Not a surprise to those who have been paying attention, but so little
of this gets through in the US; here's Patrick Cockburn in The
Independent today on the President's report:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2765574.ece
Among other things he says:
The picture it hopes to give - and this has been uncritically reported
by the US media - is of a mixture of progress and frustration in Iraq.
&
The real and appalling situation on the ground in Iraq has been all too
evident this week. Thirty bodies, the harvest of the death squads, were
found in the streets of Baghdad on Wednesday. The figure for Tuesday
was 26 and, in addition, 20 rockets and mortar bombs were fired into
the Green Zone killing three people. This was significant because they
were fired by the Mehdi Army, who had been upset by criticism made on
them by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki. By way of gentle
reproof they shelled his offices in the Green Zone.
Gotta love that final sentence....
Doug
On 12-Jul-07, at 10:18 AM, joe green wrote:
> Same thing as Vietnam. Have to go through it all twice. Why is this
> a revelation -- a truth always forgotten and a "surprise?"
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