The Smell of Victory. Ripe.
Published by Human Head on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 11:39 AM.DefenseLink News Article: U.S. General Sees Cause for Optimism in Anbar Province
Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times
"Beginning to bear"? Oh no, there's plenty of surge fruits--look at the rotting piles of it.
(and I'm not in the mood to debate "your material references two different provinces" bullshit. As though that somehow justifies our elective occupation and its Crusading Gloriousness)
“Our strategy of clear, hold and build, combined with an energized governmental and tribal engagement, is beginning to bear fruit,” Marine Maj. Gen. Walt Gaskin told reporters at the Pentagon via satellite.
Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times
"The morgue receives an average of four or five bodies everyday," Nima Jima'a, a morgue official, told IPS. "Many more are dropped in rivers and farms -- or it is sometimes the case they are buried by their killers for other reasons. The number we record here is only a fraction of those killed."
Ambulances, now able to move again after weeks of restrictions, have been removing bodies of victims from the current fighting. But they have also found skulls and bones, evidence of other killings long ago.
Dealing with these remains is becoming difficult. Like the rest of the city, the morgue suffers from continuing lack of electricity. Over the last two weeks, two of its refrigerators have been shut down. The smell of decomposing bodies hits visitors 100 metres away.
"Beginning to bear"? Oh no, there's plenty of surge fruits--look at the rotting piles of it.
(and I'm not in the mood to debate "your material references two different provinces" bullshit. As though that somehow justifies our elective occupation and its Crusading Gloriousness)