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Suspected Insurgents Captured North Of Baghdad; Shiite Rites To Begin In Karbala
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The top U.S. general in Iraq, David Petraeus, said a military solution alone would not solve security problems in Iraq, and the extra U.S. troops sent there would likely be needed for quite some time.
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Iraqi pilgrims on a religious journey are being targeted. Another 10 were killed Wednesday, a day after bomb blasts killed more than 100 Shiites. Aleen Sirgany reports.
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Lt. Eroch Cordts, 24, second right, Sfc. David Horn, 36, left, Sgt. Chase Decker, 23, second left and Staff Sgt. Ryan Stringfellow, 32, right, plan a joint foot patrol with the Iraqi Army and Iraqi National Police in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on March 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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A U.S. and an Iraqi soldier watch for a sniper in the Buritz village, in Baqouba, Diyala province, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2007. (CBS/Cami McCormick)
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Soldiers from Bravo Troop, 2nd, Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi National Police officers set out on a joint foot patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad on March 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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A U.S. soldier of the 69th squadron, 3rd brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, stands guard by a bullet-riddled wall of an abandoned Shiite family's home just outside Muqdadiyah, Iraq, March 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
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An Iraqi Army commando guards Muslim Shiite pilgrims marching towards the shrine city of Karbala, about 65 miles south of Baghdad, on March 6, 2007. (Getty Images/Mohammad Sawaf)
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The operation took place in Duluiyah and the Jabouri peninsula a bend in the Tigris River about 55 miles north of Baghdad part of the Sunni areas around Baghdad where insurgents have fled since the crackdown in the capital began last month.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said the security operation would be extended beyond the city limits to target these areas, which he referred to as "the Baghdad belt."
Petraeus did not put a time limit on how long the additional troops might remain in Iraq, but he said they're likely to be there beyond the summer, reports CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan.
"The priority clearly is Baghdad, (but) anyone who knows about security in Baghdad knows you must also secure the 'Baghdad belts' in other words, the areas that surround Baghdad," Petraeus told reporters at his first news conference since taking command last month.
Petraeus said the security operation would continue as long as necessary "to achieve its desired effect."
"We are still in the early days of this endeavor an endeavor that will take months, not weeks, to fully implement," Petraeus said.
Petraeus acknowledged that some kinds of attacks are almost impossible to stop, reports Logan.
There is a point at which if someone is willing to blow up himself, particularly, perhaps, disguise himself, and use a vest rather than a vehicle, the problem becomes very, very difficult indeed, he said.
Petraeus also said he had not decided whether to ask for additional troops beyond the 21,500 combat forces already earmarked for Baghdad. The last of the reinforcements are due in early June, he said.
In other developments:
The New York Times reported that the operational commander, Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, recommended that the extra troops remain until February 2008. Odierno said the extra troops are needed to allow time to win over the Iraqi populace.
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"and political talks must eventually include some militant groups now opposing the U.S.-backed government."
Imagine that. He is advocating the plan proposed by the Iraq Study Group.
Amazing how Bozo Bush claimed he was implementing his own plan when his plan appears to be the same as that proposed by the Iraq Study Group.
That is the only plan that will work and will not work until all US combat forces are withdrawn from Iraq.
It is unfortunate that George Bush is a pathological liar and refuses to credit the ISG for the plan he is implementing.
Of course, a moronic fascist like you - and the rest of the surrender monkeys liked Cliton - a draft dodging pervert who rained bombs down on Serbs who were NEVER a threat to the U.S. - None of you cowards, traitors, fascists and mental midgets demanded his head. Why? Because, even in the case of the so-called "vets" here, he was your kind of guy. Even though when bombing Belgrade he totally ignored Al Qaeda.
Getting a little more quiet in Baghdad? I guess you hyenas will be screaming louder and pointing out to Diyala, Ramati, and Anbar. So sad to disappoint you, but they'll be cleaned out of cockroaches too, pretty soon. Which will leave your girlfriend, Botox, and rest of the traitors looking for more excuses.
Grow Up. And if you don't like the war, the mission, or this country - more so the latter, kindly leave it. Live in one of the roach holes. I'm sure you will loved there especially when they slit your scrawny necks, bozo fascists.
Posted by Lieber1881 at 07:56 AM : Mar 08, 2007
I have only written a letter to one president requesting that he resign for the good of the nation.
No, it wan't LBJ, D. Nixon or Jimmy Carter.
It was Bill Clinton.
You, like the rest of the Bush bootlickers, are a moron. And, it appears you are a hysterical, shrieking moron, at that.
George Bush can always rely on the moron vote. After all, birds of a feather do squawk together.
***.
Another Leftie aiding and abetting the insurgents.
If you think Americas sacrifice is worth it contact your Congress person and tell them http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Here is the House Speakers email address: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
Does this man look worried ?
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2006/03/20/image1422382g.jpg
That picture is from a CBS story about a year ago: 3/20/2006:
"President Bush on Monday cited progress in stabilizing an insurgent stronghold in northern Iraq, saying he has "confidence in our strategy" and contending that critics should look beyond the images of violence to see clear signs of progress."
The neocons always respond that I do not know what I'm talking about, that I'm a traitor, an enemy agent, etc., and we just need more troops to get the job done.
Well, this morning Dubya's hand picked boy finally spoke the truth:
No military solution to Iraq - U.S. chief
POSTED: 5:59 a.m. EST, March 8, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) -- U.S. and Iraqi security forces cannot solve the problem of violence in Iraq without political action and reconciliation with some militant groups, the U.S. commander in Iraq said on Thursday.
General David Petraeus, in his first news conference in Baghdad since he took command last month, also said he saw no immediate need to request more U.S. troops, but reinforcements already requested would likely stay "well beyond the summer."
"There is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq, to the insurgency of Iraq," Petraeus said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/m
east/03/08/iraq.petraeus.reut/index.html
Now you neocons, call Petraeus an enemy agent and traitor for speaking the truth - go ahead.
"I'm sure you will loved there especially when they slit your scrawny necks, bozo fascists."
Posted by Lieber1881
Bush is welcomed to that clown and all the other clowns he can crowd into a Hundred Man March in support of policies that have failed as surely as the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
Do not look for the Democrats to be able to do anything to stop it, since they do not have a large enough majority in either house of Congress. Additionally, the madman-in-chief would veto anything they might manage to pass.
The key rests with the rubber-stamp Republicans. IF and when enough of them realize that their rubber-stamping is ruining this nation, we will return to sanity.
Clinton submitted to the draft (eventually), took a physical at an American military base in England and then took his chances with the draft lottery.
Bush dodged the draft completely.
Get your facts straight.
He didn't.
Lieber1881 and his crowd will never forgive Clinton for losing no Americans in combat in that campaign. How it would have pleased them to scream on this forum, "Clinton lied and 3,000 Americans died in the war with the Serbs !!"
That would have made them so happy -- it would have been better than SE*X for them.
Posted by Lieber1881
i bet liebersissy wets his pants every time he writes one of his lie-berisms.
IDF's still waiting for you dude -
That Crystal Ball is defective, sir.
Get your money back.
Posted by Musty2U
you are one sick sick dude
Anyone with real world experience knows you have to set real deadlines for difficult tasks, or they won't get done.
Even something as relatively painless as tax preparation needs that April deadline to enforce it.
We should give the Iraqi government real deadlines and tell them we're pulling out if they don't meet them.
Gen. Batiste
need we say more.....?
Gen. petraeus
Oh, really, we didn't realize that....it means we have to talk to someone? Before unilateral action?
Is that Neocon-cratic ?
The IRS doesn't tell you they're establishing an April benchmark for your tax filing, and that they will then evaluate your progress in meeting it.
The IRS gives you a deadline.
The Iraqi government has already had four years.
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Here are the senators up for reelection in 08 write them or quit complaining!
Posted by bluestardad
With D-ick Durbin I would be preaching to the choir.
But thanks.
I don't think they envisioned risking their lives to protect Iraqi Shiite Pilgrims or Islamic shrines.
They wanted to protect Americans.
We should give the Iraqi government real deadlines and tell them we're pulling out if they don't meet them.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 08:53 AM : Mar 08, 2007
I agree with this 100%. They better start getting a handle on the forces entering their country causing strife. If they can't control it, it will for sure be a lost cause.
Maj. Gen. John Batiste (Ret.) says the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "are going to take a lot longer than we think."
I say this is a fine example of the people at the helm. He found his tongue after he retired. It is difficult to gain credibility once you have LIED, LIED, and LIED again. We were told by the DECIDER: an immediate threat, WMD's, would be paid for with Iraqi oil, mission accomplished, and then it changes to.....stabilize IRAQ, fight the terrorists there so we don't fight them here.
It is the people in the Middle East that need to be mobolized together at a conference, and let them find a way to either live together or KILL each other as long as they wish. (How will they know when they have gotten the last terrorist? As long as people exist, they will find ways to kill.)
This triple aterisk *** is not what America's servicemen and women signed up to do.
And this isn't even a declared war.
Bush should be impeached for abusing the military like this.
Here we go again with the continuing game of "Whack-a Mole"
We "surge" into Baghdad, the militias and insurgents melt away into the countryside. We go to the provinces, they scurry back into Baghdad. Repeat as desired.
And with every swing of the mallet, a minimum of 3 US soldiers make acquaintance with an IED or a sniper.
If we cannot win over the general population, there is no amount of troops or equipment that will insure any success in Iraq. So far, we have had a dismal record.
Partly, it is because in the eyes of the Iraqis, we morphed very rapidly from liberator to occupier. They want us gone yesterday. They need the room to get on with their own plans for bloodbath and mayhem. The few mutilated bodies that keep turning up in the street every morning aren't enough for them. They want to start the production lines rolling.
So do we futilely chase moles or do the smart thing: pull out, seal the borders tight and wait for the sectarian slaughter to begin, flourish and then finally ebb.
Until the Iraqis either resolve their internal religious strife or let it lay waste to their country, there is little we can do to improve the situation.
Unfortunately far too many innocent lives have been lost. That loss is partly on the heads of our little tyrant and his dark prince and their aides and spinmeisters in our White House.
We need to deal with them as quickly as we can for our own nation's sake.
The American military has better things to do than guarantee security in "the holy city of Karbala."
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Posted by Iceman_
Like come home to their families in one piece and let Iraq take care of its own problems maybe?
"You can be among the brave men and women of America's armed forces as they fight to protect the holy city of Karbala, where Shiite religious rites mark the end of a 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein's death in a 7th-century battle near Karbala cemented the schism between Sunnis and Shiites."
Can this get any more absurd ?
OK, we're going now. America wasn't even in existence in the 7th century.
When the Iraqis get done refighting the 7th century and catch up to the 21st, we'll be back.
How do they put it in Texas ?
"We don't have a dog in this fight."
(Or is that, "We don't have a God in this fight" ?)
Tell them Hadj sent you and you want more bombs rained down upon your heads.
Posted by Rochest
And this guy was hired after the last one "retired" for saying there was no military solution (along with all the other who said the same thing). I thought he was supposed to be Bush's bobblehead? Looks like he is developing his own brain.
What is wrong with the people in this administration in that they cannot understand this very simple idea??
Here we are 4 years later after a strictly military campaign still fighting the same people. This is stupid, costly and useless and I am SICK TO DEATH of reading about the number of soldiers and civilians killed in the same fruitless way. Me and a lot of other people all predicted that putting more troops in Baghdad would accomplish NOTHING except kill more soldiers and drive the insurgents to pop up in another place!!
General Petraeus, I am sure, is a fine soldier, but he himself ackownledges that he cannot win in Bahgdad with just the military. There MUST be a diplomatic push as strong as the military push to accomplish ANYTHING.
And even then it will take years. This whole stupid mess is beyond belief. It will be a problem for decades to come.
What is wrong with the people in this administration in that they cannot understand this very simple idea??
Posted by clestes
Because that would mean Bush admitting he was wrong and he will throw as many limbs and lives away as necessary if he thinks there is even the samllest chance he can avoid that.
iceman you are right so right we do not have a dog (God)in this fight... bring our combat troops home safely to their families now.
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