The US military strategy in Iraq has once more been put to the sword. The fiction between the US officials and the Iraqi authorities is going to increase even more in the wake of another US raid all gone wrong.
The center of the controversy this time is Sadr City, which is yet to be purified of militants and terrorists. In an effort to capture an Iran-linked militant in the city, the US embarked on a raid that appears to have gone horribly wrong. As much as the US military may deny the death of innocent civilians, the stark, naked truth is that there were a number of causalities.
13 civilian deaths have been reported by the Iraqi police with the number expected to rise. Two toddlers have been discerned killed too. No fewer than 69 people have been reported injured in the incident although on the positive side, 49 gunmen have been confirmed dead in the ferocious fighting.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has never eclipsed his frustration and resentment at the excessive force used by the US forces in Iraq to counter the rising insurgency. Although the PM knows that without the US presence in Iraq his nation would crumble in the wake of escalating sectarian violence, he has never backed down from demonstrating his disenchantment at the rampant way that the US soldiers appear to use their weapons in public places.
The war in Iraq goes on. But since the end of last year, civilian causalities have been increasing consistently and most of the deaths have been due to fighting between the US troops and the insurgents. The Iraqi people have already paid much in the last 4 years since the US invasion of Iraq and they are still paying.
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