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October 25, 2005

Fightin' Room With a (New) View

Hatched by Dafydd

Scott at Power Line has much more on the attempted attack on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad; their frequent correspondent Major E. has an eyewitness account, and he states that it was clearly a failed attempt at a much larger and more sinister operation than merely setting off some bombs:

The number of terrorists involved and the follow-on small arms attacks make it clear that the overall goal was to use suicide vehicle bombs to breach the security perimeter, then take over the hotel and hold the international guests as hostages. Instead, they failed to achieve those objectives and the attackers were killed.

(SmallTownVeteran is also on top of this story.)

Yes, this wasn't just a failed terrorist attack: it was an attempt to pull off another Beslan Massacre, except instead of children, the hostages would be a bunch of journalists (no jokes, please).

Major E. has a truly insightful pair of paragraphs about the dilemma the Commander-in-Chief faces trying to get more public support for the war (emphasis mine):

Many Americans seem to know the bad news from last year, but not the good news from last week. While I am glad that the public knows that many gave life and limb for Fallujah, I am saddened that so few know the incredibly positive result of that sacrifice. There is so much good happening in Iraq in terms of rebuilding the society and offering the people the priceless opportunity of freedom and democracy, yet so little of the good is being reported in the media. I hope those reading this will make the connection between the sacrifice of the troops and the ever-expanding freedom of the Iraqi people.

Every American deserves to know that the sacrifice made on the streets of Fallujah by US servicemembers last year is what made possible last week the jubilant dancing of Iraqis waving their ink-stained fingers after they had cast the first vote of their lives. The Iraqi people know and appreciate what we have done for them, and I hope that the American people will come to know it more and more as well.

All this by way of introduction to my next post....

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, October 25, 2005, at the time of 7:37 PM

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The following hissed in response by: Bill Faith

"All this by way of introduction to my next post...." So hurry! The suspense is killing me!

The above hissed in response by: Bill Faith at October 25, 2005 7:55 PM

The following hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi

Wow.
Hard to believe the terrorists would do that, at least the massacre part. The journalists are their allies!
so hurry from me too!

The above hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi at October 25, 2005 8:45 PM

The following hissed in response by: hunter

They were trying to pull off a Tet Offensive, and for the same motives. Unfortunately for those of who love freedom and the idea of a free Iraq, for the same reasons as well, the worthless pos journalists, already holed up in their hotles spamming lies about how we are losing may now simply go wall to wall with their spamathon for terror and work even harder to see that once again America walks away from the legitimate hopes of millions for free and civil society.
The facts that Iraqi forces interdicted the terrorists, killed them and stopped them is irrelevant to the fact that the slimeball journalists were actually at risk, however briefly.
Don't forget: the MSM is the industry that proclaimed its now proven false reporting from New Orleans was a rebirth of great journalism.
What can we expect from Iraq, except more support of terrorists, and more acts of anti-American bigotry?

The above hissed in response by: hunter at October 25, 2005 8:52 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

Bill Faith:

"All this by way of introduction to my next post...." So hurry! The suspense is killing me!

It will be later tonight; it's not a quickie post.

And it's not a continuation of this post; the last line was just a seque. The title is "Who Are We Fighting For Anyway?", and I'll post it later tonight; it's a riff off of the Major E. quotation here.

But I have some research to do first before writing it.

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at October 25, 2005 9:26 PM