Sharp Rise in Baghdad Violence Reported - Forbes.com

Bring our troops home now! Impeach Bush and Cheney and then try them all, or send them to the Hague.

They should all spend the rest of their miserable sociopathic, paranoid, Democracy-hating lives in prison!

Sharp Rise in Baghdad Violence Reported - Forbes.com:

Bombings and shootings soared by 40 percent in the Baghdad area in the past week, the U.S. military said Thursday. An American general said extremists were preparing 'an all-out assault' on the capital in a decisive battle for the future of Iraq.

Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric issued his strongest call yet for an end to Shiite-Sunni bloodletting, urging all Iraqis to wake up to the 'danger threatening the future of the country' and stand 'side-by-side against it.'

U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said there had been an average of 34 attacks a day involving U.S. and Iraqi forces in and around the capital since Friday - up sharply from the daily average of 24 registered between June 14 and July 13.

'We have not witnessed the reduction in violence one would have hoped for in a perfect world,' Caldwell told reporters. 'The only way we're going to be successful in Baghdad is to get the weapons off the streets.'