Not Good In Iraq

"Hear a whistling overhead
Are you alive or are you dead?
Its only Thursday

Feel a shaking all around
million candles burn around
is it your birthday?

tomorrow never comes until its too late"
---- 'Six Days' DJ Shadow


I realize the BBC has an agenda to discredit america, but this is probably more accurate than anything stateside.....

Battles grip Iraq on anniversary


Coalition troops now face gunmen from both Iraq's main communities
A year after the fall of Saddam Hussein US troops are battling gunmen in the old regime's Sunni heartland while unrest continues in Iraq's Shia cities.
Mortar rounds appeared to signal the collapse of a truce called by marines in the Sunni city of Falluja where doctors counted 450 deaths this week.

UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the coalition faced its "most serious" threat since the end of the war.

But the US military said operations against militants were "going well".

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said the operations would soon be over and added that the ceasefire in Falluja was still in effect while troops retained the right to defend themselves.

Rafi Hayad, director of Falluja's main hospital, told Reuters news agency that 450 Iraqis had been killed and 1,000 wounded in fighting since the US ringed the city of 300,000 to pursue the killers of four American security men ambushed there last week.

The US has announced the deaths of six more of its soldiers in combat over the past two days, bring to at least 39 the number killed since the Shia unrest erupted on Sunday.

Concern is growing over the situation in Falluja both within Iraq and abroad:


Russia has called on the sides in Iraq to show restraint and warned of "an impending humanitarian disaster" in the city

A senior Sunni Muslim member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC), Adnan Pachachi, called the operation illegal and completely unacceptable

Kurdish IGC member Mahmoud Uthman said US policy was counter-productive

Muslim Friday prayers saw angry protests across the Middle East
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this is going to get worse before it gets better. for sure.