Comments on: Maliki Wants Equipment and Autonomy

By: al-Maliki Makes Big Mistake » Right Pundits

al-Maliki Makes Big Mistake » Right Pundits — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:57:14 +0000

[...] To get a feel for what others are thinking about this, Outside The Beltway has posted their opinion on this issue, and have links to several other blogs as well. [...]

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:21:12 +0000

I don't know, James, but I see this as the repetition of a complaint that the Iraqi military has been making for some time now: that they don't have tanks or jets. Darned handy for use against Americans or for turning the current incipient civil war into the fullblown kind.

What the Iraqi military needs more than anything else is probably non-coms and that's something we can't give them.

By: The Heretik : Jihad Update

The Heretik : Jihad Update — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:12:03 +0000

[...] Maliki wants guns, not roses, not talk of rose petalled paths, not talk of defeat. Guns. [...]

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Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:58:18 +0000

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