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The surge is working in Baghdad. Dem's Do you want to loose?

Ignoring Surge Success, NY Times Frets About Overcrowded Baghdad Jails
Posted by Clay Waters on March 28, 2007 - 13:45.

The New York Times finally reports on the results of the troop increase in Baghdad, which seems to have brought a measure of safety to some of the most dangerous areas of Iraq's capital – but Kirk Semple and Alissa Rubin's A1 article Wednesday ("Sweeps in Iraq Cram Two Jails With Detainees") ignored that angle in favor of concern over…crowded Baghdad jails.

"Hundreds of Iraqis detained in the Baghdad security crackdown have been crammed into two detention centers run by the Defense Ministry that were designed to hold only dozens of people, a government monitoring group said Tuesday.

"The numbers suggested that the security plan’s emphasis on aggressive block-by-block sweeps of troubled neighborhoods in the capital had flooded Iraq's frail detention system, and appeared to confirm the fears of some human rights advocates who have been predicting that the new plan would aggravate already poor conditions.

"The disclosure came as violence continued to tear through Iraq, including a double suicide-vehicle bombing in Tal Afar that killed at least 55 people, the authorities said, and the murder of two Chaldean Christian nuns in Kirkuk."

The second half of the article catches up on all the recent violence in Iraq, but interestingly, not the violence in those targeted Baghdad neighborhoods. Could it be because the "aggressive block-by-block sweeps" are having a positive effect on public safety? Apparently, that's not newsworthy.

The rest of the story is filled with anecdotes of violence -- notice the nicely played cheap shot on Bush.

"In the most destructive of the two suicide attacks in Tal Afar on Tuesday, the bomber was driving a truck partially filled with sacks of flour for bread that concealed his explosives. He started handing out the sacks to people, saying it was free aid. But as a crowd gathered around his vehicle, he detonated the bomb.

"An Iraqi police colonel said at least 55 people had died and 183 had been wounded.

"Salih al-Qadu, the president of the main hospital in Tal Afar, said his staff had received 50 bodies and more than 100 wounded people. 'We are still getting more injuries, so I can’t give you the death toll now,' he said late Tuesday.

"The hospital had called to Mosul for emergency supplies, he said, but gunmen turned back the vehicles carrying the supplies."

"Tal Afar was once cited by President Bush as an example of American military success in Iraq."

For more examples of New York Times bias, visit Times Watch.

Public Comments

1. Wow - nice slimy dodge. Winning an unjust war is like beating your kid for something you know they didn't do.

2. The Dems have invested in defeat. If we win over there, they loose here. Therefore, they will do all they can to prevent their own country from winning a war it desperately needs to win.

3. You've hit the nail on the head; so to speak. I thoroughly believe that the Dems NEED for us to get our but*s stomped in order for them to take control of the US in the 08 elections. With all of their unpatriotic actions and speeches about how we are doomed and cannot possibly win how many do you think would be elected if Bush's plan and our hard fighting, hard charging American soldiers are allowed to finish this mess?

4. Typical liberal spin of good news in the war. Those Dems will do or say just about anything, at whatever cost in lives, to get their approval ratings and votes up.

5. Sometime I do like loose. If my shoes or belt is too tight, I don't like that, and prefer them loose.

6. My opinion is the new congress is boasting their here, but with their new way will there be anyone left here tomarrow on EARTH.

7. I would expect a brilliant political analyst to also know the difference between "lose" and "loose."

8. What part of not wanting to intervene in a civil war do you not understand?

9. Are you deranged or just misinformed.

The surge has not even started. Don't you listen to the US Senate hearings broadcast every day on Cspan.

Sure some troops have flown to Iraq but their equipment won't be there until July.

And you must have missed the News today. There is no relief in sight.

10. 120 people died yesterday in Iraq 60 in car bomb attacks and 60 in retaliation for the car bombs by the Iraqi police force. What are you worried about anyways? the withdrawal date is not until 2008, so if things are going as well as you say the war should be over by then

11. Unfortunately it isn't working as well as you would have everyone believe!

Even now insurgents are striking the Green Zone!

12. If you call that "success"...?

You definitely need an increase in your medication dosage! lol