Iraq Insurgents Can Conduct 60 Strikes Daily -Pentagon

and it means we are not able to effectively control or keep the peace in that country. I imagine with each offense committed against an Iraqi civilian, we're creating more insurgents, not to mention the part timers who work for us by day and against us at night.

In California?

We started a political war with no clear objective or enemy.

This always fails, and the Iraq war is no exception. When will the American people stop taking the bait?

...and wiped out $200,000,000,000.00 in American resources.

During January, it was reported there were over two hundred attacks a day.

"My friends at Halliburton are going to make a fortune", he continued.

So have attacks per day actually gone down over the last few months? Who knows.


Iraq's Burgeoning Insurgency
by Kenneth Katzman 21 Nov 2004


http://www.ecssr.ac.ae/CDA/en/FeaturedTopics/DisplayTopic/0,1670,333-0-4,00.html

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Throughout 2004, Sunni resistance activity escalated and expanded and a Shiite uprising led by radical 30-year-old cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's faction flared periodically. US forces now face approximately 80 attacks per day, according to US commanders, up from nearly 40 per day in mid 2003. Since April 2004, Sunni Arab insurgents have asserted partial dominance or essential control over several cities, beginning with Fallujah, by attacking representatives of the Interim Iraqi Government.

In late April 2004, Fallujah fell under full insurgent control, run by a council of insurgents (Mujahedin Shura). Then, in early November 2004, coalition forces initiated a campaign to recapture Fallujah, thus far resulting in the qualitatively most trying combat US commanders have recorded since the Vietnam War. The capital of the al-Anbar province, Ramadi, also came under virtual insurgent control, although US forces are still present in parts of that city. Sunni insurgent factions also took root in other predominantly Sunni Arab cities, including Baqubah, Mosul, Samarra, Latifiyah, Mahmudiyah, and Tal Affar, with some degree of popular support.

In response, US forces conjoined with Iraqi forces and began operations in September 2004 to restore Iraqi government control to these cities, beginning with Samarra. Ongoing operations are still being conducted in attempt to retake Fallujah and Ramadi in an effort to assert law and order throughout these restive areas and pave the way for the National Assembly elections scheduled to take place in January 2005. Most experts, however, believe that it will be very difficult—if not impossible—to hold legitimate elections unless these cities can be brought under Iraqi-coalition control. The legitimacy of the elections depends all but entirely upon substantial participation by Sunni Iraqis.

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