Wednesday, August 15, 2007
More lipstick! More lipstick!
As the White House minions dress up Gen. David's report for him, McClatchy has two stories side by side today that would make whatever it may say irrelevent. The first reports on the concerns of members of the US military for the future of Iraq, despite a reduction in violence.
The second report is a follow up on the right moment for one group.
Despite U.S. claims that violence is down in the Iraqi capital, U.S. military officers are offering a bleak picture of Iraq’s future, saying they’ve yet to see any signs of reconciliation between Sunni and Shiite Muslims despite the drop in violence.So the violence is down but the lack of a political resolution means they are just waiting for the right moment.
Without reconciliation, the military officers say, any decline in violence will be temporary and bloodshed could return to previous levels as soon as the U.S. military cuts back its campaign against insurgent attacks.
That downbeat assessment comes despite a buildup of U.S. troops that began five months ago Wednesday and has seen U.S. casualties reach the highest sustained levels since the United States invaded Iraq nearly four and a half years ago.
The second report is a follow up on the right moment for one group.
Officials said Wednesday that as many as 500 people probably died in a series of coordinated truck bombings that devastated two northern Iraqi villages Tuesday and set a record for mass carnage in war-torn Iraq.But Our Dear Embattled Leader is determined to hang in there until he leaves office, no matter how many die. The much ballyhooed report will be just so much hooey.
Residents and rescue workers in Tal al Azizziyah and Sheikh Khadar, two villages near the Syrian border in Nineveh province, spent Wednesday pulling the dead and wounded from the rubble of clay homes that had collapsed when the massive bombs exploded.
The confirmed death toll was at least 250 and climbing, officials said. Five hundred more were wounded, many critically. More than 100 one-story homes and shops were destroyed by the blasts.
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