{"id":10936,"date":"2008-02-02T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T23:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2008-02-02T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T23:36:21","slug":"how-iraq-was-won-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10936","title":{"rendered":"How Iraq Was Won [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080202\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq_lynch_interview\">The surge gave us the combat power to take the fight to the enemy<\/a>,&#8221; Lynch said. He cited a Jan. 10 battle in Arab Jabour where U.S. bombers dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs in 10 minutes to clear an insurgent stronghold.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. troops have built 50 new bases south of Baghdad where they live full time instead of commuting from massive bases in western Baghdad as they had in the past, Lynch said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once you&#8217;re there, the local citizens come forward and ask two questions: `Are you gonna stay?&#8217; If the answer is yes, they say: `How can we help?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is how U.S. forces began recruiting local men to help provide security and rebuild towns, Lynch said. Variously known as\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Awakening Councils, Concerned Local Citizens or the Sons of Iraq, Lynch said he now has 32,000 Iraqi civilians on his payroll manning 1,500 new checkpoints, in addition to the more than 20,000 Iraqi soldiers and police under his control.<\/p>\n<p>He rejected criticism that these groups reinforce sectarian division or tribal loyalties. He said the groups are based on where they live \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d not on their religion or clan \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and payments are made directly to individuals, not tribal leaders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it and be bilious, Cernig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The surge gave us the combat power to take the fight to the enemy,&#8221; Lynch said. He cited a Jan. 10 battle in Arab Jabour where U.S. bombers dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs in 10 minutes to clear an insurgent stronghold. U.S. troops have built 50 new bases south of Baghdad where they live full time instead of commuting from massive bases in western Baghdad as they had in the<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10936\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}