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06/14/2003 Archived Entry: "Mission Accomplished."
Mission Accomplished.
If the mission was getting involved in a country that doesn't want us there, losing more personnel every day, and sliding deeper into lawnessness, then sure, we accomplished it:
A sudden upsurge in violence in the past couple of weeks has killed at least 10 American soldiers and wounded more than 25 in a series of attacks against checkpoints and military convoys. Iraqi fighters yesterday brought down an Apache helicopter in the west of the country....A respected cleric in the city which has seen repeated attacks on U.S. troops called on Sunni Muslims on Friday to bide their time before trying to drive out the Americans, as war with them would be suicidal.
Far more more numerous than these incidents is the unpublicized number of attacks on American positions that do not injure or kill soldiers. Attacks occur daily - more than a dozen every day in the past week, according to some accounts. Troops patrolling even the calmest neighborhoods in Baghdad still wear bullet-proof jackets and Kevlar helmets and raise their rifles, finger on the trigger, whenever approached. Attack helicopters are flying low over Baghdad day and night without lights....
The US admits it had to revise drastically the number of troops it needed within weeks of the fall of Baghdad, as looting, armed robberies, rapes, kidnapping, and carjackings multiplied. The arrival of the US army's 1st Armored Division was brought forward, the departure of the 3rd Infantry Division, which led the invasion from Kuwait, delayed. US troops are now being sucked into Iraq much deeper than they imagined, or were told.
Replies: 2 people speak up
We used to spell quagmire 'Vietnam," nowadays it's spelled 'Iraq.' This is precisely want war protestors warned and the Bushistas dismissed as un-American.
Posted by Mike @ 06/14/2003 03:44 PM NY
Mike, the problem is that Knucklehead can't spell.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/14/2003 08:03 PM NY
