Turning a Corner ...

posted by The Vidiot @ 11:21 PM Permalink

... 3 times.

On Sunday the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pace said

"I do not believe it has deep roots," Pace said of the insurgency. "I do not believe that they're on the verge of civil war."
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"I wouldn't put a great big smiley face on it, but I would say they're going very, very well from everything you look at."
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"No matter where you look at their military, their police, their society things are much better this year than they were last,"

Where to start with such bold faced lies?
Well, here:

The Interior Ministry, meanwhile, denied involvement in fighting in a Sunni mosque in west Baghdad that killed three people Sunday. Police had reported that commandos from the Shiite-led Interior Ministry stormed the mosque, leading to a 25 minute gunbattle.

And here:

"We have found one of the death squads. They are part of the police force," US Maj Gen Joseph Peterson said.

Of course last year:

The number of Iraqi army battalions that can fight insurgents without U.S. and coalition help has dropped from three to one

And this year:

A recent Pentagon assessment of Iraqi troop readiness concluded the country currently has no army battalions capable of standing up to insurgents and terrorists on their own

Well, let's see what other lies are on Pace:

March 4, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A mortar round killed seven people and wounded 15 others at a busy market in a southeastern Baghdad suburb early Saturday, said an emergency police official, one day after a daytime curfew brought relative peace.

Five other people were killed in bombings and shootings outside Baghdad, adding to the more than 500 lives lost in the wave of sectarian violence since the February 22 bombing of the Shiite Al-Askariya Mosque in Samarra.

The worst offending statement was "I do not believe it has deep roots" Actually, the roots go back to Iraq's founding by the British in the 1921.

Sunnis collaborated with the British, who supported the Sunni Arab monarchists. Shiite insurrectionists heeded the calls of their clergy and fought a jihad, or holy war, against the British, who crushed them and reaffirmed their second-class status. Kurdish nationalists unsuccessfully sought independence, first by diplomatic channels, later by the gun.