The truest real-life Progressives ever.- Ross Colvin, Reuters
Sun Jun 1, 2008 12:22pm EDT [ Drudge]
* U.S. monthly death toll drops to new low
* Iraq says oil production at post-war high
* Australia pulls out combat troops
BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. troop deaths in Iraq fell to their lowest level last month since the 2003 invasion and officials said on Sunday improved security also helped the country boost oil production in May to a post-war high.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Iraq's oil minister credited better security for the two milestones, which illustrated a dramatic turnabout in the fortunes of a country on the brink of all-out sectarian civil war just 12 months ago.
"We've still got a distance to go but I think lower casualty rates are a reflection of some real progress," Gates told reporters in Singapore. "The key will be to continue to sustain the progress we have seen."
M en and women of the United States Armed Forces, thank you. You are the History Makers. You're doing more than making a difference in individual Iraqis' lives. You're changing our whole world for the better. Our freedoms here are much more secure today solely due to your efforts over there. No islamass murderers are successfully setting up any bases of operations in Iraq, training to attack your families and countrymen back home. The greater stability that you and your Iraqi comrades whom you trained have forged in the region is creating a multiplier effect which gives regular Iraqi and other nations' citizens strong incentives and reasons to support and assist you as you help them build a country for themselves and take it back from the thugs and terrorists who no longer can find any welcoming place inside its borders.
Well done.
American generals have stressed that the security gains are both fragile and reversible. That was shown in March, when an Iraqi government offensive against Shi'ite militias in southern Basra sparked a surge in violence in the capital and other cities, catching U.S. and Iraqi officials off guard.
The U.S. military said 19 soldiers died in May, the lowest monthly death toll in a five-year-old war that has so far claimed the lives of more than 4,000 American soldiers.
Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani told Reuters in an interview that the improved security had helped Iraq, which has the world's third-largest oil reserves, raise oil production to a post-war high of 2.5 million barrels per day in May.
Iraq's oil industry, hit by decades of sanctions, war and neglect, was a vulnerable target for saboteurs after the U.S. invasion. Attacks on pipelines quickly destroyed any hopes of using Iraq's vast oil reserves to fund its reconstruction.
The military says violence in Iraq is now at a four-year low following crackdowns by U.S. and Iraqi forces on Shi'ite militias in southern Basra and Baghdad and on al Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul, its last major urban stronghold.
"In May we have exceeded for the first time a 2 million barrels per day export rate. In production we have exceeded 2.5 million bpd," Shahristani said.
Hoo-ah, men! Combat Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Guardsmen, all of that progress is your doing. No mere "talking the talk and walking the walk" could get any of that done. You've been doing the jobs no one else on the face of the earth would or ever could hope to do a hundredth as well as you're able and willing to do for us each and every day.
Anyone searching for the purest definition of service could come across no better examples than the ones you've all set.
The number of Iraqi civilians killed in May also fell, to 505, after reaching a seven-month high of 968 in April, figures compiled by the interior, defence and health ministries showed.
Lord, please continue to help and protect these brave Defenders of our freedoms, and comfort and bless their families and loved ones, especially of the Heroes who sacrificed all in devotion to You, to honor, and to their country as You help us to always remember them and forever appreciate what they did for us all.
Labels: Good News, our Freedoms' Defenders, Sealing the fate of freedom's enemies, Troop Victories, World War IV
The DeMSMoqratiq Party will start ignoring this victory in 5... 4... 3....- An Interior Ministry spokesman said an associate of [AQI leader Abu Ayyab al-]Masri detained in an earlier operation took security forces late on Wednesday to where the al Qaeda leader was hiding.
After being detained, Masri confessed to being the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, he said, adding that his identity still had to be confirmed. Other Iraqi security officials said the suspect was in American custody for identification.
Al Qaeda in Iraq was headed by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until he was killed in a U.S. air strike in June 2006. His successor, Masri, was Zarqawi's close associate, and has a U.S. bounty of $5 million (2.6 million pounds) on his head.
Duraid Kashmula, the governor of Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, also said the detained man had confessed to being Masri.
ike Hillosery “Bill's ‘Wife’” al-Qlinterminated's presidential campaign lying, cheating, stealing effort to seize absolute power for "her"self and "her" same old sociocommunist comrades, al-Qaeda in Iraq is for all intents and purposes dead.
Lars Larson
Update: Rattling the enemy
Friday, May 09, 2008, 10:01 PM - U.S. denies Iraqi reports of al-Masri's capture
By Joseph Giordono, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, May 10, 2008
U.S. military officials denied reports Friday that Iraqi forces had captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday.
Iraqi officials claimed late Thursday they had arrested Abu Ayyub al-Masri — also known as Abu Hamza al-Mujahir — during a raid in Mosul, which has been described as the last urban stronghold in the country for al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni insurgent groups.
But the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, said Friday that "Neither (U.S. nor Iraqi forces) detained or killed AAM yesterday."
"AAM" refers to al-Masri.
Several other U.S. officials in Iraq said on background that the Iraqis had arrested a man with "a similar or the same name" as the al-Qaida in Iraq leader, leading to the announcement by the Iraqi army late Thursday.
How many of AAM's fellow terrorist leaders put in a phone call to him after hearing about his capture to find out whether it was true? How many of those calls were we able to intercept or trace? How relieved were those leaders there and the Dhimm'al-qratiq Party's ones here after finding out AAM wasn't captured?
Labels: al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaedaqratic Party, Good News, Troop Victories, World War IV
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
You're standing in our Troops' light.rom Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal comes a firsthand account of this civil affairs mission (partly R-rated for language; small dead animals). It's one of many that's helping extend the progress of freedom and hope among all people of Iraq's Anbar Province, as well as showing for all the world to see just some of the great and positive history the members of our nation's Armed Forces and government agencies are indelibly making there.
If Sorry Reid weren't so hell bent on shutting down his political opposition here, he might instead allow time for the media to cover these brave Americans' numerous successes in Iraq. Then our Troops wouldn't have to again ask another embedded journalist—
- "Are you going to bash us or what?" he finally said.
"I didn't come all the way out here in August just to bash you guys," I said. I felt some sympathy for his complaint, but was at the same time tired of hearing it. "I write what I see and hear, good and bad. You won't get bad press from me unless you act badly."
"Thank you," he said. "You'll be the first."
I'm hardly the first. I know several journalists, political liberals as well as conservatives, who write it straight and don't wallow in soldier-bashing. But the soldier-bashing that's also out there sure does make an impression. Every journalist who embeds in Iraq must hear these complaints as often as I did, and I heard it daily.
Labels: Good News, our Freedoms' Defenders, Sealing the fate of freedom's enemies, Troop Victories, World War IV
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
President Reagan: "The only real failure in life is the failure to try."ost. Failed. Not working. Get out. Quit.
Dhimm al'Qrats always demand we give up when something doesn't turn out to be an easy win. They'll never demand we try harder to overcome any difficulty that stands between us and total victory.
Had Harpy Reid been Dhimmirat Leader on January 27, 1967 — the day three American astronauts lost their lives during a Project Apollo launch test — he would've come out the next day to demand we forget trying to send anyone to the moon. It's too hard. It's costing lives. We'll never make it. The program's a total failure.
Had he been in the Continental Congress on December 23, 1776 — the day Tom Paine published these words:
- THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
— Humbuggy Reid would've stood up and declared the Revolutionary War lost. It's too hard. It's costing lives. The Troops' enlistments are all going to expire. General Washington's plan is a total failure. Retreat. Surrender. Defeat. Disgrace.
These words we associate with Doomoqratic Party politicians because their vocabulary contains none of encouragement, hope, or that uniquely American attitude — once common among members of Congress in time of war — of continuing on, no matter what the odds, and doing whatever it takes to achieve another victory for human freedom.
So it's not surprising that Harridan Reid's moribund brain cells are incapable of increasing his language skills so they include any mention of the following hopeful and encouraging assessments.
- It might be possible to demonstrate in principle that the Anbar Awakening movement could spread outside of the province, but it is not necessary, because it has already done so. Although some media outlets continue to portray this spread as speculative or potential, it is, in fact, well documented. Australian counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen recently described it in detail in a post on the Small Wars Journal website; Michael Gordon described it in even greater detail in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, and U.S. military and political officials have been briefing on it for many weeks. Local Sunni Arabs all throughout Central Iraq have come forward to volunteer for service in the Iraqi Security Forces in order to fight al Qaeda in Iraq and bring peace to their war-torn lands. This movement has gained great traction in Diyala Province — another area that was so heavily infested with AQI and Shia militias that many had given it up for lost — where it helped secure the gains of recent U.S.-ISF operations that cleared its capital, Baqubah. It is growing rapidly in the areas south of Baghdad (which Michael Gordon wrote about), including in the area formerly known as the "triangle of death" and serious al Qaeda safe havens in the Arab Jabour area. It has spread into Abu Ghraib, where more than 2,400 Sunni young men volunteered to join the ISF, and over 1,700 have been accepted by the Iraqi government. And it has even spread into Baghdad itself, where “concerned citizens groups†are helping U.S. forces track down and eliminate AQI fighters and leaders and to secure their neighborhoods. Movements are starting to grow even in Salah-ad-Din Province, site of Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit and Samarra, and also a major base for Sunni rejectionists and AQI fighters. The evidence of the spread of these movements is absolutely irrefutable. Anbar may be unique — and many of the local movements outside the province have ostentatiously refused to call themselves "awakenings" or to model themselves after the Anbar movement — but the Iraqis themselves are aggressively adopting the Anbar model to suit local circumstances in order to work with the Coalition and the Iraqi government against terrorists and militias to secure their homes.
Or these: - Six months ago, insurgents operated freely around Baghdad's belts. Now U.S. and Iraqi forces limit them to discrete areas, more distant from urban centers, where they cannot easily defend themselves, or support one another or their vehicle-bomb network.
Smaller groups who escaped from their safe havens during combat operations generally fled along the Tigris and Diyala River valleys. The remnants of al Qaeda in western Baghdad can no longer quickly reinforce their positions from outside or within the city.
Gens. David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno followed up Phantom Thunder with Phantom Strike. The new campaign, launched on Aug. 13, aims to prevent terrorists and militias from reconstituting their forces in Baghdad, its belts or elsewhere. U.S. and Iraqi forces are moving along the river valleys to destroy the remnants of enemy groups and eliminate any new safe havens they try to establish. Their operations are also preventing Shiite militias from taking over territory al Qaeda once controlled.
Or even these: - Given that the [draft] report [by Harried loseReid's GAO] doesn't attempt to acknowledge progress, it sounds as though it may not even account for the agreement on several key legislative issues that was announced by Iraqi leaders a few days ago.
One wonders, too, what business the GAO has writing a report on Iraq. Did members of that agency travel to Iraq? Did they discover any facts that have not already been widely reported? What expertise, if any, did they bring to their task? Until 2004, "GAO" stood for "General Accounting Office." That agency has been best known for auditing government programs. It's hard to see what light its report can shed on the situation in Iraq. In any event, the report has probably already achieved its real purpose: generating negative headlines about Iraq.
Anything that shows our Troops are winning in Iraq is just one more problematic negative to power-hungry Defeatedrat Party politicians.
Labels: al-Qaedaqratic Party, Good News, Troop Victories, World War IV
Supply not meeting demand is all George Bush's fault. Spokesterrorist for the "No al-Qaeda in Iraq!" al-Qaeda in Iraq says more rationing and even "virgins "raisins sharing" now being implemented.- Good Karmah - Marines kill 12 AQI
Marines from Regimental Combat Team 6 observed and engaged an armed group of al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists killing 12 and destroying two vehicles near the town of Karmah Aug. 29....
Twelve members of al Qaeda were found dead upon investigation of the scene. Numerous weapons and roadside bomb making materials were also found....
Labels: Good News, Sealing the fate of freedom's enemies, Troop Victories, World War IV
Another diplomatic solution that Bushate-blinded "progressives" are stubbornly refusing to see.- CAMP TAJI — Sunni and Shia tribal sheiks from Iraqi villages of Aqar Qaf, Bassam, Salamiyat and Fira Shia moved closer to reconciliation Monday here during a meeting facilitated by the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment.
The sheiks put aside their differences to end violence in their villages and met to discuss ways of starting neighborhood watch programs made up of volunteers to protect their communities.
According to U.S. Army Lt. Col. Kenneth Kamper, commander of 1st Bn., 37th FA Regt., the sheiks are tired of attacks on innocent civilians and Coalition forces in their neighborhoods and want to put an end to the presence of al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups operating there.
"This is a monumental meeting," Kamper said. "This is the first time in more than three years that these tribes have sat down to talk — leaders from the west side who are Sunni and those from the east who are Shia."
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In other developments throughout Iraq:
• Iraqi Soldiers and U.S. Paratroopers captured the ringleader of a cell responsible for conducting rocket attacks on the people and security forces of North Babil, Wednesday.
• Iraqi border guards led Coalition forces to two weapons stockpiles near the Iranian border, a sign they are taking steps to secure their nation.
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An interim report on the surge of deodorant sales in D.C.ur brave and competent fighting men in Iraq and our Iraqi allies racked up more successes with their Independence Day capture of key al-Qaeda leader Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani — the terrorists' "most senior Iraqi" and "intermediary between the chief of al-Qaeda-in-Iraq and the international group's top leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri" — on top of their killing 29 enemy and capturing 23 during last week's Operation Ithaca. Well done, U.S. Central Command, Multi-National Force - Iraq, 1st Cavalry Division, 4th Infantry Division, 82nd Airborne Division, Iraq Ministry of Defense, 5th Iraqi Army Division, and every one of our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Guardsmen, Airmen, and Multinational Force Allies winning this World War for the peoples of all peace-loving nations.
This and the other top terrorists our Freedom's Defenders have captured during the Surge are singing like canaries, providing us more information about al-Qaeda's operations and methods which has proved most valuable to our war effort and our Troop's security.
- What the U.S. military has learned from al-Mashadani and other operatives they've seized is that "there is a flow of strategic direction, of prioritization of messaging and other guidance that comes from al Qaeda senior leadership to the al Qaeda in Iraq leadership," Bergner said.
Bergner emphasizes that that there is a "clear connection between al Qaeda in Iraq and al Qaeda senior leadership outside Iraq."
Equally important, the Iraqi people are continuing to turn against such murderous rejects of the human race. - "We had some very specific intelligence that was provided to us from the local populace," said Lt. Col. Andrew Poppas, a squadron commander with the 82nd's 73rd Cavalry Regiment.
Poppas said the tips often came in the form of handwritten notes slipped to his GIs or to soldiers with the 5th Iraqi Army Division. Unmanned aerial vehicles were used to confirm the information and then monitor the movements of the al-Qaida terrorists-turned-targets.
The Surge is clearly working. - [Operation] Ithaca appeared to be the kind of battle that U.S. planners had in mind for the vaunted surge aimed at securing Iraq's major cities — forcing insurgents into the countryside where larger and more-mobile U.S. units could bring air power and UAV surveillance to bear.
The statement noted that no U.S. casualties were reported and the 5th Division performed well. The operation also secured the release of eight Iraqi hostages as well as the seizure of three arms caches.
Osama bin Laden, if he's really alive, has to feel the noose tightening. Our Troops are forcing him to constantly respond to his many losses that they keep handing him in Iraq and the broader Middle East, and to the increasing threat such poses to his personal safety, means of communications, and freedom of movement. While al-Qaeda is struggling just to stay alive over there it has no real hope of again rising up to plan, much less execute, any viable attacks against us here.
God bless the courageous men and women of our Armed Forces. Many, many grateful American citizens besides myself thank you and support your efforts in behalf of our freedoms.
The good news doesn't end there. We have even more reasons to thank and support those exceptional men and women in our country's all-voluntary Military:
- [T]he Army is still ahead of its year-to-date [recruiting] goal and is expected to make its year-end goal. June marked the second month in a row that the Army missed its active-duty recruiting goal, according to statistics released today by the Defense Department. The active Army, with 7,031 accessions, came up almost 1,400 recruits below its 8,400-person goal. However, officials noted that it remains 741 recruits ahead of its year-to-date goal....
The other three services met or exceeded their active-duty recruiting goals for June. The Navy recruited 3,999 sailors, 102 percent of its goal. The Marine Corps signed on 4,113 Marines, 110 percent of its goal, and the Air Force met its goal by recruiting 2,233 airmen.
Five of the six reserve components met or exceeded their June goals.
The Army Reserve and Army National Guard both came out on the plus side for June. The Army Reserve recruited 5,255 members, almost 400 troops more than its goal, and the Guard met its goal, with 5,342 recruits.
The Navy Reserve recruited 1,013 members, exceeding its goal by 8 percent. The Marine Corps Reserve signed on 1,078 members, 109 percent of its goal. The Air Force Reserve met its 597-airman goal.
Only the Air National Guard, with 779 recruits, missed its goal, by 25 percent.
Maj. Anne Edgecomb, an Army spokeswoman, expressed optimism that July, August and September will tip the scales toward the plus side for active-duty recruitment. Traditionally, these are the Army's biggest recruiting months due to the new crop of high school graduates....
In addition, she noted that retention remains high, 101 percent of the goal for the active Army, 119 percent for the Army Reserve and 107 percent for the Army National Guard.
"It's a testament to the quality of our young people that so many have already stepped forward to defend our nation and that so many servicemen and -women have chosen to continue to serve," Edgecomb said.
Even more good news on the home front: Not only has our Dow Jones Industrial Average "moved above 14,000 for the first time ever," taking "just 57 trading days to make the trip from 13,000," the Conference Board is reporting that "long-term Treasury bond yields have begun to reflect a better outlook for the U.S. economy" and nondefense "capital goods orders, a key investment indicator, have risen 20% in real terms since January." Today's low inflation rates and high employment rates are also in our positive future, according to Federal Reserve board chairman Ben Bernanke.
Although regular Americans have true cause to celebrate all this good news from the front as well as here at home, it has made Demosurrenderat Party politicians only more miserable as they contemplate yet another increase in their personal stockpiles of Speed Stick® 24/7 Anti-Perspirant Deodorant Stick, Icy Surge™ (pun very much intended).
Labels: Good News, Sealing the fate of freedom's enemies, Troop Victories, World War IV
With more Multinational Force successes in Iraq than you can shake a Ka-Bar at, al-Qaeda permanently losing its strategic stronghold just south of Baghdad helps to show how far our Freedoms' Defenders are succeeding.l-Qaeda's defeats keep piling up faster than the bodies of its duly departed senior leaders and operational lieutenants. Here are only a few examples:
14 July 2007 – Al-Qaeda cell leader Abu Jurah killed
- BAGHDAD — The top target for al Qaeda in Iraq south of Baghdad was killed July 14 in Arab Jabour by precision-guided munitions, the Excalibur.
Shortly after 12 p.m., 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, received a call that Abu Jurah and 14 anti-Iraqi forces were meeting at a house in Arab Jabour.
Abu Jurah was an AQI cell leader and was responsible for improvised explosive devices, vehicle-borne IED and indirect fire attacks on Coalition Forces in Arab Jabour.
At approximately 1:12 p.m., the house was positively identified allowing 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment to fire two Excalibur rounds destroying the meeting house.
An unmanned aerial vehicle observed persons leaving the house, loading injured individuals into a sedan and fleeing the scene.
An AH-64 Apache helicopter engaged the sedan destroying it.
Three people were observed running from the meeting house to a nearby house.
A U.S. Air Force F16 Fighting Falcon dropped two 500-pound GPS-guided bombs on the second house.
08 July 2007 – Residents helping to give al-Qaeda the boot- FORWARD OPERATING BASE MURRAY, Iraq — A group of about 20 soldiers moves quietly under a starry sky toward a house about 500 meters from this small outpost less than 10 miles southeast of Baghdad.
As they file up the road, an imam begins a solemn song over a loudspeaker somewhere nearby, calling the faithful to the evening's final prayers.
The soldiers arrive at their destination in less than 10 minutes. Once inside, they separate three men from the women and children. They move throughout the house, looking for weapons and contraband.
The youngest of the men appears to be in his mid-20s. He runs a fruit stand just up the road from Murray and has been under suspicion for some time. He's pulled outside for a short interrogation. His hands are bound with plastic cuffs, and he is put under guard. The two older men are photographed and their fingerprints scanned. The information will be logged later into a nationwide database that U.S. forces in Iraq are compiling of known and suspected insurgents.
A soldier brings out two small white flags that he found atop the roof. Capt. Eric Melloh, 30, of Huntsville, Texas, is certain they've got their man.
"We think this guy is a signaler," says Melloh, commander of Company A, 1-30th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division. "We found these white flags. We think he's been using these to signal for mortar, as the insurgents try to adjust fire on the FOB. We'll take him in. We've got multiple sources corroborating his involvement."
Their suspicions about the fruit seller appear to have been right. Although two mortar rounds were fired at Murray the next day, both fell short by about 150 meters. In previous attacks, mortars had landed inside the compound, wounding at least one soldier.
The two-hour raid last week is just a small part of a massive sweep operation that U.S. forces with Task Force Marne, composed largely of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, launched June 15 in an effort to stop the flow of insurgents, weapons and bomb-making materials into the Iraqi capital.
"Our primary task is to block the accelerance of violence into Baghdad," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of 3rd Infantry Division and Task Force Marne.
The massive sweep was launched just two days before a similar operation in Iraq's Diyala province, northeast of the capital. Called Marne Torch, the operation is focused on a district called Arab Jabour, which begins just south of Baghdad and runs southeast along the Tigris River.
The region, which stretches 12 miles from the Tigris River in the east to the town of Mahmudiyah in the west and 35 miles south from Baghdad, has seen no sustained U.S. presence for much of the last two years. Iraqi army and police forces in the region have been nonexistent, said Col. James Adams, deputy commander of the 3rd ID's 2nd Brigade.
The region, which is also part of Iraq's notorious Triangle of Death, has become a virtual safe haven for al-Qaida and other insurgent groups. Heavily forested with date palm groves and other vegetation along the Tigris and dotted throughout with small farms and miles of cropland, the region has offered a perfect sanctuary from which to launch attacks into Baghdad.
Lynch said U.S. forces believe there are an estimated 700 insurgents active in the region. The extent of support they have from the local population is unclear. The region is about 99 percent Sunni Muslim, with a single dominant tribe, the al Jabouri.
Adams said that U.S. forces are moving slowly through the region, searching every dwelling, pushing the insurgents farther south as they go.
"It's slow and deliberate," he said. "We're in no hurry at this point."
So far, there has been very little direct enemy contact. But U.S. troops have encountered numerous roadside bombs, booby traps, homemade explosives and a number of small weapons caches.
"We've found no large stockpiles," said Adams, 44, of Middleton, Tenn. "But we've found evidence of where they used to be."
Despite the relative absence of direct contact, Lynch said U.S. forces have killed at least 50 enemy fighters, detained 200 suspected ones and have discovered 50 weapons caches since the operation began. U.S. forces have also "taken out" three of 15 "high-value" insurgent leaders who had been targeted before the operation began, he said.
Initial estimates projected that U.S. forces would suffer one soldier killed and an additional 10 wounded every day for the duration of the sweep, but so far U.S. casualties have been much lower. U.S. troops have suffered six soldiers killed and a little more than 30 wounded since Marne Torch began.
Lt. Col. Ken Adgie, commander of 1-30th Infantry, said his guidance is to clear every residence in his area of operations and to compile information on every single person they encounter.
"The key point is that this is a very slow and methodical clearing," said Adgie, 40, of National Park, N.J. "We want to find every weapons cache, every [roadside bomb], every safe house that's out there."
Adgie estimates that there are 150 insurgents active in his region. He describes them as local thugs — "Bowery Boys, who've transitioned themselves into al-Qaida."
Adgie said that U.S. forces also want to send a message that they are in Arab Jabour to stay. He said residents were reluctant to cooperate with his troops at first, but are now beginning to provide information on insurgents' activities.
"They want al-Qaida gone as much as we do," Adgie said. "I've spoken to one person who's lost 35 members of his family to al-Qaida."
He said once U.S. forces convince the locals that they are in the region to stay, the next step will be to try to win their trust and confidence.
04 July 2007 – Operation Guardian Torch leaves al-Qaeda nowhere to hide- PATROL BASE MURRAY, Iraq — Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, in conjunction with soldiers from the Iraqi Army's 6th Division, have been hard at work in Arab Jabour, steadily clearing the area of al Qaeda and other insurgent forces.
Lt. Col. Ken Adgie, commander of the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, from Fort Stewart, Ga., said Operation Guardian Torch succeeded in denying safety and freedom of movement to insurgents in the region.
Adgie said since Guardian Torch began, 400 buildings have been cleared, 250 people have been added to the 'wanted list', and more than 30 people have been detained.
"We are about 75 percent complete. We have a few more weeks ahead of us and the outlook is very positive," said Adgie, a native of National Park, N.J.
"With our work the Iraqi army forces here and the local leaders helping us I think Arab Jabour will be a great place to live."
Adgie said the most important accomplishment thus far is that his Soldiers and the IA soldiers here have started building a level of trust and confidence with the Iraqi people.
Though the contingent of Iraqi soldiers is small, they have been able to make a good impression on the Soldiers of Co. B, 1-30th Inf.
"They basically put an Iraqi face on every mission that we do and it shows the people that the Iraqi army cares about the government as much as we do," said 2nd Lt.James T. Reynolds, 3rd platoon leader for Co. B.
Reynolds said the IA soldiers working with him are well-trained and help them accomplish the mission.
Reynolds, a native of Gainesville Fl., said the mission is very important because it lets the residents know that they're not going to just sit back and let the terrorists take control of their country, city, or town.
In addition to providing extra boots on ground for Co. B, the Iraqi soldiers also contribute in other ways.
Pfc. Kyle Zane Rowin, an infantryman with 3rd platoon, said that they are able to break down cultural barriers that exist between U.S. Soldiers and residents of Arab Jabour.
"It's great; it goes hand in hand. They teach you about their culture and you teach them about yours," said Rowin, a native of Odessa, Texas. "You also can help them better their future and protect their country as well as their families."
One of the ways to bring normalcy to the region is to empower local residents. Adgie said that a weapons reward program has been established so residents can receive payments of up to $10,000 for information leading to the location of individuals on the wanted list and weapons caches left behind by Al Qaeda.
Adgie said that his forces will continue to provide security for the region as long as necessary to prevent terrorists from once again calling this region a safe haven.
"I think that we still have some hard work to do the rest of the summer, but we are well on our way to the return of normalcy here on the western banks of the Tigris."
05 March 2007 – Troops further deplete al-Qaeda's ranks and liberate its hostages- ARAB JABOUR - A coalition assessment following an air strike in Arab Jabour on Saturday led to the rescue of four Iraqi citizens and the uncovering of a terrorist weapons cache.
Four Iraqi citizens were liberated from a building near the site of the air strike, officials said. One of the hostages told military officials the terrorists holding them fled immediately after the air strike.
All four hostages were treated at the scene for various injuries. One of the hostages said he had been held captive for 50 days.
At the site of the air strike, ground forces also found remnants of an anti-aircraft heavy machine gun known as a DShK, as well as rocket-propelled grenades and grenade launchers. A DShK tripod was found dug into the ground along the Tigris River, along with spent ammunition cartridges.
Coalition forces called in the air strike after they began receiving small-arms fire from several armed men across the Tigris River and were unable to safely subdue enemy fire. Two precision-guided bombs destroyed a small structure and killed seven terrorists hiding inside.
A large secondary explosion was noted after the initial bombs were dropped on the target, officials said, indicating the presence of explosive material within the structure.
A year ago this area was "a stronghold of Sunni insurgents" in which "a senior Iraqi al-Qaida leader in a cell that 'specializes in bomb making'" had been operating. (Old War Dogs)
Now it represents yet another major defeat for al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Labels: Good News, Sealing the fate of freedom's enemies, Troop Victories, World War IV
Custer's last stand is nothing compared to al-qowarda's.urrender, or die. That's the complete list of options the terrorists now have, thanks to our Freedoms' Defenders and our Iraqi allies.
Michael Yon reports
- The combat in Baqubah should soon reach a peak. Al Qaeda seems to have been effectively isolated. The initial attack on 19 June achieved enough surprise that al Qaeda was caught off guard and trapped. They have been beaten back mostly into pockets and are surrounded and will be dealt with. Part of this is actually due to the capability of Strykers. We were able to "attack from the march." In other words, a huge force drove in from places like Baghdad and quickly locked down Baqubah.
After describing embedded media's difficulties trying to get the stories out about our Defenders' "days in one of the most important battles of this war," he notes that - the battle is going very well. A big fight seems to be brewing. As of about noon in Baqubah on the 22nd, there seems to be a lull in the fighting. A calm. This is about to get wet. At the going rate, al Qaeda in Baqubah will soon have two choices: Surrender, or die.
CNN's Friday headline "U.S. reports 68 al Qaeda militants killed in Iraq" and the story's last heading "General: Three reasons for optimism in Iraq" paint a bleak picture for all remaining al-qowarda militants terrorists.
Labels: al-Qaeda in Iraq, Good News, Troop Victories, World War IV
wonder what our brave Defenders of Freedom would have to accomplish in Iraq before al-Qaedaqrats say we're winning?iberal Utopia welcomes Ninny Peloseri, Sqarry Sqreid, Jack Murdertha-troops, et al. as our first ever guest fiskers. We'd like to thank them all for having taken their best shots at the New York Slimes article below.
Qaeda Figure in Iraq Killed, U.S. Military Says
[photo] Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, spokesman for the American military in Iraq, right, at a press conference in Baghdad today with a photo of Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri.
By JON ELSEN
Published: May 3, 2007
American forces have indeed killed a high-ranking member of the terrorist group Al Qaeda in Iraq, but not the leader of the group, American military officials said today.
The man killed in the raid was Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri, described as a senior minister of information for Al Qaeda in Iraq who was involved in the kidnappings of Jill Carroll and Tom Fox as well as two Germans, according to Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, spokesman for the American military in Iraq. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday said the war in Iraq is lost militarily.... 'Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything,' Reid, D-Nev., told reporters." (FNC)
Mr. Jubouri's death and subsequent events may have led to confusion that generated unconfirmed reports of the death of the leader of the group, known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, or of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of another insurgent group, the Islamic State of Iraq, General Caldwell said.
He said American forces are not certain that Mr. al-Baghdadi even exists.
Mr. Jubouri was involved in the movement of foreign fighters and money into Iraq from Syria, said General Caldwell, who described Mr. Jubouri's death as "significant."
"'This is an unconventional war and has to be dealt with in unconventional ways. This is an administration that has never understood the nature of the threat or the way to respond to it,' [Tedboat al-Q]ennedy said." (Ibid.)
The general also said Mr. Jubouri was involved in hiding and moving the kidnapped Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll; she was held for two months before being released.
Detainees told American officials that Mr. Jubouri had personal custody of Mr. Fox, an American, and was the last one seen holding him before Mr. Fox was killed, General Caldwell said. Mr. Fox, one of four men from the Chicago-based peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams working in Iraq, was found shot to death in Baghdad on March 10, 2006.
The two Germans were kidnapped in January 2006.
Mr. Jubouri was first captured by coalition forces in 2003 and then was released in 2004, after which he traveled to Syria, where he has family, General Caldwell said. He described Mr. Jubouri as a close associate of Mr. Masri.
American forces have no evidence to confirm reports yesterday from the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior that Mr. Masri had been killed, the general said, nor do they have evidence to confirm reports that Mr. al-Baghdadi was killed.
American forces identified Mr. Jubouri's body using photographs, and then released it for transportation to a mosque for burial. When the car carrying the body was stopped at an Iraqi checkpoint, the Iraqi forces took possession of the body, and may have thought it was someone else.
DNA testing confirmed the photo identification of Mr. al-Jubouri on Wednesday. "'This administration should get a clue,' Pelosi said. 'The war in Iraq has make [sic] matters worse.' Noting that the war in Iraq has now lasted longer than U.S. involvement in World War II, Pelosi blamed the administration for neglecting 'the war on terrorism...in Afghanistan' to pursue a 'failed policy' in Iraq. 'Stop this war without end,' she said." ( LA Times, cached) General Caldwell said that Mr. Jubouri was killed while resisting detention at 1:42 a.m. on Tuesday, during coalition military strikes against 29 targets over three days. He said that in all, 95 militants were detained in the raids and 15 were killed.
"A good example of the [al-Qaedaqratic] majority opinion came from Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), an Army infantryman in Vietnam in 1968, who recently called the President's summons for more troops in Baghdad 'the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam.' Senators John Kerry, Jim Webb and Congressman John Murtha are among those who have voiced similar sentiments." (HuffPo)
The raid in which Mr. Jubouri was killed with four other people was conducted on four buildings in a town north of Baghdad and four miles west of the Taji air base. Six people were detained.
"Rep. John Murtha, a leader of the [al-]Democrats' campaign to end the Iraq War, speaking on the CBS News program 'Face the Nation,' declared that impeachment was one of the tools Congress has to influence the [wartime] president. Lest his statement be misconstrued as a slip of the tongue, Murtha, who is known to be a close political ally of Pelosi, repeated the statement on NPR the following day, this time saying pointedly that impeachment was 'on the table' in Congress.
His choice of words was particularly significant, since Pelosi has been insisting for almost a year that under a Democratic Congress, impeachment of the president would be 'off the table.'" (CounterPunch)
In April, American forces conducted 139 operations specifically aimed at Al Qaeda in Iraq, killing 87 and detaining 465, General Caldwell said.
"'[T]his war is lost...,' Reid, D-Nev., told reporters." (FNC, ibid.)
Labels: al-Qaedaqratic Party, Troop Victories
The more badly both al-Qaeda and al-Qaedaqrats want us to lose this War, the more extreme and desperate they become.et's impeach overturn the election of our president and our Troops' commander in chief right in the middle of the World War we're fighting for our very nation's survival.
Brilliant!
US Democrats raise prospect of Bush's impeachment over Iraq
(AFP)
30 April 2007
WASHINGTON - A top US congressional Democrat I.e., top surrenderrat. ...has raised the possibility of George W. Bush's impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that would place conditions on continued US military involvement in Iraq.
Representative John Murtha Murdertha-troops, who chairs the House Subcommittee on Defence and is close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nanno-cerebrumcy PeLoseri, made the comment Sunday in response to repeated threats by the president to veto legislation that calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of next March. Impeach him for not promptly wetting himself and surrendering to terrorists like an easily scared little girl a top US congressional al-Qaedaqrat.
Masterstroke of political strategy!
'There's three ways or four ways to influence a president,' Murdertha-troops said on CBS's 'Face the Nation' program. 'One is popular opinion, the election, third is impeachment and fourth is the purse.'
Gleefully, the World Socialist Web Site likes his first one's prospects too:
A new ABC-Washington Post poll ["conducted by telephone April 12-15, 2007, among a random national sample of 1,141 adults American'ts, including an oversample of African-American['t]s"] found that 66 percent of the American['t] public now believes that the war was not worth fighting and that 51 percent — for the first time a majority — believes that the US will ultimately lose the war. Unfortunately for top al-Qaeda, World Socialist, and Dhimm al'Qrat leaders birm, this and Murdertha's election-way influencer are both out since President Bush isn't running from our enemies or for another term in office. So is the purse one while the Peloseri/Murdertha al-Qongress tries to make cutting off our Troops' funds to fight this War so they'll have no real chance of winning it, sound less suicidally stupid and outright treasonous than it is. Besides, giving our country's enemy exactly what he wants is so plain unmanly the al-Qaedaqrats would be very shy about bringing up anything that'll force numerous mentions of the word "purse." Asked specifically if Democrats, who now control the US Congress, were seriously contemplating the impeachment option, the congress"man" responded: 'What I'm saying, there's four ways to influence a president ... And one of them's impeachment.'
So if our wartime president doesn't sign your proposed Articles of Unconditional Surrender to al-Qaeda, you'll impeach him.
Genius!
Some of the fiercest critics of President Bush have long charged he has illegally manipulated intelligence to accuse the Iraqi government of late president Saddam Hussein of secretly stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, thereby creating a pretext for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Remember, Murdertha-troops and Harry "Lost" Reid both voted in favor of invading and toppling Saddam's dictatorship Kite Flying Happyland if his international-outlaw regime didn't immediately and fully obey over twelve years' worth of United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding he immediately and fully eliminate all his weapons of mass destruction programs. Immediately and fully didn't mean "until Hans Blix's inspection team's members all die of old age with nothing to show for their efforts but an 'In Saddam We Trusted' line engraved on each of their tombstones."
No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since the invasion
- Munitions Found in Iraq Meet WMD Criteria, Official Says
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2006 - The 500 munitions [i.e., a "stockpile"] discovered throughout Iraq since 2003 and discussed in a National Ground Intelligence Center report meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, the center's commander said here today.
"These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes ... they do constitute weapons of mass destruction," Army Col. John Chu told the House Armed Services Committee.
The Chemical Weapons Convention is an arms control agreement which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. It was signed in 1993 and entered into force in 1997.
The munitions found contain sarin and mustard gases, Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said. Sarin attacks the neurological system and is potentially lethal.
"Mustard is a blister agent (that) actually produces burning of any area (where) an individual may come in contact with the agent," he said. It also is potentially fatal if it gets into a person's lungs.
The munitions addressed in the report were produced in the 1980s, Maples said. Badly corroded, they could not currently be used as originally intended, Chu added.
While that's reassuring, the agent remaining in the weapons would be very valuable to terrorists and insurgents, Maples said. "We're talking chemical agents here that could be packaged in a different format and have a great effect," he said, referencing the sarin-gas attack on a Japanese subway in the mid-1990s.
This is true even considering any degradation of the chemical agents that may have occurred, Chu said. It's not known exactly how sarin breaks down, but no matter how degraded the agent is, it's still toxic.
"Regardless of (how much material in the weapon is actually chemical agent), any remaining agent is toxic," he said. "Anything above zero (percent agent) would prove to be toxic, and if you were exposed to it long enough, lethal."
Though about 500 chemical weapons - the exact number has not been released publicly - have been found, Maples said he doesn't believe Iraq is a "WMD-free zone."
"I do believe the former regime did a very poor job of accountability of munitions, and certainly did not document the destruction of munitions," he said. "The recovery program goes on, and I do not believe we have found all the weapons."
The Defense Intelligence Agency director said locating and disposing of chemical weapons in Iraq is one of the most important tasks servicemembers in the country perform.
Maples added searches are ongoing for chemical weapons beyond those being conducted solely for force protection.
There has been a call for a complete declassification of the National Ground Intelligence Center's report on WMD in Iraq. Maples said he believes the director of national intelligence is still considering this option, and has asked Maples to look into producing an unclassified paper addressing the subject matter in the center's report.
Much of the classified matter was slated for discussion in a closed forum after the open hearings this morning.
| Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations. | – Sen. Hillary Qlinton, D-NY,
February 5, 2003,
also voted in favor of
invading Saddam's KFH |
- Tests Confirm Sarin in Iraqi Artillery Shell
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
By Liza Porteus
NEW YORK - Tests on an artillery shell that blew up in Iraq on Saturday confirm that it did contain an estimated three or four liters of the deadly nerve agent sarin, Defense Department officials told Fox News Tuesday.
The artillery shell was being used as an improvised roadside bomb, the U.S. military said Monday. The 155-mm shell exploded before it could be rendered inoperable, and two U.S. soldiers were treated for minor exposure to the nerve agent.
- Powell Says Kay Report Confirms Iraq Defied U.N. Res. 1441
What Kay Found
By Colin L. Powell
[October 7, 2003]
The interim findings of David Kay and the Iraq Survey Group make two things abundantly clear: Saddam Hussein's Iraq was in material breach of its United Nations obligations before the Security Council passed Resolution 1441 last November, and Iraq went further into breach after the resolution was passed.
Kay's interim findings offer detailed evidence of Hussein's efforts to defy the international community to the last. The report describes a host of activities related to weapons of mass destruction that "should have been declared to the U.N." It reaffirms that Iraq's forbidden programs spanned more than two decades, involving thousands of people and billions of dollars.
What the world knew last November about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs was enough to justify the threat of serious consequences under Resolution 1441. What we now know as a result of David Kay's efforts confirms that Hussein had every intention of continuing his work on banned weapons despite the U.N. inspectors, and that we and our coalition partners were right to eliminate the danger that his regime posed to the world.
So, no, there were not "no" WMDs found in Iraq since the invasion.
Moreover, a top counterterrorism specialist and highly decorated federal agent, Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, says much of those weapons are presently in Syria:
- 'The problem was that the ISG were concentrating their efforts in looking for WMD in northern Iraq and this was in the south', says Mr Gaubatz. 'They were just swept up by reports of WMD in so many different locations. But we told them if they didn't excavate these sites, others would'.
That, he says, is precisely what happened. He subsequently learned from Iraqi, CIA and British intelligence that the WMD buried in the four sites were excavated by Iraqis and Syrians, with help from the Russians, and moved to Syria....
The Republicans won't touch this because it would reveal the incompetence of the Bush administration in failing to neutralise the danger of Iraqi WMD. The Democrats won't touch it because it would show President Bush was right to invade Iraq in the first place. It is an axis of embarrassment.
[Intelligence Summit organiser John] Loftus goes further. Saddam's nuclear research, scientists and equipment, he says, have all been relocated to Syria, where US satellite intelligence confirms that uranium centrifuges are now operating — in a country which is not supposed to have any nuclear programme. There is now a nuclear axis, he says, between Iran, Syria and North Korea — with Russia and China helping build an Islamic bomb against the west. And of course, with assistance from American negligence.
'Apparently Saddam had the last laugh and donated his secret stockpile to benefit Iran's nuclear weapons programme. With a little technical advice from Beijing, Syria is now enriching the uranium, Iran is making the missiles, North Korea is testing the warheads, and the White House is hiding its head in the sand.'
Of course we don't know whether any of this is true. But given Dave Gaubatz's testimony, shouldn't someone be trying to find out? Or will we still be intoning 'there were no WMD in Iraq' when the Islamic bomb goes off?
In the word s of a top US blogressional Puppyvore: Indeed. ...but the White House has strongly denied the intelligence manipulation charge. - CIA chief defends prewar intelligence
PLA Daily 2004-02-06
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief George Tenet on Thursday defended the agency's prewar intelligence on Iraq, saying that the intelligence was not manipulated and "No one told us what to say or how to say it."
Heh. Ibid. The only things being manipulated here are the recollections of the American people by an extremely desperate al-Qaedaqrat leadership and its maintreason-stream media colleagues, and the hair-trigger surrender impulses of al-Qaedaqrats by an extremely desperate al-Qaeda leadership and its international terrorist partners. Both sets of manipulators are furiously working to create limits and conditions that can only increasingly undermine and kill our Troops on the battlefield.
The impeachment threat is being dangled as the White House and congressional Democrats face a new showdown over Iraq policy in coming weeks.
A 124-billion-dollar war funding bill passed by the House of Representatives Wednesday and the Senate on Thursday established a non-binding target of completing a US combat troop pullout from Iraq by March 31, 2008.
Top Dhimmiqrats are resorting to the highly extreme measure of impeaching our Troops' commander in chief so America's terrorist enemies can make acceptance speeches at the 2008 Winners of the Year® ceremonies. The only ones really surprised by this inevitable development are the terrorists themselves who can hardly believe the incredible break on top of those top Dhimmiqrats consistently give them day after day in this World War.
The measure is expected to land on the president's desk on Tuesday, the fourth anniversary of his now much ridiculed 'Mission Accomplished' speech, in which he, standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier off the coast of California, declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq.
Al-Qaedaqrats taking advantage of every opportunity to politicize our war efforts for their own extremely partisan purposes. No surprise there either. Except, of course, among our country's bloodthirsty enemies who're busily practicing those "Allahu Akbars" for their acceptance speeches next year.
As promised, Bush will wield his veto pen, and Democrats acknowledge they lack the votes to override his decision.
But they have made it clear that while the withdrawal deadline will most likely be dropped, they still would like to come up with a bill that would place limits and conditions on future US operations in Iraq.
Extremely unconstitutional limits and conditions, that is. Not even al-Qongress's powers extend to executing a World War. There's a whole separate — you guessed it — executive branch in which are exclusively vested such powers under the United States constitution. Top congressional al-Qaedaqrats' self-interested partisan scheming, notwithstanding.
One of the proposals, according to Murdertha-troops, calls for making the continued US military presence in Iraq contingent on the Iraqi government meeting specific political benchmarks designed to stem violence.
They include showing progress in reaching power-sharing arrangement that would bolster the role of Sunnis in the Iraqi government, an agreement to equitable distribution of oil wealth, and a crackdown on militias.
Top congressional al-Qaedaqrats planning the conditions of our Troops' movements is an extreme example of egregious usurpation of presidential powers. Too bad we can't impeach them. We'd have an infinitely more solid case there.
Murdertha-troops also suggested limiting the life of a revised war-funding bill from one year to just two months to allow for an earlier congressional review of the situation.
'I'd like to look at this again in two months,' he said.
And the "Allahu Akbars" grow even louder at the very idea of such perpetual political manipulations, usurpations, and bickering in time of war.
But the administration was quick to shoot down the idea of any restrictions on White House Iraq policy.
'To begin now to tie our own hands and to say 'We must do this if they don't do that' doesn't allow us the flexibility and creativity that we need to move this forward,' Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on the same show.
Who are you to say? It's not like our constitution gives your branch of government the sole power to execute our wars. I'll fact-check it for you...
...
Oh, that's right. It does.
She warned that benchmarks written into US law 'might give incentives to the wrong people'.
Namely, al-Qaeda, al-Qaedaqrats, and our country's other extremely ruthless enemies. All of whom could only see a golden opportunity to advance their plans to defeat our Troops' wartime commander in chief given the very limitations those "benchmarks" would impose on his powers to execute this World War towards any successful conclusion.
Then more top Al-Qaeda leaders and congressional al-Qaedaqratsbirm will have ever more reason to say we've lost the war.
Then again, what else would you expect either to be doing?
A veteran of the US Marine Corps, Murdertha-troops touched off a firestorm in Washington in November 2005 when he called for redeployment of US troops from Iraq.
To such "over the horizon rainbow" places as Okinawa.
Top-notch military strategizing!
Meanwhile our Troops are still waiting on the battlefield for top al-qongressional al-Qaedaqrats to finally pass the funding our Armed Forces require and need to proceed with winning this World War for all of us.
Such as they're doing here:
U.S. says scores of Taliban killed near Herat
Reuters
Monday, April 30, 2007; 1:51 AM
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition troops have killed scores of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan over the past several days, the coalition said on Monday.
Backed by air support, the Taliban were killed in two separate battles in the western province of Herat, it said in a statement. Funny how this major battlefield victory is getting little more than similarly passing mention in the treason-stream media. Sure the dwindling number of surviving terrorists are laughing about the dearth of long and in-depth coverage as well.
Herat, near the border with Iran, has been relatively safe until recently, compared to the south and east, where the Taliban are most active. Both battles were in the Zerkoh valley, south of Shindand district, where foreign troops have a large base.
Uh, that's had a large base.
A total of 87 Taliban fighters were killed during a 14-hour engagement with U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces on Sunday in the valley, the coalition said.
Another 49 Taliban members, along with two of their leaders, were killed two days earlier after a group of Taliban fired at a joint coalition and Afghan patrol in another part of the valley, it added.
More successes like these and Harry slow-Bleed will start crying we're losing the war in Afghanistan, too.
The statement did not identify the Taliban leaders.
It said one U.S. soldier was killed, but did not say if there were any casualties among the Afghan forces.
Dearest Lord, please comfort the family and loved ones of this Your Angel of Freedom. Thank You for blessing our country with such men of whom we shall never, other than by Your merciful grace, be worthy.
And thank You for granting us and our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Guardsmen, and Marines such growing number of Middle Eastern brothers in battle.
There were no injuries among civilians, the statement said.
Sorry, al-Qaedaqrats and other anti-America haters.
The Taliban could not be contacted immediately for comment.
Try sending a text message to their mobile phones in Hell.
And still our Troops await their much needed funding....
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