Nothing But Politics

[Rick Faurot]

War News for October 20, 2004

<>Bring ‘em on: Four Iraqi children killed, twenty people including eleven US soldiers wounded in bombing in Samarra
Bring ‘em on: Six Iraqi civilians killed and eleven US troops wounded in Samarra. (Unclear how this relates to story posted above)

Bring ‘em on*: Two Iraqi police officers and two US soldiers wounded in car bombing near Baghdad airport
Bring ‘em on*: Suicide bomber killed on Baghdad airport road. (Unclear how this relates to story posted above)

Bring ‘em on*: Three 2nd ID soldiers killed in Ramadi

Bring ‘em on and on: Family of six killed in US air raids in Falluja. Adviser to Allawi’s political party killed in drive-by shooting in Baghdad. 15 year old boy killed in shooting in Baquba. Two Americans and four Iraqi police wounded by car bombs in Baquba. Iraqi building contractor working for US forces killed by gunmen in Baquba.
Bring ‘em on and on: Yesterday’s mortar attack on headquarters of Iraqi National Guard now said to result in four dead, eighty wounded. Two Iraqis killed and 10 wounded in operations in al-Dalo'eya. American contractor killed and seven others wounded, including an American soldier, in mortar attack in downtown Baghdad. Oil pipeline attacked near Beji.

Bring ‘em the fuck on: Number of US wounded in Iraq tops 8,000

Bring ‘em on: Leader of CARE International abducted in Baghdad
Bring ‘em on: Car bomb explodes in central Baghdad





The Strategy to Secure Iraq Did Not Foresee a 2nd War: "John Abizaid was the only one who really had his head in the postwar game," General Garner said, referring to the general who served as General Franks's deputy and eventually his successor. "The Bush administration did not. Condi Rice did not. Doug Feith didn't. You could go brief them, but you never saw any initiative come of them. You just kind of got a north and south nod. And so it ends with so many tragic things."

Baghdad's persistent police shortage to continue until summer, U.S. general says: The Iraqi capital is still far short of the numbers of Iraqi policemen needed to secure it and the force won't be up to strength in time for national elections in January, the U.S. general in charge of security in Baghdad said Tuesday.

Report: Iraqi Troops Prone to Desertion: Nearly half of one of Iraq's new army units were spooked by a car bombing in Samarra and deserted last month, a report released Wednesday said. <>

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