US General: "...security plan in Baghdad has seen dazzling success that citizens have not noticed.."

[sabra]

http://66.111.34.180/look/english/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=49145&NrIssue=2&NrSection=1

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The law-imposing plan is continuing. Iraqi and U.S. forces have managed to purge 35% of Baghdad neighborhoods of terrorist groups," Brig. Gen. Brooks said.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have imposed a security crackdown on the Iraqi capital since mid-February 2007 as part of a plan to put an end to violence and curb militia groups.
According to Brooks, joint U.S.-Iraqi forces are currently controlling 40% of Baghdad's areas, including al-Ghazaliya neighborhood, al-Khadraa district in Karkh and al-Shab neighborhood in Baghdad's eastern side of Rasafa.

Brooks did not provide a timetable for obtaining full control of Baghdad.

"The law-imposing security plan in Baghdad has seen dazzling success that citizens have not noticed because of the violent operations that target them," Brooks explained, adding that U.S. forces will continue erecting concrete barriers around some of Baghdad's neighborhoods and markets to block car bombs from reaching their targets.

:wtf:

[shadowknows69]

1. Guess what General Asswipe

All we're noticing is 90 of our soldiers dead already this month. Countless more innocent Iraqis dead because of our presence. No end in sight.

[BOSSHOG]

2. The BGEN must be angling for that second star

[DemGa]

3. Sounds like a "catastrophic success" n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

4. That guy is kissing some ass bigtime to get another star.

That's how that works...if you're not really a fighting general you can still do okay kissin ass.

[ljm2002]

5. Yeah, it's the same "dazzling success"...

...(that no one can discern) that is the Bush presidency.

[coalition_unwilling]

8. Reminds me of former Vermont Senator George Aiken's response

to Westmoreland referring to Tet '68 as a victory for the U.S. in Vietnam. Quipped Aiken, "If this is a success, I'd hate to see what failure looks like."

[Solly Mack]

6. .....

U.S. and Iraqi forces have imposed a security crackdown on the Iraqi capital since mid-February 2007 as part of a plan to put an end to violence and curb militia groups.



"The law-imposing security plan in Baghdad has seen dazzling success that citizens have not noticed because of the violent operations that target them,"

uh...
uh...
uh...

[malaise]

7. Tell him to let his family join him

They'll love it.

[havocmom]

9. Hard for people to notice all that success when they have to keep their heads down

:eyes:

Generals as propagandists? What a waste of a brain-trust.

[frogcycle]

10. "dazzling success "

erecting concrete barriers.


we take some of our finest young people, spend a fortune training and equipping, send them halfway around the world to do menial labor erecting concrete barriers. A job we are busy trying to bring more immigrants into the US to do cheaply, since it requires no skill.

And the Iraqi people don't notice these "dazzling successes" because they are getting blown up, kidnapped, raped, beheaded...


This is so fucking stupid. A moron came up with this concrete barrier 'strategy.' How in the hell is turning the entire city into an eggcrate doing ANYTHING to establish a condition under which we could then leave "honorably?" It's not. It is a tactic to attempt to suppress the violence during an open-ended colonial occupation while big oil steals the people's resources.

Any serious intent to actually quell the violence would involve getting the leaders to the table and talking. A Jimmy Carter Camp David effort. That means whoever they are. Known insurgents, Al Sadr, you name it. If THEY want to partition, create "safe zones", that's their call. Crap, we had endless "negotiations" with North Vietnam while still fighting. I'm not holding out great hope for resoluton, but dammit, calling these eggcrates "progress" is not ANY hope.

building those barriers is proof positive that we are never leaving if the same cabal now calling the shots stays in power. And guess what? It is also proof positive that they have no INTENTION of losing one iota of that power. Stonewalling on subpoenas is just marking time. They will continue to play with the People, say ludicrous things, etc. as long as nobody REALLY gets in their face. As soon as that happens, though, they will just say "game over," trot out the goon squad, and start busting heads. Bye Bye US of A, hello WorldDominion Inc.

[Poiuyt]

11. A while ago, a reporter was asked why they don't report on the success stories

She said that there were success stories, but that it was too dangerous for the reporters to go out to cover them.

[PA Democrat]

12. Maybe the citizens were too busy worrying that 1 of their loved ones might be among the 20 beheaded

found today south of Baghdad or among the 22 killed by a bomb at a Baghdad bus station today.