BOMB SITE: Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad June 28. A car bomb killed 21 people and wounded 42 Thursday at an intersection in Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, Iraqi police said. (REUTERS)
...it anything than what it is: "Get the USA out of Iraq." (click here) I suppose those folks that live in the neighborhood look forward to more of the same. Right? I mean each one of those 'human beings' in the picture probably lot a friend or family member in the explosion. They could be next. Who wants the American military there besides Bush?
The 'new' campaign to 'rename' the failed war in Iraq with 'newly released' video does not impress me. The USA military is shown sending in aircraft 'after' an assault that killed Iraqi police. There is no intelligence to stop the rebels. There is no strategy against them except to cause damage after the fact. That is not a strategy, that is a clear message that the USA is completely defensive in Iraq.
In Albar alone where four 'friendly' sheiks have been assassinated, those that remain will again find their own militias more effective and turn against the USA military. Bush is killing our troops and the people of Iraq for no reason. The Iraqis want the USA out of Iraq. The American people want the USA troops of Iraq. Tony Blair is a 'special envoy' by international recruitment. Does anyone actually believe these deaths will facilitate stability and peace in Iraq?
Surging toward disaster in Iraq (click here)
As the U.S. takes sides in Iraq's splintering civil war, a top Republican warns Bush's policy will fail.
By Juan Cole
Earlier this week Sen. Richard Lugar, the senior Republican from Indiana, dismissed the U.S. "surge" in Iraq as unlikely to succeed. He condemned any illusions about staying the course. "We have overestimated what the military can achieve, we have set goals that are unrealistic, and we have inadequately factored in the broader regional consequences of our actions," Lugar said from the Senate floor.
His alarm has been illustrated by the difficulties the U.S. and Iraqi militaries faced in the recent offensive operation dubbed "Operation Arrowhead Ripper," aimed at subduing Baquba (pop. 300,000), the restive capital of Diyala province, located 31 miles northeast of Baghdad. American generals admitted that 80 percent of the guerrilla leadership there had slipped away, and that the Iraqi army lacked the equipment and training to hold areas taken in difficult hand-to-hand fighting. The U.S. military compounded its public-relations problem by implausibly branding virtually everyone it fought or killed in the Sunni-majority city as "al-Qaida." ...
