Things are going so well, Baghdad is still a living Hell…

posted by Bill Arnett @ 11:52 AM Permalink

…Well, another failure in Iraq, with no one to blame but the Republicans who wish to stay there forever and generals and diplomats who refuse to be honest.

From the NYT:

Sharp fighting broke out in the Sadr City district of Baghdad on Sunday as American and Iraqi troops sought to control neighborhoods used by Shiite militias to fire rockets and mortars into the nearby Green Zone.

But the operation failed to stop the attacks on the heavily fortified zone, headquarters for Iraq’s central government and the American Embassy here. By day’s end, at least two American soldiers had been killed and 17 wounded in the zone, one of the worst daily tolls for the American military in the most heavily protected part of Baghdad. Altogether, at least three American soldiers were killed and 31 wounded in attacks in Baghdad on Sunday, and at least 20 Iraqis were killed, mostly in Sadr City.

The heightened violence came on the eve of Congressional testimony in Washington by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior American commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador here, to defend their strategy for political reconciliation and improved security in the country.

Is that last paragraph really supposed to read: "The heightened violence came on the eve of Congressional testimony in Washington by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior American commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador there, to defend their failure to obtain political reconciliation or improved security in the country.

Just wondering. I think we should create and enforce laws for speaking the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from military and diplomatic personnel when testifying before Congress…Oh! Wait we already have such laws and Congress allows them to lie with impunity anyway.

As Emily Litella might have said, "Nevermind." (R.I.P. Gilda Radner, the funniest comedienne who ever walked the Earth.)

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