Observation #1:
Since the U.S slaughtered nearly 150 women and children, the Boston Globe has been conspicuously silent on Afghanistan.
Related(?): Boston Globes Censors Civilian Slaughter
Observation #2:
The coverage of violence in Iraq has dropped as well.
Of course, Iraq is almost over, right, Amurka?
"Iraqis uneasy about US troops departing; Fears are raised about security" by Ernesto Londono, Washington Post | May 24, 2009
BAGHDAD - The unthinkable is happening in Sadr City as the US military begins to shut down its outposts to meet a June 30 deadline to withdraw from Iraqi cities.
Separation anxiety is growing among residents, local leaders, and American soldiers in the sprawling, impoverished Shi'ite district that was once the most dangerous battlefield in Baghdad for US troops.
Have you had it with the occupation-promoting s***-shovel from the war-criminal paper, or is it just me?
Been hearing the same shit for SIX FUCKING YEARS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Tortured Logic and related links for why I no longer believe in "suiciders" or anything else the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist AmeriKan war press has to report about Iraq!!
"When the Americans leave, everything will be looted because no one will be watching," an Iraqi army lieutenant newly deployed there said. "There will be a civil war - without a doubt," predicted an Iraqi interpreter. Council members have asked about political asylum in the United States.
Have you seen this?:
"Corruption watchdog Transparency International rated Iraq the third most corrupt country in the world"
Mohammed Alami, a local leader who calls himself the US Embassy's unofficial representative in Sadr City, is among those expecting mayhem. "This is the most dangerous decision being made," he said recently after a meeting at a US outpost in Sadr City. "We will lose the security. The insurgents will come back. I will be the first one targeted."
The deadline, the first of three that chart the withdrawal of US troops, will test Iraqi forces and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's assertion that his government stands ready to assume primary control over security.... For the Obama administration, the deadline and the months that follow will be a key test of whether a campaign promise to withdraw "responsibly" is feasible.
Oh, ANOTHER BROKEN PROMISE because of POLITICAL "FEASIBILITY," huh?
For the last time, 'murkn: WE AIN'T LEAVIN' and NEVER WERE!
All just SHIT FOOLEYS for you while you have your head up your ass!!!!
Some US officials have begun to see it as a perilous turning point, if violence surges as the military loses influence, mobility, and combat power.
ANOTHER TURNING POINT? That must be the thousandth!
"The bottom line is they are not ready for us to give over the cities," a senior US military official said on the condition of anonymity to speak critically of the Iraqis.
Then we won't, 'murkn. It's that simple!
"If we do, and all indications are that they will make us leave, we will be in a firefight to get back in and stop the violence. And we will lose soldiers."
A) Puppets don't pull master strings, and B) we ain't leaving anyway!
Make us leave!
The American people couldn't do that, so how could some Iraqis?
Several key details about the June 30 deadline remain unresolved. Iraqi leaders have not said how many, if any, mechanized units and outposts they will let the Americans keep in Baghdad and Mosul, a northern city riven by violence.
Yup, even though violence is down, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!
And there is no consensus on the definition of combat troops.
Yes there is: Occupation Iraq: Non-Combat Combat
How you coming along with that bowl of MSM and government s***, 'murkn?
The US military built dozens of small combat outposts and joint security stations in 2007 as part of a strategy that helped turn the tide in a war that many at the time viewed as a lost cause....
Yup, the SURGE, remember?!
WTF? If we are at a PERILOUS TURNING POINT then George W. Bush and his surge FAILED, lying shit press!!!!
You guys have NEVER STOPPED LYING ABOUT IRAQ and apparently NEVER WILL!!!!!
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Karcher, the battalion commander based in Sadr City, said he is optimistic about the transition. The Iraqi army unit based in Sadr City has come a long way, he said. The June 30 deadline, Karcher said, will not mark the overnight departure of US forces from urban areas. Instead, it will force the Americans to adhere to a concept they have, to varying degrees, paid lip service to over the past three years: putting the Iraqis in charge.
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Yup, everything is great in Iraq now!
Of course, the VIOLENCE is a BRIEF in the OBFUSCATING Boston Globe!
"2 US contractors killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - Two Americans have been killed inside Baghdad's highly fortified Green Zone, US and Iraqi officials said yesterday, raising concerns about security in the area as Iraq's forces assume more control. The body of an American civilian was found Friday in a vehicle in the Green Zone, and another contractor was killed by a rocket attack that night near the American Embassy, US military officials said. The body was believed to be that of a civilian working for the Department of Defense, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Maka said, adding that no other details were immediately available (AP)."
What about our boys, not the mrecenaries-for-hire?
BAGHDAD - Six years of war and 4,300 dead, the end is in sight in Iraq....
Sigh
as the United States shifts military resources to Afghanistan.
Oh, so they will die in the mountains rather than the desert!
As a first step, American troops are to pull out of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities by the end of next month, leaving security in the hands of Iraq's own soldiers and police. It remains unclear, however, whether Iraqi forces are up to the task. Violence may increase....
I just puked up my breakfast bowl of MSM s***. I'm overfull!!!!
While the outlook for US troops in Iraq appears somewhat brighter, there is a growing sense that the war in Afghanistan is not going America's way.... --more--"
As for the Iraqis and Afgahns being killed by us:Are we clear, readers?
Instead we get this:
"Minister quits amid probe" by Timothy Williams and Abeer Mohammed, New York Times | May 26, 2009
BAGHDAD - The Trade Ministry's program that provides monthly food rations for Iraqis....
They are STILL GETTING RATIONS SIX YEARS AFTER INVASION!
Oh, THIS THING is an ABOMINABLE FAILURE -- and the AmeriKan MSM is calling it a success!!!!!!!!!!!
Frequent shortages, and some of the goods were distributed long after their expiration dates, arousing widespread anger.
Let 'em eat SPOILED FOOD, 'eh?
That's why the French chopped some heads off long ago!
People interviewed yesterday said that when the food becomes available it is often inedible. "I can not consume the items," said Um Ali, a 47-year-old housewife in Baghdad's Karada neighborhood. "We sell them and buy other items from the black market."
O' Iraqis, I am SO SORRY for what my MASS-MURDERING GOVERNMENT has done to your nation -- and to Afghanistan!!!!!
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They were BETTER OFF UNDER SADDAM!!!!!!!!!!!
