BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States is steadily losing ground to the Iraqi insurgency, according to every key military yardstick.
~Must be that liberal-media bias rearing up? Except when you read this in its standard journalese, it looks bad, it looks real.
Will other Sunni cities be quickly 'fallujah-ized'? Will developments in Iran or Syria force the 'afghanistation' of Iraq and by next year, well before mid-term Congressional elections, we'll be handed by an ever compliant media a new batch of incomprehensible names of villians to worry about and places where American soldiers will die?
Or
Bush Grand Plan: Incite Civil War(??)
The Bush Administration is intentionally steering Iraq towards civil war. The elections are merely the catalyst for igniting, what could be, a massive social upheaval. This explains the bizarre insistence on voting when security is nearly nonexistent and where a mere 7% of the people can even identify the candidates. (This figure gleaned from Allawi’s Baghdad newspaper, Al-Sabah) Rumsfeld is using the elections as a springboard for aggravating tensions between Sunnis and Shiites and for diverting attention away from the troops.
By: Mike Whitney