Robert Fisk - Things are Getting Much Worst

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Robert Fisk

April 01, 2004 "The Independent" -- What has happened to the Coalition Provisional Authority, also known as the occupying power?

Things are getting worse, much worse in Iraq. Yesterday's horrors proved that. Yet just a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, America's deputy director of military operations, assured us that there was only an "uptick" in violence in Iraq.

Things are Getting Much Worst

[Nlighten1]

1. Mission Accomplished...

It is almost becoming cliche but it had to be said.

[Barkley]

10. Quagmire Accomplished! - n/t

[qanda]

2. Shouldn't it be "much worse"?

Just askin'...

[saigon68]

4. Not a good day for this person

http://www.iraqwar.ru/show_image.php?id=1131&thumb=1

[MSgt213]

3. That was an excellent article thanks.

[mobuto]

5. This means things are getting better

Whatever Robert Fisk says, the opposite is true.

This article is a welcome sign for the Bush Administration, after two solid weeks of bad news.

[WillyT]

8. Huh ????????

:shrug::wtf::shrug:

[mhr]

11. Seems You Have A Burr In Your Saddle For Mr. Fisk

Care to give a reason why instead of carpet bombing the thread?

[mobuto]

12. Let me count the ways

I still get a chuckle when I remember Mr. Fisk's reportage that the US Army was nowhere near Baghdad Airport, back in April of last year. It was all lies, lies!

Mr. Fisk has an unfortunate habit of never letting the facts get in the way of the argument he's trying to make. This is a weakness common to British "journalism," but never in its history has it found so exemplary a practioner a Robert Fisk. The man's a walking joke.

[saigon68]

6. Five O'Clock Follies Back in vogue

At Wednesday's Five o'Clock Follies, two armed American soldiers stood guard at both doors - watching us, not the approach to the doors - while a backdrop carried a vast shield with the words "Equality, Security, Liberty, Justice". Did I detect, among my colleagues, a quickening of our step as we headed back through the thousands of tons of concrete to the smog and fear of the streets outside? Baghdad may be dangerous. But at least it's on Planet Earth.

From Fisk's article.

I remember the 5 O'clock follies A disgusting MACV performance repeated once daily.

[JoFerret]

7. That last line

"... at least it's on planet earth" - telling.

[saigon68]

9. Its not Fallujah, but I guess the good marine general

Is going in there with his 18 and 19 year old killa's (see Full Metal Jacket) and smoke out some Rag Heads real soon.

[Moderator]

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