60% of Baghdad not controlled

[SunDrop23]

BAGHDAD - Security forces in Baghdad have full control in only 40 percent of the city five months into the pacification campaign, a top American general said Saturday as U.S. troops began an offensive against two al-Qaida strongholds on the capital's southern outskirts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

A great line from this article:

"There's about 30 percent of the city that needs work, like here in Dora and the surrounding areas," Odierno said. "Those are the areas that we consider to be the hot spots, which usually have a Sunni-Shiite fault line, and also areas where al-Qaida has decided to make a stand."

Huh? Can't be right. The insurgency was in its last throes ages ago.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Last time I poured gasoline on a fire..... I got burned. n/t

[giventruth]

2. so we're screwed

If you think this is bad, wait until we piss off Iran some more.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. 'screwn' actually

see the DU Glossery...
Screwn - FReeper for "screwed", as posted on the website www.freerepublic.com the morning after the 2006 midterm elections. In context: "We are screwn".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=358&topic_id=190#s


Welcome to DU!

[GreenTea]

3. Get Real! They haved lied about EVERYTHING!-If they are telling us 40% you know it's less than 25%.

Does anyone believe BushCo, the Pentagon, the State Department about annything?

They will all just continue to lie and lie...Billions are being made and stolen...the war for profit must go on ...

They knew there would be many death's for their imperialism but that's just the way it goes...billions to be made and yet to be made...It's just business & capitalism...some win, some lose...But they must continue to lie to keep the money flowing for years to come. that's just part of doing business...PR!

As long as we are occupying another country with force and stealing their resources there will be death to Americans forced to be there...It's for business and to protect the corporations...you think they'd be able to steal with out our military?

American forces are not going to leave as long as there's a drop of oil left in the region...

Fuck the soldiers dying, fuck the innocent people being slaughtered, there's trillions of dollars in un-metered oil yet to steal and trillions of our tax dollars for the Halliburtons Blackhawk, etc..yet to steal!

[SunDrop23]

6. If they are telling me 40%, I believe 0%

We don't control shit.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Despite the surge's failure, Pelosi and Reid will continue to fund the war

They don't have the cojones to shut this war off.