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Harry Hope
Guest
George W. Bush's strategy to win the war really does seem to be
working.
Take a look at this CBS news story from July 2006:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/10/60minutes/main1389390.shtml
This is a story about an entire city that was taken over by al Qaeda.
It's called Tal Afar and about 200,000 people who live there became
prisoners in their own homes when terrorists took control and turned
it into their town.
They used Tal Afar as a base to train insurgents and launch attacks
around Iraq.
Last fall, as correspondent Lara Logan found out when she traveled
there, U.S. and Iraqi forces were determined to recapture Tal Afar,
and the Bush administration has pointed to that operation as a model
for how to fight and win the rest of the war.
Indeed they had.
Here's Our Great Leader speaking in Washington, DC, a few months
earlier:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-6.html
Last week in Cleveland, I told the American people about the northern
Iraqi city of Tal Afar, which was once a key base of operations for al
Qaeda and is now a free city that gives us reason to hope for a free
Iraq.
I explained how the story of Tal Afar gives me confidence in our
strategy, because in that city we see the outlines of the Iraq we've
been fighting for, a free and secure people who are getting back on
their feet, who are participating in government and civic life, and
are becoming allies in the fight against the terrorists.
So, one year on, how are things going in Tal Afar?
A suicide truck bombing in the northern city of Tal Afar last week is
the deadliest single attack since the Iraq war began in 2003, a
high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Monday as a new
death toll for the blast surfaced.
The Wednesday attack -- in which a truck packed with 4,000 pounds
(1,814 kilograms) of explosives detonated in a Shiite area of the city
-- was initially blamed for 85 deaths, according to an Iraqi army
officer in Tal Afar who estimated the death toll Thursday.
Hundreds of others were wounded.
But the Interior Ministry official said Monday that the death toll was
152, making it the war's deadliest single attack.
In a separate and apparently retaliatory attack, gunmen stormed homes
in a Sunni area of the city, killing 70 people and wounding 30,
according to the army officer.
Forty others were kidnapped.
See?
The strategy is working!
Freedom is on the march!
The insurgency is in its last throes!
La la la la la I can't hear yoooooo.........
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
working.
Take a look at this CBS news story from July 2006:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/10/60minutes/main1389390.shtml
This is a story about an entire city that was taken over by al Qaeda.
It's called Tal Afar and about 200,000 people who live there became
prisoners in their own homes when terrorists took control and turned
it into their town.
They used Tal Afar as a base to train insurgents and launch attacks
around Iraq.
Last fall, as correspondent Lara Logan found out when she traveled
there, U.S. and Iraqi forces were determined to recapture Tal Afar,
and the Bush administration has pointed to that operation as a model
for how to fight and win the rest of the war.
Indeed they had.
Here's Our Great Leader speaking in Washington, DC, a few months
earlier:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-6.html
Last week in Cleveland, I told the American people about the northern
Iraqi city of Tal Afar, which was once a key base of operations for al
Qaeda and is now a free city that gives us reason to hope for a free
Iraq.
I explained how the story of Tal Afar gives me confidence in our
strategy, because in that city we see the outlines of the Iraq we've
been fighting for, a free and secure people who are getting back on
their feet, who are participating in government and civic life, and
are becoming allies in the fight against the terrorists.
So, one year on, how are things going in Tal Afar?
A suicide truck bombing in the northern city of Tal Afar last week is
the deadliest single attack since the Iraq war began in 2003, a
high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Monday as a new
death toll for the blast surfaced.
The Wednesday attack -- in which a truck packed with 4,000 pounds
(1,814 kilograms) of explosives detonated in a Shiite area of the city
-- was initially blamed for 85 deaths, according to an Iraqi army
officer in Tal Afar who estimated the death toll Thursday.
Hundreds of others were wounded.
But the Interior Ministry official said Monday that the death toll was
152, making it the war's deadliest single attack.
In a separate and apparently retaliatory attack, gunmen stormed homes
in a Sunni area of the city, killing 70 people and wounding 30,
according to the army officer.
Forty others were kidnapped.
See?
The strategy is working!
Freedom is on the march!
The insurgency is in its last throes!
La la la la la I can't hear yoooooo.........
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
