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Here are 2 sources I used
US troop deaths down by 60% after month-long security operation in Baghdad
March 18, 2007, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
BAGHDAD, March 14 (KUNA) --
Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal
By DAVID S. CLOUD and DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 4, 2007
BAGHDAD, June 3 Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the citys neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment.
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In an interview, he said that while military planners had expected to make greater gains by now, that has not been possible in large part because Iraqi police and army units, which were expected to handle basic security tasks, like manning checkpoints and conducting patrols, have not provided all the forces promised, and in some cases have performed poorly.
That is forcing American commanders to conduct operations to remove insurgents from some areas multiple times. The heavily Shiite security forces have also repeatedly failed to intervene in some areas when fighters, who fled or laid low when the American troops arrived, resumed sectarian killings.
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When planners devised the Baghdad security plan late last year, they had assumed most Baghdad neighborhoods would be under control around July, according to a senior American military officer, so the emphasis could shift into restoring services and rebuilding the neighborhoods as the summer progressed.
We were way too optimistic, said the officer, adding that September is now the goal for establishing basic security in most neighborhoods, the same month that Bush administration officials have said they plan to review the progress of the plan.
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It is interesting to consider, that this supposed 60% reduction occurs from the middle of february through the middle of march, yet America lost 80 soldiers in february and 81 in march.
But the link I provided was for a particular area. My guess, he heard something related to this and ran with it.
and and the anti war left could not be happier. They will keep pushing for surrender and doing exactly what the terrorists want them to do
Dems have opposed every method used to capture/kill them sicne day one
those 150k have been killing them and doing their job - despite all the opposition from the left
28-MAY-2007: A young boy seeks shelter behind a soldier with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division after gunshots rang out at the scene where just a few minutes earlier a suicide car bomber blew himself up in a busy commercial district in central Baghdad on Monday, May 28, 2007, killing at least 21 people and wounding 66, police and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed ) [Photo copyright 2007 by AP]
http://news.usti.net/home/news/cn/email/?/news.front_page/2/wed/br/Airaq-violence.RJzk_HyS.html
If Dems get their way, and the US surrenders, who will protect the innocent cilivians from the coming slaughter?
wow. no kidding? imagine that... a guy posting his opinions on a political bulletin board where the motto is "where your voices count".
And normally.... when people post an opinion that I disagree with, my approach is to dissect their opinion and offer points in rebuttal.
your approach seems to be to post really inane responses like THIS one.
good job sarge. fucking brilliant! really.
yo rsr... these two links of yours are 3 months old... surely you can find something a little more timely... unless of course, since the recent news belies your premise, you choose to ignore them.
Here's one from TODAY:
Commanders on the ground IN IRAQ today say the surge isn't working as they thought it would be by now... yet... you still claim it is... why?
Are you out of touch with reality?
the democrats want the troops home alive, you want them in Iraq and in harm's way...
when will your insatiable blood lust end?
when it's your turn to go?
How about the Iraqis protect themselves?
yo rsr... these two links of yours are 3 months old... surely you can find something a little more timely... unless of course, since the recent news belies your premise, you choose to ignore them.
Here's one from TODAY:
Commanders on the ground IN IRAQ today say the surge isn't working as they thought it would be by now... yet... you still claim it is... why?
Are you out of touch with reality?
Iraq, as a country, is an artificial construct of Europeans dividing up the Ottoman Empire as spoils of war. They had no clue who sunnis and shiites or kurds were...they were all just rag headed brown skinned monkeys to the brits. there has NEVER been an democratic government in Iraq..there is no reason to believe that these two groups of people - who fucking hate each other - have any desire to ever form a vibrant multicultural jeffersonian democracy with one another. it has always been a fantasy held forth by neocons with as much understanding of the ethnic divides in Iraq as the Europeans who created it in the first place. When you take away the american presence, the Iraqi army will devolve into sunni and shiite camps quicker than it took Robert E. Lee to resign HIS commission in the US Army once OUR civil war started.
RSR...see if you can carry on an intellligent conversation. I'll start:
Your insistance that we ONLY discuss YOUR talking points and ONLY if we have read your required reading list are old.
Your insistance that we ONLY discuss YOUR talking points and ONLY if we have read your required reading list are old.
How else is MM going to have a chance to win a debate?
tell me again how it is a fact that AQ and Iran are going to team up to rule Iraq against the will of the Iraqi people.
tell me again how it is a fact that AQ and Iran are going to team up to rule Iraq against the will of the Iraqi people.
Your demento twisting of reality is old and tiresome.... Tell us, Have you stopped beating your wife yet? Yes or no please.
