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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

 

Wednesday Morning Round-Up

(Bumped.) One hundred and forty-four hours until polls open. Volunteer down the stretch.

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Central Command must be playing politics then...

A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos,

It shows a sharp escalation in sectarian violence since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra in February, and tracks a further worsening this month despite a concerted American push to tamp down the violence in Baghdad.

...the military is weighing factors like the ineffectual Iraqi police and the dwindling influence of moderate religious and political figures, rather than more traditional military measures such as the enemy’s fighting strength and the control of territory.
[Note: these are typically measures used to guage the status of Civil Wars.]
An intelligence summary at the bottom of the slide reads “urban areas experiencing ‘ethnic cleansing’ campaigns to consolidate control” and “violence at all-time high, spreading geographically.” According to a Central Command official, the index on civil strife has been a staple of internal command briefings for most of this year. The analysis was prepared by the command’s intelligence directorate, which is overseen by Brig. Gen. John M. Custer.

Stay the course and fight them where?
 
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