U.S. commander for Baghdad OBLITERATES Cheney's "final throes" bravado

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Along with Operation Dagger, closer to the capital near Tharthar lake, the high-profile assaults took place as President Bush, absorbing new criticism of his strategy in Iraq, asked Americans to show patience on what he called a "central front in the war on terror."

A leading organization for Iraq's Sunni Arabs, the minority once dominant under Saddam Hussein, accused U.S. forces of killing women and children and destroying homes, schools and other civilian buildings around Karabila and Qaim. "Operation Spear ... will break on the rock of Iraqi solidarity," the Muslim Clerics Association said in a statement, reflecting anger at U.S. military tactics. The chief doctor at the area's main hospital in Qaim, Hamdi al-Alusi, said he had seen 10 bodies and treated 17 wounded. Most of those hurt were women and children, he said.

At least 1,718 U.S. troops have died in 27 months in Iraq. General William Webster, the U.S. commander for Baghdad, said on Saturday a month-long sweep known as Operation Lightning had halved the number of car bombings in the capital. But he added: "Certainly saying anything about 'breaking the back' or 'about to reach the end of the line' or those kinds of things do not apply to the insurgency at this point." A suicide car bomb attack on a police convoy in Baghdad killed five people and wounded 22, police sources said.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20050619/ts_nm/iraq_dc_37

[The Doctor.]

1. That commander must hate America.

He's obviously helping the insurgents. :sarcasm:

[madrchsod]

2. before this war started

several of us here were posting that the us military would eventually start turning on the bush war machine. there have been purges during this war of the critics but the flood is going to be to great to hold back now. the military is watching the once great us military being destroyed by the sands of iraq and the civilians in the war dept...we are now seeing just how the german military felt about their leadership during ww2...