Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dispelled Pentagon’s claims of drop in Iraq violence, as bloodbath continues to destroy the country.
The U.S. GAO dismissing military’s claims of 70 per cent drop in violence in Iraq snubbed it for its war strategy, which is not going, as it should have been. Disconfirming the reports that Iraq is getting peaceful, the GAO states that the bloodbath continues in Iraq and the casualty numbers truly prove it. The U.S. army has lost many of its soldiers in the upsurge. The GAO rebuffed the calculation methodology of the intelligence analysts and the military statisticians and refurbished it as baseless, without any credibility. Even the Iraq Study Group finds it as significant underreporting of violence.
Scores are dying daily in Iraq, sometimes many more and the number climbs to hundred on several occasions. At a time when daily bombings are taking place killing so many civilians and military men, the U.S. reporting it as significant drop calls for attention. Simply to prove to the world community that its presence in Iraq has lent the country a helping hand is wrong. When cries of U.S. withdrawal are roaring all over, the U.S. comes up with reports that its military strategy is bearing fruits in Iraq and seeing a decrease in violent attacks. Such a biased attitude of the U.S. dismantles the so-called peace restoration effort, it has put in for several years in Iraq. More so, the dividing line stands higher when it is found that U.S. military does not make public civilian deaths, which are growing in significant numbers.
Even with Al Qaeda joining hands with the insurgents and airing insurgency, the incidents of bomb blasts, violent attacks, sectarian conflict will only increase. The Shia-Sunni division is even burgeoning and killing of each other’s followers is rampant that takes the casualty numbers even higher. Violence is less blamed on inaction of the occupying forces, more on their overwork. The US forces are unable to rein in the Shia militias led by radical Islamic leaders like Sadr. The Sunnis are in frenetic mood to gain superiority over the Shias. Their proximity to militants is quite visible. The Al Qaeda is in a bombing spree. Be it the relatively peaceful Kurdish areas or the hardest hit central Iraq, car bombings are increasing day by day.
Can we say that Iraq is getting peaceful? I don’t think peace is heard even in remotest corner of the beleaguered country. Iraqis need peace and a cessation of violence, not just drop, even, which seems at large.
Via: Washingtonpost
