Report: Iraq more dangerous
Who could have imagined that the general climatein Iraq would have gotten more dangerous after the President announced a withdrawal date…well, who besides everyone in the Bush Administration and the whole right side of the country (Washington Post);
“Iraq remains an extraordinarily dangerous place to work,” U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen Jr. wrote in his quarterly report to Congress and the Obama administration. “It is less safe, in my judgment, than 12 months ago.”
The findings come as Washington awaits a final decision by Iraqi leaders on whether they want U.S. troops to stay in the country beyond the expiration of a three-year security agreement in December.
So in an effort to become the anti-Bush, Obama announced a withdrawal date to appease his ignorant base and by doing so has sentenced more Iraqis to death as well as American troops still stationed there. SOnow the discussion is not when we leave, but should we leave at all.
Bowen’s report noted that 14 U.S. troops were killed by hostile fire in Iraq in June, the bloodiest month since April 2009. Most of the attacks are tied to Shiite militias, who U.S. military officials say are receiving weapons and training from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force.
So far, five U.S. troops have died or been killed in July, according to military figures.
More dithering and bad policy that the troops pay for in the end.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Do You Miss Me Yet?, Terror War
Raise your hand if you didn’t see this coming.
Gee Iranians causing trouble? Who could have figured that one? Half the trouble we had in the war was directly due to Iran arming, training, and inciting Shiite militias. Most especially Sadr’s. Why we let him live after Najaaf is beyond me. How much you want to bet if Iran had a little revolution of it’s own, a pro western one, the whole ME would get an order of magnitude quieter?
“Iraq remains an extraordinarily dangerous place to work,”. Wow, ole Stewie has a wonderful grasp of the obvious, doesn’t he? That must be why he got a job in the Obama administration.
Did the WaPo clear their statement about training and weapons, and Iran with the White House?
I guess all the lefties’ talk about how the war would end when the “occupation” ends wasn’t exactly true.
Anyone figure out why that shitstain Mookie Al-Sadr still doesn’t have a 7.62 mm headache?
you know what killed me (and in some peoples cases LITERALLY killed them) We KNEW Iran was helping stir the pot, and cause all sorts of hell. We’d even caught a few Revolutionary guard. Why the HELL, is it suddenly news that they have been giving weapons and training for strictly anti American purposes? I knew officers that would tell ANYBODY that would listen. At what point do we say “Iran is a real problem”?
“At what point do we say “Iran is a real problem”? It would help if someone would start saying it yesterday, but I doubt that that’ll happen.
Nothing we didn’t know, except it’s now much harder to proactively do anything.
This was all predictable in 2003. Forced regime change in Iraq would make Iran the reginal hegimon and would be bad for the U.S. in the M/E. It would not matter when we pulled our forces out, Iraq would always become more dangerous. This is why these types of operations shopuld be a last resort and not applied in the willy-nilly way they were applied in this case.
HM2; that’s the short sighted view of those that still don’t get it. Forced regime change, or as some look at it; freedom to choose your own regime. While I was against our going in to Iraq when it happened, I can’t deny that the underlying benefit of getting rid of a scumbag that not only committed genocide on his own people, but threatened his neighbors constantly and basically acted like a spoiled brat with and army was a good thing.
That Iran feels the need to keep things stirred up is something that probably wasn’t foreseen back in 2003, but is an added variation that popped up early on after we went in.