BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 5, 2007
Baghdad Security Push Could Start Soon
New Iraqi Military Commander Takes Control As Dozens Killed In Attacks
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Play CBS Video Video Iraq's Future Seen As Grim The National Intelligence Estimate paints a picture of a nation spiraling toward implosion. David Martin reports one senior official puts the Iraqi government's chances at less than 50-50.
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Video Bush On Iraq Plan CBS News RAW: President Bush pushes his plan for Iraq, saying: "Both of us, the Iraqis and the U.S. and coalition forces, have got to get this plan in place as quickly as possible."
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Video Report Intensifies Iraq Debate The National Intelligence Estimate released today paints a bleak picture of the situation in Iraq. The report comes amid deepening skepticism about the war on Capitol Hill. Susan Roberts has more.
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Jassim Abdul Rahman carries his daughter Mariam as he stands amid the rubble of his destroyed house in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. A mortar round landed on Abdul Rahman's house in central Baghdad Sunday morning, killing his wife Nihad Hameed. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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U.S. Marines race to secure a landing zone as a Blackhawk helicopter lands in Kusaiybah, Iraq. (Getty Images)
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U.S. military helicopters wait on a landing pad as another flies overhead at Fort Tarik, located in Wasit province along the Iran-Iraq border east of Baghdad, May 7, 2006. (Getty Images)
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Interactive New Plan For Iraq Key elements of the plan, excerpts from the president's speech, reaction and more.
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With little sign of an end to the carnage, many Iraqis have begun complaining that the security drive has been too slow in starting, allowing extremists free rein to launch spectacular attacks that have killed nearly 1,000 in the past week.
Monday's death toll supported their frustration. At least 74 people were killed or found dead across the country — all but seven of them in Baghdad.
Iraqi politicians — Shiite and Sunni alike — urged the government to speed up implementation of the plan, which President Bush announced Jan. 11. The operation would put thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops on the street to protect civilians against sectarian bombers and death squads.
In a sign that the crackdown is near, Iraqi troops manned a major new checkpoint Monday at the northern gate to Baghdad, searching cars and trucks heading to and from Sunni insurgent areas to the north. Soldiers and police said the checkpoint was set up as part of the security plan.
Elsewhere, Rahim al-Daraji, a senior official in Sadr City, said police were already moving into the capital's sprawling Shiite slum, stronghold of the notorious Mahdi Army militia.
And Lt. Gen. Abboud Gambar, who will direct the operation, took charge of his still-unfinished command center Monday in a former Saddam Hussein palace located inside the American-controlled Green Zone.
Gambar, who was taken prisoner by U.S. troops in the 1991 Gulf War, will have two Iraqi deputies, one on each side of the Tigris River, which flows through the center of the capital. The city will be divided into nine districts, each with as many as 600 U.S. soldiers to back up Iraqi troops who will take the lead in the security drive.
In announcing the plan, Bush said he was sending 21,500 additional American troops mostly to Baghdad in what is widely seen as a last chance to quell the sectarian violence ravaging the capital and surrounding regions.
About 3,000 paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division arrived in Iraq in late January and were expected to begin operations in the coming days. But the last of the U.S. reinforcements are not due until May.
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- "I suspect it is simply for domination of the oil reserves. One thing for sure, we did not go there to fight terrorists, the terrorists weren't there until we took down the government
Posted by dallison7"
1) Canada has more oil reserves than Iraq has. Canada is #2, Iraq is #4.
2) Terrorists have been active in Iraq since 2001 and even prior to that to a lesser extent. Since we took down the government in 2003. So, there were terrorists there before we took down the government. - Reply to this comment
- Hey lars008
don't you get it ?
You post a link to Fox News as your source, is that because they did such a fantastic job of lying the american public into invading Iraq.
yet you trust them now
blind faith only means you can't see
have a look at the links I put in my earlier post. if you want to come back and post, calling me names and stuff. Save your time, if you want to come back and post why the info sources I sent are no good, I'd love to here it.
same to you Fartknocker2
last time you suggested I do some reading, as the news you where supporting was all over every major media outlet. Which I was well aware of, but I unlike you, I am also well aware these same so called major media outlets, where the ones who sucked america into invading Iraq
peace and wake up - Reply to this comment
- wake up, you where lied to about Iraq
why can't you see that ?
and Iran is next
just like the lies and propaganda about Iraq, spread by the same mainstream news media channels like here on the CBS.
If you are here for news and to be informed, do realize you where lied to about Iraq, just like you are being lied to about Iran. If you are an American citizen, do realize the massive debt you will be taking on again when they go to war with Iran.
here are some links, copy and paste them and have a read.
this guys where bang on accurate on reporting pre invasion of Iraq, and they will prove themselves again on Iran.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=PIL20070205&articleId=4689
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SYM20070205&articleId=4690
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=home
Article her by Colonel Sam Gardiner
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/143241
Scott Ritter on Target Iran: The Truth About the White House%u2019s Plans for Regime Change
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/16/144204&mode=thread&tid=25
Retired Colonel Sam Gardiner on Iran War Plans
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/143241
here is a list of journalist worth reading
Robert Fisk, Jonathan Cook, Richard Bulliet, Michel Chossudovsky, Patrick Seale, Paul Craig Roberts, Paul J. Balles, Mark Weisbrot,
John Pilger, Juan Cole
peace - Reply to this comment
- Time to put the democrats on suicide watch again
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- Does anyone know what has been going on for the last 4 years?
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- you'll get your chance to kill muslims alright.............. or be killed by them.....
the real fascist nazi's of today are the fascist nazi islamic muslims.....
'Obsession'
Documentary gives insight into radical Islam's global threat
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http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/12min.htm
http://myspace.com/waragainstthewest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BL4-mxE87w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUpcpEQtgp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUqXSeCDJc
UK TV AIRS SHOCK 'UNDERCOVER' LOOK INTO MAINSTREAM BRIT MOSQUES...
Dispatches: Undercover Mosque
This is part one of the much-anticipated UK Channel 4 documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, exposing evidence of Islamic supremacism, shocking misogyny, and support for violence at a number of Britain%u2019s leading mosques and Muslim institutions. (Thanks again to LGF operative kasper.)
http://littlegreenfootballs.co
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- "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest." %u2014 Imile Zola
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Yes, religion, all religions, has caused more turmoil and death in this world than anything else.
Education is the answer. But, that solution is milleniums away.
'Nuff said. - Reply to this comment
- Bush now think's this is WW2 & he is Truman - LOL
TRUMAN WON WW2 IN LESS TIME, PAID FOR THE WAR WITH TAXES, PROSICUTED WAR PROFITEERS, & ACTUALLY KEPT HIS ALLIES ------- BUSH IS NO TRUMAN
------- THIS IS NOT WW2 ------------- - Reply to this comment
- DISHONORING OUR TROOPS -- FOR BUSH'S POLITICAL GAIN
DISHONORING AMERICA -- FOR BUSH'S POLITICAL GAIN - Reply to this comment
- Badax,,, When has Bush ever been right ???? --NEVER,, -- THIS TIME IT'S KILLING OUR TROOPS & DISHONERING AMERICAN VOTERS
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- I second that motion.
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lars08
Extremists on both sides want to turn this whole mess into a religious war while the rest of us just want to live in peace and raise our families. If you want to kill Muslims you should just shut up, sign up, and go to Iraq.- Reply to this comment
- ISLAM IS A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW!
ISLAM PRACTICES SLAVERY OF NON MUSLIMS
ISLAM PRACTICES APARTHIED OF NON MUSLIMS
ISLAM PRACTICES RAPE OF NON MUSLIMS
ISLAM PRACTICES GENOCIDE OF NON MUSLIMS
ALL ARE VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ARE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Reply to this comment
- crater7
The simplest ideas are always the best.
I am not a military officer, but surely, any successful military or intelligence led action must rely on the element of surprise? To launch what is in effect a promotional trailer for our Baghdad offensive strikes me as unwise in the extreme. My view is that it will be as Fallujah, where we telegraphed the operation and allowed hundreds perhaps even thousands of insurgents to relocate to safe areas, to live to fight another day.
Spare a thought for our military leaders though. War is rarely a purely military affair. Politicians need to be seen to be "in control" and "doing something." Hence the set-piece production "New Way Forward."
Some die-hards will stay in Iraq and duke it out with us and be anihilated. But sadly, the net effect of the troop surge in Baghdad will be utterly meaningless. Most will live to fight another day. - Reply to this comment
- America has been put "on sale" to the highest bidder. The public does not know who owns our ports as the DUBAI deal was quietly withdrawn from the news. Our airlines were offered for sale. Many cities/states offered toll roads for sale. The fast-track trade policy that GWB wants reinstated will help him move forward with the American Trade Union that eliminates the north and southern borders. (So why the big push/fight over illegal immigrats to get amnesty.....just a way of diverting attention until he gets all the plans in place for the ATU.)
Can you imagine how much damage he can do during the next two years if Congress grants him line item veto, like he asked in his speech?
The WAR is foremost on people's minds, but forces are at work here at home (boardrooms, committees, organizations) which have plans to drastically change our way of life. - Reply to this comment
- "BAGHDAG SECURITY PUSH COULD START SOON" HEY! I HAVE AN IDEA, LETS DROP LEAFLETS FROM PLANES AND TELL ALL THE BAD GUYS THAT THE TROOP SURGE IS COMMING, THEY WILL ALL RUN AND HIDE. THE VIOLENCE STOPPED. WALA, WE CAN BRING OUT TROOPS HOME. NO MORE BAD GUYS.
SIMPLE, AND THEY SAID THERE WAS NO NEW PLANS. - Reply to this comment
- "Distinguishing Shadow From Substance"
I am not opposed to US troops being in Iraq. I am a pragmatist. My view is that we have created a prophecy that has fulfilled itself. Therefore under present conditions our presence in Iraq is necessary. Pre-2003, although Saddam was known to compensate the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, Iraq was not the haven for terorist activity and sectarian extremism that it is today.
Today Iraq is a finishing school and proving ground for the worst of the worst. New techniques are being developed and perfected to create mayhem and madness and our "flowering democracy" is now a failed state. On top of that, far from being an ally in the war on terror, Iraq is now an unwitting exporter of international terrorism.
Is it at all likely that if we leave Iraq, "they will follow us home." I think it is absolutely plausible (but not certain). Unfortunately, the problem the administration has is that of the little boy who cried wolf. You see, when fear becomes a policy of state and threats of "mushroom clouds", "smoking guns" and "weapons of mass destruction" are revealed as see through-shams, then people become suspicious.
Sadly, for the administration it is on the fast track of a slippery slope. You see, if people become suspicious, then they raise doubts. If they raise doubts it is because they distrust and if they distrust the war will be lost. - Reply to this comment
- The thousand year civil war cannot be solved by our troops. The Republican talking points about "winning" in Iraq is just talk.
The only way to fix this mess is for the world to get involved DIPLOMATICALLY along with boots on the ground. The United States cannot "win" this alone.
How can anyone think that more of our blood and more of our money aimed at a MILITARY victory will change the hearts and minds over there?
I give our current effort in Iraq an 18% chance of success. There is alomst certain failure. Even if the whole world got involved DIPLOMATICALLY and with troops, I would still only give that about a 50% chance of success.
That's not being "defeatist" (republican made-up word).
That's just calling it the way I see it. - Reply to this comment
- Bu$h says "You are all fools! And my defense buddies are now so rich, they could buy America from the Chinese."
Too late, USA. Fascists rule the land. - Reply to this comment
- Well, we will add another 21,500 troops to Iraq and then the Republicans will request another 25,000 troops claiming that it will still work. Then in 2008 a Democrat will be President because America will be sick and tired by then. Of course the poor guy or girl who has to get the military out will then be branded by the Republicans as defeatist. Of course by that time this country will be such a mess that we will not care what those fools say anymore.
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