Could that REALLY have been FIVE YEARS AGO?
I guess time flies when you are mass-murdering Muslims for Israel.
"In Basra, as many as 45,000 people took to the streets to protest deteriorating security in the southern city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety in December. Its Shi'ite residents are becoming increasingly alarmed about security, saying that killings, kidnappings, and other crimes have increased significantly since British forces turned over security responsibility.
But the SURGE WORKED anyway!
Violence is down, right?
In February, two journalists working for CBS were kidnapped in Basra. One was released but the other is still being held.
A long line of marchers demonstrated near the Basra police command headquarters, demanding that the police chief, Major General Abdul-Jalil Khalaf, and the commander of joint military-police operation, Lieutenant General Mohan al-Fireji, resign.
The United States is in charge of security in Baghdad and other parts of central and northern Iraq, but they plan to hand those sections over to Iraqi forces eventually.
Iraq and the United States have been working on the terms of a security takeover for some time now, but the Defense Department said the negotiations formally began yesterday (Boston Globe March 8, 2008)."They just began yesterday?
Wow, can that Bush administration ever run the four-corner offense, huh, sport's fans?
Google it if you don't know the meaning!
Tell me again how much better Iraq is:
"Iraqi Women More Oppressed Than Ever"
"Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career.
Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women to take up jobs as professors, doctors and government officials. In today's Iraq, women are being killed by militia groups for not conforming to strict Islamist ways."
Nice "liberation," Bush!
"Remember back when brining western-style rights to the women of Iraq was being claimed as another justification for the invasion?" -- Mike Rivero of What Really HappenedOh, yeah, way back when... before we murdered millions of them and destroyed their country!
And the last paragraph says it all!
"The US military said it could not provide the number of innocent Iraqis, either civilians or security forces, who had been killed by American forces since the 2003 US-led invasion."
I know!
Probably near two MILLION by now!!!
