Gen Casey: More Troops needed in Baghdad. Well no screaming eagle shit

[thepurpose]

general. Now you get a fucking clue. Guess the kiss Bush ass pills all the time pills are finally wearing off giving you a moment of clarity. Citizens of a country you are occupying dying by the dozens is really not a good thing.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 12 — Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the senior American commander in Iraq, said today that “terrorists and death squads” were responsible for the surge in sectarian killings here in recent weeks, and that more American forces may need to move into the capital to prevent the deadly cycle from escalating even further.

His remarks came on a day in which 30 more people were killed and 37 wounded in and around Baghdad, including 20 people who were kidnapped from a bus station 60 miles north of the city and executed, Iraqi and American officials said.

A few hours before General Casey spoke, Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, told Iraqi lawmakers that a program of national reconciliation was the country’s “last chance” to avoid slipping to chaos.

General Casey said Sunni Arab terrorist groups affiliated with Al Qaeda were killing Shiite civilians in Baghdad to show their continued power in the aftermath of an American missile strike last month that killed the leader of Al Qaeda insurgents in Iraq, Abu Musab al- Zarqawi.

In response to the killings by Sunni Arabs, the general said, Shiite “death squads” in Baghdad had begun indiscriminately killing Sunni residents, including dozens who were seemingly randomly pulled from their cars and homes on Sunday and executed on the street.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/world/middleeast/12cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1152763200&en=069d57e5cb896348&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[msongs]

1. even a nobody like me can see the next move in the game - >

when more american forces move into the capital, that means less elsewhere, which means the "enemy" will start attacking where there are fewer american troops. gotcha!

unless of course the "more american forces" are going to come from outside Iraq.

Does this mean the "terrorists" fighting us there so we won't go other places?

Msongs

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[joemurphy]

2. But, hey, nobody's reporting the good news...the real progress

that Iraqis are making in building a real democracy in the blah blah blah blah Middle blah blah blah blah East and how Americans blah blah got rid blah of that dirty dictator blah blah that tortured blah blah and killed blah blah thousands of blah blah blah Iraqis blah blah and you should blah blah blah see blah blah blah blah those Iraqis blah blah blah flocking blah blah blah blah to the polls blah blah blah blah blah and blah blah blah blah casting blah blahOOOOOOOIIIIIIILLLLLLLL blah allthose blah blah blah blah blah blah ballots blah blah blah and hey, blah blah blah there really blah blah were blah blah WMDs blah blah but blah blah Saddam hid blah blah 'em! blah blah blah and what we're doing blah blah see blah blah is building blah blah blah blah democracy blah blah blah and if we have to spill some blah American blood to do it blah blah blah blah well blah blah blah it's worth blah blah blah blah blah blah it! blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

[tinfoilinfor2005]

3. SOSDD

Same old shit different day...

[Doctor_J]

4. Non-Sequitor's Captain Obvious couldn't have said it better

The other school of thought is that Iraq and Afghanistan are now lost, there is no point in throwing more bodies in there.

[justgamma]

5. Well, if the idiots had listened to the

generals in the first place, you know, when they were looting the same vase over and over. you know, when the generals who wanted more troops were let go, maybe this could have been avoided. But Noooo, Rummy had to do it on the cheap. And it's costing us dearly. Now, get us the heck out of there!!!

[Doctor_J]

6. They got what they wanted out of Iraq

And it was worth every one of the 120,000 deaths to them.