Posted on 02/18/2007 1:07:22 AM PST by HAL9000
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BAGHDAD, Feb 18 (Reuters) - On any given day in Baghdad, Iraqi police can be expected to report finding up to 50 bodies shot, tortured and dumped in the streets of the capital, but on Saturday only five were found, police said on Sunday.It was the most dramatic sign yet that a stepped-up military offensive by more than 110,000 Iraqi and U.S security forces is, at least for now, curbing the sectarian violence that has turned the city's streets into killing fields.
There has been a relative lull in sectarian attacks since Operation Imposing Law, seen as a last-ditch attempt to avert all-out civil war, began a few days ago.
Police normally report finding between 40 and 50 bodies a day in Baghdad, but Saturday's toll was one of the lowest since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra a year ago unleashed a wave of violence that has caused tens of thousands of deaths.
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Interesting!
(Reuters) - On any given day in Baghdad, Iraqi police can be expected to report finding up to 50 bodies shot, tortured and dumped in the streets of the capital, but on Saturday only five were found, police said on Sunday.
This absolutely cannot be. The media told us how Nazi-like the attrocities committed by Americans at Abu Ghraib were. They were covered on the front page of the New York Times every day for a solid month.
If war crimes such as the ones described by Al Reuters were really occurring every day, they would be leading the news. Instead the mainstream media has embedded with the "insurgents" (just ask Time Magazine) and has not denounced their actions as "war crimes".
Since the insurgents are not committing war crimes and the US is, these murders and torture cannot be going on in Iraq. Someone must've slipped this past a sleeping Al Reuters editor.
Excellent News BTTT
I can't believe this is from Reuters...
The bad guys have decided not to stand and fight, which is both good news and bad news. Obviously it means we don't take as many casualties, and the Iraqi government has some badly needed breathing space. The bad news is that the insurgents aren't being destroyed in battle. They're hoping they can filter back in after the surge is over....everybody, including them, knows it won't last forever. So the key question now is whether the security situation can be permanently altered in the meantime so as to make the environment inhospitable for the insurgents to operate.
This news makes me very glad that I stayed up tonight. However, I don't trust Reuters any further than I can throw my house.
I will accept the good news for the moment, while I wait for the strike of a knife in the back.
This was also one of the most 'telegraphed' offensives that I can remember... they've had a couple of months to cover their networks.
I saw this on Drudge and wondered if it would disappear. I'm glad to see that it's been picked up here. But we need to find some way to get the word out. Otherwise we could win this war and never hear about it. They'll play it up as a defeat on TV.
HUUUUUGE defeat for the Democrats. All their 2008 hopes are bound up in America losing the war on Terror. When we win in Iraq, the Republicans could run the ghost of Gerald Ford and win.
Pelosi: "LALALALALALALALALALALA! I can't hear you."
I was a demoncrat. Now , shut up and put on your burka. We have to go to the Mosque.
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have humiliated this country before the world by giving aid and comfort to our enemies and forsaking our allies to their everlasting shame!
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