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WSJ: Iraq Becomes Battleground for U.S. Forces Once Again
Posted on 3/8/26 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 3/8/26 at 9:18 pm
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Behind paywall but here is an AI summary:
Behind paywall but here is an AI summary:
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Key points:
Iraqi militias (Iran-aligned proxies) have launched dozens of small-scale attacks since the conflict escalated, using drones and rockets on US bases, the consulate in northern Iraq, a State Dept facility at Baghdad airport, and even the US Embassy in Baghdad (hit on Saturday).
These attacks are framed as solidarity/support for Iran/Tehran amid the broader war.
Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani condemned the embassy rocket attack as a “terrorist act” by “rogue groups.”
The US military has responded with defensive strikes under “Operation Epic Fury,” targeting the militias responsible.
US Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins: “We have conducted operations in Iraq as part of Operation Epic Fury, but it’s in defense of U.S. troops as they’ve come under attack by Iran-aligned militia groups.”
Basically, the spillover from the Iran conflict is pulling US forces back into direct action in Iraq against familiar adversaries (Iran-backed militias/Popular Mobilization Forces elements). No specific casualty numbers in the piece, but it highlights how the region is heating up on multiple fronts.
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Posted on 3/8/26 at 9:18 pm to GumboPot
Oh noes!
Posted on 3/8/26 at 9:30 pm to GumboPot
The WSJ ...........
IRAN is Certainly Losing. It Will Not Be Long!!
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In Clausewitzian terms, the question becomes simple: Is force being used effectively to compel Iran to do our will?
Seven days into the war, the evidence increasingly suggests that it is.....
This war now presents the possibility of reversing Iran’s regional model.
Instead of a Middle East shaped by terrorism and proxy conflict, the outcome of this war could move the region toward something very different: a Middle East of partnered countries committed to peace, coexistence, security cooperation, and economic prosperity.
But achieving that outcome requires breaking the tools Iran built to sustain its strategy.
That process is now underway.
IRAN is Certainly Losing. It Will Not Be Long!!
This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 11:52 am
Posted on 3/8/26 at 10:00 pm to GumboPot
Non-paywalled version of this at MSN... MSN and YahooNews and a few other sites like them host free versions of WSJ and other paywalled sites stories...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraq-becomes-battleground-for-us-forces-once-again/ar-AA1XM2Fi
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraq-becomes-battleground-for-us-forces-once-again/ar-AA1XM2Fi
Posted on 3/8/26 at 10:06 pm to Lee B
We had to know this would happen and we thought it through.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 10:16 pm to GumboPot
Pounding these proxy groups of Iran and degrading them as much as possible is just as much in the plan as pounding the Regime of Iran itself. Killing as many fighters as possible while blowing up all those rockets and drones they have stored up will limit the amount of trouble they can cause in the future. Just the simple act of making them shoot that stuff makes them weaker because they will not be able to replace it in the future. At some point look for the Houthies to start getting pounded also.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 10:18 pm to RollingwiththeTide
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Pounding these proxy groups of Iran and degrading them as much as possible is just as much in the plan as pounding the Regime of Iran itself.
Very cool that we will be fighting the third version of the Mahdi Army again. Very smart stuff here.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 10:33 pm to crazy4lsu
I have not heard this being mentioned but I would imagine that while the military angle is playing out right now. A team somewhere is trying to find all these secret illicit accounts belonging to Iran and these proxy groups. If someone can find all those accounts and freeze all that money then that would be just as devastating as all the bombs we are dropping combined.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 10:36 pm to RollingwiththeTide
Buddy, they’ve been trying to work out all that for decades. And still those militias fight. You obviously haven’t been paying attention for the last two decades.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 10:40 pm to crazy4lsu
Yes that true. You also know the value that DJT puts on money. I’m sure whatever efforts we have already been working on has been doubled or tripled.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:04 pm to GumboPot
There’s an outside chance a kid born after the first battle of Fallujah could die in the third battle of Fallujah 
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:10 pm to crazy4lsu
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Buddy, they’ve been trying to work out all that for decades. And still those militias fight. You obviously haven’t been paying attention for the last two decades.
Most folks raised in the USA and Western Europe will never understand islam. That’s a good thing.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:14 pm to GumboPot
It sounds like we have Iraqi cooperation. Which sounds great to me.
One of our biggest weaknesses in war the past 60 years has been Rules of Engagement. Particularly when the enemy runs across country borderlines and we do not have politicians' permission to defeat our enemies.
I fear those enemies who hit and run behind borders more than I fear mountainous terrain.
But if Hegseth let's us fight a war to its victory and bomb enemy combatants in their bunkers (regardless of lines on a map), then I feel great about this conflict.
One of our biggest weaknesses in war the past 60 years has been Rules of Engagement. Particularly when the enemy runs across country borderlines and we do not have politicians' permission to defeat our enemies.
I fear those enemies who hit and run behind borders more than I fear mountainous terrain.
But if Hegseth let's us fight a war to its victory and bomb enemy combatants in their bunkers (regardless of lines on a map), then I feel great about this conflict.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:20 pm to Rip N Lip
That still doesn’t change the fact we’ve been targeting these specific groups since the Iraqi Insurgency and yet they still persist. That’s instructive in ways people don’t care to realize.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:32 pm to crazy4lsu
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That still doesn’t change the fact we’ve been targeting these specific groups since the Iraqi Insurgency and yet they still persist. That’s instructive in ways people don’t care to realize.
This shite has been going on since 7th Century, AD. It is what it is.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:42 pm to Rip N Lip
Yeah that is a non-answer. These militias fought us during the Iraqi Insurgency, were against us during the Syrian Civil War and have the potential to turn this into another clusterfrick. Just another pointless exercise for little gain.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:48 pm to crazy4lsu
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Yeah that is a non-answer.
It’s the answer. Ever read the Hadith?
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:57 pm to Rip N Lip
Again, these militias did not always exist. And now they do. And we are fighting them for more than 20 years now. There is no Hadith that can explain away this pointless exercise.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 11:59 pm to crazy4lsu
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Again, these militias did not always exist. And now they do. And we are fighting them for more than 20 years now. There is no Hadith that can explain away this pointless exercise.
And no one gave a shite after the Crusades, until OIL
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