U.S. General: "A Good Way To Prepare For...Iraq Is To Watch The 6th Season Of The Sopranos"

New York Times:

U.S. military commanders say that insurgents across the country are increasingly motivated more by money than ideology and that a growing number of insurgent cells, struggling to pay recruits, are turning to gangster-style racketeering operations.

U.S. military officials have responded by launching a major campaign to disrupt al-Qaeda in Iraq's financial networks and spread propaganda that portrays its leaders as greedy thugs, an effort the officials describe as a key factor in their recent success beating down the insurgency.

"I tell a lot of my soldiers: A good way to prepare for operations in Iraq is to watch the sixth season of 'The Sopranos,' " said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of U.S. forces in central Iraq, referring to the hit HBO series about the mob. "You're seeing a lot of Mafioso kind of activity."

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Comments

[researcher]

12:27 AM on 11/21/2007

so what who cares what the iraqis do they have all that oil. 40 years supply. it is worth it. must see the big picture like bush/cheney and nancy and feinstein.

blackwater = blackgold = wealth for the elitists in america.

middle class will fight this war just like they did in nam.

god love them the middle class in america just keep on giving.

[realitytrumpsbull]

10:14 PM on 11/20/2007

Yeah, and especially the people IN our military!

No buck-passing, here, there's been enough
of that already...

http://westgatehouse.com/art248.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0407/dailyUpdate.html
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=103&contentid=1440
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0805-02.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201435.html
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/
How do you LOSE 9 billion dollars?
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There's more, use the Google to do your own
research...

Invading other people's countries? Stealing
their mineral resources? To me, it just
doesn't make sense.

[WARisEVIL]

05:37 PM on 11/20/2007

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the SUPREME INTERNATIONAL CRIME differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
-- Justice Nuremburg Trials 1946

[WARisEVIL]

05:05 PM on 11/20/2007

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the SUPREME INTERNATIONAL CRIME differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
-- Justice Nuremburg Trials 1946

[ajax2]

02:22 PM on 11/20/2007

I was thinking watching Battle for Algiers would make better sense.

[Blutus]

11:56 AM on 11/20/2007

Reminds me of when the Pentagon
figured out that Raygun could only
pay attention to a presentation
if it involved seeing a movie
of some kind.

Then "Ray-Gun"
got it!

Similar to people who witness some calamity
and then say "It was just like a movie!"

What was reality like before movies??

[Grunty1]

10:58 AM on 11/20/2007

A good way to prepare for military service is to watch a criminal enterprise? Why not go nonfiction and read up on the Bush Adminstration instead?

[Lt]

10:55 AM on 11/20/2007

In fact this is precisly the way in which the conservatives prepared for the time when they would take control of our country and the white house, thank you MR TV Reagan.