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Knee Deep in the Big Muddy
All the drinking has sapped our creativity here at littleboxes. We need a few days of sobriety in order to get things straightened out. Unfortunately, sobriety appears nowhere in our future plans. We've settled on pilfering great posts from other blogs.
Once again, Robert Dreyfuss has a mangificent post! Read on fellow travelers!
Robert Fisk, the brilliant reporter for The Independent , is clearly at the end of his tether, chronicling the lies from Baghdad and getting exasperated:
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Watching any Western television station in Baghdad these days is like tuning in to Planet Mars. Doesn’t Blair realize that Iraq is about to implode? Doesn’t Bush realize this? The American-appointed ‘government’ controls only parts of Baghdad—and even there its ministers and civil servants are car-bombed and assassinated. Baquba, Samara, Kut, Mahmoudiya, Hilla, Fallujah, Ramadi, all are outside government authority. Iyad Allawi, the ‘prime minister,’ is little more than mayor of Baghdad. ‘Some journalists,’ Blair announces, ‘almost want there to be a disaster in Iraq.’ He doesn’t get it. The disaster exists now.
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The American press has basically stopped covering Iraq. The utter collapse of the 1,000-person national convention, so secretive that its attendees, date and location couldn’t be mentioned, is now postponed indefinitely—a major, headline-style event that managed to get only passing coverage in the United States. Iraq is adrift. U.S. forces are helplessly pounding Fallujah, killing scores and accomplishing zero. The resistance, from secular nationalists to wild-eyed Islamic fanatics, is stronger than ever. The hooded fanatics and Islamic suicide bombers are kidnapping people, blowing up police stations and Christian churches at will. The secular militants and Baathists are continuing to kill U.S. soldiers and Marines at a steady pace.
I know what we have to do in Iraq,” Kerry lied to the DNC. He doesn’t have a clue. What he thinks he knows is how to kowtow to the so-called undecideds and swing voters and convince them that he has a plan. But he doesn’t, and I don’t think these confused, lost voters are going to buy it either. Kerry’s refusal to attack Bush over the war in Iraq is an unconscionable, unforgivable blunder.
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Once again, Robert Dreyfuss has a mangificent post! Read on fellow travelers!
Robert Fisk, the brilliant reporter for The Independent , is clearly at the end of his tether, chronicling the lies from Baghdad and getting exasperated:
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Watching any Western television station in Baghdad these days is like tuning in to Planet Mars. Doesn’t Blair realize that Iraq is about to implode? Doesn’t Bush realize this? The American-appointed ‘government’ controls only parts of Baghdad—and even there its ministers and civil servants are car-bombed and assassinated. Baquba, Samara, Kut, Mahmoudiya, Hilla, Fallujah, Ramadi, all are outside government authority. Iyad Allawi, the ‘prime minister,’ is little more than mayor of Baghdad. ‘Some journalists,’ Blair announces, ‘almost want there to be a disaster in Iraq.’ He doesn’t get it. The disaster exists now.
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The American press has basically stopped covering Iraq. The utter collapse of the 1,000-person national convention, so secretive that its attendees, date and location couldn’t be mentioned, is now postponed indefinitely—a major, headline-style event that managed to get only passing coverage in the United States. Iraq is adrift. U.S. forces are helplessly pounding Fallujah, killing scores and accomplishing zero. The resistance, from secular nationalists to wild-eyed Islamic fanatics, is stronger than ever. The hooded fanatics and Islamic suicide bombers are kidnapping people, blowing up police stations and Christian churches at will. The secular militants and Baathists are continuing to kill U.S. soldiers and Marines at a steady pace.
I know what we have to do in Iraq,” Kerry lied to the DNC. He doesn’t have a clue. What he thinks he knows is how to kowtow to the so-called undecideds and swing voters and convince them that he has a plan. But he doesn’t, and I don’t think these confused, lost voters are going to buy it either. Kerry’s refusal to attack Bush over the war in Iraq is an unconscionable, unforgivable blunder.
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posted by littleboxes at 10:03 PM
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brutal.
--duus
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