Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Wouldn't You Rather Be Clearing Brush With Bush?

Found this article today. Juxtaposed with what W will be doing on his "vacation" at his hobby ranch in Texas, I know where I would rather be:
BAGHDAD - Three suicide truck bombers targeted members of an ancient religious sect in northwestern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and setting apartment buildings and stores ablaze, while the crash of an American transport helicopter near an air base in Anbar killed five U.S. service members.

Four more U.S. soldiers were reported killed in separate attacks — three in an explosion near their vehicle Monday in the northwestern Ninevah province and another who was died of wounds from combat in western Baghdad.

In a separate attack, a fourth suicide truck bomber struck a strategic bridge on the main highway linking Baghdad with the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 10, police said. The span was bombed three months ago and only one lane had reopened, according to the police officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

And in Baghdad, dozens of uniformed gunmen in 17 official vehicles stormed an Oil Ministry compound and abducted a deputy oil minister and three other officials, a ministry spokesman and police said.

The violence came as 16,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began a new operation north of the Iraqi capital targeting insurgents who have fled a crackdown in the restive city of Baqouba, the military said Tuesday.
When they come at you in official uniforms and trucks, how do you know who to kill? Who is on our side in Iraq is a legit question, don't you think? Wouldn't you rather be clearing brush with shrub in Texas than trying to prove W right in Iraq?

2 comments:

Mary Ellen said...

Not to worry, Windspike-Bush has got this war all locked up. He's writing the report on the surge for General Petraeus. I feel so much better now that in the world according to Bush, we should be winning the war in September. Pay no attention to the body bags being unloaded in the US.

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't You Rather Be Clearing Brush With Bush?

For Bush it's so much easier than for our troops. He clears the brush so he can see Cheney coming.