War in Iraq over...?

[BrewAz]

Did I miss it? Apparently the War in Iraq is over...or at least it looks that way in the MSM.

I guess Liberty won out...freedom is on the march and the liberated peoples of Iraq are working it all out. To conclude this all you need to do is check out the news...Iraq coverage has dwindled...front page stories are all about the new Mid-East crisis in Lebanon.

What happened to Iraq? Does all that mean that we have finally achieved victory or are we all just resigned to "staying the course with the Republicans?

The news folks and the media should be ashamed...that even with 2574 American troops dead and thousands injured.....to say nothing of the countless 10's of thousands (conservative estimate) of Iraqi civilians dead...we have somehow lost touch with this one.

Is it all of a sudden important news when Israel attacks its neighbor? Hundreds of Iraqis are still dying each day...we now have 130,000+ troops in Iraq...troop rotations are being cancelled...and our withdrawl hopes are dimming...yet we now see a weird sort of shuttle diplomacy going on with a terrorist group in Lebanon as the target.

First the war on terror and getting Bin Laden "dead or alive"...then the left turn into Iraq (Bin Laden who?)...and now a shuttle mission to Lebanon..(Halliburton going to fix Iraq?)....Is our administration so lost and dumbfounded that they can not even finish one thing they start before they are distracted buy yet another bright light?

You know moths and other night bugs are attracted to bright lights....if you look close most get "fried" as they get to close.

BrewAz

[knowbody0]

1. amazing MSM debate over the morality of each and every

rocket and bomb. Wolf appears confused. we must get to the bottom of this!

:sarcasm:

[snowbear]

2. It is crazy, isn't it...

Yet so far only TODAY in Iraq:

07/30/06 KUNA: Three policemen injured in car bomb explosion in Mosul
Three Iraqi policemen were wounded as result of an explosion of a car bomb targeting a police patrol Southeast of the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said on Sunday.

07/30/06 AP: U.S. airstrike kills two militants amid fresh violence
A U.S. plane launched an airstrike Sunday against a building used by al-Qaida in Iraq, killing two militants, the U.S. military said. A car bomb exploded near the U.S. consulate in Kirkuk, killing two Iraqis and wounding seven others, Iraqi police said.

07/30/06 AP: Shake-Up Expected for Al-Maliki's Iraq Government
Changes will be made in the Iraqi Cabinet following an escalation in violence threatening Baghdad, politicians said Sunday. The Cabinet changes could take place as soon as next week, said Hassan al-Suneid

07/30/06 dpa: Bomb Kills Five Near Baghdad
Reports say five people were killed and 11 injured today when a bomb exploded by a minibus on a highway south of Baghdad. In a separate incident, a U.S. air strike killed four people and injured another six today in a village west of Baghdad.

07/30/06 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap truck driver in Falluja
Gunmen kidnapped a truck driver and set his vehicle on fire, police said.

07/30/06 Reuters: Three policemen seriously wounded in Mosul
Three policemen were seriously wounded by a suicide car bombing near their patrol in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

07/30/06 Reuters: Body found in Jurf al-Sakhar
A body bearing gunshot wounds was found in Jurf al-Sakhar, 80 km (53 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

07/30/06 Reuters: Two policemen wounded by IED, 44 suspects arrested
Two policemen were seriously hurt by a roadside bomb near their patrol in northern Baghdad, police said...The Iraqi army arrested 44 suspected insurgents on Saturday in different parts of the country, it said on Sunday.

07/30/06 WaPo: Iraq war from a soldier's perspective looks hot, grim
"Think of what you hate most about your job. Then think of doing what you hate most for five straight hours, every single day, sometimes twice a day, in 120-degree heat," he said. "Then ask how morale is."

07/30/06 AP: Gunmen sprayed gunfire mosque, one guard wounded
Gunmen in two cars sprayed gunfire at the Muhammad Rassulluallah mosque in western Baghdad shortly after midnight, shattering its windows and damaging walls, police said. One guard was injured.

07/30/06 Reuters: Nine bodies found in Baghdad
Police said they found nine bodies in two different parts of the capital, all bearing signs of torture.

07/30/06 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills two policemen in Falluja
A policeman was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. Two suspects were arrested

07/30/06 AFP: Northern Iraq city under terror assault
Insurgents have detonated a car bomb in a protected enclave containing the US and British consulates in Iraq's oil city of Kirkuk in the latest in a string of deadly explosions, security surces said.

07/30/06 McClatchy : Officials - There 'aren't enough troops
The Bush administration's decision to move thousands of U.S. soldiers into Baghdad to quell sectarian warfare before it explodes into outright civil war underscores a problem that's hindered the U.S. effort to rebuild Iraq from the beginning

And it just goes on and on..
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