Has The US Military EVER Predicted A DOWNTURN In The Violence?

[DistressedAmerican]

It seems like ever few weeks we get one of these stories that goes like this, "The military predicts an uptick in violence going into ______________ (fill in the event of choice here)."

Sadly they are almost always right about the violence escalating. At this point it does not take a military analyst to predict escalating violence. I predict it. You probably do to. Easy.

What I look forward to is the day when they start predicting a downturn in the violence. Has that ever happened? Have I just missed it somewhere along the line?

I expect we will see a decline in the violence when we get the fuck out of there. We had no business going in in the first place and we need to get the hell out or keep getting more of these reports of predicted escalating violence.

Last throes my tick bitten ass!

This is an old one. But, appropriate to the thread...



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10820807/from/RS.2/

U.S. military predicts increase in Iraq violence

Official expects more attacks as new government starts coming together


Updated: 11:29 a.m. ET Jan. 12, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military predicted Thursday that violence would increase around Iraq as final results from last month's elections are released and political groups forge ahead with forming a new government.

Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition force, said that a series of "horrific attacks" that left at least 500 people dead since the Dec. 15 elections were an indication that insurgents were trying to seize the opportunity of a transition to a new government to try destabilize the democratic process.

"As democracy advances in the form of election results and government formation, and as the military pressure continues, and the pressure generated by political progress increases, we expect more violence across Iraq," he said at a news briefing.

Final election results are expected to be released early next week.

Opportunity to attack
Alston said that as a new government starts coming together "those committed to seeing democracy fail will see this time of transition as an opportunity to attack the innocent people of Iraq."

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