Leaked intel brief: Baghdad's 'dreams and desires' shrinking

[kpete]

Daily intelligence brief: Baghdad's 'dreams and desires are shrinking'

RAW STORY
Published: Friday July 7, 2006

"A daily intelligence brief on Iraq, prepared by a private contractor for the U.S. military and companies working in Iraq, paints a grim picture of life in Baghdad," according to the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire.

An email to the paper went unanswered. RAW STORY is currently trying to obtain a copy of the brief.

Tpday's daily intelligence report documents a slew of attacks around the capital, the Journal says.

“The levels of torture and execution-style killings… illustrate the increasing disregard for human life by the perpetrators for those not of their own grouping,” the brief says.

Marked “official use only,” the report describes Baghdad as a crestfallen metropolis.

“Baghdad looks so exhausted these days and so do her people; the relentless violence, the lack of basic services and the scorching heat abolishes human desire to do anything or to even think of anything,” the report compiled by SOC-SMG Inc., a Nevada contractor, says. “Living for many Iraqis was reduced to existence a long time ago; dreams and desires are shrinking under the heavy shadows of the situation.”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Daily_intelligence_brief_Baghdads_dreams_and_0707.html

[acmavm]

1. Hell, that's a rosier description than I would have expected.

I'd be on the verge of homicide/suicide if I were the average Iraqi. They are stuck in a lose/lose situation. Between us and the Shi'it fundamentalists (worse than a rock and a hard place).

[opihimoimoi]

2. But , But, "We making Progress!"....so sez the Prez

:sarcasm:

[cantstandbush]

3. I believe the majority would take Saddam back in a heartbeat. nt