Fallujah remains under terrorist control; insurgents run rampant even
beyond the Sunni triangle; the number of US soldiers killed spirals
towards 1,000; the Iraqi army, disastrously disbanded by the CPA, is
being reassembled and trained.
The American campaign is consumed with false charges made by a
Republican front group about the medals that John Kerry earned in a
war more than 30 years ago.
The arrogant and incompetent blunders of the Bush administration in
Iraq are not debated.
From The Guardian, 8/26/04:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1290870,00.html
Iraq is now more dangerous to the US than when they went to war
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday August 26, 2004
The Guardian
There was no "imminent threat" to the United States from Iraq.
Then there was no strategy for building a new Iraq.
"Hubris and ideology" ruled.
Now, "Iraq is more dangerous to the US potentially than it was at the
moment we went to war".
These are the reluctant judgments of one of the key US officials who
participated in the highest levels of decision-making of the Coalition
Provisional Authority (CPA).
Both interviewed by me and in a forthcoming article in Foreign Affairs
journal, Larry Diamond offers from the heart of the Green Zone an
unvarnished first-hand account of the unfolding strategic catastrophe.
Diamond, a scholar at the Hoover Institution, a conservative thinktank
located on the Stanford University campus, was personally recruited to
serve as a senior adviser to the CPA by national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice, once provost of Stanford.
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As of 8/25 almost 970 American troops have lost their lives in Iraq.
Harry
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