With local resentment of the US forces already at an enormous level and civilian killings sparking anti-US riots, Centcom commander Gen. David Petraeus today warned that more “tough times” are ahead for the city’s residents, something which likely will not be greeted with welcome or patience.
“The enemy is going to take horrific action to disrupt the progress,” Petraeus predicted. Civilian death tolls caused by both US and Taliban forces have been steadily on the rise in southern Afghanistan in recent months.
Petraeus repeatedly likened the situation to that in Iraq, and insisted that his prediction that “the enemy fights back” was a lesson he learned in Iraq. He insisted that the offensive was “not going to be a conventional offensive,” however, which may suggest that the initial plan to use the Marjah invasion as a model has been shelved.
He capped off his news conference, as so many others, with a reference to 9/11, insisting that “it was right here in Kandahar that the 9/11 attacks were planned.”
Who will ever forget when Saddam Hussein, at the head of third largest Army in the world, landed in Battery Park, crossed to the Twin Towers, covered them with kerosene and set them aflame?
NEVER FORGET!
Who will ever forget when Saddam Hussein, at the head of third largest Army in the world, landed in Battery Park, crossed to the Twin Towers, covered them with kerosene and set them aflame?
NEVER FORGET!
It would appear they are getting ready to level Kandahar just like Fallujia.
Time to start writing up those war crimes and genocide indictments for the court in the Haigue. They can fill in the names later!
Kandhara as Fallujah?
Not a chance.
corr. Kandahar
Petraeus is harder to get a handle on than McChrystal or Odierno. It may be that the incompetence of the latter two is acquired.
In Petraeus' case it may be congenital.
For many long years one suspected, from the name, that he might be Lithuanian.
For those under him, no such luck.
Petraeus is harder to get a handle on than McChrystal or Odierno. It may be that the incompetence of the latter two is acquired.
In Petraeus' case it may be congenital.
For many long years one suspected, from the name, that he might be Lithuanian.
For those under him, no such luck.