Aaron Glantz "How America Lost Iraq" on C-Span Now...

[leftchick]

I believe he is a reporter for Pacifica Radio as well.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Beat me to it!

Watching!

;-)

[mopaul]

2. watching

how politically incorrect, inferring we are losing the glorious battle. interesting.

[leftchick]

3. How refreshing to hear THE TRUTH about Iraq

calling the Iraqi Army a Proxy Army for the US. That is why it will never work.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Aaron Glantz wrote this....

Remember?

On July 4th - Independence for Iraq

As the United States celebrated its independence this weekend, Iraq celebrated another week under foreign occupation. So I thought it useful to look at Thomas Jefferson's case against England's King George III and compare it with the Iraqi case against our own President George II.

Below are some of the complaints levelled against King George III on England on July 4, 1776.


"For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us"
The United States military has quartered 138,000 troops in Iraq for more than two years and refuses to set a time line for withdrawl.


"For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States."
A year ago, the British medical journal, the Lancet, reported 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the American occupation. But American soldiers who kill Iraqis are exempt from trial in Iraqi courts. Under U.S. military policy the families of Iraqi civilians killed "accidentally" by the U.S. military are entitled to $2,500 in compensation, but such compensation is rarely doled out.


http://www.aaronglantz.com/

[leftchick]

7. Thank you for the link

I had not heard Aaron before. He is great!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. He was on WJ before...

in July... it dropped like a stone. :shrug:

book info below...

Fundie on now, 'they aren't insurgents, they're terrorists" jeez...


HEY LADY! HE WAS THERE! WERE YOU?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. the calls should be interesting

they seem to have changed the format for call-ins.

no longer "support bush or dems" but "working or not working."

[leftchick]

6. Talking about US tactics and how they turn

Iraqis into resistance fighters through the torture and incarceration. Mentions the WaPo piece on the suffocated detainee.

Now taking calls, can't wait to hear him rip the freeps.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. How America Lost Iraq - The book

A reporter in Iraq shows how the U.S. squandered its early victories and goodwill among the Iraqi people, and allowed the newly freed society to slip into violence and chaos.

As a reporter for the staunchly antiwar Pacifica Radio, twenty-seven-year-old Aaron Glantz had spent much of early 2003 warning of catastrophe if the U.S. invaded Iraq. But, as he watched the statue of Saddam topple, he wondered whether he had been mistaken: In interviews with regular Iraqis, he found wide support for the Americans.

Then, public opinion changed.

In early 2004, the U.S. military initiated a completely unprovoked bombing campaign against the population of Fallujah, increasing support for an armed resistance. The attack confounded many anti-Saddam Iraqis, and plunged the nation into chaos. In How America Lost Iraq, Glantz tells his story of working on the front lines, while revealing truths that most media outlets have missed or failed to report. For instance, 50 percent of the U.S.-trained Iraqi army has either mutinied or refused to fight; the Iraqi public has sustained appalling civilian casualties; corporate contractors including Halliburton and Bechtel have failed to supply Iraqis with the basic necessities of daily life, such as clean water and electricity; and a respected poll shows that 82 percent of Iraqis want the U.S. to leave.

Here is the brutally honest account of a reporter who discovered how popular the U.S. presence was in Iraq-and who then watched this popularity disappear as the Bush administration mishandled the war, leaving us with the intractable conflict we face today.


http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1585424269,00.html

[leftchick]

10. freeper woman freak thinks

all of the insurgents are coming from Iran and Syria. This is how they think! They believe the government in Iraq is legit and the Iraqis WANT us there and that Aaron is not reporting the "good News"!

:crazy:

[leftchick]

11. freeper from Manhatten

ROFL! The WMD were found in 1998! He is just repeating all of the rush/faux BS LIES...

:rofl:

Let it rip Aaron....

[leftchick]

12. oooo! A giant Caravan went into Syria before the invasion!!!!

good God what they won't believe for their chimperor!

[mandyky]

13. This guy was excellent!

His book sounds like a must read, if one wants to understand what is going on in Iraq, especially in the opinion of Iraqis. Hopefully Air America Radio will have him on.

[Bozita]

14. WOW! ... Check the book reviews at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585424269/qid=1123079171/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-0852526-8941463?v=glance&s=books