US soldier re: "surge": “It’s like a game of cat and mouse. It’s just a really, really smart mouse.”

sabra

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Mon Apr-09-07 09:10 AM
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US soldier re: "surge": “It’s like a game of cat and mouse. It’s just a really, really smart mouse.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/world/middleeast/09surge.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

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One American private in the First Battalion, Fifth Cavalry, who was working the overnight shift at a new garrison in western Baghdad, described the Americans’ fight this way: “The insurgents, they see what we’re doing and we see what they’re doing. Then we get ahead, then they figure out what we’ve done and they get ahead.

“It’s like a game of cat and mouse. It’s just a really, really smart mouse.”

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bdamomma

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Mon Apr-09-07 09:11 AM
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1. and we have 3,267 dead.

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librechik

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Mon Apr-09-07 09:13 AM
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2. and a really old blind three legged cat.

Edited on Mon Apr-09-07 09:13 AM by librechik

with urinary problems

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panader0

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Mon Apr-09-07 09:14 AM
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3. The "surge" is just as well known to the Iraqis

They'll just move their operations or lay low.

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Roland99

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Mon Apr-09-07 09:29 AM
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4. Not much different from the "Whack-a-Mole" strategy used up until now.

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Imagevision

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Mon Apr-09-07 09:32 AM
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5. What's tough is still finding "planted" insurgents working as policemen and Iraqi soldiers, this is

pretty fucked position to be in... who's your daddy??

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