This is today in Iraq. The president of the USA needs to see a doctor. No doubt. His statements about Americans agreeing with him is dangerously demented. He is currently Commander and Chief, putting troops in harm ways, causing escalations in the conflict without end and he states he is 'actually' supported in his focus of Iraq by the American people. Not from what I can note.
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Iraqis inspect the area surrounding Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani mosque, the biggest Sunni mosque in Iraq, after a suicide car bomber blew himself up in the busy commercial district in central Baghdad on Monday, May 28, 2007, killing at least 21 people and wounding 66, police and hospital officials said.
I wanted to read the account of this rescue mission from "The Army Times." I simply cannot believe how ludicrous the military describes the 'loyalty' of the civilians within this incident.
42 captives freed from al-Qaida hide-out (click here)
By Ravi Nessman - The Associated PressPosted : Monday May 28, 2007 13:56:26 EDT
BAGHDAD — American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis — some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months — in a raid Sunday on an al-Qaida hideout north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Military officials said the operation, launched on tips from residents, showed that Iraqis in the turbulent Diyala province were turning against Sunni insurgents and beginning to trust U.S. troops.
“The people in Diyala are speaking up against al-Qaida,” said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq.
That is a lie. The general, as Bush, is playing politics with lives. The USA is reporting this 'camp' was there for months. You mean to tell me that the USA gets a phone call AFTER THE FACT. After the people have been tortured by some 'entity' the USA is calling al Qaeda. After this 'group' extracted their information from this hostages. And I am to believe this was a 'good thing?' All of a sudden "The people of Diyala are speaking up against al-Qaida,"
The general must believe the American people are brainless idiots without the ability to discern 'nonsense' over fact. The people of that village didn't dare speak up against the hostage takers. They called the USA military because they knew they would come to free the hostages whom might even be sabotaged with trip wires and bombs ready to explode when attempts were made to free them. The people of the neighborhood wanted the hostages saved but were unable to carry out their rescue for of untold dangers.
That is NOT '...speaking up against al Qaeda...." That is simply survival and knowing whom would carry out the rescue. That is all that is. This is NOT a trend. This is just another day in Iraq. That's all it is. The rescue of 42 captives is not PROOF of a change in the direction of the war.
This incident proves the USA is completely outside 'the loop.' I suppose this is another learning experience, huh? I found it completely horrifying to hear a retired general state we have to 'keep at it in Iraq' because we learn more and more everyday about the fighting tactics we use against this enemy. THIS IS NOT A TRAINING GROUND !!!!! Bush invaded that country illegally. GET OUT OF IRAQ ! Now ! The reality of this 'dicotomy regarding the difference in views by the gross majority of the people of the USA and the USA military institution is scary. Completely. There is no 'reality' in the belief system of the USA military leadership. Amazing.
If the citizens called the USA military while the hostage takers were still at the camp those citizens and the hostages would have been killed. Either due to the fight between the soldiers and hostage takers or out of revenge for calling the USA military in the first place. There is 'no confidence' in the USA military in Iraq. Everyone takes their chances with the militias. At least with the militias, if people behave they are still alive. A better chance that they will be alive when the militias are around rather than the USA miltiary.
Elsewhere in Diyala, a U.S. soldier was killed when an explosion hit his vehicle and a second soldier was killed in an explosion in Baghdad, the military said. The deaths brought the number of troops killed this month to at least 102, putting May on pace to become the deadliest month for Americans here in more than 2½ years.
In other violence, a barrage of mortar rounds struck houses in a Shiite village just northeast of Baghdad, killing three women and a child and wounding seven other children, Baghdad police said.
