Politics > Politics-USA > "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended," sez Dubya.
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended," sez Dubya. |
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
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U.S. Army Targets Ambushed in Iraq
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
AP Special Correspondent
Published October 19, 2003, 4:24 PM CDT
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Deadly ambush teams struck U.S. Army targets from west to
north in the arc of resistance around Baghdad, and the interim Iraqi leader
called Sunday for an immediate mobilization of the old Iraqi army to help
the harried Americans.
The United States would "speed the process of relieving the burden on its
troops" by recalling the disbanded Iraqi military, said Iyad Allawi, current
president of the Iraqi Governing Council. The idea got a cool reception,
however, from Baghdad's U.S.-led occupation authorities.
Attackers killed two U.S. soldiers in a clash outside the northern city of
Kirkuk late Saturday, and others blasted a broken-down convoy in the western
flashpoint city of Fallujah, setting off spectacular explosions from an
ammunition truck.
One Iraqi civilian was killed by the blast and at least four were wounded in
Fallujah, either from the blasts or from gunfire from American troops as
they sped away, hospital officials said.
In the attack near Kirkuk, 160 miles north of Baghdad, an American mounted
patrol was ambushed by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire at
10:45 p.m. Saturday, said Maj. Josslyn Aberle, 4th Infantry Division
spokeswoman. The patrol returned fire, but no additional enemy contact
followed, she said.
In addition to the two killed, a third American was wounded, Aberle
reported.
Early Sunday, about 30 miles west of that attack, U.S. troops were hit with
grenades and small arms fire near Hawija, and killed three Iraqis when they
returned fire, the 4th Infantry Division reported. Still farther west, near
Beiji, American forces detained five attackers after a brief firefight, the
division said.
On the eastern edge of Fallujah, 35 miles west of Baghdad, a U.S. Army
ammunition truck, part of a convoy, broke down on the main road late Sunday
morning and came under attack, the U.S. command said in Baghdad. The truck
and possibly two other vehicles apparently were hit by rocket-propelled
grenades.
"Shells were flying everywhere, like fireworks," shopkeeper Khalil
al-Qubaisi, 45, said of the exploding ammunition truck. Dozens of Iraqi
youths danced and cheered as the vehicles went up in flames.
U.S. troops trying to approach the site pulled back after coming under
grenade attack, and opened fire in every direction as they left, witnesses
said.
"I was fixing my car on the other side of the street, and Americans fired in
a circular motion as they tried to leave," said Thaer Ibrahim, 30, who was
wounded in the shoulder by the American fire.
Four other civilians were wounded, and one later died of shrapnel wounds,
said Dr. Rafae al-Issawi, director of Fallujah General Hospital. In Baghdad,
the U.S. command said there were no American casualties.
In nearby Khaldiyah, unidentified assailants fired two rocket-propelled
grenades at two Humvees, damaging one, said a witness, shopkeeper Adel
Kamel. It was unclear whether there were any casualties.
The deaths in Kirkuk brought to 103 the number of Americans killed by
hostile fire since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1.
A total 338 Americans have died since the invasion of Iraq in March, 217 of
them in combat.
The command reported 15 attacks on forces of the U.S.-led coalition in the
24 hours ended at midday Sunday, down from a recent average of 22 a day.
Most occur in the so-called "Sunni Triangle," a Sunni Muslim-dominated area
stretching from the west of Baghdad to the north. The area was a strong base
of support for Saddam Hussein's Baath Party regime, toppled by the
U.S.-British invasion earlier this year.
American officials blame the insurgency largely on die-hard Baathists, but
many here believe other Iraqis resentful of the U.S. military presence have
joined in the hit-run attacks.
In an opinion-page piece in Sunday's New York Times newspaper, Allawi, head
of the 25-member Governing Council for the month of October, said the
decision by U.S. occupation officials to dissolve the 400,000-man Iraqi army
after the war's end in April produced a "security vacuum that let criminals,
die-hards of the former regime and international terrorists flourish."
Allawi wrote that it is "vital" to recall Iraqi army units now, six months
after they disintegrated before the U.S.-British military advance. The U.S.
government has had little success enlisting significant foreign military
help in Iraq, but a well-placed official of the occupation authority reacted
coolly Sunday to Allawi's position.
"I don't think there's a vast swath of people out there who want to serve in
the Iraqi army," said this official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Americans are slowly rebuilding a new Iraqi army, having trained only a
700-man battalion thus far.
Allawi's council, meanwhile, issued a statement Sunday urging Iraqis "to
remain calm and prevent incitement engulfing the country."
The Bush administration is urging other nations to send troops and money to
help the United States in Iraq. Washington hopes that last week's unanimous
U.N. Security Council vote on a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq will
prompt nations to contribute.
"We'll take as much money as we can get," Secretary of State Colin Powell
said ahead of a donors conference due to begin Thursday in Madrid.
"And I think the resolution will encourage some countries to give who might
not have had a basis to give before the resolution was passed," he said on
"Fox News Sunday."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top11oct19,1,976353.st
ory?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
--
"From the brief time that we did spend occupying Iraqi territory after the
war, I am certain that had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like the
dinosaur in the tar pit – we would still be there, and we, not the United
Nations, would be bearing the costs of the occupation. This is a burden I am
sure the beleaguered American taxpayer would not have been happy to take
on."
– Norman Schwarzkopf, from his 1993 autobiography, "It Doesn't Take a Hero."
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:42:56 -0600, "WeThePeople"
<windriver2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
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Have to admit the media has been pretty good about rubbing this in.
They are always pointing out that MORE americans have died in iraq
after bush's speech than died before. Unfortunately the democrat
party has said very little about it. Bunch of useless corrupt
cowards.
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