At least 100 die:US spokesman, said violence dropped by half since July

[dajoki]

The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1222376.ece

At least 100 die as militia force Iraqi troops out of town
By Jerome Taylor
Published: 29 August 2006

At least 100 people were killed across Iraq yesterday in a day of intense gun battles and suicide bombings, contradicting US military claims that the security situation in the war-torn nation was improving.

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The latest violence was a reminder of how easily Iraq could slip back into the type of endemic sectarian violence that characterised much of the first half of this year after the destruction in February of a Shia shrine in the town of Samarra.

More than 10,000 Iraqis - the vast majority in Baghdad - have been killed in the past four months alone, a figure that would send shockwaves through the international community were it in any other part of the world.

The US military admitted that there had been a spike in violence in Baghdad, but insisted that things were improving since US-led forces launched Operation Forward Together last month in an attempt to pacify the capital.

Maj-Gen William Caldwell, a US military spokesman, said violence in Baghdad had dropped by half since July, and that life was returning to normal in some areas of the capital.

[marmar]

1. Our "Baghdad Bob" military spokespeople...

never missing an opportunity to evade reality.

[acmavm]

2. Did all the military brass with brain wave patterns resign or were

forced out?

We're left with the dregs apparently.

[dajoki]

3. Seems all those who disagreed...

were forced out.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

4. TEN THOUSAND IN 4 MONTHS?

Is that what they said? 10,000? In Four Months?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

5. Operation Forward Together

We're such a bunch of Fucking Assholes, this country is.

I REALLY can't stand what this country has become. Filled with Morons, and led by Incompetent Evil Sons Of Bitches.