Al Franken interviewed a reporter who was in Jordon, and he said Anbar province is seeing battle daily now, but no one can get in to report on it, because there's no security at all. And the US is part of the fight. There's so much going on that we just can't get info, and the Pentagon won't tell the truth.
Posted by iamcoyote at May 18, 2006 05:39 AMI don't know what the solution is but our very presence there is part of the problem. See "For Freedom and Liberty" by pessimist above (gag)
A blind person could see it.
American troops = Incendiary Devices (igniting/inciting Violence, the All-American Import)
Posted by Sharon at May 18, 2006 05:51 AM"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." --Vice President Dick Cheney, on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005
Just for shits and giggles.
Posted by snark at May 18, 2006 05:53 AMWill we stay or will we go? I guess it depends on how quickly Rove is indicted. If he can stay around long enough to affect the elections, then I believe that he will have the President's ear more than Rummy.
Otherwise, with Rove forced aside, Rummy will be able to keep the troops there. The problem is if they stay, they're targets. If Rove figures that the only way to keep the Republicans from facing the music is to pull the troops out, they are not retreating quickly.
They are stuck and are not capable of leaving quickly unless the Army wants to play the Iraqis in the rerun or "Retreat from Kuwait." We don't own the roads, and using helicopters is proving more and more unfeasable as the stores of anti-aircraft weapons emerge from their caches.
The U.S. could conceivably retreat from the Kurdish north through Turkey (granted that the Turks aren't too pissed), but there is no way they can get back to their staging bases in Kuwait quickly or easily through Shia and Sunni Iraq.
The lines of communication are already perilously stretched, and the combined forces of insurgents, turncoat Iraqi army, militias and foreign fighters will look upon a chance to take a shot at the retreating U.S. forces as a gift from Allah...
Press scandal 2,875: Refusing to report that they are not allowed access to almost all of Iraq, and certainly not where there is any fighting.
Less reporters, less chance of corroboration of massacres like the one pessimist comments on above. I'm sure the Penatagon can be relied upon to let us know the true scope of the "family massacre" problem, not to worry.
One needs to get an Arabian Gulf cable channel to be informed about developments in the American Empire--of course, subscribing will get your name and numbers on an NSA "total surveillence" list. Your call.
Americans: ignorant, deceived and under government surveillance. Words fail.
Posted by euzoius at May 18, 2006 06:44 AM