Call me skeptical...

[sleigh]

Call me skeptical, but the BBC is reporting that US & Iraqi troops have clashed with a militant group near Najaf, and while two US and three Iraqi soldiers have been killed, they have managed to kill (according to Iraqi sources) "hundreds" of the insurgents. Yet provincial governor Asaad Abu Gilel is quoted in the article as saying these insurgents "are well-equipped and they even have anti-aircraft missiles."

Huh. A well-equipped militant group of several hundred, and we managed to kill hundreds of them while losing only five of our own? Hey, this surge thing must be really working...

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[galacticvoyeur.livejournal.com]

heavily armored slow flying ground attack aircraft spewing depleted uranium rounds can really chew the place up

and higher flying C130 gunships firing conventional rounds don't leave a lot of body parts to clean up, either

they're really gonna love us for the next, oh, 50 years or so, until the land is so poisoned that no one can live there without getting cancer and we can just extract the remaining oil with expendable slave labor and without all these annoying interruptions from these stupid raghead sandmonkeys who think they own the place

time to send the cheese-eating surrender monkeys after these bastard neocons!