Bad stuff, but hey, Iraq is a free and sovereign nation, just trying to find its own level of “acceptable violence” as our President so presciently remarked the other day.
Baghdad – Iraqi and American forces battled to regain the initiative on Monday after two days of intense violence in and around Baghdad left dozens of Iraqis, 11 US soldiers and a European journalist dead.
Sunday saw a fierce surge in insurgent attacks, including a car bombing in a Baghdad shopping street, a suicide assault on a Samarra police station and a deadly ambush on an American patrol north of the capital.
“There are going to be these rough spots and the enemy is not just going to sit back and wait for us to clean them out and be done with it,” said Major Joe Edstrom, a US military public affairs officer.
Rough spots. That’s a very apt description, don’t you think? Thirty-three people blown up in one attack, 20 more in two others, 11 US soldiers in total, and of course, one of those “fraidy cat” journalists who report mere rumors from their safe Green Zone hotel rooms while failing to notice all the good stuff that our President has achieved for the ungrateful Iraqi people.
Stuff like this:
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Torture, this time with enhanced American interrogation techniques.
Death Squads, courtesy of John Negroponte and his merry band of professional murder instructors.
Refugees, or as we like to call them in America “temporarily displaced people” to the tune of Two million, or so.
Chemical Weapons, the kind that burn flesh right down to the bone.
Reduced Medical Services which is a little sick, when you think about it.
Dead People, just a few hundred thousand or so, not that anyone’s really counting them all.
Improvised Explosive Devices and their close cousins, the Explosively Formed Penetrators.
Lost Money and found money, too.
The Slave Trade, for both import and export, (but they do help relieve the stress of building a new democracy).
I could go on all day, but you get the idea. In Iraq, anything is possible. Anything at all. And that’s what George Bush means when he talks about “spreading freedom and democracy” to the people of Iraq.
Just stuff like this.