Coalition losing cities to Shiites( and WH is in denial)

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD - Violent resistance to the American occupation of Iraq spread to new parts of the country on Wednesday as armed supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tightened their grip on the holy cities of Karbala, Kufa and Najaf and drove coalition forces out of a city in central Iraq.

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In central and southern Iraq, fighters loyal to Sadr consolidated their gains Wednesday and vowed to turn Iraq into "another Vietnam for America." Members of the Mahdi Army, a militia loyal to Sadr, seized control of Kut, a city southeast of Baghdad, when Ukrainian troops withdrew after an overnight gunbattle.

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In Crawford, Texas, President Bush spent the day at his ranch, consulting with military commanders and his national security team and speaking by phone with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is to visit Washington next week.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan blamed the unrest on "a relatively small number of extremist elements" and said the fighting did not amount to a return to "major combat" in Iraq.

More:http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0408iraq08.html

[pinniped]

1. It would appear that the vacant Iraqi Information Minister position...

has been filled by some knucklehead in the disgraceful wh named scott mcclusterfuck.

[Lexingtonian]

2. I'm hoping for a Mohammed al-Sahaf moment

You know, Paul Bremer standing in front of TV cameras on a Baghdad street saying "This Shia uprising thing is all a rumor and exaggeration, they're just a bunch of thugs who...." as in the background twenty guys in keffiyehs toting AK-47s and RPG launchers cross the street a block up and set fire to an empty 'coalition' Hummer.

[sandnsea]

3. Well, I don't,

but the visual is pretty funny!

[Old and In the Way]

4. So Scott, how many years do we plan on sustaining minor combat

in Iraq? I'll be the Iraqis have the rest of their lives to sustain minor combat operations against us.

[izzie]

5. Well lets hope Bush is not talking to CIA,and FBI as they....

got nothing right and did not even know of this new stuff going on.It seem we must get the screw balls running the poor people of Iraq now out of power.If I recall the CIA did not even know the USSR was going down. So much for all the money we put into that group.