why we fight

“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli’s and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.“
-Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), the reason why the vote to start the war in iraq didnt need much to get through, pure fucking idiocy.

Rumsfeld told reporters at a NATO meeting that, in general, the value of intelligence reports can be uneven, and "sometimes it's just flat wrong."

But, I thought that.....nevermind...onto Iran we go...


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1130-07.htm

Its difficult to believe that the Bush Administration needs to pay to get good news stories into iraq, they should simply hook the Iraqis into a giant coaxial cable and make it compulsory for them to watch the american networks, plus as an added bonus give em all free Fox news. All the liberty to gush the administration line without the bother of paying a cent. The fifth estate is now looking more like a real estate shop front with the "journalists" shouting position, position, position.

http://iraqforsale.org/video_caci.php

My fav terror story of the week: watch out your gonna be killed by osamas spinach

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Health/story?id=2484738&page=1

Cost of war in Iraq to U.S. taxpayers each week, according to a new congressional analysis. The cost is “twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year.” The report predicts war costs to reach 808 billion by 2016.

estimated number of refugees fleeing baghdad in the last month: 240,000

Bob Woodward on CBS news:

According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret. "It’s getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week. That's more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces," says Woodward.
The situation is getting much worse, says Woodward, despite what the White House and the Pentagon are saying in public. "The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon [saying], 'Oh, no, things are going to get better,'" he tells Wallace. "Now there’s public, and then there’s private. But what did they do with the private? They stamp it secret. No one is supposed to know," says Woodward.

Woodward also reports that the president and vice president often meet with Henry Kissinger, who was President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, as an adviser. Says Woodward, ‘Victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.'" Woodward adds. "This is so fascinating. Kissinger’s fighting the Vietnam War again because, in his view, the problem in Vietnam was we lost our will."


The right in the US have rehashed the old bullshit of the US portion of the Vietnamese civil war having been lost by the media so often, and with such vehemence, that self censorship is now the norm. AL Jazeera is seen as propaganda purely because it dares to show a differing perspective, it doesnt run the camera shots of the missile gliding down the chimney, it shows what happens after the camera has disintergrated and mingled with the people beneath the plume of smoke.