Please somebody give McClatchey an outlet just a tenth of the size of the Post and NYT combined. They would put both these shill factories out of business.
Posted by Daryl at April 26, 2007 09:26 AMLet's not count deaths by any means. Declare victory. Then get out.
Posted by JohnT at April 26, 2007 09:47 AMFor what possible freakin'reason can they jutify not including bombing victims?
Thes assholes just keep reinventin' new reality for us to ponder over and while we do that they just go and invent some more...
freaks
sob's
rot in hell george bush
IMPEACH Time to clean house.
Posted by Christopher at April 26, 2007 11:45 AMnow the Senate and House have passed a bill giving Bush all the money he wants to continue his Occupation and Extermination of Iraq, and they've included non-binding stop-the-war language. What if Bush just signs it, and says thanks for the money but no thanks on the timetable. Or issues a signing statement rejecting the timetable,etc. Are the Dems following Bush into the Briar Patch?
Posted by T2 at April 26, 2007 12:12 PMSo, Maliki calls off his government thugs to cool it on the daily back alleys roundups and executions and the morgue to quit reporting the number of bodies that show up, and somehow this is a US military success?
Can only those Americans will some solid knowledge of US actions in Vietnam smell the disinformation spewing from our government and almost of all of the MSM today -- and for the past six years?
Posted by Marie at April 26, 2007 12:43 PMAt one time, the Bushites were eager to compare occupied Iraq to postwar Germany and Japan. Okay, it has been 4 years scince the "mission accomplished" moment. Using that WWII timeline we should be at about 1949. In 1949, West Germany already had a functioning government and had survived the Berlin blockade with western help. Japan was stable enough to provide the military platform needed the next year when the Korean war started. Can anyone honestly say that Iraq in 2007 is comparable to Germany or Japan in 1949?
You don't hear such compairisons anymore and you won't, because there was no insurgency in either country in 1949. The civilians had a positive view of the American troops that they encountered.
Because of this, none of the American troops had to deal with the security problems that are too apparent today. Unlike Germany or Japan, there's just too many people in Iraq that want us gone. For too long and unlike the post WWII occupations, Iraq has been and continues to be an opportunity for Halliburton and its ilk to make a profet on Iraqi misery. The Iraqis know this. Even it it is done properly, the "surge" can not change this. You win hearts and minds at the beginning of an occupation. Four years later is too late.