Blast in Iraq wounds two soldiers, U.S. bombs...(Italian official resigns)

[54anickel]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/322/world/Blast_in_Iraq_wounds_two_soldi:.shtml

A bomb blast wounded two U.S. soldiers Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul while U.S. aircraft and tanks blasted trees and abandoned buildings along a road north of Baghdad to deny insurgents cover for rocket attacks.

In a blow to Iraq's U.S.-led administration, officials on Monday announced the resignation of an Italian coalition official, who accused the occupation authorities of incompetence.

''The provisional authority simply doesn't work,'' the Italian daily Corriere della Sera quoted Marco Calamai, a special counselor of the Coalition Provisional Authority, as saying. ''It's neither fish nor fowl. Reconstruction projects that were promised and financed have had practically no results.''

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1. Dayum, even the trees are fighting back

[soothsayer]

2. Is our big fat fire power any good in Iraq now?

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''Clearly, we're sending the message that we do have the ability to run operations across a wide area,'' said U.S. Lt. Col. William MacDonald. ''We have overwhelming combat power that we will utilize in order to go after groups and individuals who have been conducting anti-coalition activities.''

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So, yeah, we have overwhelming COMBAT power, but it ain't that kind of war no more. Unless we want to just keep blowing up random houses just to show we can.