighters in a forlorn backwater, where they can be killed out of sight of their media defenders. And be killed they will.

Works for me. I wonder though, whether the meedja will dig into this in any detail?

...crickets...

Anoyarse, as a rough estimate I would guess that there are more AQ fighters in Iraq than you have functioning brain cells in your head.

What part of the fight in Iraq helped in this battle in Somalia?

The US doesn't comment at Exploitation Team activities, but I wouldn't be surprised if much of the Intel on what was going in Somalia, and specifically who was doing it, came from information captured after killing those #2 AQ guys in Iraq.

Cecil

So you don't know how many AQ fighters are in Iraq.

neither does Simberg or leland or any of the other loudmouths here.

This of course goes back to your inability to answer basic questions
like what is the order of battle in Baghdad or iraq.

Go ahead, call names, more soliders will die because you
can't answer basic questions about military challenges.

4 years out, can you answer what the Order of Battle is
in Iraq?

" where they can be killed out of sight of their media defenders. "

Which implies that any victory in this war will have to be largely secret. Little wonder that we only hear of defeat.

AnonyARSE, so how many AQ do you think there are in Iraq? What is the OOB in Iraq? YOU tell us. Can you, moron? Who do you think is blowing up markets; fairies? You type a lot of BS but never say anything, because you don't have a clue.

cecil

I am not the one advocating a war in Iraq, I don't need to
know the order of battle.

I am not the one advocating even more more, I don't need to
know the order of battle.

The problem is the piece of crap neocon's still don't know
the order of battle, which is why its a quagmire.

actually given how many chickenhawks are neo-cons,
i suspect most of them don't know what an order of
battle is.

I'm sure simberg doesn't, and i'm sure simberg doesn't
know the ORBAT for Iraq, let alone Iran.

cecil

You want to add 20,000 troops to Iraq, tell me their mission.
Tell me their objectives. Tell me the enemy order of battle.

That there are AQ in Iraq is true. There are also peshmerga,
INA, JAM, Badrists, PKK, PIK, Fedayeen and 20 good sized
tribal forces.

Who fights who and who our soldiers are supposed to fight,
are questions you can't answer.

Go ahead, send 20,000 more. Send 40,000 more.
Hell send the entire army, guard and reserve.
Just as a condition require all the neocon scum
who ginned up this war to carry rifles on the front.

See how they like war as opposed to a cushy life at
their desks.