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"maff" |
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23 Jun 2005 03:47:46 AM |
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OT: Mission Accomplished |
Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1512334,00.html
The American public is increasingly disillusioned by the Iraq war, and
Bush's triumphalism only makes things worse
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday June 23, 2005
The Guardian
On June 21, network news reported that the Pentagon had claimed that 47
enemy operatives had been killed in Operation Spear in western Iraq.
Last month, the Pentagon declared 125 had been killed in Operation
Matador, near the Syrian border. "We don't do body counts on other
people," Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence, stated in November
2003.
On January 29 this year, the day before the Iraqi election, President
Bush announced that it was the "turning point". On May 2 2003, he stood
on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln behind a banner saying "Mission
Accomplished" and the next day proclaimed that the "mission is
completed". On June 2 this year, he declared: "Our mission is clear
there, as well, and that is to train the Iraqis so they can do the
fighting."
Sidney Blumenthal
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/c919a00ba4780e83
Mission Accomplished
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Mission Accomplished |
23 Jun 2005 10:15:11 AM |
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maff wrote:
Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1512334,00.html
The American public is increasingly disillusioned by the Iraq war, and
Bush's triumphalism only makes things worse
Also from the item:
Iran is the long-term winner. "Iran intends to pull the Shia
state of Iraq into its orbit. You can be sure that Iranian
revolutionary guards are honeycombed throughout Iraq's
intelligence to make sure things don't get out of hand."
About the "euphoria" after the election, especially echoed
by the press corps, [Pat] Lang (former Vietnam war
intelligence officer) simply says: "Laughable, comical,
pathetic."
"The light at the end of the tunnel you see
Is not prosperity, but a big express train rumbling...."
- Alexei Sayle, "Panic", 1983
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"You won't find any opposition to the idea of evolution among
sophisticated, educated theologians. It comes from an
exceedingly retarded, primitive version of religion, which
unfortunately is at present undergoing an epidemic in the
United States."
- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Mission Accomplished |
23 Jun 2005 12:39:36 PM |
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wrote in
news:1119539711.543338.322850@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
maff wrote:
Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1512334,00.html
The American public is increasingly disillusioned by the Iraq war,
and Bush's triumphalism only makes things worse
Also from the item:
Iran is the long-term winner. "Iran intends to pull the Shia
state of Iraq into its orbit. You can be sure that Iranian
revolutionary guards are honeycombed throughout Iraq's
intelligence to make sure things don't get out of hand."
About the "euphoria" after the election, especially echoed
by the press corps, [Pat] Lang (former Vietnam war
intelligence officer) simply says: "Laughable, comical,
pathetic."
Iran may find itself on the receiving end of democratic reforms from
Iraq instead. The mullahs have made a serious tactical mistake in their
handling of the recent election, stirring up their internal democratic
reformists and exposing themselves to external criticism.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove
the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible."
[H.L. Mencken, "Prejudices"]
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