Excellent article about strange and weird coincidences in the Iraq war...

[AmyStrange]

FROM a Seattle local weekly called "The Stranger":


52-WEEK PICK UP

At the One-Year Mark, with No WMD, No al Qaeda Connection, and No Support, Bush’s House of Cards Topples in Iraq


FROM: http://www.thestranger.com/2004-04-15/feature.html
President Bush accomplished the seemingly impossible this month. He united Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The relentless Muslim rivals are not joined, as the U.S. had hoped, in some sort of federalist congress, though, but in violent uprisings--from Sunni strongholds in Falluja and Ramadi to Shiite battlegrounds in Najaf and Kut--against the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Bush's cocky obliviousness to the anti-U.S. surge is maddening, but it's hardly surprising. The statements of Bush and his entire administration have been out of step with reality since day one.

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To help Stranger readers keep tabs on the accuracy of Bush's version of events, we present this look back on a year's worth of the administration's spin. It paints a picture of a president drifting further and further away from reality. --Josh Feit


"We will not impose any form of government on Iraq. We will help Iraq to build a government of, by, and for the Iraqi people. "

--President Bush, April 16, 2003


On April 15, Shiites--Iraq's majority at 60 percent of the population--boycott U.S.-sponsored meetings of Iraqi religious and political leaders. Close by, in Nasiriya, thousands of Shiites protest the meetings, chanting, "No, no United States."

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"We will be here as long as it takes." --Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, April 21, 2003


On April 21, retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Jay Garner arrives in Baghdad as the civil administrator responsible for the reconstruction of Iraq. On the same day, 2,000 Shiites stage an anti-U.S. demonstration. Garner is replaced on May 12.

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." --President Bush (aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln), May 1, 2003


On the same day, U.S. soldiers stationed at a school in Falluja are injured in a grenade attack.

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"Spain has been a strong partner in the war against terror and has stood with a coalition to liberate the people of Iraq. I want to thank for Spain's diplomatic support before the conflict and for the use of Spanish air space and bases." --President Bush at a White House reception for Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, May 6, 2003

Earlier in the week, Spain's daily, El Mundo, runs a cartoon in which Bush says to a smiling Aznar: "And if you support me again when we attack Syria, we will also include the Socialist Party on the list of terrorist groups?" Aznar is ousted by the Socialist opposition less than a year later on March 14, when the Socialists call for pulling Spanish troops out of Iraq.

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"We are not here as a colonial power. We are here to turn over power to the Iraqi people as quickly as possible." --L. Paul Bremer III, U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, May 12, 2003

A pending U.S. resolution to the UN Security Council, giving the "provisional authorities" full power over Iraq and exclusive rights to oil revenues, riles former Iraqi allies. "President Bush said he wanted to liberate Iraq, not occupy Iraq, and that was the basis for our supporting military action," one Iraqi who took part in leadership consultations told the New York Times on May 12. "This puts all the political leadership in a very difficult situation and gives fuel to all those extremists who said the U.S. had a secret agenda to occupy Iraq and exploit its oil resources."

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http://www.thestranger.com/2004-04-15/feature.html



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