BAGHDAD, Iraq (from CNN.com) -- Twelve Americans were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq early Sunday, the military said....The military also announced the deaths of five U.S. Marines in three different Iraqi towns Saturday and Sunday....Since the war began, 2,198 U.S. service members serving in Iraq have died....At least 13 people, including six Iraqi police commandos, were wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded Saturday as a police commando patrol was passing by, police said.
Asked if the attacks were a sign that the December elections had failed to diminish the insurgency in Iraq, Gen. Peter Pace said the opposite was true.
Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that with each of the country's three elections, voter turnout increased, indicating that "the terrorists failed at each of their primary missions of stopping the vote."
"What's clear to me is that each of the elections has been a major blow to al Qaeda," Pace said at a Pentagon news conference Thursday. "I think what you're seeing now is a continuing attempt to disrupt the proper formation of the Iraqi government, and I'm confident they will fail."
Asked if the attacks were a sign that the December elections had failed to diminish the insurgency in Iraq, Gen. Peter Pace said the opposite was true.
Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that with each of the country's three elections, voter turnout increased, indicating that "the terrorists failed at each of their primary missions of stopping the vote."
"What's clear to me is that each of the elections has been a major blow to al Qaeda," Pace said at a Pentagon news conference Thursday. "I think what you're seeing now is a continuing attempt to disrupt the proper formation of the Iraqi government, and I'm confident they will fail."
A couple of comments:
- How can the McLiar/Vader administration continue to have it all ways? A reduction in insurgent activities signals progress...... an increase in severity is a sign of desperation on the part of the insurgents...... the latest spate of death and destruction is doomed to failure.
- Who - aside from the mouth-breathers in Idiot America - believes that the Iraqi insurgency has ANYTHING to at all to do with al Quaeda?
- Meanwhile, the insurgency has been very effective in snuffing out the lives of decent young American soldiers who are exposed needlessly to mayhem - sans the proper equipment.
and so it goes...
of you have sat, and perhaps thought, with us!
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