U.S. and Iraqi troops launch offensive in Abu Ghraib district

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a major offensive against insurgents in Baghdad's western Abu Ghraib district late Sunday, and aides to a radical anti-American Shiite cleric worked to defuse tensions caused by a recent spate of sectarian killings.

Amid the violence, Iraq's government demanded that Syria do more to stop foreign fighters from crossing the porous border and a senior Iraqi Trade Ministry official was killed in an ongoing terror campaign that has killed more than 550 people in less than one month.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/142/world/U_S_and_Iraqi_troops_launch_of:.shtml

[meganmonkey]

1. "Operation Squeeze Play" ?! What is wrong with the people who name these

things? :puke:

And the casualties rise :cry:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. It's embarrasing.

You can't tell who they are trying to sell it to.

[pfitz59]

2. Yep...Vietnam deja vu.....

.......

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Yahoo: U.S., Iraq Troops Launch Baghdad Offensive

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iraq

AP - 1 minute ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Seven Iraqi battalions backed by U.S. forces launched an offensive in the capital on Sunday in an effort to stanch the violence that has killed more than 550 people in less than a month, targeting insurgents who have attacked the dangerous road to Baghdad's airport and Abu Ghraib prison.

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But..but.."Mission Accomplished!"

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Onward Christian Soldiers!

I find it all "offensive."

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. Based on what I understand

about the situation in Baghdad, this means they will be going house to house. I suppose someone will knock on each door and ask "any insurgents in here?" and then blow the house up regardless of the answer..........

[madhat]

7. We "finished up" on the Syrian border?

did someone say All Clear?

[Blaze Diem]

8. Didn't we already do that a couple of years ago??

Last week George proclaimed we had made progress in Iraq.

Confusing the public with the usual b.s.

[cornermouse]

9. How many times do we intend to conquer Baghdad?

Isn't this getting just a little bit ridiculous? :shrug:

[Straight Shooter]

10. Is this another attempt to *cough* break the back of the insurgency?

:shrug:

[LynnTheDem]

11. 1. The majority of non-Iraqi fighters are SAUDI.

2. The US Military says less than 5% of insurgents are "foreign fighters".

3. How long have these "foreign fighters" been in Iraq? Decades?

In my little Texas town of a few thousand, we have Canadians, Mexicans, Germans, Czechs, Brits...would they all be called "foreign fighters"?

4. WHOSE OBLIGATION IS IT to guard borders of an occupied nation???

[maddezmom]

12. today: Insurgent Attacks in Iraq Kill at Least 11 and Wound Over 100

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/23/international/middleeast/23cnd-iraq.html?oref=login