How's the troop surge going...

[John21]

On the off chance that some of you might actually want to know what's going on over there, here's the latest video briefing from Commanding General Multinational Division, Baghdad and 1st Cavalry Division Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil Jr. video transcript

You're really not going to have any idea what's really going on over there unless you go outside of CNN or Fox. There's been all this debate going on over whether the surge will work or not, and what happens when Operation Law and Order kicks off…I don't know, the major news agencies don't tell us. They'll give a brief description of the operation, and like CNN reported saying coalition forces had some success and then show the aftermath of a carbomb explosion, before moving on to the more pressing concerns over what's going to happen with Anna Nicole.

What they don't mention is that the insurgent's conducted 20 attacks, and they were all ineffective or defeated with no coalition causalities. Or that U.S. forces completed all 10 of their mission objectives for the day, and they're clearing areas so quickly that the bottleneck is in getting the support troops in for the control part of the plan. Or that of the four Iraqi battalions that are showing up, they're far better trained and led than was expected.

Yeah I know watching those half-hour briefings suck, but at least you end up being able to form your own opinions from a second-hand account rather than just swallowing a fifth-hand analysis. Who knows - this just might work. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]