U.S. Kills Four in New Iraq Operation (Does that mean we are winning?)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20030713/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_operation

BALAD, Iraq - American forces killed four suspected pro-Saddam insurgents and arrested more than 50 people as they launched a fourth major offensive in central Iraq (news - web sites), an operation meant to blunt expected attacks on U.S. soldiers, military officials said. snip

He said two homes used to produce anti-U.S. propaganda were raided and that American forces came under rocket-propelled grenade and rifle fire in a sweep through seven locations in Diala Province, northeast of Baghdad. snip

The three previous anti-insurgency operations — Peninsula Strike, Desert Scorpion and Sidewinder — yielded mixed results.

Hundreds of suspects were detained, but many were released for lack of evidence. Numerous large weapons caches were discovered, but the attacks against Americans continued.

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1. Its always Iraqi body counts ("good news"?) before the bad news

Thats what I thought to myself when I posted this. Ten minutes later CNN was reporting that "at least one" American soldier was killed today. Am I starting to see a pattern here?

Don

[I AM SPARTACUS]

4. the white house morans learned NOTHING from Vietnam...

[snippy]

2. Will the families of these 54 dead and captured Iraqis now welcome us

with flags and flowers? I wonder whether they think Bush is a compassionate conqueror?

[LivingInTheBubble]

3. clamping down on free speech by instilling terror.

He said two homes that were used to produce anti-U.S. propaganda materials were seized

They seized peoples homes for producing "propaganda"?
Has a number of worrying parallels, e.g demolishing houses of the families of palestinians.

I assume next (or already) they will make whole villages suffer for a single member daring to oppose the occupation.

[indictrichardperle]

5. These "offensives" against Iraqis

are just inflaming the situation, but the biggest mistake Bremer has made is the new "Iraqi Council", that is made up of a majority INC-Chalabi stooges and Kurds. That is going to seriously complicate the resistance.

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8. Welcome to democracy

The administration are such cowards its pathetic. Looks like the only 'freedom' Operation Iraqi Freedom has brought is the freedom to be repressed, to have a lower standard of living, and to have their natural resources stolen.

[rocketdem]

6. of course we are winning

We killed more of them than they killed of ours so on that great big scoreboard in the sky, we're still way ahead. That is, after all, the way that it works, right?

[I AM SPARTACUS]

7. are we winning now...???