Iraq | Blurring The War

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My local McClatchy journamalist Steve Lannon is (embedded?) in Iraq doing his part to catapault our pentagon's propagandastory on the fantasmalistic progress in Iraq.

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U.S. troops make progress in Iraq's Diyala province
By Steve Lannen
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Best line of the article to show how safe and wonderful things really are:

“No contact, no Strykers getting blown up, no getting killed. It’s a good day”
-Sgt. Darrell Sammons of Doe Run, Ga.

Unfortunately Sgt. Sammons is wrong about no one dying. Lots of Iraqis dying of course. US soldiers? looks like around 7 in the last few days.
From:
Coalition deaths(does not include Iraqis or contractors):

Here's a Rolling Stone article on how well it's working with our "paid" Sunni allies.

A few more realistic news items about the carnage in dubya and Dick's Iraqi meat grinder are:
Here:
March 26, 2008 Clashes spread as U.S., Iraqi forces attack Shiite militia
Here:
3-26-08 More than 80 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in the fighting, centered on the southern oil hub of Basra and spreading to Shi'ite parts of Baghdad where Sadr's followers hold sway and the towns of Hilla, Kut and Diwaniya in the south.
Here:
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Dozens Dead in Basra Clashes;
Mahdi Army Occupies Kut
On and on:
Bombers attack Basra oil pipeline


End the occupation.
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