U.S. General Predicts Intensified Attacks

[ECH1969]

The top U.S. general on the ground in Iraq warned Saturday that a surge in violence was likely in coming months as Iraq's new government began its full term in office.

"What we're seeing now, the upsurge in violence, is all about destabilizing the government," Chiarelli said in an interview as he traveled back to Baghdad. "It's a strategy to push up violence to take away the focus from what the prime minister is doing. "I'll expect the violence to be high in the first months of the new government."

In the past, violence has surged around key political events such as elections. "Zarqawi is starting to run out of events," said Chiarelli, referring to Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Abadi, seated across from Chiarelli in the Black Hawk, likened a recent video message from Zarqawi to one of the last appearances by ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Baghdad. Hussein stood atop a car, telling the crowd not to surrender.

"That was his grandstand, and it went to the pits after that," Abadi said. The appearance by Zarqawi, firing a machine gun, was intended "to show might, to show power," he said. "We have the same pattern repeating itself."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq30apr30,1,702812.story?coll=la-headlines-world

[BeHereNow]

1. Well...DUH?

Imagine that...
Give the General a Purple Heart
for his logical thinking skills?
BHN

[lakeguy]

2. don't attacks usually increase after spring?

thought that was the trend anyway. these guys are f'in geniuses!

[BikeWriter]

3. ''I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

[saigon68]

5. Message to amerika ---- Just a few dead enders

Go back to sleep

Oh did you hear Britney's having another crash test dummy.

[BikeWriter]

6. Yep, like Victor Charlie was a few dead enders, huh? Oh, Britney?

[saigon68]

8. Just a couple million before the choppers started up

[BikeWriter]

9. Yep, the misadmin's reality and ours are diametrically opposed.

What else could we expect from chickenhawks?
:shrug:

[hadrons]

4. Intensified Attacks = Weakening Insurgency in Bush World

morans

[BikeWriter]

7. Cheney: Iraq will be 'enormous success story' Jun 24, 2005

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/cheney.interview/

[teryang]

10. The disinformation campaign about who opposes us in Iraq

...continues.