"They're coming out of the walls!

They're coming out of the God Damn walls!

Let's book!”

In Aliens, they should’ve listened to Hudson.

They should’ve booked.

But corporate interests trumped everything else, and the payday was potentially too valuable to allow little things like innocent blood or an obviously and lethally inept “exit strategy” slow down the clown show.

And the Space Marines? Hey, they’re “volunteers” so fuck ‘em.

This from the BBC:

Insurgents 'inside Iraqi police'

Mr Reid and Ibrahim Jaafari are expected to discuss the growing tension in the southern city of Basra between the British Army and local authorities.
The Pentagon warned in July that Iraq's police force was recruiting insurgents.
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'Clean up police'

The Iraqi government has launched an inquiry into events surrounding the arrest of the British soldiers on Monday, both thought to be members of the SAS elite special forces.

Iraq's interior ministry ordered the police force in Basra to release the soldiers - but that order was ignored. The British Army said the troops had been handed over by police to a Shia militia group.

The men were freed after British troops in armoured vehicles stormed a Basra prison and then a house to which the captives had been taken.

Mr Rubaie told Newsnight: "Our Iraqi security forces in general, and these in particular and in many parts of Iraq, I have to admit that they have been penetrated by some of the insurgents, some of the terrorists as well, so I can't deny this."
He said Iraq now had "a very scrupulous, very meticulous vetting procedure" to "clean our security forces, as well as stop any penetration in future from the insurgents or the terrorists".

He admitted he did not know to what extent the security forces were already infiltrated by insurgents.
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This is sooo fucking bad.

Everybody knows the Iraqi army has been penetrated top to bottom virtually from Day One.

It’s how insurgents got into a mess tent and killed 22 people -- including 14 US troops -- in a "pacified" Mosul. It’s part of the reason why we won’t give them decent weapons. It’s why every mission has been telescoped so thoroughly that the insurgents know when we’re coming, when to leave and when it’s safe too come back.

They may be roaches, but they’re roaches with one helluva Ouija Board, and a small force with eyes and speed can beat a huge, blind giant all week long and twice on Sunday.

So why is this the some of the worst news I’ve heard all year coming out of Iraq?

Because cops are cops.

They are, in the end, civil servants with guns and with a very particular view of the world and their place in it. They go home to their families, hang out with their boys and stick together. Show me one corrupt clique of civil servants (sworn, armed or just civilians) and I guarantee you for every one that did, there were three that knew.

And that’s just for run-of-the-mill abuse-of-power stuff that I’m sure the weaker Ancient Roman beat-walkers were prey to. Eternal, Page 23 shit like bribes or letting a hooker work off her bust in trade or dealing a little pot.

This is vastly more serious, but the arithmetic is the same. Cops are cops, and for every one that's providing intel or material support to the insurgents – especially on this scale – a lot of others know damned well what’s going on and let it happen, either out of fear or sympathy.

Cops talk, they shower together, they know each other’s families and from the very top to the very bottom, they ain’t talking. Which means the insurgents own the police.

And for those bunker-dwelling Freeper holdouts who are still whine that, because the insurgents have no agenda for governance, they can’t win, I have two bits of advice.

First, who ever said being in the White Hats meant winning, and being evil meant you lose? Shit, we are now a country being run into the ground by a group of incompetent thugs who demonstrably have no agenda for governance and never did. Who won by keeping the population terrorized, by appealing to the hateful and the stupid, and by pandering to the most loathsome religious extremists in the country.

And they won...so wake up and smell the irony and go peddle your mandate=morality fantasies elsewhere.

Second, they most certainly do have an agenda. The agenda is US. Killing US. Maiming US. Driving US the hell out of their country.

Shit, a whole lot of you Red State pinheads take great pains to try to get your ancestors off the treasonous hook by explaining that their treachery wasn’t based on any love of slavery -- which ain't exactly the whole truth and nothing but, now is it? -- but on the simple fact that they purely couldn’t stand the idea that damned Yankees were on their soil, despoiling their lands and sacred institutions.

Well, bitches, you’re the Yankee now, so kindly explain to the rest of us why you still pretend that you cannot fathom how people of wildly different and conflicting goals and beliefs might band together behind an agenda that is no more sophisticated than this: Get The Fuck Off Our Land.