5 times more bombs dropped on Iraq 2007 than in 2006..."SUCCESS"!

[LynnTheDem]

U.S. boosts its use of airstrikes in Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22690090/

The more bombs that are dropped, the more bush thumps his chest and screams "SUCCESS!"

And the lower America falls in so very many ways.

[Avalux]

1. More soldiers killed in 2007 also.

:(

[Buzz Clik]

2. How does one surge -- i.e, escalate the war -- without more bombs?

And you thought "surge" simply meant strengthening our will.

tsk tsk

[leftchick]

3. "precision bombs" target marketplace??

SUCCESS!!!!!



Residents of Baghdad's Sadr City district inspect a marketplace after it was hit by an airstrike on May 25, 2007.

[leftchick]

4. Ricks: Baghdad Only Seems ‘Peaceful’ Because 2006 Was ‘Pure Hell’

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/11/ricks-surge/

Discussing the one-year anniversary of President Bush’s call for the “surge” on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, Washington Post Pentagon reporter Thomas Ricks said that, “judged on the terms in which the president presented it, the surge has not worked.” “The purpose was to improve security, but to improve it to lead to a political breakthrough,” said Ricks. “And that political breakthrough has not happened.”

Asked about whether the Iraqis “think it has worked,” Ricks said they “recognize that large parts of Baghdad are more peaceful,” but only compared to the “pure hell” of 2006:

I think Iraqis recognize that large parts of Baghdad are more peaceful than they were, but violence is basically back to 2005 levels. And that was no picnic, 2005. It’s just 2006 was pure hell.

Watch it:



Ricks is correct that the “surge” has failed to bring the political progress Bush sought. He is also right that the security situation had already turned bad in 2005:

– “The numbers of car bombs, suicide car bombs and roadside bombs all doubled from 2004 to 2005.”

– In 2005, there were more U.S. casualties in Iraq (846) than there were in 2006 (821).

– On Feb. 27, 2005, Knight Ridder quoted then-Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Sabah Kadhim warning about sectarian violence, “It’s the beginning, and we could go down the slippery slope very quickly. … Both sides are sharpening their knives.”

– On Sept. 26, 2005, CBS News reported that “there is an undeclared civil war already underway in Iraq, between the Sunni minority who ruled this country under Saddam and the Shiite majority.”

[countryjake]

12. Thanks for that! "Violence back to '05 levels"...yup, that's progress!

the surge in general speaks

doesn't anybody remember 2005?

[indepat]

5. Luckily those 1447 bombs were smart, inflicting little or no collateral damage

[Dhalgren]

8. Where's your sarcasm smilie, because you could not possibly

be serious. The US is committing wholesale murder in Iraq and we call it a "Success!" Radicalized Muslims and others call Americans "Devils", I understand why...

[indepat]

13. Please pardon the boo-boo of failing to include the sarcasm smilie: our smart bombs are not

smart enough to ever eliminate collateral damage, if snuffed out lives and severed/mangled limbs, spinal cords and brains qualify as collateral damage.

Edited to add mangled

[rAVES]

6. 5 times the green for the profiteers.. win fucking win!!

[jayfish]

7. What Does A Smart Person Do When It's Raining Outside?

Presumably get the fuck inside. When this "surge" is over and we, again, realize that airstrikes cost too much; it's going to be worse than ever there.

Jay

[gratuitous]

9. And we claim that it's others who don't respect life

Here we are, bravely dropping bombs on people taken unawares, who can't fight back and can't get away, and we call it success. I wonder what it looks like to the people under our bomb sites? We'd better hope we never run out of bombs, because some of them are bound to misunderstand what noble goal we were trying to accomplish by murdering their neighbors, friends and family members.

[madrchsod]

10. latest breaking news---the surge is working!

the iraqi economy is coming coming up roses! that`s what i heard last night on "bbc overnight" radio...

[IndyOp]

11. The greatest number of casualties and most frequent use of bombs in Vietnam was the last few years

of our occupation of Vietnam. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, blood and guts and veins... but with bombing you never have to look, its "clean" -- barbarians hold onto their victims and kill them with their fists, feet, stones, knives -- advanced civilizations kill from thousands of feet in the air.

[Supersedeas]

14. Mission Accomplished (Major combat operations over??) no, $$ for Defence Contractors accomplished