Khalilzad: Iraq bombings underscore the "increasing desperation felt by criminals"

[sabra]

Meet our soon to be UN Ambassador :crazy:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2886472&page=2

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U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the bombings underscore the "increasing desperation felt by criminals" and would only serve to "galvanize Iraqi forces and their coalition partners."

[Tin Man]

1. Looks like they're in their "final throes" - again.

[turbo_satan]

2. "Last throes" and all that... (n/t)

[NewJeffCT]

3. Didn't Bush say that about 3 years ago?

or something along those lines? The more attacks there are, the more desparate the insurgents are, which meant that the more attacks there are, the better we're doing.

[bigtree]

4. exactly

Maliki echoes that line:

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki condemned the bombing as a desperate act by "terrorists" and "criminals" who sense they are being squeezed.

"These crimes confirm the defeat of these perpetrators and their failure in confronting our armed forces, which are determined to cleanse the dens of terrorism," al-Maliki said in a statement.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=TNCHA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-02-19-08-36-47

[spartan61]

5. You beat me to it.

I was going to say what you did about this being said a few years ago. Just how stupid do they think we are to believe such bullsh*t?

[Tin Man]

6. LOL, yep... we're still kicking the terrorist's asses!

The increasing violence proves it! :crazy:

[NewJeffCT]

7. Using this train of thought....

we won't be a success until every single American soldier is dead or wounded, every helicopter has been shot down and every Humvee blown to shreds.

[sabra]

8. yep, and Tony Snow will add, "things go wrong in every war"