Baghdad violence surges U.S. concedes increase in sectarian killings

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/285204_iraq15.html

Friday, September 15, 2006

Baghdad violence surges
U.S. concedes increase in sectarian killings

By PATRICK QUINN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sectarian killings have surged in parts of Baghdad not yet included in a security offensive, the U.S. military said Thursday, while bombings and other insurgent attacks killed four American soldiers and wounded 25 in the capital region.

Police reported finding 20 bodies dumped on streets, many of them victims of reprisal killings in the escalating conflict between Shiite and Sunni Arabs. Six people died when a car bomb exploded at a soccer field in Fallujah, raising the death toll across Iraq to at least 28.

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The worst violence in Baghdad came at midday when a suicide car bomber attacked U.S. troops on the western outskirts of the city, killing two Americans and wounding 25, the U.S. command said. It said six of the wounded had returned to duty and 15 were not seriously injured.

Two more U.S. soldiers also were killed in the Baghdad area, one when his patrol was hit by small-arms fire and the other when a roadside bomb exploded. The command also announced the killing of a soldier Wednesday near the northern city of Mosul, raising to at least 2,676 the number of U.S. military personnel killed since the war began, according to an Associated Press count.

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Well, it's a good thing the US invaded! - It was too peaceful under Saddam

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Well done George

You've outdone Saddam's brutality in Iraq.

And guaranteed generations of suffering with all that Depleted Uranium you and your gangsters are spreading around.

When Hitler died, the slaughter stopped.

When YOU die,

The killing and suffering will continue long after your twins hair turns grey

(sigh)

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2. Now we need to use this well in a Democratic message!

While the White House and its minions (as on Fox News) push the War on Terror as a way of framing (i.e., "hiding") the Iraq issue for the election, we need people to bring it out of hiding.

Here's one basic approach (I'm sure there are many others):

"Republicans and the administration don't want to run on the mess they made in Iraq, so like a magician they try to distract our attention by covering it under the umbrella of 'A War on Terror,' thereby hiding their blunders from the conception to the execution of the war, from WMD's and Sadam-terrorist's links to the civil war which is now in full progress. It's a GIANT SHELL GAME dreamed up by Rove. We need solutions, not PR tricks or a magician's slight of hand. They dress up the pig and then they want us to marry it."

Why can't we frame a message simply and compellingly in order to bounce these jokers. Almost all of the important facts are on our side, especially since the Republicians and the administration has been such an obvious failure by almost all standards?

How's this for another:

"If our treatment of prisoners is so good, why won't the administration tape the full interrogations and allow the members of congress to view them."

(Perhaps they'd tape only good parts or "soft" interrogations, but then that could leak out.)