Still winning in Baghdad
ABC News: On the Ground With U.S. Troops in Sadr City
Sadr City, the oppressively poor Shiite neighborhood on the north end of Baghdad, is now the front line in the fight create security in the Iraqi capital.
Since September, U.S. troops have been operating together with Iraqi police out of a heavily guarded Joint Security Station on the southern border of Sadr City. In the last two weeks they have started moving north.
About a thousand U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are moving house to house, street by street northward into Sadr City in some of the toughest urban fighting U.S. troops have seen in Iraq.
“In this area there are some real knuckleheads that just want to shoot at Americans,” Command Sgt.-Maj. Michael Boom said.
Despite the fierce resistance and the tough conditions they are facing, U.S. troops are giving no ground.
Let’s see here. We captured Basra on March 30, 2003; we took Baghdad on April 9, 2003. Not counting various captures, victories, and last throes in-between, we defeated Sadr in Basra last week, and this week are furiously driving in Sadr City. One would think, that with all victories for the past five years, the surrender-crats, nay-sayers, and back-stabbers would have realized we will keep winning, and winning, and winning. “For a hundred years,” maybe?
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