Thing are 'turning around' in Iraq. Another 'half truth'?

Question

Less violence in Iraq...maybe, but maybe most of the killing is over because everyone slated for killing is already dead. Meanwhile the war spreads to other areas....which to me is just an extention of the same war. Overall the death rate seems to be the same if not more. Just because the 'war was over in Normandy', that didn't mean the war was over...it had just moved on. Wadda' 'ya think?

Answer 1

Why do we kill people for killing people to show that killing is wrong?Life ain't promisin tomorrow...............!(R.I.P)!

Answer 2

a million/2 that stuff became the two handed or in talks on the same time as Bush became nevertheless in workplace. He hasn't made medicare extra solvent because of the fact that he took a million/2 the money out of medicare to pay for his medical wellness coverage, his nuclear agreements at the instant are not between the historic fee of the two Salt I or II, he put in 2 schedule wielding judges to the final courtroom as nicely as made a girl with 0 adventure on the bench and hadn't practiced regulation in ten years, the middle type tax cuts have been the same tax cuts that the Bush cuts presented, his delicate on drugs coverage facilitates immoral and offender habit to alter into centralized and socially tolerable yet maintains to be delicate on what counts; unlawful immigration which facilitates increase the unlawful drug commerce, needs to place an high priced company tax call cap and commerce and is outwardly a turn-flopper on gay rights. Obama has been a failure as much as now and any thank you to attempt to rationalize his administration is as idiotic as helping the Carter years.

Answer 3

Are things turning around in Iraq?? Very tricky question because things go back in forth all the time. Certain areas cool down, will others heat up. I will give u my impression from the last 382 days i have spent in this country. ( draw a cross through Baghdad and look at the north western part of the city this is where i have been patrolling. From November to April of last year (pre-surge) A day didn't go by that there weren't multiple IED, and small arms fire attacks against patrols in my battalion. Simply put we'd go out get attacked and clean out a small area, go back to base and the insurgents would setup again for the next day. When the surge went into effect our sector didn't get smaller, we didn't get any help from another unit our mission times where just doubled and we started building safe houses. 3/4 of our line companies where moved into safe houses. while building these safe houses we were shot at, mortared, took rpg fire. we cleared the neighborhoods relentlessly. We setup Iraqi army checkpoints all over the place blocked off all routes into the neiborhood except for a few that we controlled. We setup programs to try local people that live in the area to work at checkpoints with the IA. Spent countless hours protecting loaders and dump trucks, as they removed tons of trash from the streets. walled off all the main roads. setup sniper teams on Common IED emplacement areas. distributed food, water, and setup free medical clinics.
The violence in the area has dropped off, the people are opening new businesses, and moving into place considered unsafe before. The streets are cleaner, the children are play soccer in cleaned fields that uses to be covered in trash. Most importantly the people are starting to work with us helping us identify the people coming into there neighborhood and causing trouble. ALSO WE AREN'T FINDING THE BODIES OF REGULAR CIVILIAN WHO WERE DRAGGED INTO THE STREET AND EXECUTED BY INSURGENTS. (Guess what the main food for wild dogs was in the area?) If this isn't an improvement i don't know what is. But it was only obtained by the blood and sweat of our Soldiers, the Iraqi soldiers are coming around but we still push them most the way.
The news doesn't even scratch the surface of what is going on here. They only show what is in the best interest of there ratings. And yeah i think we are all very ready to come home. Maybe the trillions of dollars we have spent here could have gone to something useful like our countries infrastructure. we have bridges falling at home while people here are blowing apart bridges here. We could be feed our own poor, taking care of our sick, pouring funds into the education of our children. Or even repairing, and replacing our incredibly worn military equipment. giving relief to our military, our replacing unit has people starting there 5TH deployment. somethings got to give

Answer 4

That was an interesting account-from-the-ground you got in reply.

Much of the violence has moved out of Baghdad, so, yes, half-truth.

The various wars going on there are not over; not by a long shot. Turkey attacking Kurds; Kurds fighting with others over territory; Sunni-Shiite fighting; Shiites fighting each other.

Answer 5

The thing is the media don't understand is that Al-Sader is standing down. These people are very patient and the American public are not. Don't worry though this war may be over in a decade or so.

Answer 6

For all intents and purposes, Nazi Germany was screwed after D-Day, but more importantly, Operation Bagration doomed the Nazis. Yes, after summer of 1944, they were doomed.

In Iraq, violence has gone down, but I think that the idea that it is over is competely absurd. There is still a major humanitarian crisis in Iraq that has been somewhat under reported thanks to the violence. Violence is still happening, just at a reduced rate, and there is still the danger that Turkey may invade northern Iraq.

No, the violence is not over, and thanks to the US invasion, the situation in Iraq is far worse than when Suddam was in power.

Answer 7

The Unemployment rate in Iraq remains at 50%.

Things will not turn around until we put those people to work.
It is Conservative economic policies, like outsourcing, that are keeping the situation in Iraq from improving significantly.

Answer 8

I think someone like you would see the worst about Iraq no matter what happened because of the 'side' you chose. How sad, our soldiers DIED, gave up their one chance at life on this planet, so those Iraqis could have the same thing the Pakistanis are fervently protesting that they don't want to lose.

Answer 9

Wow!
http://www.arcent.army.mil/media_releases/media_releases.asp

Answer 10

There's a lot of "half truths" for the Iraq issue. Its like politicians are constantly saying, "War with Iraq..." and people are stupid enough to follow along with it. Its quite obvious we're not really at war. War is when you're on a battle field and shooting the opposition to defend your people. Is that what the USA is doing? Nope. They're basically doing the "I'm going shoot you because I think you're going to shoot me first."

Answer 11

You won't be happy until we're all reading the Koran and bowing on our prayer mats.
Would you not say that our troops are slated for killing by the terrorist murderers.
Why there are many, many of them still in Iraq according to Pelosi and Reid.
Does that fact not shoot a hole in your argument.