Take a look, readers!
Does that just rip your heart out or what?
AmeriKans only send their grown-up sons and daughters to war!
When George calls them up to "serve," please kiss them good-bye and tell them how much you love them.
At least you don't have to go through what the Iraqis do, Amurkn!
"Amid Iraq lull, an urgent plea; US calls for swift political progress" by Tina Susman/Los Angeles Times December 3, 2007
BAGHDAD - What is giving US officials a new sense of urgency, is the reduced violence across the country and in particular the capital, Baghdad. They say higher violence levels will return if parliament does not use the calmer environment to improve essential services nationwide, forge ties with local and provincial leaders, and sort out disputes blocking major bills splitting Sunni Arabs, Shi'ites and Kurds.
Pfffft! The lie repetition means I'm just sighing when I read this stuff now!
The pending legislation would manage Iraq's oil wealth and lift rules limiting employment opportunities for former members of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party. US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, who served as ambassador to Iraq in 2004, said six days of touring Iraq had left him encouraged by the improved security.
What else would you expect him to say?
"Now progress on political reconciliation . . . is needed to consolidate the gains made thus far," he said at a news conference. "If progress is not made on these fronts, we risk falling back to the more violent patterns of the past."
In separate comments, the No. 2 commander of US troops in Iraq, Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, said the lowered violence showed that things "are clearly moving in the right direction." But Odierno, speaking to CNN's "Late Edition," echoed Negroponte's comments that the national government should pick up the pace of reconciliation.
"I think now we have security at a level where we have to now look at other things. The increase of services to the people, the increase of political accommodation at the local level, the provincial level," he said.
Both officials said they saw signs of progress on the national level. Negroponte expressed optimism that the oil bill and the so-called de-Ba'athification law would pass. Odierno said that "some movement with some laws" inside parliament. "But obviously we have not made the progress we want to yet," he said.
Then the surge really failed, didn't it?
Political goals not met, and the HIGHEST YEAR of U.S. CASUALTIES!!!
That's what the surge was for? NOTHING?!
Odierno also said the US military had made headway yesterday on one major issue: persuading Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government to move more quickly to bring volunteer security workers onto Iraqi government payrolls.
Translation: start paying our Sunni thugs for us!
The volunteers are commonly known as "concerned local citizens" and are a result of US military efforts to recruit civilians, many of them former insurgents, to work alongside American and Iraqi troops.
There are tens of thousands of such volunteers, many of them Sunnis, and American troops have complained that Maliki has balked at bringing many of them into the Iraq security forces. Odierno said the prime minister had agreed at a meeting yesterday to "steps toward reconciliation with these concerned local citizen groups. I think that's a big step forward for us." He did not elaborate.
Later, Ali Dabbagh, government spokesman, said Malikihad agreed to incorporate volunteer forces in numbers based on estimated needs from the field. He said those not incorporated into security forces would be rehabilitated and trained for civil-service jobs.
Volunteers will work only in their communities of origin, Dabbagh said.
Signs of the violence still haunting Iraq were clear yesterday, particularly in Diyala province north of Baghdad.
Ooops! Almost forgot about that, right, stink MSM!
Police said three women in a village 18 miles north of the provincial capital, Baqubah, were stabbed to death after they refused to marry three men from Al Qaeda in Iraq. Police said gunmen circled the village, dragged the women from their homes and killed them.
In Baqubah, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a police patrol, killing one civilian.
Farther north, outside the city of Kirkuk, Iraqi military officials said armed men attacked an Iraqi army convoy and killed four Iraqi soldiers."
Oh, I'm tired of the Zionist NYT's Muslim-bashing propaganda!
Here is why I never believe the depraved and barbaric things that are claimed about our Muslim "enemies" in the Zionist-controlled War Dailies:
THIS "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Memory Hole: Must Read For Women
The Lovely Ladies of Pakistan
Oh, and for the record:
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
How much evidence you need, readers?
Oh, did I mention the Pentagon's press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon and Langley?
Also for the record:
35 people killed every day, with the number of Iraqis killed by the surge around 300 per day, 10,000 per month -- and 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion (not including the 1,654 killed in September), mainly due to the U.S. military's 75 air raids a day, and the five-fold increase in air bombings.
Also see: Story Iraq: MSM Lied About Death Tolls
Memory Hole: Iraq
Did you see that memory hole?
Violence is STILL WORSE THAN LAST YEAR?
WTF? MSM LYING TO US AGAIN!!!!
And whatever happened to the cholera outbreak?
Cholera remains a threat in Iraq
Let's see what shit the NYT is shoveling:
"U.S. Urges Iraq to Take Advantage of Lull" by PAUL von ZIELBAUER
BAGHDAD, Dec. 2 — Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte, in Baghdad after a week of meetings with Iraqi provincial leaders, said Sunday that lawmakers must take advantage of the decline in daily violence in recent months to pass crucial legislation and improve basic government services.
Mr. Negroponte, a former ambassador to Iraq, said if Iraq’s sharply divided Parliament did not reach a consensus “in the near future” on matters that would improve the lives of Iraqis, it risked losing the gains in security that had come in part because of the increased number of American combat troops.
“It’s one thing to have brought the violence under some semblance of control,” Mr. Negroponte said during a news conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone here, after meeting Iraqi officials in Baghdad and seven other provinces in Iraq’s north, south and west. “But it’s another matter now to follow up with the necessary reconstruction and stabilization projects that will safeguard regions and protect them from this type of violence.”
In particular, he said, Washington was counting on Iraqi lawmakers to pass two languishing bills that would help stabilize the central government: an oil revenue-sharing law, and a measure that would allow more former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party to take government jobs.
“It would be extremely helpful if this could be passed and go forward as an indication that the people and government and the legislature of Iraq are prepared to build on the security gains that have been achieved,” he said.
Yeah, American corporations want to get their oily mitts all over the OIL!
Mr. Negroponte also said a referendum vote in Kirkuk on whether to join the Kurdish-controlled region would probably not occur this year. “Clearly it’s not going to be possible between now and the end of this year to mount a referendum,” he said.
Also on Sunday, the leader of Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc said he and his fellow lawmakers would return to Parliament after his release from a three-day house confinement. The lawmaker, Adnan al-Dulaimi, the leader of the Iraqi Consensus Front, told an Iraqi television station on Sunday that he was allowed to travel from his house to a hotel in the Green Zone.
After Mr. Dulaimi left his house, Iraqi Army troops arrived and removed the blast walls surrounding it, said his son, Muthanna Adnan al-Dulaimi. The removal of the walls appeared to suggest that Mr. Dulaimi would no longer have the benefit of government protection unless he was in the Green Zone.
Consensus Front members walked out of Parliament on Saturday to protest what they said was the government’s restriction on Mr. Dulaimi, part of a law-enforcement operation on Thursday in which dozens of his security guards were arrested after a car bomb was discovered in an alley near his Baghdad office compound.
The episode was another in a series illustrating the profound problems within the Iraqi government in stopping infiltration by insurgents. While Mr. Dulaimi’s colleagues privately expressed doubt that the politician, an elderly man, was directly involved in the criminal activities that his guards were accused of engaging in, he also seemed unable to stop them.
Also Sunday, a roadside bomb in the Mansour district of west Baghdad killed two policemen and wounded four others, an Interior Ministry official said. Gunmen in the same neighborhood also killed a police official as he was heading to work, the Interior Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Iraqi security forces were subject to other attacks around Iraq on Sunday. In Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police patrol, wounding 14 people, a city police official said. In Hawija, west of Kirkuk, gunmen killed five Iraqi solders as they drove out of an army base, a police captain said.
In Falluja, Iraqi security forces found a mass grave containing about 20 bodies of men, women and children, the police said, Reuters reported. In Mosul, Iraqi policemen discovered six bodies, including those of two policemen, in different areas of the city, the Interior Ministry official said."
Times pulls the same trick!
Sticks the god-awful violence in the back of their shit-spew!
What little they decided to "report," anyhow!
Iraq's way better, huh, readers?!
Don't choke on that MSM shit, readers!
