Yep, it sure looks like we've got the insurgents in Iraq on the run. ABC News reports,

A car bomb exploded next to a U.S. Army convoy in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, while another American died in a drive-by shooting a half-hour later. Their deaths pushed the number of U.S. troops killed in three days to 14, part of a surge in attacks that have also killed about 60 Iraqis.

Part of the recent upsurge in U.S. deaths is the result of our joint campaign with the Iraqi Police and National Guard to re-take Baghdad from the insurgants. It's just not U.S. soliders taking fire. The BBC reports that over the weekend at least eleven Iraqi commandos were killed in two separate incidents on Saturday. Remember, commandos are the highly trained ones and if they're not faring so well against the insurgents then things aren't going well at all. All of this should remind us that all of that talk coming from George Bush & Co. during the election about how thousands upon thousands of Iraqi police and soliders had been trained and equipped to a high level was nothing more than talk. Ohh...and apparently in Tal Afar in the northern part of Iraq the insurgents have taken control and/or there is widespread fighting between Shiite and Sunni militias. Now that we've finished with the "up is down" silliness in the Senate (errr...sorry I mean the "up or down") maybe, just maybe the major media in the U.S. will remember that we're losing a solider or marine a day in Iraqi and it isn't because of some Newsweek article.

"Some day this war's gonna end....." And when it does there's gonna be hell to pay.
posted by Idle Crank at 5/24/2005 11:22:00 PM