U.S. report justifies keeping troops in Iraq, points fingers at Iran
July 31, 2011 @ 6:52 pm
Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
A conveniently timed report has emerged, months before the United States is supposed to pull 47,000 American troops out of Iraq. However, some officials in Iraq claim the report is exaggerated and that it is “not as bad as the report says it is.”
This report claims that over the past year the security of Iraq has deteriorated significantly, citing a statement from Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the head of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, that June was the “deadliest month for U.S. troops in more than two years.”
Yet, Hussain al-Asadi, an Iraqi Member of Parliament told the New York Times, “Such reports have meaning inside America, but in Iraq it has no impact.” ...