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| Abu Ghraib attack shows insurgency still deadly |
| 2005-04-06 |
| A brazen attack on Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison that wounded 44 U.S. soldiers was evidence that the Iraqi insurgency remains deadly, President Bush said on Tuesday. Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, led by militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for last weekend's attack in which dozens of insurgents detonated two car bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. forces before the assault was repelled. "I think it's a sign that they're still deadly, that these people will kill," Bush told reporters. "They kill innocent life. Their strategy hasn't really changed. Their strategy has been one to kill as many innocent people as they possibly can in the hope that it shakes our confidence and shakes our will," he added. Bush urged Iraqi citizens to reject the al Qaeda wing in Iraq and said he believed that they were doing so, pointing to the January elections in which Iraqis voted despite the threat of retribution from insurgents. "We're after 'em," he said of the attackers. "And equally importantly, the Iraqi citizens are after them now. More and more citizens understand that these terrorists, like al Qaeda and Zarqawi, don't have their interests at heart." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 ...the Iraqi insurgency remains deadly Yeah. Mostly for the "insurgents"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-04-06 1:47:23 PM |
| #4 LOL "Kerry wounds" -- then I guess they'll all get the Silver Star with V for Valor. If we had attacked an insurgent position and been repulsed with heavy casualties, I'm guessing Rooters wouldn't have described the attack as "brazen." |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-04-06 1:28:36 PM |
| #3 Verlaine, you echo a point I've made before that given the men, money and resources they have, the Iraqi Sunnis make poor 'insurgents'. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-04-06 7:07:17 AM |
| #2 What he said, heh. Spot on, ViI... |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-06 5:34:50 AM |
| #1 Unfortunately Dubya gave them the line from which they could easily spin things in a misleading way. Dubya's point, it would seem, was to reaffirm that the enemy in Iraq are amoral killers. But of course the MSM take is that the "insurgency" retains the military potency .... that it never had. The Abu Ghrayb attack failed to achieve any objectives, and inflicted light harm (most US WIAs, fortunately, appear to have had Kerry wounds). The nitwits are welcome to undertake as many of those "complex" operations as they want. Looking at how the terms are used here, I think there's a decent case to be made that the label "complex attack" is an implicitly racist snub. Anything more complicated than somebody inaccurately firing what is likely a dud round in our general direction is termed a "complex attack." Given the amount of ordnance available, the low quality level of the security forces, and the utterly indiscriminate attack methods, the "insurgency" is actually rather mediocre when it comes to being "deadly". |
| Posted by: Verlaine in Iraq 2005-04-06 4:37:26 AM |