more evidence on the safety of iraq hoods (NOT)

i shudder to think some are NOT speaking up when da liebs, da king and da mccain say iraq is becoming SAFER.

safer for whom? NOT our troops. NOT those that actually live and work in the hoods

damn

GET US OUT NOW

Reports on Mass Killings in Iraq Throw Claims of 'Surge' Success in Grave Doubt

NEW YORK With the press filled today with claims by President Bush, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Joe Lieberman and others about the apparent success of the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq the daily digest of events there put together by Reuters might be worth pondering.It supports claims by many reporters on the ground there that progress has been apparent only in scattered sections. The most recent report, from Reuters, coming from "surge-protected" Baghdad is not even in this summary: "At least 60 people were killed and 41 others were wounded Thursday when two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests self-detonated in a crowded market in a Shiite district in the northeastern part of the capital."Here is the Reuters digest for Thursday. Well, there's some good news. Only one, not two, trucks that exploded contained chlorine gas. *KHALIS - At least three suicide car bombers launched almost simultaneous attacks in a mainly Shi'ite town, killing around 50, police and hospital officials said. The blasts took place in Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad...............


More Than 100 Killed in Baghdad, Nearby Town
Blast in Capital Hits Area Central To Security Plan


By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 30, 2007; Page A12

.................The attacks followed two violent days of bombings and reprisal killings in the northern city of Tall Afar and threatened to increase the likelihood of a resurgence of open sectarian warfare despite the heightened U.S. military presence in Iraq..............