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But the campaign has far wider military ambitions than the pacification of Baghdad. It now appears that the US military intends to place as many as five mechanised brigades -- comprising about 40,000 men -- south and east of Baghdad, at least three of them positioned between the capital and the Iranian border. This would present Iran with a powerful -- and potentially aggressive -- American military force close to its border in the event of a US or Israeli military strike against its nuclear facilities later this year. More at:AlterNet: Home
You mean that we're cutting off Al-Sadr's supply line? How dare we cut off this insurgents rights of blowing up our troops!

Have a good one!:s4:
Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . Bushs' great Iraq Plan Divide and Rule: Bush's Doomed Plan for Baghdad By Robert Fisk, The Independent. Posted April 12, 2007. Revealed: a new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city into sealed areas. The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq? Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad -- despite President George Bush's "surge" in troops -- US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast Rating: 5