FINISH THE JOB IN IRAQ!

03/16/06 - TIKRIT, Iraq, March 15 (Reuters):
"Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including the five children."
"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.
Another policeman, Colonel Farouq Hussein, said autopsies had been carried out at Tikrit hospital and found "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head".
"The bodies, their hands bound, had been dumped in one room before the house was destroyed, Hussein said. Police had found spent American-issue cartridges in the rubble."




"Finish the job?"
Complete the mission?"
What do these statements mean?
Kill more and more Iraqis while killing the "TERRORISTS"?
Kill the sects who are fighting each other?
Can this be accomplished with more and more violence?
Will this be achieved with more and more air assaults (the most since the invasion!)?
Embroiled in an imbroglio, sinking deeper into the morass...Victory must not be far behind.
We remember Vietnam.
The increased bombing and escalation did not end that war.
But the Long War President and the GOP need to show the American public that they are in charge...
gaining ground...
making progress...
on the road to victory...
securing freedom and democracy...


BUT...

"Stories of American missiles hitting the homes of innocents are passed between Iraqi men at teahouses and during Friday worship services."
"Residents worry that their homes will be bombed at any time," said Hussein Ali Jaafar, who owns a stationery shop in the town of Balad, north of Baghdad, which was targeted by bombs or missiles at least 27 times between October 2005 and February 2006. "Most of the bombing is unjustified and random. It does not differentiate between militants and innocent people."
"A tribal sheik who lives on the outskirts of the troubled Anbar town of Ramadi, who asked that he be identified as Abu Tahseen instead of by his full name out of fear of possible retribution, said that the strikes create more insurgents than they kill because of the region's tribal dictates of revenge."
"They (the Americans) think: `As long as there are resistance fighters operating in this spot, we will wipe it out entirely,'" Abu Tahseen said, using the term for insurgents favored by Iraqis sympathetic to their cause. "As you know, our nature is a tribal one, and so if one from us is killed, we kill three or four in return." Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 3/14/06

Osama Jadaan al Dulaimi, a tribal leader in the western town of Karabilah, a town near the Syrian border that was hit with bombs or missiles on at least 17 days between October 2005 and February 2006, said the bombings had created enemies:

"The people of Karabilah hate the foreigners who crossed the border and entered their areas and got into a fight with the Americans," al Dulaimi said. "The residents now also hate the American occupiers who demolished their houses with bombs and killed their families ... and now the people of Karabilah want to join the resistance against the Americans for what they did." Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 3/14/06