Read Juan Cole's "Informed Comment" for Iraqi POV. It's eyeopening.

[Inland]

http://www.juancole.com/

Juan Cole has taken to excerpting various opinion from Iraqi sources, some media, some of the leaders' statements that never make it to the US press. He doesn't remark on whether they are TRUE or not, but rather, I think, is trying to show the depth of the sectarian divide and the the depth of the belief that the US is not being an honest broker, and is covering up the extent of the problem and its own goals for Iraq. It's an eyeopener.

[NJCher]

1. thanks, Inland

We get all too little perspective with our U.S. media.




Cher

[ninkasi]

2. What a mess

Bush and the neocons have really done it, haven't they? They decided to use Iraq as a shining example of peace and democracy, with adoring people throwing rose petals and chocolates to our liberating army. After that, the rest of the Middle East was just going to magically turn their backs on thousands of years of complex feuds, complaints, and cross complaints, and erect statues of their mighty savior, Bush.

It turns out that none of them knew what they were doing. The ones who did try to discourage Bush from this tragedy were fired, or discredited. They knew what they wanted, and just stuck their fingers in their ears and accused us of being unpatriotic, and accused the French of being cowards,

In Bush, the neocons found the perfect figurehead, the son of a wealthy conservative, who had been a failure at everything he tried, but who had always been bailed out by his father's rich pals. They convinced this incompetent, narcissist that he could liberate and change the whole Middle East by invading Iraq. Sadly, they didn't do their homework, didn't understand the many, many currents and cross currents of countries that had been civilized for thousands of years.

Now, whatever happens, whatever wars, and deaths and maiming, shattered cities, and rubble where homes once stood, will ultimately be blamed on the moron who thought he was a great man, just because he didn't bother to look up and see who was holding his puppet's strings. He and the other neocons will, indeed, go down in history, but they will be in the same category as others, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.