Operation Slaughter Iraqis a Big Success
Grim-faced U.S. troops under sniper fire, burning Humvees, rows of mangled Iraqi corpses, Apache helicopters and heavy artillery pounding slum neighbourhoods, mortar attacks ...You'd think the invasion had just begun, but all this and much, much more is part of a really long sequel nearly a year-and-a-half after G.W. Bush pulled the glory plug. Operation Slaughter Iraqis is outlasting all those other nifty yet majestic code names. Still no victory parade in Baghdad; it's certainly a lot safer pulling it off on an aircraft carrier in sight of San Diego. A Pentagon spokesman admitted the insurgencies couldn't be militarily defeated, though this month, a colleague said it could take a decade. That, and a winning Iraqi Olympic soccer squad signals real progress -- if re-opening Vietnam War wounds won't work. Said Bush on the campaign trail: "Knowing what we know today, we still would have gone on into Iraq."
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