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link>>After listing other incidents in the area, the report for March 15 states: "American forces used helicopters to drop troops on the house of Faiz Harat Khalaf situated in the Abu Sifa village of the Ishaqi district. The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people, including five children, four women and two men, then they bombed the house, burned three vehicles and killed their animals." Among victims the report lists two five-year-old children, two three-year-olds and a six-month-old baby.This can't be true can it? :rolleyes:Turning voters into terrorists, every day. 
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....unless you believe Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld who insist all is well, while conflating Iraq with WW2....
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A nine-year-old survivor, Eman Waleed, who lived in a house 150 metres from the roadside bomb attack told Time magazine that after the explosion her father began reading the Qur'an. "First, they went into my father's room, where he was reading the Qur'an, and we heard shots," she said. "I couldn't see their faces very well, only their guns sticking into the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny."
fuck out of this country you oiltasting REDNECK. go back down to hell.
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press WriterTue Mar 21, 1:10 PM ET
Vice President Dick Cheney asserted Tuesday that the situation in Iraq is continually getting better, taking on war critics while acknowledging misgivings many Americans have about the administration's strategy.
"Progress has not come easily but it has been steady and we can be confident going forward," the vice president told an enthusiastic military crowd.
Cheney's appearance here was one piece of a broad administration push to counter polls that show waning public support for the war ??? and President Bush ??? by highlighting what the administration says is underreported evidence of improvement. Cheney spoke not long after Bush held a White House news conference in part to defend his Iraq record. The president has been delivering a series of speeches devoted to the topic.
With the war in Iraq now in its fourth year, more than 2,300 Americans have died.
Difficult negotiations are ongoing between squabbling Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish blocks in Iraq's new parliament over how to replace the current caretaker government with a broad-based national government representing all of Iraq's communities. The talks are deadlocked over how to apportion the most powerful jobs.
And a wave of sectarian violence that has followed the bombing last month of a Shiite Muslim shrine continues. On Monday alone, 39 people were reported killed by insurgents and shadowy sectarian gangs.
Despite the weeks of reprisal killings that have some saying Iraq is at the brink of civil war, Cheney credited American troops and U.S.-trained Iraqi forces with "maintaining public order" following the Feb. 22 bombing of the famed golden dome atop the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra.
He conceded: "There is no doubt that the situation in Iraq is still tense."
But he cited the skills of U.S. soldiers, the desire of Iraqis to be free, and strides in training Iraqi security forces as reasons to be heartened about Iraq now and in the future.
"At times you may wonder if your fellow citizens truly realize the extent of your achievements," Cheney said to the about 3,000 troops and family members gathered in a chilly hangar. "I want you to know that Americans do realize it ??? and we do not take our military for granted."
He accused critics of suggesting the war in Iraq is not winnable.
"A few seem almost eager to conclude that the whole struggle is already lost," Cheney said from a stage bedecked with flags and camouflage netting. "But they are wrong."
The vice president also criticized Bush opponents as "yielding to the temptation to downplay the threat" from terrorists elsewhere and "to back away from the business at hand."
"Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength," he said. "They are invited by the perception of weakness."
Cheney stopped at the headquarters of the U.S. Transportation Command here to thank its personnel for role they play in Iraq, the war on terror and military humanitarian missions, such as evacuations of Hurricane Katrina survivors and assistance to victims of an earthquake in Pakistan. Before his speech, the vice president received a private briefing on how TRANSCOM manages all transportation ??? of wounded troops, supplies, equipment and other cargo ??? for the U.S. military.
The vice president also defended the warrantless eavesdropping program that Bush authorized after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"There are no communications more important to the safety of the United States than those related to al-Qaida that have one end in the United States," he said.