Diatribune

About 50 suspected fighters have attacked a US base in the center of a city north of Baghdad, sparking a battle with US soldiers and helicopters in which at least six fighters have died, according to the Iraqi army. Friday's fighting took place in Baquba, a Sunni anti government stronghold.

Separately six suspected fighters were detained during raids in northeast Iraq. They were accused them of being members of a cell that imports powerful weapons from neighboring Iran, and brings Iraqis to Iran for training as fighters. Plus two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were ambushed and killed as they drove home from work. of course only one resident spoke up but refused to be identified for fear of being killed by so called insurgents.

Meanwhile the unsuccessful search for the three missing American soldiers continues and it only succeeds in getting three more American soldiers killed. Amidst all this surge success a 24-hour curfew remained in place in Mosul, 360km northwest of Baghdad, for a third day on Friday.

It was imposed after fighters used five suicide vehicle bombs, mortars and small arms fire to destroy two bridges and attack a police station and a jail where suspected fighters were being held. More Surge Success?
Plus A suicide car bomber hit a police patrol in the Sunni-dominated town of Jurf al-Sakhar, 65 km south of Baghdad, killing three officers and wounding two and In the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 290 km north of the Iraqi capital, drive-by shooters killed an Iraqi army officer as he was heading to work, police said. http://english.aljazeera.net/...

This is just one days surge success for Bush! North, North East, North West, South of Baghdad, and Bush says his surge is working? Meanwhile at the same time Three explosions rocked Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday as British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived for meetings with Iraqi government leaders, officials said. The explosions wounded one person, said U.S. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor. According to preliminary reports, there were no deaths. "At approximately 11:30 a.m. there were four explosions," three of them that hit inside the Green Zone, Fintor said. This is only a 4-square-mile area in central Baghdad that holds the Iraqi government and parliament as well as headquarters for the U.S. military and diplomatic missions. http://www.cnn.com/...

The Green Zone is frequently the target of mortar and rocket attacks but I have to ask, we cannot even secure the Green Zone and the chaos is spreading throughout Iraq. This is success? How is it that every time a western Dignitary has a "surprise" visit at the Green Zone they seem to be attacked? Are insurgents somehow receiving advanced inside information?

You have to wonder if this is all success then what is Bush's real goal? You are left to believe that as we have been saying for years now that our troops and equipment must stay on line amidst Bush's success" until he can "succeed" in finding his excuse to attack Iran.

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
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