There was NO 'Bombs Away"

From Back to Iraq

(Digression: Just to clear some things up, "air assault" does not equal air strikes. There are no JDAMs being dropped, and there are no fixed-wing aircraft involved at all, except maybe for surveillance. An air assault is the 101st Airborne's way of inserting troops into a battlespace. There is so far no evidence of bombardment of any kind. Also, it's a telling example of how "well" things are going in Iraq that after three years, the U.S. is still leading the fight and conducting sweeps in an area that has been swept/contained/pacfied/cleared five or six times since 2004. How long before the U.S. has to come back again?)

I got to this information through James Wolcott's blog

This whole operation was to introduce the world to the new 'powerful' Iraqi army, but the army did not have a real enemy to fight so they picked a spot in Iraq. Just stuck a pin in a military map and said "here." 1,500 troops were sent in on the ground to an area containing 1500 residents and not a single shot was fired.

"Operation Swarmer" is really a media show.