U.S. Says Attacks in Iraq Up 40 Percent

[sabra]

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/93-07202006-686526.html

U.S. Says Attacks in Iraq Up 40 Percent


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric urged his followers Thursday to refrain from reprisal violence against Sunnis, his strongest call yet for an end to increasing sectarian bloodshed. The statement by Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani came as U.S. military officials reported a 40 percent increase in the daily average of attacks in the Baghdad area.

U.S. spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said there has been an average of 34 attacks a day against U.S. and Iraqi forces in the capital over the past five days. The daily average for the period June 14 until July 13 was 24 a day, he said.

"We have not witnessed the reduction in violence one would have hoped for in a perfect world," U.S. spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said at a news briefing Thursday. "The only way we're going to be successful in Baghdad is to get the weapons off the streets."

Caldwell said militias and death squads have responded to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for a crackdown by intensifying attacks to derail Iraq's new unity government.

[rodeodance]

1. no one is expecting a perfect world.

......"We have not witnessed the reduction in violence one would have hoped for in a perfect world," U.S. spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said at a news briefing Thursday. "The only way we're going to be successful in Baghdad is to get the weapons off the streets."

[Roland99]

3. It's a beautiful world

It's a beautiful world we live in
A sweet romantic place
Beautiful people everywhere
The way they show they care
Makes me want to say
It's a beautiful world
For you

It's a wonderful time to be here
It's nice to be alive
Wonderful people everywhere
The way they comb their hair
Makes me want to say
It's a wonderful place
For you

Hey

Tell me what I say

Boy n girl with the new clothes on
You can shake it to me all night long

Hey hey

It's not for me

[Pachamama]

10. D-E-V-O - They got it right....(I love that song!)

:hi:

[hadrons]

6. "we're going to be successful in Baghdad is to get the weapons off the str

don't tell the NRA that

[denverbill]

2. Thank God we've turned a corner.

With the resistance in it's last throes like this, and Iraqi troops ready to take control of the situation, we can finally start bringing home the troops, and we won't be cutting and running or surrendering to terrorists. I just don't understand why the media isn't reporting all the good news from Iraq.

I also don't understand why we need to get all the weapons off the streets. Everyone knows an armed society is a polite society. </freeper talk>

[grytpype]

4. It's not a perfect world goddamnit!

You people who think we should have control of the capital by now, you are SILLY DREAMERS who want a PERFECT WORLD and it just ISN'T a perfect world, GOT THAT NUMBNUTS!

Yeah, we are making REAL GOOD PROGRESS, but it's not the kind of progress where we WIN. It is a DIFFERENT KIND of progress!

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Two words: Mission Accomplished!!

Keep repeating . . .

[Pachamama]

11. No, Five words - Freedom is on the march!

:hi:

Rinse. Repeat.

[auburngrad82]

7. But wait! Didn't we kill the head of the insurgency? Al Zarqawi?

They should have just laid their weapons down and bowed to their new puppet government...



Liberal bumper stickers

[jseankil]

8. The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes," Dick Cheney, June 2005 /nm

nm

[Az_lefty]

9. someone want to tell the Iraqi's that we're winning the war?

they don't seem to understand this.

[Halliburton]

12. BUT ZARQAWI IS DEAD

and bush flew in for his photo-op. things were looking up and a corner was turned. at least that's what the media told me.