Sunday, June 03, 2007
Surge...in Violence
Bush's "surge" is working brilliantly, if the goal was a surge in attacks:
On ABC's _This Week_ newscast this morning, 37 US soldiers were added to the death toll, and there are also reports of surges in civilian casualties in Iraq.
Then there's this from the Washington Post:
"As U.S. troops push more deeply into Baghdad and its volatile outskirts, Iraqi insurgents are using increasingly sophisticated and lethal means of attack, including bigger roadside bombs that are resulting in greater numbers of American fatalities relative to the number of wounded.
May, with 127 American fatalities, was the third-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the 2003 invasion. As in the conflict's two deadliest months for U.S. troops -- 137 died in November 2004 and 135 in April of that year -- the overarching cause of May's toll is the ongoing, large-scale U.S. military operations. Gen. Simmons called the high U.S. losses in May "a very painful and heart-wrenching experience."
We can expect more painful and heart-wrenching experiences from such painfully wrong-headed policies of "staying the course" in Iraq.
Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity - washingtonpost.com
On ABC's _This Week_ newscast this morning, 37 US soldiers were added to the death toll, and there are also reports of surges in civilian casualties in Iraq.
Then there's this from the Washington Post:
"As U.S. troops push more deeply into Baghdad and its volatile outskirts, Iraqi insurgents are using increasingly sophisticated and lethal means of attack, including bigger roadside bombs that are resulting in greater numbers of American fatalities relative to the number of wounded.
May, with 127 American fatalities, was the third-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the 2003 invasion. As in the conflict's two deadliest months for U.S. troops -- 137 died in November 2004 and 135 in April of that year -- the overarching cause of May's toll is the ongoing, large-scale U.S. military operations. Gen. Simmons called the high U.S. losses in May "a very painful and heart-wrenching experience."
We can expect more painful and heart-wrenching experiences from such painfully wrong-headed policies of "staying the course" in Iraq.
Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity - washingtonpost.com
