But, really, it's going extremely well over there

Yeah, right.

There are so many times, when I read or hear people either from this Administration or believers of this same group, that say how "the surge is working" or whatever nonsense they want us to swallow that day.

And then I read things like this, that tell of actual incidents that occur and I keep in mind how so much of the country--Iraq--has been blown up by this same administration and I just want to scream.



US-Allied Iraqi Politician Kills Two US Troops, Wounds Four
Monday 23 June 2008

by: Mohammed al Dulaimy and Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers

Madain, Iraq - A U.S.-allied Iraqi council member sprayed American troops with gunfire Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding three and an interpreter, Iraqi authorities and witnesses said. The attack occurred minutes after they emerged from a weekly joint meeting on reconstruction in this volatile town southeast of Baghdad.

Raed Mahmoud Ajil, a former high school principal in his mid-40s, was known as a respected city council member and devoted educator who'd recently returned to Iraq after completing his master's degree in India, stunned colleagues said. U.S. troops shot and killed him at the scene.

Ajil's colleagues said they could think of no motive for the deadly rampage, which is thought to be the first incident of a U.S.-allied Iraqi politician carrying out such an attack. Ajil comes from a distinguished Sunni Muslim family. His brother is security chief for the Iraqi Ministry of Justice and a cousin is a high-ranking judge, relatives said.

Ajil's family said that he'd suffered from bouts of depression and sporadic epileptic seizures, which he masked in his role as a public servant. Relatives knew him to be friendly to U.S. troops and said he had no qualms about working alongside them, even though many in this mixed Sunni-Shiite Muslim town view American forces as occupiers.

(McClatchy special correspondent Dulaimy reported from Madain, Allam from Baghdad.)
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back to "Mo Rage":

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died, more than 4,000 Americans have died, thousands and thousands of both Iraqis and Americans have been wounded or are suffering dreadful psychiatric disorders because of and from this war but we're supposed to believe that "the surge is working".

No. No, it's not.

The whole war hasn't "worked". Nothing is as they said it would be and it's not good for Iraqis and it's not good for Americans.

We need to get out.