Sunday - April 03, 2005

On The Good News Front In Iraq

It appears that the locals are exhibiting more confidence in the ability of Iraqi security forces because they are providing more and more tips to stop terrorists in their tracks.

Can it be they are finally seeing the light? Some are.  Yet some are still blind.

“At first, I used to think of them as holy fighters. But after what we’ve been seeing on television, it became clear they were terrorists.”

Sadly, some of them are too stupid to understand what we’ve done for them in eliminating Hussein when they say:

“I don’t think I would have reported them if they were targeting only Americans,” Abdullah said. “After all, this is an occupier.”

Reading stuff like that makes me want to lob a couple of nukes in there and just be done with it.

In good news for our troops, should things continue to improve and people continue to turn in terrorists and Iraqi Security Forces stem the violence, the military may begin large scale pullbacks starting in June with most troops gone by February 2006.

“After Fallujah, and with all the weapons caches we keep finding and destroying, its getting fairly calm,” said one G2 Bulletin intelligence source inside Iraq. “The international Zone hasn’t had a rocket since December.”

The change was apparent after the elections, with the number of U.S. soldiers killed dropping from 58 in February to 30 in March—the lowest monthly death toll since 20 American soldiers were killed in February 2004.

For more on numbers of US casualties, go here.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 04/03/2005 at 07:09 AM   
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