Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It's a secret...Iraq's Security is Improving

[debbierlus]

According to a CLASSIFIED REPORT...(yes, be quiet, this is triple secret)...Iraq's security is actually IMPROVING.

Never mind those reports where the entire city of Baghdad is under 24 hour curfew (officially) and can't leave their house for water, food, or any other necessary item.

Stop dwelling on the recent death total.

A Super Duper Top Ultra-secret CLASSIFIED report has just been issued (opps, leaked) that actually the security in Iraq is so good they don't want the enemies to know how good it is because if they did they would come back.

:rofl:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_go_ot/iraq_intelligence

[rockymountaindem]

1. Mum's the word n/t

[Bonobo]

2. How could they have let THAT slip out!

Wow, they sure are careless with leaks these days!

:rofl:

[Muttocracy]

4. and I'm sure it has NOTHING to do with Petraeus and Crocker

coming to Congress.

NOTHING :tinfoilhat:

[Muttocracy]

3. Well, violence is down now that ethnic cleansing has been substantial

We need a smiley for someone dusting off their hands in completion.

[elocs]

5. In Bush's Bizarro World. n/t

[Historic NY]

6. Oh really, who says? Attacks on U.S. Forces Soared....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040103165.html?hpid=moreheadlines

BAGHDAD, April 1 -- Attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces soared across Baghdad in the last week of March to the highest levels since the deployment of additional U.S. troops here reached full strength last June, according to U.S. military data and analysis.

The sharp spike in attacks, in response to an ill-prepared Iraqi government offensive in the southern city of Basra last week, underscores the fragility of the U.S. military's hard-won security gains in Iraq and how easily those gains can be erased.

"Last week was clearly a bad week and shows the tenuous nature of security, which is something we've been stressing for some time now," Navy Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, the U.S. military's chief spokesman, wrote in an e-mail response to questions. "Security in Iraq is not irreversible, and any number of actors can affect the level of violence if and when they choose to."

Over the week that began March 25, when the offensive began in Basra, there were 728 attacks against U.S. coalition forces, Iraqi security forces and civilians across Iraq, according to U.S. military data obtained by The Washington Post. Of these, 430 -- or almost 60 percent of the attacks -- occurred in Baghdad, the major focus of last year's buildup of 30,000 additional U.S. troops. The forces have begun to withdraw, and the rest are to be gone by the end of July.

In comparison, the average weekly attack rate in Baghdad last June was 326 attacks, according to U.S. military statistics.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/04/02/GR2008040201073.html?sid=ST2008040200905

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102471.html?sid%3DST2008040200905&sub=AR

[Amonester]

7. tsk tsk

This is the real world reality the WP are writing about, not the faux neo-con fabricated reality they catapult and create from their fantasy think tanks while we, the "little" people, keep ourselves busy studying their latest lies, they keep themselves busy creating "new" realities, but faux.