Time To Get A Clue

That's Time.com. The Left side of the blogosphere is going wild over this absolutely ridiculous update: On Scene: How Operation Swarmer Fizzled

First off, if you turn on the TV, MSM pundits are suggesting this was a political maneuver. Time says this:

Before loading up into the helicopters for a return trip to Baghdad, Iraqi and American soldiers and some reporters helped themselves to the woman’s freshly baked bread, tearing bits off and chewing it as they wandered among the cows. For most of them, it was the only thing worthwhile they’d found all day.

But, wait a minute, scroll a few paragraphs up:

With the Interior Ministry's Samarra commando battalion, the soldiers had found some 300 individual pieces of weaponry like mortars, rockets and plastic explosives in six different locations inside the sparsely populated farming community of over 50 square miles and about 1,500 residents. The raids also uncovered high-powered cordless telephones used as detonators in homemade bombs, medical supplies and insurgent training manuals.

The operation, which doubled the population of the flat farmland in one single airlift, was initiated by intelligence from Iraq security forces, says Lt Col Skip Johnson commander of the 187 Battallion, 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st Airborne. "They have the lead," he said to reporters at the second stop of the tour. But by Friday afternoon, the major targets seemed to have slipped through their fingers. Iraqi Army General Abdul Jabar says that Samarra-based insurgent leader Hamad el Taki of Mohammad’s Army was thought to be in the area, and Iraqi intelligence officers were still working to compare known voice recordings and photographs with the prisoners in custody.

This has to be one of the more, for lack of a better word, stupid things Time.com has ever posted. And the Left screaming over it is just plain crazy. When the Op launched it was made very clear this wasn't of a scale which required White House approval. It was never intended to be the big push for heaven's sakes. But looking at that inventory of captured items, does anyone really believe this wasn't a terrific raid?

All of those items are precisely what has been being used to kill American soldiers. Clearly this was an area holding significant stockpiles for the insurgents terrorists. With their cackling over this report and Times disgraceful characterization, they are all but admitting that they don't care at all about American lives. All they are doing is desperately grabbing onto anything to try and embarrass Bush.

If you ever needed proof that the Left doesn't have the insight or understanding to wage a war, this is it.

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Comments

[Laura Lee Donoho]

Where is the Belmont Club? Did Blogger take them out too?

[mkultra]

"But looking at that inventory of captured items, does anyone really believe this wasn't a terrific raid?"

Ha ha ha. You obviously have no clue about the amount of weaponry available in Iraq. My god, have you lived under a rock for the last 3 years? The country is awash in weaponry of all kinds. For godsakes, every family has one or more AK's. As a taxpayer, I am pissed at the incompetence of this mission. What a show - what a waste. 6 ammo dumps? Jesus, there are 6 ammo dumps in one block of Sadr City.

[kate]

for christ sake mkultra, get a grip. at the very least this was an exercise for the iraq troops who will be taking over shortly. i wish the damn media would stick to covering britney spears baby fat, that's all they are good for. that's 300 less pieces of weaponry and no telling how much intell. they did well.

[raindrops]

yeah, after all they proved they could steal some poor woman's bread - woo hoo

[BumperStickerist]

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that the soldiers didn't 'help themselves' to the bread, but rather exchanged rations or gave them some money.

The reports that took bread? That I'm not so sure about.

Or, more probably, the women, grateful for the presence of the troops, said "Here, help yourself to some bread"