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I felt like posting this as Fallujah is getting lower and lower on national news coverage......Anyone else find it disturbing that our Govt. is reverting back to body counts of the enemy?? As if the higher the number, the more we should believe we are "winning"? 

yeah, you know what is really weird too.

We gave fallujah a week notice. So the insurgents left and went to Baghdad and Ramalya(sp?) so then we pull our troops out of baghdad and ramalya and send them to fallujah. Now the insurgents are controlling Baghdad and ramalya. So you see this is never going to work. It has become a yo yo. When is Bush going to realize this is not working and we need a new plan.

You can protest, you can demonstrate, you can vote- but it ends there.

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I felt like posting this as Fallujah is getting lower and lower on national news coverage......Anyone else find it disturbing that our Govt. is reverting back to body counts of the enemy?? As if the higher the number, the more we should believe we are "winning"? 

She's great, isn't she ? 

Baghdad Burning writes: "They say the people have nothing to eat. No produce is going into the city and the water has been cut off for days and days. Do you know what it's like to have no clean water???  Families are burying children and parents in the gardens of their homes.

Iraq Raed from "Where's Raed" fame  link

Mission Accomplished: Take Two
The military operation to regain control of Fallujah has ended and there are just "malignant" pockets of resistance left to clear up, with more than 1,000 rebels killed, Iraq's national security advisor said.

I thought Falluja itself is a small "malignant" pocket. Or these are the pockets inside the pocket? just like the Cluster Bombs used there?

The Iraqi version of Condi said
"Operation Fajr (Dawn) has been achieved and only the malignant pockets remain that we are dealing with through a clean-up operation
In Fallujah, four US helicopters were hit by gunfire this morning, despite of the "mission-accomplished-bush-style" that was announced.

Further south, the holy Shia city of Najaf joined an ever-growing list of cities -- at least six -- across the country to be put under curfew, while Baghdad's international airport was closed indefinitely to commercial flights.

further north, news are speaking about a bigger withdrawal for the US forces from Mosul. Fighters from the city are "doing patrols to protect banks and shops from looters. They are guarding hospitals, schools and fire stations", yet they didn't protect the abandoned US base in the city after the US army left it Other news confirmed that the US base, a former presidential palace, is being looted by local citizens..

Street fighting continued in the downtown of Baghdad, and the other districts in west, middle, and south Baghdad... in a continued offensive against Sunni leaders, the US army attacked and captured the center of the AMS (Association of Muslim Scholars), and arrested another three Sunni clerics.

A Family in Baghdad link
Last evening I was tired, and strained, when an American Radio Station called me in the evening, and asked me about the Iraqi's opinion in the American elections, does it concern them? I said: Of course it concerns them� - And what are the people's viewpoints?? That was a difficult question, but I like truthfulness and honesty more that anything else. The Iraqi street is divided, like the American street( and that supports the theory that all humans are alike), some consider that Bush is better, in spite of all his faults and mistakes� (�listen, I'll stop for a while, there is a big explosion that smashed the glass of my windows again, ... oh, my GOD!)
I hear helicopter planes thundering in the sky…and the sound of the Iraqi Police car’s sirens…in a few hours we shall understand what exactly happened?

I shall go to work….and write later when I get back home, that is, IF I remained alive, huh..

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I felt like posting this as Fallujah is getting lower and lower on national news coverage......Anyone else find it disturbing that our Govt. is reverting back to body counts of the enemy?? As if the higher the number, the more we should believe we are "winning"? 

I prepared myself for several minutes of nausea as Bush began speaking. He irritates me like no one else can. Imagine long nails across a chalk board, Styrofoam being rubbed in hands, shrieking babies, barking dogs, grinding teeth, dripping faucets, honking horns – all together, all at once – and you will imagine the impact his voice has on my ears.

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I felt like posting this as Fallujah is getting lower and lower on national news coverage......Anyone else find it disturbing that our Govt. is reverting back to body counts of the enemy?? As if the higher the number, the more we should believe we are "winning"? 

These two alternate blogs are also a useful point of view, but you need to be aware that these views no doubt represent a heavily American military / reconstruction supported view, which means you need to be aware of the likelihood of a certain viewpoint.  Seems too convenient that they "happened to be out of the country" during the most recent offensive in Falluja, and the clear bias against the Arabic equivalent of CNN will certainly locate these two well to the right of the average Iraqi I would expect.

(in referring to the insurgents in an early post) <snip>...and they will concentrate their operations in the coming two months in an attempt to affect the course of the American elections.<snip>

These two alternate blogs are also a useful point of view, but you need to be aware that these views no doubt represent a heavily American military / reconstruction supported view, which means you need to be aware of the likelihood of a certain viewpoint.  Seems too convenient that they "happened to be out of the country" during the most recent offensive in Falluja, and the clear bias against the Arabic equivalent of CNN will certainly locate these two well to the right of the average Iraqi I would expect.