Thursday, December 28, 2006
Send another 30,000 troops to do this?
Inside the NY Times today is a look at what goes on at ground level with the "boots" already on the ground. It is a very good look at what Our Dear embattled Leader was calling "winning" in Baghdad.
The car parked outside was almost certainly a tool of the Sunni insurgency. It was pocked with bullet holes and bore fake license plates. The trunk had cases of unused sniper bullets and a notice to a Shiite family telling them to abandon their home.WTF are we wasting our Army in this shithole for. Li'l Georgie started it for no good reason and only the Iraqi's can finish it. And that won't happen until we get out of the way. Escalating our troop presence will just prolong the agony. The Republicans lost this war and no good will come from getting more Americans killed.
“Otherwise, your rotten heads will be cut off,” the note read.
The soldiers who came upon the car in a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad were part of a joint American and Iraqi patrol, and the Americans were ready to take action. The Iraqi commander, however, taking orders by cellphone from the office of a top Sunni politician, said to back off: the car’s owner was known and protected at a high level.
For Maj. William Voorhies, the American commander of the military training unit at the scene, the moment encapsulated his increasingly frustrating task — trying to build up Iraqi security forces who themselves are being used as proxies in a spreading sectarian war. This time, it was a Sunni politician — Vice Prime Minister Salam al-Zubaie — but the more powerful Shiites interfered even more often.
“I have come to the conclusion that this is no longer America’s war in Iraq, but the Iraqi civil war where America is fighting,” Major Voorhies said.
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