Insurgency Fading in Iraq

[Strike4ce]

Insurgency Fading in Iraq





Even the Old York Times can’t suppress the good news (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/international/middleeast/19marine.html?):

The top Marine officer in Iraq said Friday that the number of attacks against American troops in Sunni-dominated western Iraq and death tolls had dropped sharply over the last four months, a development that he called evidence that the insurgency was weakening in one of the most violent areas of the country.

The officer, Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, head of the First Marine Expeditionary Force, said that insurgents were averaging about 10 attacks a day, and that fewer than two of those attacks killed or wounded American forces or damaged equipment. That compared with 25 attacks a day, five of them with casualties or damage, in the weeks leading up to the pivotal battle of Falluja in November, he said.

[Groder Mullet]

Still a whole hell of a lot of work to be done there.

[Bman]

Insurgency Fading in Iraq





Even the Old York Times can’t suppress the good news (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/international/middleeast/19marine.html?):
[indent]The top Marine officer in Iraq said Friday that the number of attacks against American troops in Sunni-dominated western Iraq and death tolls had dropped sharply over the last four months, a development that he called evidence that the insurgency was weakening in one of the most violent areas of the country.



What was the date on this?????


3/20/2005????

Heck, we outta be down to about 20,000 troops by now.. a year and a half later

[Strike4ce]

What was the date on this?????


3/20/2005????

Heck, we outta be down to about 20,000 troops by now.. a year and a half later

LOL, ????

[freeman]

Bootlicker believes anything he reads from Carl Rove's OSI.


LMAO..

[Strike4ce]

Bootlicker believes anything he reads from Carl Rove's OSI.


LMAO..

Thats pretty funny coming from you. Can I have the url to those conspiracy sites you cut and paste from.:add09::add09:

[Cypher]

Pathetic attempt, Strike.

[Cypher]

Now, let's take a look at current news:

September 11, 2006

The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents.

The officials described Col. Pete Devlin's classified assessment of the dire state of Anbar as the first time that a senior U.S. military officer has filed so negative a report from Iraq.

One Army officer summarized it as arguing that in Anbar province, "We haven't been defeated militarily but we have been defeated politically -- and that's where wars are won and lost."

The "very pessimistic" statement, as one Marine officer called it, was dated Aug. 16 and sent to Washington shortly after that, and has been discussed across the Pentagon and elsewhere in national security circles. "I don't know if it is a shock wave, but it's made people uncomfortable," said a Defense Department official who has read the report. Like others interviewed about the report, he spoke on the condition that he not be identified by name because of the document's sensitivity.

Devlin reports that there are no functioning Iraqi government institutions in Anbar, leaving a vacuum that has been filled by the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has become the province's most significant political force, said the Army officer, who has read the report. Another person familiar with the report said it describes Anbar as beyond repair; a third said it concludes that the United States has lost in Anbar.

Devlin offers a series of reasons for the situation, including a lack of U.S. and Iraqi troops, a problem that has dogged commanders since the fall of Baghdad more than three years ago, said people who have read it. These people said he reported that not only are military operations facing a stalemate, unable to extend and sustain security beyond the perimeters of their bases, but also local governments in the province have collapsed and the weak central government has almost no presence.

More (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001204.html)

[Bitch]

Pathetic attempt, Strike.
Er he posted this back in march ;)
People have been on a bump old threads kick today...