Pentagon Report: Surge Not Slowing Violence in Iraq

[soonerliberal]

washingtonpost.com

“OVERALL LEVELS OF VIOLENCE” IN IRAQ “HAVE NOT DECREASED”

Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are concentrated, only to rise in most other provinces, according to a Pentagon report released yesterday.

The report — the first comprehensive statistical overview of the new U.S. military strategy in Iraq — coincided with renewed fears of sectarian violence after the bombing yesterday of the same Shiite shrine north of Baghdad that was attacked in February 2006, unleashing a spiral of retaliatory bloodshed. Iraq’s government imposed an immediate curfew in Baghdad yesterday to prevent an outbreak of revenge killings.

[Easy180]

Big shock there...There is nada that can be done to stop the sectarian violence...Will only stop when they get tired of killing each other

Hopefully this most recent failure only quickens the withdrawal of a decent amount of our troops there

[Midtowner]

The only way to stop this war is to completely destroy the capacity of one side to attack the other. Saddam understood that -- and did that. Now I guess we're beginning to understand.. or at least hopefully.