I saw the article on the New York Times website, but just didn't want to bother with it.
I guess even I -- a former decades-long purchaser and reader -- have just had it with them.
They are tops when it comes to agenda-pushing propaganda, and I've had it with them.
However, I did decide to report this item up because it just puts so many lies about the surge success to shame.
"3 US troops killed, 31 wounded in Iraq"
"by Kim Gamel, Associated Press Writer | April 6, 2008
BAGHDAD --Suspected Shiite militants lobbed rockets and mortar shells into the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a military base elsewhere in Baghdad on Sunday, killing three American troops and wounding 31, officials said.
One wonders who is actually responsible for this since Puke-tray-us wants to tag Iran for the recent upswing in violence.
I am reminded of the Mossad rockets from Gaza, folks.
The attacks occurred as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled Shiite militants in Sadr City in some of the fiercest fighting since radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered a cease-fire a week ago. At least 16 Iraqi civilians were killed and nearly 100 wounded in the fighting, according to hospital officials.
And yet, it has DISAPPEARED from the MSM T.V.!
That's because as quickly as they brought it to you (because they are pushing an agenda and thought it would be a success), they remove it from your view (because they are pushing an agenda and it failed)!
A military official said two U.S. troops died and 17 were wounded in the attack on the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government headquarters in central Baghdad.
Yeah, Green Zone attacks, but things are better in Iraq! Sigh!
Another American service member was killed and 14 were wounded in the attack on a base in the southeastern Baghdad area of Rustamiyah, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
Oh, ANOTHER BASE ATTACKED?! Two in one day, huh?
One wonders if this is a regular occurrence, since you can no longer really on AmeriKa's MSM to tell the truth about anything.
If you did what I do, readers, you'd know it is an everyday occurrence because it was mentioned during Cheney's visit!
Are the MSM just not reporting it, or...?
The U.S. military said separately that an American soldier was killed Sunday in a roadside bombing in the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad. A U.S. soldier assigned to the division operating south of the capital also died Sunday from non-combat related injuries, according to a statement.
Yup, dead U.S. soldiers all over the place!
This gets me really angry, readers, so thank God I'm getting off the MSM!
The deaths raised to at least 4,018 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
A senior U.S. military official, also declining to be identified for the same reason, said the rockets were fired at the Green Zone from Sadr City, while the mortar shells came from another predominantly Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, New Baghdad.
U.S. commanders have blamed what they call Iranian-backed rogue militia groups for launching missiles against American forces.
Even though they just brokered the non-cease cease-fire!
CUI BONO, readers, when the same source wants to set a pretext to attack Iran?
And where are the anti-helicopter and anti-tank weaponry the Iranians would have supplied, not stoo-pid road bombs made in Baghdad factories?
The strikes occurred despite a strong push by the U.S. military to prevent militants from using suspected launching sites on the southern edge of Sadr City, the Baghdad stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Fierce fighting erupted in Sadr City earlier Sunday after Iraqi troops backed by U.S. soldiers and attack helicopters tried to advance deeper into the enclave of some 2.5 million people.
But the AmeriKan MSM has you believing the situation in Iraq has calmed down!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-!!
Like a blogger I know and love said:
"The media which has printed these lies and presented the horrors of the day according to the angle desired by those who operate it have become their own worst enemy. They are daily providing the evidence that they lie. Truth tellers on the internet are turning over every rock they tried to bury the truth beneath."Yup!!!
American helicopters also fired Hellfire missiles that destroyed a vehicle and killed nine militants who were attacking Iraqi security forces with rocket-propelled grenades in the area, the military said in a statement.
The surge in violence came as tensions rose in Shiite areas despite al-Sadr's cease-fire order issued March 30 that eased nearly a week of clashes in Baghdad, Basra and other cities in the Shiite south. The cleric stopped short of asking his fighters to surrender their weapons, and sporadic clashes have continued.
The inability of the Iraqi security forces to curb the militias has cast doubt on their ability to take over their own security two days before the top American officials in Iraq -- Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker -- are to brief Congress on the prospects for further reductions in the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.
Al-Sadr has called for a "million-strong" anti-U.S. demonstration on Wednesday in Baghdad to protest the fifth anniversary of the capture of the Iraqi capital by invading U.S. troops.
I'd watch out for AGENT PROVOCATEURS, Sadrists!!!
This would be a PERFECT OPPORTUNITY for some FALSE-FLAG, USraeli bullshit to be blamed on Iran!!!
And OFF WE GO to WAR with them, right?!
CUI BONO?
At the edge of Sadr City, Lt. Col. Dan Barnett, the commander of the 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, said Iraqi forces had come under sustained fire overnight after establishing checkpoints deeper into the Shiite district.
"They're working to establish control," he said, speaking to a small group of reporters as heavy gunfire resounded outside a joint U.S.-Iraqi base.
But there is a cease-fire and the surge succeeded if you listen to the AmeriKan MSM?!?!
Mortar shells also fell on a popular commercial area in the Jamila neighborhood, setting a fire that burned some 100 shops, according to the Baghdad military command. It said fire fighters came under heavy gunfire that slowed their efforts to extinguish the flames.
A local fire official, who declined to be identified because he wasn't supposed to discuss the issue, said the mortars had been aimed at a U.S.-occupied police station but fell short. That report could not be independently verified.
Last week, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite, ordered a nationwide freeze on Iraqi raids against Shiite militants, bowing to demands by al-Sadr who had hinted at retaliation if Iraqi security forces continue to arrest his followers.
U.S. commanders said they will fight back to maintain control of a swath of territory on the southern edge of Sadr City that has been used as a launching site for rockets aimed at the Green Zone, which has come under steady fire since the current tensions began.
"Where we have criminal elements that are threatening the security and peace of the people of Iraq, we take action," said Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, the top commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad.
Translation: The ASSAULTS and OPERATION CONTINUES despite what the shit Amerikan press is reporting!!!!
And you know why: Because as quickly as they brought it to you (because they are pushing an agenda and thought it would be a success), they remove it from your view (because they are pushing an agenda and it failed)!
Probably why I can't stand MSM press now!
The Iraqi government has relaxed security measures Saturday around the Mahdi Army strongholds of Sadr City and the Shula neighborhood, allowing trucks carrying maintenance teams, food, oil products and ambulances into the areas that still face a vehicle ban despite the lifting of a citywide curfew.
But residents continued to complain of hardships.
"Our situation is miserable. We lack food, water and electricity. This morning I saw two men being shot by a sniper as they were trying to cross the street near my house. The government should do something to end our suffering," said Hussein Khazim, a taxi driver who has been out of work since the turmoil erupted in late March.
Yeah, fuck the suffering we bring upon people with our "liberation," huh, 'murkn?!?
I swear each day that goes by, readers, the U.S. becomes more and more like Iz-ray-HELL!!!!
Separately, the U.S. military said the largest cache of armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, had been found by Iraqi troops acting on a tip south of Baghdad.
Pfffffft! Think I'm believing that planted evidence of a lie bullshit?
Not anymore!
More than 1,000 bomb components and 3,000 pounds of explosives were found Wednesday in a 6-ton truck in a garage south of Hillah, according to a statement.
American commanders say Iran supplies Shiite militias with the EFPs and other weapons. Tehran denies the allegations.
Violence also continued in northern Iraq. Gunmen seized 42 students off a bus near the city of Mosul -- the last major urban stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq -- but later released them unharmed.
WTF?!?!
That was PROPAGANDA just as I thought!!!
I can SMELL IT!!!!
The U.S. military said the college students were rescued by Iraqi soldiers, and three kidnappers had been detained.
Also Sunday, hundreds of mourners gathered in the capital's Karradah district for the funeral of Father Youssef Adel, an Assyrian Orthodox priest slain the day before at his home.
One of the mourners, Midhat Faez, said the assassination was aimed at provoking conflict between Muslims and the tiny Christian community.
"As Christians, we are terrified and our numbers are gradually diminishing," Faez said.
Yeah, I know!
But hey, THAT'S Bush's LIBERATION!!!!
Remarkably, as I cruised the Google news I noticed another Iraq round-up with additional information:
"As many as 20 Iraqis killed in clashes between Sadr's militia and US"
BAGHDAD -- Rocket attacks killed three American soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, while fighting between Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and U.S.-led forces paralyzed the capital's Sadr City neighborhood and left up to 22 Iraqis dead.
Just hours before the violence erupted, the Iraqi government issued a call for the radical cleric to dissolve his militia. Two U.S. military personnel were killed when rocket fire hit the Green Zone, home to the Iraqi government and the American Embassy. An attack on the Rustamiya base in east Baghdad claimed the life of a third soldier, the military said. The attacks wounded 31 people.
A fourth U.S. soldier died in a roadside bombing in the northeastern province of Diyala, while a fifth was killed in a noncombat incident, the military said.
At least 4,018 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since March 2003, according to the independent website icasualties.org.
Shiite Muslim militants have pounded the Green Zone with mortars and rockets since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki launched a crackdown on Shiite gunmen in the southern port of Basra late last month. The violence in Sadr City erupted in the early morning and lasted until late afternoon. Witnesses said U.S. and Iraqi forces traded fire with Sadr's Mahdi Army on the perimeters of the Shiite slum, home to 2.5 million people and a bastion of support for the cleric.
Medical sources from Sadr City hospitals, which are under the militia's de facto control, put the toll at 22 civilian deaths and 96 wounded. The U.S. military said it fired two missiles at 8 a.m. that killed nine militants who had been launching rocket-propelled grenades at Iraqi soldiers.
The differences in the accounts could not be immediately resolved.
The fighting was the most serious between the sides since Sadr called on his followers to silence their weapons last Sunday after nearly a week of combat in Basra, other parts of southern Iraq and in Baghdad.
Shops in Sadr City were closed and streets desolate. U.S. military vehicles blocked the entrances to the sprawling neighborhood, where American and Iraqi forces have prevented vehicles from coming and going for days. Civilians who could fled the neighborhood, and described themselves as having lived under siege since the Mahdi Army rebelled after Maliki launched his Basra offensive March 25.
Gaza=Baghdad!
USrael!!!!
"At least three civilians were killed in my area," said Abu Abed, who escaped Sadr City Sunday. "Some are saying that the area is targeted by the Americans; others said the mortar rounds. Anyway, it is not possible for the families to stay there. Most of the families left."
Helicopters buzzed over rooftops and smoke rose on Sadr City's edge when 107-millimeter missiles fired at a U.S.-Iraqi military compound fell short and hit a civilian area, according to the military. Six civilians were wounded, including a child, medical sources said.
Readers, I just wanted to register my objection and complaints to the endless U.S. mass-murder being carried out in Iraq.
That's all; no swearing, no cussing -- at least, right here, right now.
U.S. tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles rolled down streets to provide support for Iraqi soldiers who came under rocket and small-arms fire at the edge of Sadr City, the U.S. military said. The U.S. Army accused militiamen of firing rockets and mortars at Iraqi and U.S. troops from inside and outside Sadr City.
Maliki, senior Iraqi officials and the leaders of the main Iraqi political blocs issued a statement late Saturday through the government's Political Council for National Security, calling on all parties to disarm their militias ahead of provincial elections scheduled for October. Sadr's movement, which officials said was the main target of the declaration, rejected the demand.
"Everyone understands this means mainly the Mahdi Army," said parliament member Sami Askari, who is close to Maliki. "You can't put one foot in the political process and with the other act in an army against the national government. No one can accept this."
Askari said the government was planning to introduce the recommendation to parliament either in a new election law, required for October's vote, or a separate bill. Sadr's followers believe their rivals are trying to outmaneuver them ahead of the election."
Maliki and his liars are just as bad as Bush's!
Must come from hanging out together!
