Sunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militiamen fight bloody battles for control of towns and villages north and south of the capital. As American and British political leaders argue over responsibility for the crisis in Iraq, the country has taken another lurch towards disintegration.
Well-armed Sunni tribes now largely surround Baghdad and are fighting Shia militias to complete the encirclement.
The Sunni insurgents seem to be following a plan to control all the approaches to Baghdad. They have long held the highway leading west to the Jordanian border and east into Diyala province. Now they seem to be systematically taking over routes leading north and south.
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki demanded the removal of American checkpoints from the streets of Baghdad on Tuesday, in what appeared to be his latest and boldest gambit in an increasingly tense struggle for more independence.
2006-11-01 03:37:28 · 5 answers · asked by zeca do trombone 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Duh? It is a week before the elections in the US. Of course it is deteriorating. They said so in the papers and on national broadcast Tv. Always believe what you read in the papers and what you see an hear on broadcast TV.
2006-11-01 03:53:40 · answer #1 · answered by Me3TV 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your facts are straight....and no reason I would believe their not.....it would seem that slowly the table has been turned. In the beginning we had the upper hand. We attacked the country with all the might we had.
Now it would seem our President, believing that now that the IRAQ government is established all we have to do is wait until they are able to take command.
While our military often is in as much if not more of a fight than when this started the IRAQ people are the true losers.
The worse part about this is that there are people in the US that have extensive experience and have studied the middle east that were never consulted as to what may happen if we overthrew a government. At the very least if consulted not believed.
Before the war even started someone on the Internet had a scenario of what would happen if Saddam was overthrown.
I wish I had saved the link because it is all coming to pass. So many have died, ours as well as theirs, all because one man needed to be remembered in the history books as a war president. I am surprised we haven't taken on Iran or Korea yet.
2006-11-01 12:03:57 · answer #2 · answered by John B 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Baghdad is deteriorating. Iraq is not. Baghdad is one City.
2006-11-01 11:39:39 · answer #3 · answered by MEL T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very simply NO.With continued support and resources they WILL win.
2006-11-01 11:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by thetdw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully, if we elect saner folks for Congress our beloved citizens who are willing to sacrifice life and limb will be brought home!
2006-11-01 11:42:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋