> Patrick Cockburn on reporting the real news in Iraq:
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article570217.ece
>
> A frustrating aspect of writing about Iraq since the invasion is that
> the worse the situation becomes, the easier it is for Tony Blair or
> George Bush to pretend it is improving. That is because as Baghdad and
> Iraq, aside from the three Kurdish provinces, become the stalking
> ground for death squads and assassins, it is impossible to report the
> collapse of security without being killed doing so.
>
> What can anyone do to offer another view (beyond this, at least)?
This does not answer your question, Doug, but the dilemma reminds me of
WCW's line about poetry as news and how 'men' die daily for lack of it.
Well, it seems also quite true that many more will die - Iraqis and alien
soldiers - for the lack of what is obviously a disastrous stupid war for all
except the industries associate with 'producing' the war - Cheney and his
Haliburton and other industrial suppliers. The irony of the FBI invading a
Congressional office to further nail a relatively petty bribe, while they
cannot - on the other hand - go after Cheney & Company for lying and
inventing the war in Iraq that will rob the public treasury of One Trillion
dollars over the next X years!
I wish I could say that global warming will blister their butts, but we will
be under the same heat!
In any case the implosion in Iraq will inevitably be the real, known news -
this military repression of news notwithstanding.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Currently home of the Tenderly series,
A serial work in progress.
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