Thursday, December 23, 2004

USATODAY - Mosul Attack Evidence Insurgents' Intel Better

USATODAY.com - Mosul attack evidence insurgents' intel better:

The Bush administration "misunderestimations" of the Iraqi insurgency continue:

The insurgent/suicide bomber responsible for
yesterday's bombing at a US military base in Mosul wore an Iraqi uniform. US Forces thought he was "one of us." The strength and depth of support for this insurgency can be questioned, and their motives easily impugned; this is probably not wise. Yet this is exactly what the Bush administration did when it went into Iraq, and this is what they continue to do today. For how much longer can Americans allow their armed forces--and their nation--to be led by an administration that ignores all the hard facts of reality in favor of a myth of "natural superiority?"

Meanwhile, three more US Marines were killed in "pacified" Falluja, and a roadside bomb killed a US soldier in Baghdad. Nobody thinks that war is easy. That's why this war was and is so wrong. This was the "cakewalk." This was the "small scale" operation, three of which the PNAC calls for American forces to fight at once. We were told, by ideologues who actually believed it, that this would be easy.

"The attack is the latest evidence that Iraqi insurgents have better intelligence about U.S. forces than U.S. forces have on the insurgents."

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