In Iraq, enemy has evolved (CBS today)

[Mari333]

) Nearly six months after the fall of Baghdad, U.S. troops are suffering an average of three to six deaths and 40 wounded every week, the commander of American forces in Iraq said Thursday.

"The enemy has evolved — a little bit more lethal, a little more complex, a little more sophisticated, and in some cases, a little bit more tenacious," said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. "The evolution is about what we expected to see over time."

American forces are being attacked 15-20 times a day, counting roadside bombs, mostly in Baghdad and the surrounding Sunni strongholds to the west and north of the capital, Sanchez said. >












http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml


edit to add: BEING THE TROOPS HOME NOW

[Sagan]

1. It's about what we expected to see????

IT'S ABOUT WHAT WE EXPECTED TO SEE?????

Oh no, you sanctimonious bastard! YOU and your masters told us of the loving, peaceful rose-throwing Iraqis that Chalabi sold you. You did NOT tell us to expect a tenacious, sophisticated, evolving resistance.

That's BULLSHIT!

[Mari333]

2. Yes, we marched we were right and we KNEW it would happen

They could have hired me! You! any of us to be their National Security Advisor..
You pre emptively attack a Mideast country with a secret agenda based on lies and it becomes a MAGNET for every angry person in the ME...
It creates new terrorists, every day
You cant hold up a pack of lies forever, eventually the truth leaks out
and who pays the price? The soldiers and their families do, then the entire US public...
all on the whim of a group of thugs in power..

We knew, we marched, we screamed to high heaven.
Now, we watch with horror as the worst nightmare unfolds, and we were right all along.

[StaggerLee]

3. Sounds like the general has been supplementing his MREs with crack cocaine

Couldn't buy a clue with Oprah's help.