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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 05:46 AM
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Editorial: Whither Iraq?/Its future doesn't look good
http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5093906.html


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Washington Post reporter Jackie Spinner crafted an elegantly horrific lead sentence for her Tuesday story from Iraq: In Fallujah, she wrote, "Even the dogs have started to die, their corpses strewn among twisted metal and shattered concrete in a city that looks like it forgot to breathe."

A phrase from Vietnam comes to mind: We have destroyed the city in order to save it. We truly had no choice. But to what end? To force insurgents out of Fallujah for a month or two at most, as American forces did in an October operation in Samarra? To stimulate insurgent offensives in Mosul and elsewhere in an endless Whack-A-Mole exercise? To further poison the hearts and minds of Sunni Fallujah against the American occupation and against participation in the nascent political process the United States seeks to kindle in Iraq?

In Washington, Fallujah is painted as a success of the corner-turning kind. The United States has now turned so many corners in Iraq it is back where it started. The week-long Fallujah operation alone cost the United States as many soldiers killed as in the first five weeks of this entire war.

In any insurgency, there comes a tipping point beyond which recovery is almost impossible. The Iraq insurgency reached that point months ago. The insurgents now have the critical mass, the mobility and the communications to stage large raids almost anywhere they desire. And every time they do, the U.S. response puts in greater jeopardy the essential effort to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi population.

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eleonora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 05:49 AM
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1. why of why do we keep on saying the same shit over and over again
and NOBODY WILL LISTEN. Then shit happens and people are finding excuses and reasons why shit goes bad. WTF is wrong with this nation?
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 05:52 AM
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2. dumbed down....
most of my relatives think are freepers/bushbots and they are not uneducated. I believe they let their churches and TVs think for them.
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 07:25 AM
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4. It's going to get worse. Believe it or not we have reach our lowest level
of stupidity yet. Just like drunks or crack addicts we will have to hit the bottom before we can turn it around.
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 05:55 AM
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3. What a load of dung
"We truly had no choice"??

"In greater jeopardy...win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi population"?

We are slaughtering their hearts and minds.
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