Bending the Third Rail
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Monday, January 23, 2006
On The Run
From Slate:
USAT reports that there were 34,131 insurgent attacks in Iraq last year, an increase of 29 percent from the previous year.
Ole' Dickey "got em' on the run" Cheney sure knows how to call em'. But never fear, the boys at the Pentagon got his back:
U.S. Army spin: "It tells me the coalition and the Iraqi forces have been very aggressive in taking the fight to the enemy." According to U.S. officials, insurgents are increasingly targeting Iraqi troops, first because there are now more trained Iraqi security forces and they are taking an increasingly central role in the fighting; and second because U.S. forces are doing a better job of protecting troops against roadside bombs and other attacks.
Maybe I'm not well trained Army talk and stuff, but isn't the headline about insurgent attacks, not U.S./Iraq defense/response?

Ok ok.

So according to the Pentagon statement, we can end the insurgency by dissolving the Iraqi security forces and withdrawing the U.S. troops. Right?

In the meantime, from the same article:
The WP reports on the exodus of educated professionals from Iraq in the wake of continuing violence and threats. Iraqi elites are being targeted for kidnapping and ransom and even murder, and the resulting brain drain threatens to leave Iraq without the "core of skilled people" it needs to develop into an independent democracy.
Without comment.....
Written at 10:53 AM by Greyhair.
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