The US is bombing Baghdad again

[malaise]

When will this fucking occupation cease.

[ixion]

1. nah, they're just 'liberating' them some more

:sarcasm:

[Fresh_Start]

2. when all the money in the treasury and all the money we can borrow

has been transferred to the Halliburtons, etc.

This administration has been about the rape of the treasury more than any other thing.

[0007]

3. Don't hold your breath!

[Dhalgren]

4. When is someone other than Juan Cole going to point out publicly

that bombing a city that you occupy is a war crime? According to international law, ariel bombardment of a territory that you occupy is murder...

[malaise]

6. I can't take much more of this

Who will stop Bush?

Sp.

[Dhalgren]

8. It looks like nobody will. Our congress just keeps giving him more

money to murder with. Out congress is in collusion with Bush and we have to face it...

[stillcool]

5. That's the surge working...

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/2007/0605bombardment.htm
US Doubles Air Attacks in Iraq
By Charles J. Hanley
Associated Press
June 5, 2007

Four years into the war that opened with "shock and awe," U.S. warplanes have again stepped up attacks in Iraq, dropping bombs at more than twice the rate of a year ago. The airpower escalation parallels a nearly four-month-old security crackdown that is bringing 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Baghdad and its surroundings - an urban campaign aimed at restoring order to an area riven with sectarian violence. It also reflects increased availability of planes from U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. And it appears to be accompanied by a rise in Iraqi civilian casualties.
In the first 4 1/2 months of 2007, American aircraft dropped 237 bombs and missiles in support of
ground forces in Iraq, already surpassing the 229 expended in all of 2006, according to U.S. Air Force figures obtained by The Associated Press.
"Air operations over Iraq have ratcheted up significantly, in the number of sorties, the number of
hours (in the air)," said Col. Joe Guastella, Air Force operations chief for the region. "It has a lot to do with increased pressure on the enemy by MNC-I" - the Multinational Corps-Iraq - "combined with more carriers."
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Examples of attacks, as reported in the Air Force's daily summary:
-Last Friday, an Air Force F-16 fighter dropped a guided 500-pound bomb near the northern city of Tal Afar that destroyed a vehicle laden with explosives to be used as a bomb.
-The day before, an F-16 dropped a similar bomb on "an inaccessible building being used by insurgents" near Samarra, north of Baghdad, with "good effects."
-Last Wednesday, another F-16 dropped bombs on "an illegal bridge and an insurgent vehicle in Baghdad."

Police and other Iraqi sources sometimes report civilian casualties in such airstrikes that are not
reflected in the official U.S. accounts. Air Force Col. Gary Crowder, deputy director of the regional air operations center, said such casualties "pale in comparison" with civilian casualties from ground combat. "In Iraq, we minimize our deployment of air-delivered weapons in populated areas," he said. Crowder, Guastella and Cox were interviewed outside Iraq at the regional U.S. air headquarters.
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Air attacks in Iraq are still relatively low compared with the numbers of weapons dropped in
Afghanistan - 929 this year as of May 15.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Bush decided that we weren't creating new terrorists quickly enough...

:banghead:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. It's no longer called 'bombing'. It's now referred to as 'surging'.

And then is quickly followed by a statement of how it's working to reduce the levels of violence in Iraq. Which implies that bombing is not violence, but rather a reduction of violence. And it's working!

Then after all that spinning most people are so dizzy they can't tell up from down anymore. Let alone remember what their question was regarding Iraq.

Mission accomplished.

[malaise]

11. It still sucks

I wonder how many civilians were killed.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

20. Hopefully most fled before the bombings

However some don't because they've no place else to flee to. It sounds as if a vast amount of damage was done and many have lost their homes and will now have nothing to return to.

The US military said in a statement on Thursday that the intensive bombing by B-1 bombers and F-16 fighter jets on the village of Arab Jabour was aimed at al-Qaeda targets.

However, a local Sunni tribal leader told Al Jazeera that many civilians were feared dead and 300 families had fled after the offensive began earlier in the week.

Abdallah el-Jbouri, who was on a visit to Syria, said that at least 40 houses and the main road out of the village were destroyed.

He said that residents had told him that people were believed to be trapped under the rubble of the ruined buildings and the injured were unable to reach hospital because of the damage to the road.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/34FF8497-B1B6-4739-BB4F-7C500D389CE0.htm

[Karenina]

16. The word is G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E.

[bdamomma]

19. yup, george has killed more than Saddam.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

22. You and I know that

Most of the rest of the world knows that. However, that doesn't slow down the US spin machines.

[SpiralHawk]

10. "SURGING onward to greater oil & munitions profits." - Commander AWOL

"I vow to remain on vacation (smirk) until war profits are Way Maximized for my cabal of corrupt republicon homelander cronies. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL

[malaise]

24. Here's a good link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2653724

[TwilightGardener]

12. 5 years later...more progress! Woohoo!

[onethatcares]

13. well, hell, we've just about got them used to 4 hrs of electricity

and some running water, can't have that, nope, just can't abide with progress like that. What the fukkkkkk is wrong with this picture? We invade and allow AQ to establish inroads that weren't there before, we bomb the country to smithereens and then begin to rebuild it, baghdad included, then when the good news of all the schools and shit that we are rebuilding gets to the media, we bomb the hell out of it again.

How much does darth stand to make off this mess???

[Didereaux]

14. The Green Zone had become a haven fro insurgents?

[AlCzervik]

15. "my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended"

[bdamomma]

17. what was that comment that was made by who???

was it Armitage??? they want to bomb Iraq into the Stone Age, terrible absolutely terrible what we have done to their country and their citizens we are paying too, we are not getting bombed but our treasury and our economy is going down the drain. sickening.

[elizfeelinggreat]

18. unbelievable

truly, it's unbelievable.

And Sad, incredibly sad.


We must fight for our democratic candidate, ANY of our candidates would be a vast improvement on this situation.

[bdamomma]

21. you know how dare this effin evil man is in Jerusalem lighting candles

acting so pious and the world is burning, I hate this man, hate him to what he has done to us and to the world.:grr:

[malaise]

23. It's called a total disconnect

Bush is fugging mad.