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Friday, June 20, 2003
Quagmire watch
A rocket-propelled grenade slammed into an electrical transformer near U.S. troops in Fallujah, injuring two soldiers and sending a tower of flame into the night sky, witnesses and the U.S. military said Friday.
IT WAS THE latest of a spiraling series of attacks on U.S. soldiers and sabotage against the infrastructure needed for Iraq’s reconstruction.
The U.S. military said one of the soldiers suffered a concussion and the other bruises from the impact of the rockets exploding near two Bradley fighting vehicles at the gate.
Meanwhile, back at the Lazy B Ranch:
Inside the Bush administration, where top officials resolutely emphasize postwar progress in Iraq while playing down the setbacks, the rising American death toll and the increasing number of attacks on U.S. troops is causing increasing worry.
THE DEATH of a U.S. soldier yesterday near Baghdad brought to nine the number of troops killed in Iraq this month in a string of sporadic rocket and sniper attacks. Fifty-four Americans have died in accidents or military action since President Bush declared the war ended on May 1, equal to more than one-third of the 139 wartime deaths.
Bush and his top military and foreign policy officials define the casualties as a necessary cost of a successful military occupation. They say the deaths, while painful, are secondary to recent progress on economic and security issues. As one said yesterday, “Are we better off today than we were a month ago? Yes.”
Yet senior aides and members of Congress are talking warily of the dangers ahead, as well as the potential political and diplomatic fallout, amid evidence that Iraqi renegades are determined to fight. Indeed, the commanding general of the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division charged this week that anti-American forces are paying Iraqis to kill troops. The perils are significant. It has become clear that U.S. troops will form the majority of the international force in Iraq for many months. Some voices on Capitol Hill, describing the casualties and the extent of the armed Iraqi opposition, have begun to argue that the Bush administration must send more troops or recruit others.
“American troops are being killed daily. Some American family awakens to the news as I did this morning, to find that another American has been killed, and that family that day will have its hearts broken,” Rep. Ike Skelton (Mo.), the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said during a Wednesday hearing.
“There are significant hostile forces,” Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) told a National Press Club audience yesterday. “There are forces we can’t see. There are competitions between power groups vying for power. There’s retribution, there’s retaliation. And I don’t think we do have enough manpower in there.”
Looks like the Bush administration unfurled the "Mission Accomplished" banner a bit too early. Someone needs to needlepoint a sampler for Karl Rove's office wall that says:
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." - Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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