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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:39 PM
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US general says car bombs and suicide attacks are dropping
BAGHDAD, Iraq A U-S general says suicide attacks and car bombs have dropped in Iraq over the past few months compared to levels earlier this year.

Major General Rick Lynch is deputy chief of staff for Multinational Forces in Iraq.

Lynch told reporters that fewer than 25 percent of rebel attacks "have been effective" and resulted in a casualty.

His comments came after U-S troops lost more than 40 soldiers and Marines this month -- most of them due to bombings. In two attacks near the western town of Haditha (hah-DEE'-thuh) last week, 20 Marines were killed -- 14 of them in a massive blast.

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3710762


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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:45 PM
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1. Well, I guess Cindy can go home now.
Peace is breaking out all over.

(sarcasm)
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darkism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:46 PM
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2. Even if this is true...
...the fewer attacks they're doing now are killing MORE people.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:46 PM
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3. Up=Down, Black=White, Good=Bad. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. n/t
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:47 PM
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4. Its the Baghdad Bob syndrome...
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:48 PM
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5. Do these fucks even listen to themselves?!
If bombing attacks are "dropping", but more and more people are being killed; what difference does it make if the numbers are dropping? The insurgency is becoming more efficient? They are getting more bang for their buck? Man, this ridiculous, idiotic, bullshit is beginning to get to me! My head is about to explode!
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:48 PM
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6. less bombs-just larger ones that result in more deaths.
Freedom is on the march---bullshit.
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 03:57 PM
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14. precicely....n/t
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:48 PM
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7. Even if there was only one a year it would be too many
The rationalization that those bastards do make the head spin. It's like everybody is a lawyer anymore, trying to persuade us as to the validity of some hopeless flawed policy or decision.
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:49 PM
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8. What He Forgot To Mention Was This Was True on PARALLEL EARTH
Not on THIS earth.
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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 03:42 PM
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13. Or Bizarro World
Depending on your comic of choice.
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:50 PM
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9. Jeezus...
These people never stop.

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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:52 PM
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10. They have learned how 'less is more' on the kill I guess
This is one of those silly things they tell us as the death count goes up. Does the news come by way of the WH? And on top of that we have more people getting killed all over the world. Could it be we are all in a nut house?
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 12:52 PM
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11. I hate it when the military plays toadies to ideological politicians
Edited on Thu Aug-11-05 12:53 PM by Roland99
*Ahem*

From http://icasualties.org

"Coalition" deaths (US UK Other Total Avg)
5-2005 80 2 6 88 2.84
6-2005 78 1 4 83 2.77
7-2005 54 3 1 58 1.87
8-2005 45 0 0 45 4.09


Iraqi police/guardsmen deaths
http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx

Apr-05 199
May-05 259
Jun-05 296
Jul-05 304
Aug-05 83
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 01:06 PM
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12. 43, General Lynch
That's how many of your troops have died while the Commander in Chief is on his latest vacation. How fucking stupid are you? Is there no longer any qualification whatsoever to rise to the rank of Major General in the Army beyond a willingness to toe the administration line?
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leftylady Donating Member (281 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 04:02 PM
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15. Fewer Bobms but a whole lot Bigger
The holes in the ground are like six feet deep and 17 feet wide. That's a big hole. And the blast blew away a 25 ton vehicle.

And it seems to me like there are more sniper type attacks going on now.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 04:18 PM
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16. So they were lying BEFORE?
And not telling us about the daily car bombings? Or what?
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 04:20 PM
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17. Well I guess we know who is next in line for promotion.



I wonder how many generals they had to go through before they found one that would sell out.
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nookiemonster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 04:38 PM
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18. General Lynch,
Take another hit!







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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 04:43 PM
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19. The general's opponents would say
They're not bombing harder, they are bombing smarter.
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 04:58 PM
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20. How much of the 288 TONS of HDE remains to used?
In the start up of the war. The UN informed Bush of the presence of 288 TONS of High Density Explosives (HDE). Bush left the storage facility unguarded. As a result of this gross negligence. The storage facility was looted. Now there is a very good probability that the insurgency has 288 TONS of HDE to use against our troops and even us if they can smuggle it into America. But don't worry Neocons. Bush did guard the oil ministery offices. Your profits are secure even if our troops are not.

This insurgency was built to last. Bush handed them enough explosives on a silver platter to blow up all our troops there with enough left over to blow Baghdad off the map. So the last Blast brings that total down to how many TONS?
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 08:20 PM
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24. Maybe all of it.
It was stronger stuff than most of what they had, but still the cumulative explosive force from what was at Qaaqaa was dwarfed by what was in the rest of the country.
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 09:51 PM
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25. The Question needs to be asked and answered.
But it's being ignored because it is politically inconvenient for Bush. So maybe the CIA can do some "guessing"?
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 02:30 PM
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26. It does, but only in principle.
Guard that particular munitions depot or another ... there were many, many thousands of them. That one just happened to have a large pile of some powerful stuff in it.

They should have guarded that particular bit of munitions, even though they constituted a truly small percentage of munitions in the country, 1% or less.

But claiming that those particular munitions are somehow crucial, and the IEDs wouldn't be going off as often as they are can't be demonstrated, and without knowing that the IEDs' chemical composition is, doesn't get us very far.
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 05:10 PM
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21.  The calm before the fire storm.
Edited on Thu Aug-11-05 05:14 PM by Wizard777
This would be indicative if them planning and preparing their next move. They have a Constitution to derail. good news for Iraq is that the insurgents aren't nearly as smart as our Republicans. The Republicans have long known that the best way to destroy a Constitution. Is to get elected and then attack it from the heart of the government. That way the people who's lives your trying to desrtoy with your treason think you're on their side and working for them. No bombs and angry torch bearing mobs. Just dissent at worst and appluase at best.
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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 08:18 PM
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23. I suspect the rush-job Constitution isn't going to be a font of stability
Another fig-leaf for the US public. The insurgency won't be fooled.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 06:07 PM
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22. LIke the alcoholic that sez he doesn't drink any more.
....he also doesn't drink any less.
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Maeve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 02:44 PM
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27. Dueling generals---Compare to THIS story!!!
Edited on Fri Aug-12-05 02:46 PM by Maeve
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of roadside bomb attacks by insurgents against U.S. military supply convoys in Iraq has doubled in the past year, the general in charge of logistics for American military forces in Iraq said on Friday.

Army Brig. Gen. Yves Fontaine, commander of the 1st Corps Support Command, said U.S. military convoys carrying fuel, food, water, arms and equipment face 30 attacks weekly involving so-called improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.

Speaking to reporters at the
Pentagon from a U.S. base at Balad north of Baghdad, Fontaine said U.S. casualties from these attacks have actually declined thanks to increased armor on vehicles such as Humvees, tractor trailers and cargo trucks.


Reuters

:shrug:
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 02:49 PM
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28. Thanks for the link
I was about to do a search on that - I remember reading it yesterday.

F*cking morans :puke:
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