Gates Leaves Iraq Encouraged
"Earlier Thursday, speaking to reporters at his headquarters in Baghdad, Gen. David H. Petreaus, the senior American commander in Iraq, warned against any false confidence as a result of the marked decline in violence under the American troop increase this year.
“Nobody says anything about turning corners, seeing lights at the ends of tunnels, any of those other phrases. And I think when you’ve been doing this as long as some of us have, you just keep your head down and keep moving.”
General Petraeus spoke in an hourlong interview with Pentagon correspondents at his headquarters at Camp Victory. He described the measured optimism of senior commanders over progress in fighting terrorists, insurgents and radical militia cells by bringing in additional American forces this year.
"[There are days] when you certainly feel very good about what our troopers and Iraqi counterparts have done. [But] there are setbacks along the way. And there are still car bombs that go off. There are still attacks.”
I'm not commenting because I am tired of the prevarications and outright lies, reader!
General Petraeus also said that there “are continued improvements in the security situation,” but repeatedly said, “there is much hard work still to be done." Statistics compiled by the American military show that weekly attacks are at levels last seen consistently in the late spring of 2005.
High-profile attacks, like those involving car bombs and suicide attacks, are down 60 percent from a peak in March. Civilian deaths are back to 2005 levels, and American military losses in November were at their lowest point in 20 months.
What does "high-profile" mean?
And how come there is NOT ONE reported death in AmeriKa's Zionist-controlled Week-Ender Shit-Eater Papers today?
Even so, 2007 has been the deadliest year for American forces since military operations here began in 2003, General Petraeus said.
He said Syria had taken steps to halt the transit of foreign fighters across its borders into Iraq, and expressed hopes that Iran would fulfill its pledge to the Baghdad government to prevent assistance from flowing over its borders to radical Shiite groups in Iraq.
Blah, blah, blah!
Although fighters connected to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown terrorist network that the American military says is led by foreigners, have been routed from Baghdad and a ring of villages around it, he worried that the group was planning a spectacular attack to show that it remained a serious threat.
You mean THIS "Al-CIA-Duh?"Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
“It is a concern. Absolutely. We have to be careful not to get to feeling too successful.”
Yeah, because then we might actually have to leave, huh, gun-runner Dave?
"General Petraeus said that early in the conflict, he faced the choice of either quickly getting the weapons to willing Iraqi fighters who were defending the country or delaying while the tracking mechanisms were put in place.
The general said he decided to get the weapons out fast, in one case landing in Najaf in Marine helicopters and dumping the weapons out the back hatch to waiting Iraqis.
General Petraeus said: “We made a decision to arm guys who wanted to fight for their country.”
Also see:
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
So WHO might be carrying out a "spectacular" terrorist attack, readers?
Or are they going to BLAME it on Iran?!?
You know, Plan B because Plan A is shot!!
Too bad WE ARE ALL WATCHING on this one!
NO MORE FALSE-FLAG "TERROR" ATTACKS!
WON'T BE FOOLEYED AGAIN, MSM!!!!!!!
