Lasseter Reveals Iraq War's Dirty Little Secret: U.S. Stepping Up Bombing

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Lasseter Reveals Iraq War's Dirty Little Secret: U.S. Stepping Up Bombing

NEW YORK The Pentagon announced this week that, far from pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, it is rushing another few hundred there, as reinforcements. It still maintains that it hopes to "draw down" troops soon. But how can the U.S. pull some troops out of Iraq with an insurgency seemingly growing in strength, and yet maintain military pressure?

The answer from Knight Ridder's longtime Baghdad correspondent Tom Lasseter: American forces have dramatically increased air strikes in Iraq--a subject that has traditonally received very little press coverage--during the past five months. A review of military data, he writes, "shows that daily bombing runs and jet-missile launches have increased by more than 50 percent in the past five months, compared with the same period last year."

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U.S. warplanes struck at least 22 cities during this period, dropping bombs on 76 days, or about every other day.

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"The people of Karabilah hate the foreigners who crossed the border and entered their areas and got into a fight with the Americans," al Dulaimi said. "The residents now also hate the American occupiers who demolished their houses with bombs and killed their families ... and now the people of Karabilah want to join the resistance against the Americans for what they did."

[Greeby]

1. Seymour Hersh has been saying this for a while now

Pretty scary, those speeches of his :scared:

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Guns bombs and winning the heart of the people

No fund of redevelopment of destroy facilities
No fund for creation of job

Gee these people in charge seriously need brains examine.