Stop The ACLU Thursday...

Stop is featuring reports from several sources in identifying Operation Swarmer:
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"Operation Swarmer began this morning with soldiers from the Iraqi Army’s 1st Brigade, 4th Division, the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade conducting a combined air and ground assault to isolate the objective area.
Attack and assault aircraft provided aerial weapons support for the operation and also delivered troops from the Iraq Army’s 4th Division, the Rakkasans from 1st and 3rd Battalions, 187th Infantry Regiment and the Hunters from 2nd Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment to multiple objectives. Forces from the 2nd Commando Brigade then completed a ground infiltration to secure numerous structures in the area."

"The Washington Post throws this little jab in.
'But the crackdowns have failed to ease a raging guerrilla campaign that has killed thousands of U.S. soldiers, Iraqi security forces and civilians.'
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Godspeed to all of our troops and their allies. Kick ass, boys.

This can be nothing else if not Bush's flexing of our military muscle to send a message to various other little hotspots that will need attention soon.

50 aircraft, 1500 troops, and 50 or so "tactical vehicles" is hardly Iwo-Jima revisited, but that amount of firepower, employed at the same time, and inside of Iraq's borders, means they've located some particular noxious vermin that need a good old fashioned flea-dip.