Foreign occupation troops fight foreign militants

US claims success in Iraq border offensive.

US Colonel Bob Chase said the operation to "capture and kill anti-Iraqi forces" began on Saturday in a desert region of the restive Anbar province, north of the Euphrates.
"Anti-Iraqi forces" is the catch-all name used by the US military to describe insurgents in Iraq.
The offensive had been inspired by "significant intelligence" from "brave" local Iraqis, said Col Chase. Most of the militants were foreign fighters, he added.
"They [the militants] have sanctuaries mostly along the Syria border where there are a series of points of entry and a series of supply lines to bring across illicit foreign weapons and foreign fighters," he said.
The announcement of the offensive came as US forces and Iraqi authorities tried to wrest the propaganda initiative from insurgents who have unleashed a wave of attacks in Iraqi cities in an attempt to destabilise the government of Ibrahim al-Jaafari, which took office last month.

Wait! Aren't we foreigners too, at least until we set up our permanent bases (see the article by Gary Hart at The Huffington Post). The whole idea of this battle is brings to mind our incursions and bombings into Cambodia and Laos during Vietnam. Then it was the Ho Chi Minh trail, now it is the "Saddam Trail" from Syria to Iraq. It is so easy for us to slip a few bombs or a few troops past the border - we probably have done this already.

This is all a prelude (IMHO) to an ever widening conflict in the area. FOX News even had the gall to air a special on Iran:Nuclear Menace (or something like that). I couldn't watch this all the way through but I did see the "plans" to take out the nuclear sites. The report stated that the Navy is beefing up forces in the area. And then those great CGI guys at FOX took us through some scenarios - missiles fired from the ships, stealth bombers firing missiles, bunker busters... It makes ones heart leap for joy - if you are W and Rummy.

Escalation. Devastation. When will it stop? Too late for so many.