It's ironic that in defending the shooting death of Nicola Calipari, the Pentagon finally told the truth about the mess that is
Iraq. A Pentagon report about the Calipari shooting was accidentally declassified and it paints a grim picture:
"The U.S. considers all of Iraq a combat zone," says the report, which was wrapped up at the end of April, three months after the elections that were supposed to have turned the tide in this conflict. "From July 2004 to late March 2005," says the document, "there were 15,527 attacks against Coalition Forces throughout Iraq." Then comes one of several paragraphs marked S//NF (secret, not for distribution to foreign nationals): "From 1 November 2004 to 12 March 2005 there were 3306 attacks in the Baghdad area. Of these, 2400 were directed against Coalition Forces."
Yet the administration continues to insist that all is well...ignore the man behind the curtain.