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I don't mean to be contrary (and I will likely read Yon's book... it's in my queue  ), but all my coworkers and I laugh when people (or new guys) say AQI 'controls' a city. |
This is some sort of appeal to authority I don't understand. Your coworkers are whom I should give a fuck about? Apparently they take a counter-opinion to the National Intelligence Estimate you couldn't be bothered to take my homework of. Can you ask them on what basis, and report back to the thread, or something?
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I'm not contesting that AQI can pull of large scale attacks on civilians. I'm contesting that they're a threat to US forces, and that they are Al Qa'ida.
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Maybe we can ask for membership cards before we kill them.
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So, if the reason we stay is 'to eliminate Al Qa'ida strongholds,' we can leave. In sincerity, as soon as we walk out the door, AQI will be completely eradicated.
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They killed everybody in the town, if you'd have bothered to read my links.
They killed everybody in the town.