We've got them on the run!

During the past 24 hours there have been at least 6 bombings in Iraq.
Four on Baghdad police stations, one on the Red Cross HQ, and one
yesterday on the hotel where Gulf War II architect Paul Wolfowitz was
staying. It's been an extremely difficult and deadly day in Iraq, but
Bush, staying true to form, refuses to acknowledge anything even resembling reality:

"President Bush said Monday that U.S. progress in Iraq is
making insurgents more "desperate" and spurring attacks such as the
bombings at the international Red Cross headquarters and four police
stations across Baghdad that killed dozens of people."
"The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis
become, the more electricity that's available, the more jobs are
available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate
these killers become," Bush told reporters at the White House."

They're not getting desparate, dumbass. They're getting more effective.
Their "science project" of a rocket launcher was apparently advanced
enough to drive us out of the al-Rashid Hotel:

The U.S. occupation authority abandoned the al-Rashid Hotel
after it was hit early Sunday by a fatal rocket barrage fired from a
launcher disguised as a portable generator. A senior U.S. Army officer
was killed and 17 people were wounded in the brazen strike at the core
of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
The assault on the 462-room al-Rashid Hotel was aimed at a prominent
symbol of the U.S. occupation. The hotel was the living quarters for
hundreds of U.S. military and civilian personnel.
Despite the homemade appearance of the rocket launcher, the U.S.
military said the attack took months of planning and surveillance. The
assault on the al-Rashid, the second in a month, again underscored the
vulnerability of American officials in Iraq and raised fresh concerns
about the U.S. military's ability to crush a resistance that has become
bolder in its methods and choices of targets.

They're trying to play these events off as inconsequential. They are
not. The Iraqi resistance is getting stronger and smarter every day,
and our forces are growing weaker from demoralization and poor
leadership. Update 11:34 AM:
The Red Cross is now considering pulling out of Iraq altogether as a result of this morning's bombings:

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
expressed outrage at Monday's unprecedented suicide bombing of its
Baghdad headquarters, which killed at least 10 people, and said it was
weighing a withdrawal from Iraq.
It was the first time the Swiss-based relief agency, which for 140
years has sought to protect the victims of war, had been targeted by
suicide bombers, although a number of officials have died in shootings
and other attacks in places such as Chechnya and Afghanistan in recent
years.

This is another huge blow to the War Effort. The UN has already pulled
out almost completely, and if the ICRC pulls out that would leave
America almost completely alone (except for the Polish and the
Mongolian troops, of course). This doesn't exactly add to our argument
for why other countries should be contributing troops and such. We
can't even keep the fucking Red Cross safe - how are we supposed to
ensure the safety of other armies (not to mention our own army). What an utter debacle this has become.

Posted by flow Frazao on October 27, 2003 at 11:13 AM | Permalink