this reporter is asking exactly the kind of hard questions they all should be asking - challenging the rhetoric, plowing through the spin and the buzzwords, trying to get some semblance of truth out of the administration...
meanwhile,
here are the insurgents continuing their "last throes":
Quote:
Gunmen take over Ramadi as bomb kills five marines
Rory Carroll in Baghdad and Osama Mansour in Ramadi
Friday June 17, 2005
The Guardian
Insurgents have taken over much of the Iraqi city of Ramadi and used it to launch attacks against US forces while terrorising the population with public beheadings.
A huge bomb killed five American marines yesterday and showered body parts on to rooftops, fuelling suspicion that armour-piercing technology is being developed and tested in Ramadi.
US troops recovered the remains and withdrew to their base outside the Arab Sunni stronghold, leaving masked gunmen to erect checkpoints and carry out what residents said was the latest of many executions.
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obviously, a sign of last-ditch desperation when the insugency is able to maintain checkpoints in the streets of a major Iraqi city....why, they'll probably just give up any day now, from the sheer futility of it all.