BushCo wrong yet again! "Iraq insurgency far larger than we thought!"

[ElementaryPenguin]

U.S. Military just admitted. These stupid/arrogant/gangster f*cks really don't have a friggin' clue just exactly what they've gotten us into, do they?

:puke:
:argh:
:mad:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040708/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgency_1

[DODI]

1. Don't forget to rate the story!

It only has a 2.41 now. This needs to be seen.

Thanks for posting it.

[ElementaryPenguin]

3. Will do. Thanks!

:dem:

[kentuck]

2. Just how many of Iraq's 25 million inhabitants did they expect ?

..to resist their invasion? 1%? Even that would be 250,000 people. But one would have to expect that it might be a little more than 1%?

[ElementaryPenguin]

5. What would the percentage be here if we were invaded and occupied...

Without any provocation?

:shrug:

[Generator]

4. Jeez, I read Vanity Fair and The New Yorker

and I already knew that. It's a shame when Georgie and Donnie can't read.

[ElementaryPenguin]

6. Can't/won't/refuse to read!

That's great leadership for you! Problem with Clinton is that he read too much.

:puke:

[faithnotgreed]

7. the story on u.s. iraq policy a "jumble" is a beaut too

[w13rd0]

8. "jumble"

What a polite way to say "cluster fuck"...

[rocktivity]

9. People at DU predicted this--why couldn't they?

The Iraq insurgency is far larger than the 5,000 guerrillas previously thought to be at its core... and it's being led by well-armed Iraqi Sunnis angry at being pushed from power alongside Saddam Hussein...

Actually, there WEREN'T more than 5,000 guerillas. The real problem is the rapidly growing number of Iraqi civilians who Bush has PISSED OFF enough to take up arms against him!

:headbang:
rocknation

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Well, no shit, Dick Tracy !! Those brass monkeys live in a

golden ghetto known as the "Green Zone" and never talk to an everyday Iraqi, so what did they expect?

And there's no indication that relations will get better on the political/diplomatic front with the establishment of our super-embassy in Baghdad. New story just came out:
Link:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0708-11.htm

(snip)
"The embassy is going to have a thousand people hunkered behind sandbags. I don't know how you can conduct diplomacy in that way."
- Edward L. Peck, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from 1977 to 1980; cited in Boston Globe, June 26, 2004
(snip)


:evilfrown:

[anarchy1999]

11. I found this earlier today: What would you do?

By Glenn Becker
Online Journal Contributing Writer

July 6, 2004—What would you do if in the middle of the night a heavily armed and armored goon squad invaded your sanctuary called home and terrorized you and your family with threats and beatings, and maybe even raped the females, killed one of your family members or took them away never to be seen or heard from again?

What would you do if your child was in the backyard playing and suddenly you see his head explode from a psychopathic snipers' bullet?


snip to end:

What would you do if those who act less than human treated you as if you were less than human?

What would you do if constant fear, suffering and death caused by foreigners, with no end in sight, came to visit your neighborhood and country?

Take a moment or two and try to imagine yourself in these conditions, and then ask yourself, what would you do? That is, if you dare.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/070604Becker/070604becker.html

[Boomer]

12. They don't play fair, do they?

"Iraq's lack of a national identity card system — and guerrillas' refusal to plan attacks by easily intercepted telephone calls — makes them difficult to track."

Golly gee whiz, they "refuse" to make it easy for American soldiers to kill them. Just can't trust those furriners, can ya?

[jimshoes]

13. What blows my mind is that there are still

people that support this fiasco. Somewhere on the floor of the pentagon there is paper that says "Worst Case Scenario" describing exactly what's going on in Iraq.