The lies of yesterday and today, readers:
"Security gains in Iraq are stressed" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | January 29, 2008
WASHINGTON - President Bush portrayed the bloody five-year war in Iraq last night as finally turning a corner, citing a dramatic reduction in attacks since he dispatched an additional 30,000 US troops last January and vowing to "sustain and build on the gains we made in 2007" during his last year in office.
That's about the 25th corner we've turned the last five years, right?
"The American and Iraqi surges have achieved results few of us could have imagined just one year ago," Bush said in his final State of the Union address.
But several military specialists warned that many of the security improvements in Iraq have resulted from the work of a mix of local militias and armed citizens groups that are funded by the United States but beyond the control of the Iraqi government.
Unless these groups are quickly folded into the Iraqi security forces or are provided other gainful employment, there are few guarantees that they will not face off with each other when the American security commitment is reduced and spark another round of civil war, the specialists said.
"There is no jobs program to speak of," said Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "A top priority now is to institutionalize those 80,000 or so men into the Iraqi security forces or provide the prospects of a long-term livelihood."
The groups include more than 130 so-called Concerned Local Citizens' groups, or CLCs, many of which have been armed and funded by the United States and include former Sunni insurgents. An additional 10,000 of them, the White House says, have been folded into the Iraqi security forces.
US commanders maintain that these groups have been crucial allies in crippling the operations of Al Qaeda in Iraq, particularly in the western Anbar Province, and Bush said yesterday these private Iraqi citizens began moving against the insurgents after he announced the surge last year.
That's THIS "Al-CIA-Duh", right?
"The Iraqi people quickly realized that something dramatic had happened," Bush said in the speech. "Those who had worried that America was preparing to abandon them instead saw . . . our forces moving into neighborhoods, clearing out the terrorists, and staying behind to ensure the enemy did not return."
In a fact sheet put out ahead of the speech, the White House said these new armed groups will be assimilated into Iraqi society, including the Iraqi security forces.
A "FACT SHEET" from the White House, huh, MSM?!
Pffffftttt!
You guys suck!
More like a SHIT SHEET, shit-suckers!!
"The government of Iraq is committed to one day assuming fiscal and overall responsibility for CLCs and has begun structuring vocational training programs for CLCs who want to rejoin the civilian work force," it said.
But some analysts, such as retired Army Colonel Douglas A. Macgregor, worry that it might be too late to control them. Writing in yesterday's edition of Defense News, Macgregor said "Iraq looks more 'stable' because American generals are using cash to temporarily manipulate local tribal interests."
"But when the Sunni Arab tribes coalesce to fight for control of Iraq, the façade of progress will collapse and the violence will be worse than before," he predicted.
Which means the American people were LIED TO YET AGAIN by this shit government and its shit-sucking MSM!!!!
Meanwhile, another major factor in the improving security situation was the decision by Moqtada al-Sadr, the leader of one of the largest Shi'ite militias, the Mahdi Army, to announce a cease-fire in August. US military officials in Baghdad say Sadr has helped US forces track down rogue groups.
Then I don't want to hear any criticism of the man in my Jew War Dailies, 'kay?
"Security has improved because militias have taken over," said Paul Hughes, a retired Army colonel who is now with the US Institute for Peace in Washington.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaatttt?
THIS is the SURGE SUCCESS?
He said he remains concerned about the long-term intentions of Sadr's militia. "They have been weeding out the weak soldiers and trying to improve their capabilities," Hughes said in an interview. "They have training camps set up. You don't do that with a militia unless you plan to use it."
Well, THEY DID!! They helped us SURGE to SUCCESS!!
Sigh! I've had it with AmeriKa's shit MSM.
Yeah, I won't be buying them tomorrow!
Now the lies of today:
"5 US soldiers killed in N. Iraq" by Kim Gamel and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press | January 28, 2008
BAGHDAD --In a daring ambush, insurgents blasted a U.S. patrol with a roadside bomb Monday and showered survivors with gunfire from a mosque in increasingly lawless Mosul. Five American soldiers were killed in the explosion -- even as Iraqi troops moved into the northern city to challenge al-Qaida in Iraq....
Iraqi reinforcements, along with helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles, converged on Mosul for what Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged would be a decisive battle against al-Qaida in its last major urban stronghold.
The attack on the U.S. patrol -- the deadliest on American forces since six soldiers perished Jan. 9 in a booby-trapped house north of Baghdad -- raised the Pentagon's January death count to at least 36.
The toll so far is 56 percent higher than December's 23 U.S. military deaths and marks the first monthly increase since August. But the figures remain well below monthly death tolls of more than 100 last spring....
Who cares about the aggressive invaders dying?
I no longer do. I say EAT UP, 'Murka!
FEAST UPON your WAR DEAD -- and THANK George W. Bush and HIS LIES, 'Murkn!!!!
Don't get mad at me for the bitterness and vitriol.
I want these lying wars to end so you don't have to drink your war dead's blood, readers!
The unrest in Mosul stands in sharp relief to a significant decline in bloodshed most elsewhere in Iraq in recent months.
I'm just tired of the repetitive lying, readers. This isn't worth all my time.
The relative calm has been credited to a U.S.-led security crackdown -- along with a Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq and a cease-fire order by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for his powerful Mahdi Army militia.
But influential members of al-Sadr's movement said Monday they have urged the anti-U.S. cleric to call off the six-month cease-fire when it expires in February -- a move that could jeopardize the security gains....
So the violence will pick up, and we'll have to surge again, right?
CUI BONO, readers?
Let's just leave Iraq, America.
There was other fighting in the neighborhood. An Iraqi officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, said three civilians were wounded and helicopters bombarded buildings in the district, the scene of frequent attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Also Monday, insurgents attacked four policemen heading home from work south of Mosul, killing two and wounding the other two, Nineveh provincial police said.
Al-Qaida and its supporters would find themselves without a major base of operations if ousted Mosul, which occupies transport crossroads between Baghdad, Syria and other points. But the fight is expected to be difficult."
Translation: "Al-CIA-Duh" will always be around to justify U.S. occupation.
Readers, for the truth of the U.S. occupation and the violence in Iraq, please see these:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Al-CIA-Duh
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
How much more evidence you need, readers?
This?
And did I mention the DOD's MSM press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon, or Langley?
That's where the AmeriKan press gets their "reports."
Case closed!
