Bombings kill nearly 60 in Iraq

Le "surge" in effect as usual.

The bloodshed struck directly at U.S. claims that the insurgents’ power is waning even as Shiite militia violence emerges as a major threat.

Where have we heard that before? We started something that ain't just going away and 100 years ain't the right answer.

John McCain has said that we can't leave till we have victory. If that had been the policy when he was a POW and he'd still be there.

So someone please tell me what will defined as victory?

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nearly 60

Sounds like the writer was hoping for more.

U.S. soldiers backed by an airstrike killed six militants after a gun battle broke out...

... American troops killed four militants who fired rocket-propelled grenades at a tank elsewhere in the area.

AP is starting to report "militant" kills near the end of their articles. This is another sign of progress in Iraq. It won't be long before the MSM will be forced to use enemy kill figures in their headlines.

The jihadists have their own surge.

The jihadists have their own surge.

Yes, in casualties and not at all what they planned for, to be sure.

Jambon: Come again? Casualties don`t matter to jihadists, seeing that they go straight to paradise. And more are recruited every day, in mosques all over the country.

Jambon

I wonder why people like you pretend that the US military is in any way in control of what happens in Iraq? It's 5 years since the invasion (supposed to be a walk in the park, with the invaders greeted with open arms, but in reality one of the most disastrous exercises in military history) and people in the Green Zone - supposedly the safest area of the country! - are being regularly bombed, injured and killed. And Muqtada al-Sadr just has to twitch his little finger and Baghdad is under curfew; drop it and the curfew is lifted.

I guess that at least Petraeus realises that he is stuck in a lose-lose situation by advocating that there are no more troop withdrawals.

Foddy,

they are only "stuck" as long as the wish success for a democratic Iraq. They could withdraw any time, but the people who advocate withdrawal should be realistic about what happens then... and it won`t luck pretty.

The dishonesty about the situation is shared by all political camps.

Heh, go jambon. Another 70 dead but the writer was "hoping for more" and the surge is surely working.

This has gone past simple Denial. This needs a medical term.

"one of the most disastrous exercises in military history"

No one else even tried. And I beg to differ - in less than a month, Saddam Hussein's regime toppled with minimum civilian casualties.

Mad averts - "another 70 dead" Any criticism of the perpetrators of the carnage, al-Qaida? Nah...

Uh, sarge - my critisism remains firmly on the people who allowed the terrorists to take over Iraq whent they botched the invasion.....the US government and war supporters like you.

"A series of bombings blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq tore through market areas in Baghdad and outside the capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people and shattering weeks of relative calm in Sunni-dominated areas."

Interesting. Unlike madverts I'd have to say my criticism is reserved for Al Qaeda, its financial backers beyond Iraq's borders, Sunni deadbeats, and the clerics who brainwash young, confused, or disaffected Iraqis into believing that killing your fellow Iraqis is a religious duty.

but you would pasqui - you supported the invasion which allowed Al Qaeda, its financial backers beyond Iraq's borders, Sunni deadbeats, and the clerics who brainwash young, confused, or disaffected Iraqis into believing that killing your fellow Iraqis is a religious duty.

No wonder you don't want to admit the hated Reality.

But Reality it is. Saddam Hussein was a ruthless dictator, but he was still largely better than America's poisened "gift".

Madverts has at last admitted Al Qaeda was in Iraq...

Al Qaeda number 2 Ayman Zawahiri, quoted in a recent communique:

As-Sahab: And what is the most important field in which this Mujahid vanguard is wrestling with the enemies of Islam? Zawahiri: Iraq is the most important of these fields.

"As-Sahab: To begin, what is your opinion about the condition of the Jihad in Iraq today?

"Zawahiri: The condition of the Iraqi Jihad, is - overall - excellent by the grace of Allah, and whatever pains are suffered are a must on the march of Jihad and the most recent reports which have come in from Iraq tell of an increase in the strength of the mujahideen and a deterioration in the Americans' conditions, despite their desperate attempts to deceive and mislead. And the decision of the British to flee is sufficient."

http://www.lauramansfield.com/OpenMeetingZawahiri_Part%201.pdf

"Madverts has at last admitted Al Qaeda was in Iraq..."

Yes. Since the US led invasion allowed them to be there and wreak havoc.

So much for the so-called "war on terror", neh?

"the US led invasion allowed them to be there and wreak havoc."

Because the "insurgents," while human enough (in an abstract way) to be pitied for being between the US and its interests in the ME, are not truly human to the anti-liberation crowd - that would mean admitting they posess the same free will the rest of us have. And though they might come from Syria or Saudi Arabia it is only the Yanks who you can call "imperialists" and occupiers.

Honestly, how else to explain (one example) complete disregard for Iraqi points of view? Iraqbodycount.org's completely thorough on-the-ground mortality indices are cynically tossed aside for Lancet figguhs (figures) pulled out of some Lefty "bioethicist's" arse a week before the federal election in the US three years ago, and though repeatedly debunked, are still bandied about by the Left and by "pacifists" here.

No, the "insurgents" (and ordinary Iraqis, of course) just sorta get "allowed into" things, as you so very well put it, madverts.

Things happen.

People get killed.

Can't look for a motive, homicidal or ideological, that drives "insurgent" behavior.

Can't quite bring ourselves to fault AlQaeda's enablers and financiers, who vote in their own way but with cash donations from Damascus and AK-47s via Afghanistan, can we?

Nope.

It's all America's fault.

Iraq, though 5, 000 years older than the US of A is powerless before Dumbya...

"It's all America's fault"

Yup, indeedy. Unless you can show the total instability with daily suicide bombings, people displaced by the millions and the ever possible threat of fundie control....

Like I said - this is no longer a state of Denial - it needs a medical term. Heh, and serious treatment.

Sorry "Unless you can show the total instability with daily suicide bombings, people displaced by the millions and the ever possible threat of fundie control...."under Hussein.

This woul be hilarious if there were no human suffering. jambon, uh sarge and the others think the surge is working, and attack anyone pointing out the truth by saying they are "salivating" for dead bodies...

When the Iranians negotiate a peace deal for Basara because the Iraqi "government" has failed to root out the militia's, well, you know you're in deep shinola.