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2007-06-25 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-06-25 11:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 But how are militant groups sneaking their bombs and bombers past the giant security dragnet around Baghdad?

Paging Nour al-Maliki to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-25 12:55|| 2007-06-25 12:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: The incompetence of Iraqi forces helps to explain why, after a sharp drop in the early weeks of the surge, the civilian death toll from sectarian violence has begun to climb.

There is incompetence in Iraq, but it is mostly on the part of reporters. There is no capability in any country in the world to prevent people from killing large numbers of civilians at random by perpetrators who are willing to lose their lives doing it. We have certainly not been able to prevent massacres of dozens of civilians stateside. The difference in Iraq is that there are tens of thousands of people whose goal in life is to kill civilians. Short of finding and killing (or imprisoning) all of these perps, there's no way to prevent large scale civilian casualties. And finding them is easier said than done, given that there are at least hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who tacitly support them, and an equal number who might be intimidated by torture and threats of massacre (of family members) to assist them.

Article: Nearly 2,000 Iraqis were killed in May, the highest since the start of the security crackdown.

But the security crackdown started in April. What the heck does the highest in two months mean?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-06-25 14:20|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-06-25 14:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately though, it's beginning to look like this cesspool isn't worth saving. Pull back to secure bases in Kurdistan and fiddle while shiites kill sunnis and vise versa. Remember that we civilized peoples don't kill conmpletely innocent bystanders for nothing, but Islamists do. And, because of that fact, we cannot understand them except to consider them insects and rodents worthy of extermination.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-25 15:22|| 2007-06-25 15:22|| Front Page Top

#4 What the heck does the highest in two months mean? To me? Nothing. To the MSM, it's the highest/worst/most scandalous in ... print.

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-25 15:25|| 2007-06-25 15:25|| Front Page Top

#5 June is guaranteed to be one of the worst 3 months of the surge.

Posted by Shamu 2007-06-25 18:25|| 2007-06-25 18:25|| Front Page Top

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