iraq
it all makes sense when you get there..
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"President Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney have used demagoguery and fear to quell Americans' demands for an end to this war. They say withdrawing will create bloodshed and chaos and encourage terrorists. Actually, all of that has already happened - the result of this unnecessary invasion and the incompetent management of this war."
"It is frighteningly clear Mr Bush's plan is to stay the course as long as he is president and dump the mess on his successor.
Whatever his cause was, it is lost."
the new york times editorial
The most important article you will read on the US in Iraq this year is not the above, its here
The mounting frustration of fighting an elusive enemy and the devastating effect of roadside bombs, with their steady toll of American dead and wounded, led many troops to declare an open war on all Iraqis. Veterans described reckless firing once they left their compounds. Some shot holes into cans of gasoline being sold along the roadside and then tossed grenades into the pools of gas to set them ablaze. Others opened fire on children. These shootings often enraged Iraqi witnesses.
What a pity the new york times began the war as one of bushes main cheerleaders with the skanky trollop judith miller forcefeeding dick cheneys lies to an eager board who were more than happy to splash their front pages with sheer propaganda. Back when there was possibility of the war being stopped before it began, the New York Times did all it could to further the call to arms, pushing false rumours and outright lies from the adminsitration and its lackeys like achmed chalabi, to the fore, now it claims a mea culpa of sorts, while ignoring its own culpability. The right of american will simply point out that the NYT is a liberal paper and so what do you expect, the truth is the paper is in the real world a conservative bastion, more than willing, even to this day, to print anonymous government scources in copious amounts of drivel.
Just look back over the papers website and trawl through the utter crap they are willing to shill over Iran and its connection to the ongoing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan with barely a hint of the sceptisism that should accompany such a prestigous house of "journalism".
So how much of the $10 billion dollars a month that the bushies are spending on war in Iraq should the NYT cover out of its own expenses.
But then we get to Australia where the arguments are not even as mature as the facile ones we see in the simplified version of the US, Bushies Amerika. The usual tell tale signs of the lockstep in terminolgy has filtered through to the coalition of the blinds pronouncements on Iraq, gone are the insurgents, its now exlusively about Al Queda, depsite the US military admiting that at best 3-5% of attacks being carried out by those who claim affliation (at worst according to colin powell 10%). Once more we are left with naught but spin as a substitute for any real policy, the latest polls in Iraq tell us that only 22% of Iraqis want us there, down from the hardly flattering 32% last year, so why are we there.
Mention oil and you wll get slapped, mention WMD and you will get a puzzled look from our polis and the phrase "move along", mention the dsyfunctional Iraqi government and you will get back the words democracy as if it means something in the middle of a hellish war zone. Mention AL queda and you will see the lights go on in the PM's face, just dont mention that there was no AL queda in Iraq before his disatrous invasion.
the word on the Iraqi streets
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm
US racism and justice at its worst
posted by the bluhamster at 10:15 AM
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