{"id":1425,"date":"2008-04-01T06:35:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2008-04-01T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:35:09","slug":"over-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Over too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media hardly had time to retool their meme about Iraq and the battles ended before they started. The media has been ignoring the fact that major fighting had come to an end and so when the flare up began on Saturday, they were tripping over themselves to get to the scene – but US\/Iraqi troops put an end to it before they could get to the scene. Aside from the armchair quarterbacking, the only reliable reports were coming from journalists like Bill Roggio<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sadr\u2019s call for an end to fighting by his followers comes as his Mahdi Army has taken high casualties over the past six days. Since the fighting began on Tuesday, 358 Mahdi Army fighters were killed, 531 were wounded, 343 were captured, and 30 surrendered. The US and Iraqi security forces have killed 125 Mahdi Army fighters in Baghdad alone, while Iraqi security forces have killed 140 Mahdi fighters in Basrah.<\/p>\n

From March 25-29 the Mahdi Army had an average of 71 of its fighters killed per day. Sixty-nine fighters have been captured per day, and another 160 have been reported wounded per day during the fighting. The US and Iraqi military never came close to inflicting casualties at such a high rate during the height of major combat operations against al Qaeda in Iraq during the summer and fall of 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And The Angry American <\/a>who was at the center of it all;<\/p>\n

\u00a0Kum spotted a guy with a machine gun down the street firing on us, he told Hannibal and seconds later his militia ass was looking for his 40 virgins. It was solid gun fire on buildings and down the street we were on. Hannibal’s eagle eye picking them out then his deadly finger picking them off. C Wade in the lead truck was picking off guys in a window and he said it was like a video game, he would fire the guy would go down then come back up. After a final burst his ass didn’t get back up. Delta moved out in front of us and we moved slowly. We saw a spot in the market where the militia had put an IED that had detonated on Delta. The market was burnt out they destroyed their own f***ing market, and for what?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It leaves the “mainstream media” scrambling for scraps like the Washington Post<\/a> trolling the hospitals in Baghdad for sob stories from unreliable and emotional patients;<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Abdul Qader’s suffering is part of the human toll of the worst violence in months in Iraq. At least 400 people, from the southern city of Basra to the capital, Baghdad, were killed over six days, including many civilians, according to Iraqi police and other officials. Countless more were injured, joining thousands of Iraqis whose lives have been shattered by five years of conflict.<\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, Ramadan and his granddaughter Tabarik were mortally wounded as they sat outside their front door in Baghdad’s Zafraniya neighborhood. Witnesses said U.S. troops fired in their direction toward a group of young men who the soldiers may have thought were militiamen. Abbas Fadhil, 25, a neighbor, was also killed as he bought a pack of cigarettes.<\/p>\n

A U.S. military spokesman said there were no reports of accidental deaths of civilians at that time, or of U.S. troops engaging hostile forces in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, the media is paying the price for doing their best to ignore the good news – they weren’t ready for one of the greatest victories of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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