A little different take on the British attack on the Iraq jail

Everything's obviously under control in old Baghdad.


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Hundreds of British and Iraqi soldiers assaulted a police station in the southern city of Basra on Monday, killing seven gunmen, rescuing 127 prisoners from what the British said was almost certain execution and ultimately reducing the facility to rubble.

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More than 800 British soldiers, supported by five Challenger tanks and roughly 40 Warrior fighting vehicles, began their assault at 2 a.m. on Monday. They were aided by 600 Iraqi soldiers.

So this is the story, huh? It took 5 tanks, approximately 40 fighting vehicles and 1400 troops to kill seven gunmen.

I'm all for competition, but how do you lose with 200 to 1 odds, plus tanks and fighting vehicles? At least they didn't need an air-strike too.

Is that a little too snarky?

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