Military commanders say Baghdad security campaign an "abject failure"

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July 20, 2006

Chaos in Baghdad Has Military Worried

by John Hendren
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All Things Considered · U.S. military commanders acknowledge that the Iraqi government's campaign to bring security to Baghdad is "an abject failure." Violence has risen by some 40 percent in the capital in the past five days alone. Iraq's top Shiite cleric has issued a new appeal for peace, but few seem to be listening. At an unusually candid news conference, Brigadier General William Caldwell acknowledged things are not going as planned in the capital. Caldwell, the top American military spokesman in Iraq, stated clearly that the war for Iraq will be decided in the Baghdad's streets. "Whoever wins the Baghdad area," the general said, "is going to set the conditions to stabilize this country." For residents of the capital, the result has been a pervasive sense of instability. More than 4,500 bodies have shown up in the Baghdad morgue in the past two months alone. Another 61 bodies, most apparently executed, arrived at the city morgue today. In the meantime, thousands of Iraqis in the capital and elsewhere have given up hope of security and fled their homes. Iraq's Migration Ministry said more than 30,000 people had registered as internal refugees in July alone.

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[NewJeffCT]

1. Now, how would Sen. Lieberman respond to this?

Is this military commander undermining the troops?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. The commander is clearly a traitor!

I'm series.

[Disturbed]

3. Brigadier General William Caldwell will be

reasigned, tranfered or retire within a few weeks.

[warrens]

4. THAT FUCKING TRAITOR

Ann Coulter is gonna get his ass.

(I really like the word ABJECT in this story. Man, that Smirking Moron is such a MORAN. An incompetent boob who will now blame it all on the military. Watch.)

[whistle]

5. No failure as far as John Negroponte is concerned, that was his

...mission to install death squads and bring total instability, civil war and chaos to Iraq. All according to plan (a.k.a. PNAC).