Well, that's a lie: Occupation Iraq: Non-Combat Combat
Related: Occupation Iraq: Should We Stay or Should We Go?
I guess the answer has to be STAY, huh, Americans?
I'll give you a clue: I never believed we were withdrawing. That carrot has been out there for so long, I don't believe a word. Democrats just fully funded Obama's murder sprees, so.... change? WHAT CHANGE? WORSE CHANGE?
"Bomb strikes Shi'ite market, kills 69 in Iraq; US troops set to pull out of urban areas" by Kim Gamel, Associated Press | June 25, 2009
BAGHDAD - A bomb ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad’s main Shi’ite district yesterday, killing at least 69 people and wounding more than 100 less than a week before a deadline for US combat troops to leave Iraq’s urban areas.
Wow, that sure is tortured logic if you are an 'insurgent," America.
Wouldn't you WAIT a FEW MORE WEEKS until AFTER WE PULLED BACK to show how WEAK the GOVERNMENT is? Then we'd have to come running back in and rebuild everything we took down and waste money at least, right?
WHAT DUMB INSURGENTS! One wonders how they managed to keep this thing going all this time!
A series of blasts this week have killed more than 160 people, as US and Iraqi officials warned that they expected more violence before the US withdrawal from cities.
That tells you quite a bit right there when you think about it.
THEY WARNED you because THEY are DIRECTING the VIOLENCE!!!
Related: Occupation Iraq: Maliki's Punch Line
The recent spike in violence has raised concern about the ability of Iraqi forces to protect civilians, but a US military spokesman maintained that US combat troops would be out of the cities by Tuesday as required by a security pact....
Have you had enough of the military and MSM lies about Iraq yet. That's wht did 'em in with the public -- AND ME!
And then LOOK where the CUI BONO -- before elections? -- BLAST OCCURED:
The explosion in Sadr City, the deadliest to strike the sprawling slum in more than two years, came just days after the US military handed over to Iraqis its main base on the edge of the former Shi’ite militia stronghold....
Oh, FALSE-FLAG STENCH!!!
The bomb, which was hidden under vegetables on a motorized pushcart, exploded about 7 p.m., apparently timed to maximize casualties by striking shoppers buying food for their evening meal at the Mradi market.
That is SO UNISLAMIC even for the "terrorist Al-CIA-Duh," and COULD BE ANY NUMBER of FOREIGN FALSE FLAGS: British holdovers, Mossad teams, Al-CIA-Duh, the puppet government death squads, or some Saudi s****s!
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Yup, "terrorists."
Shrapnel was blown more than 600 yards and some shops caught fire, a police officer said. As is usual after bombings in Iraq, there were conflicting death tolls, as victims were taken to several hospitals. An Interior Ministry official said 69 people were killed and 135 wounded, while police and hospital officials in Sadr City put the death toll at 72. US helicopters buzzed over the blast site, which was cordoned off by Iraqi police....
Yup, ALWAYS AFTER!
They NEVER PREVENT a DAMN THING because when you start investigating EACH and EVERY ONE there is a "breakdown in security!"
Another bomb exploded later yesterday in the mainly Shi’ite neighborhood of Jihad, killing at least one civilian and wounding 10 others, most of them young men at a billiards hall. US and Iraqi officials anticipated the rise in violence....
Oh, the RANK STENCH of it all!!!!
US and Iraqi officials are still working out details on the number of US military personnel who will remain in the cities in an advisory and training role.
Translation: We aren't even leaving the cities like the paper is trumpeting when, in fact, NOTHING is CHANGING at all, and yet I BET we get STORIES on the 30th on how the U.S. is PULLING BACK and giving Iraq to Iraqis!!!
But not today:
"Wave of bombings staggers Iraqi leader’s standing; Death toll hits 200; pullback by US nears" by Patrick Quinn, Associated Press | June 26, 2009
BAGHDAD - The bombing of a Baghdad bus station yesterday pushed the death toll from a weeklong series of blasts near Shi’ite targets to about 200, calling into question Iraq’s ability to provide security as US troops slowly withdraw from cities.
The wave of attacks is undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s declaration of a “great victory’’ in the US pullout from urban areas by next Tuesday’s deadline. He has declared June 30 a national holiday to be marked with celebrations.
Al-Maliki, a Shi’ite, has pinned his reelection hopes largely on security gains that have driven violence to wartime lows - an issue that’s become his stump speech in an undeclared campaign for a second term. Seven months before national elections, he tells audiences that he’s quashed major violence, dismembered Al Qaeda, and stamped out Shi’ite militias....
And it just so happens his MAIN POLITICAL RIVALS are the ones suffering the CAR BOMBS! Imagine that!
Yesterday, a bombing at a bus station in a Shi’ite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad killed at least seven people and wounded 31, police said. Another three bombs and a mortar strike killed two others around the capital. Nine American soldiers were wounded in two roadside bombings against a convoy in eastern Baghdad, the US military said. And a roadside bombing killed a man in the northern city of Mosul....
Gee, ALL of a SUDDEN, huh?
The number two US commander in Iraq said that the military expected violence ahead of the withdrawal deadline but that he was optimistic the brutal retaliatory sectarian attacks of the past would not resume.
Seeing as the "TERRORISTS" are DIRECTED and CONTROLLED by WESTERN INTEL, I wouldn't doubt it!
Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby said: “What I’ve seen so far is calm, deliberate, professional reaction to the bombings. I think the government has said and done the right things.’’
He blamed the attacks on those trying to undermine the US-Iraqi partnership and called the withdrawal from cities a “successful milestone for coalition forces and Iraqi security forces.’’
Why wouldn't they wait two more weeks?
While there has been no collective blame for the attacks, the US military believes Al Qaeda is struggling to regain a foothold after being beaten back over the past two years.
Have you HAD IT with the BS?
Under that theory, the attacks appear aimed at provoking a violent response from Shi’ites that could plunge the country into civil war, as they almost did three years ago.
And that is ALL IT IS: A THEORY!!
Like a "CONSPIRACY THEORY," s*** MSM?
“We think we have beaten back Al Qaeda to the point where they are now conducting attacks that are basically propaganda campaigns to make it look as though they are driving us out of Iraqi cities,’’ Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.
Well, IF ANYONE KNOWS PROPAGANDA it is the PENTAGON!!!!
Other suspects could include disgruntled Sunnis who joined the Sons of Iraq, a paramilitary force paid by the United States to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq. Many complain that the government has cracked down on their leadership and not employed them after the United States stopped paying them and turned them over to Iraqi control.
Yup, all the USUAL SUSPECTS!!! Pfffffffffftttttt!!!!!!
Another possibility: members of Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath party, perhaps with foreign backing, trying to discredit the Shi’ite government and win concessions.
Terrorists trying to "win concessions?" What s***!
That sure is tortured logic if you are an 'insurgent," America.
--more--"And what do you know?
ANOTHER CENSORED PHOTO:
Caption: Bombing Staggers Iraqis -- A group of grieving men yesterday carried the coffin of a relative killed by a bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad's main Shi'ite district on Wednesday. Since Saturday, bombings and attacks around Iraq have killed about 200 people. Al Qaeda is suspected in many of the attacks.
Description: I count at least a dozen men, with one guy carrying the coffin wailing.
Several men are gathering around to touch the box on its journey!
