US strategy in Baghdad fails; Us army admits failure in the streets of Baghdad.
The operation Together Forward has not met the overall expectations in sustaining a reduction in the level of violence. Instead violence increased with 22% in the last 3 weeks Major General William Caldwell said.
According to White house spokesman Tony Snow there is an increasing violence because the insurgents possibly want to have an influence on the US congressional elections.
Think it all over. Is it really a matter of possible influence on US elections in November '06? Or has it to do with the growing civil war. Now it's Baghdad, Basra, Mosul were the suicide bombers hit their targets. There might be other explanations.
I forgot the Thursday headline: Berlin moves to Moscow in new Ostpolitik.
Germany (new chairman of the European Union) wants to get better relations with Russia mainly to secure energy supplies from Russia. It's very delicate because former border states have huge problems with Russia. Also Russia is not considered a democratic country.
