Wednesday, December 22, 2004

MASCAL - Troops Attack in Iraq

Here is a sight that I've seen linked by GlenReynolds as linked in an article by Belmont Club. Wretchard discusses the mortar attack that occurred directly after the hit on the mess tent. The point being that the insurgents were intentionally targeting the medical personnel coming to the aid of the injured. Funny that I've been surfing the news all morning and haven't heard a word out of the MSM on this.

Wretchard also points out the EU's agencies in Iraq are refusing to look at the mass graves so that they don't have to be part of the punishment of the Iraqi war criminals.

Disgusting.

Here is something interestingly missed by the MSM or just left out since it comes from the AP reporter embedded at the attacked base in Mosul.

Insurgents have fired mortars at the chow hall more than 30 times this year. One round killed a female soldier with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, in the summer as she scrambled for cover in a bomb shelter. Workers are building a new steel-and-concrete chow hall for the soldiers just down the dusty dirt road.

Of course, the MSM has had further yells for Rumsfeld's head again because of this. Funny, something was being done to make this place safer, but the MSM is reporting it as if nothing is even being considered.

UPDATE:
I've been reading Free Will Blog and they pretty much come to an appropriate conclusion.


1 comment:

Granted said...

Not like they're violating the Geneva Convention... Oh wait, they are?

The article on Belmont was great. I'll bet they're right and the fire came from a civilian area where we couldn't just smoke their buts with an air strike. My understanding is, we can triangulate mortar fire within two shots. These guys hung around and fired six or seven. This sucks, but Tony Blair summed it up well yesterday, basically saying, if the monsters think that holding elections is bad, then that's what we must do. You've gotta think that after the election we'll start pulling down the troop strength pretty radically and that'll slow down our deaths, but increase those of the Iraqi security forces, which'll just push the terrorist further off the scope for regular Iraqi's. It's all going to work out in the end, but it's going to be painful along the way.