Friday, November 17, 2006
Freedom From Us
U.S. Tanks Will Roll out of Iraq on a Road Paved with Excuses
By Robert Fisk
"Great news from America!" the cashier at my local Beirut bookshop shouted at me the other morning, raising her thumbs in the air. "Things will be better after these elections?" Alas, I said. Alas, no. Things are going to get worse in the Middle East even if, in two years' time, the U.S. is blessed with a Democrat (and democratic) president.
For the disastrous philosophers behind the bloodbath in Iraq are now washing their hands of the whole mess and crying "Not Us!" with the same enthusiasm as the Lebanese lady in my book shop, while the "experts" on the mainstream U.S. East Coast press are preparing the ground for our Iraqi retreat -- by blaming it all on those greedy, blood-lusting, anarchic, depraved, uncompromising Iraqis.
Read on...
For the disastrous philosophers behind the bloodbath in Iraq are now washing their hands of the whole mess and crying "Not Us!" with the same enthusiasm as the Lebanese lady in my book shop, while the "experts" on the mainstream U.S. East Coast press are preparing the ground for our Iraqi retreat -- by blaming it all on those greedy, blood-lusting, anarchic, depraved, uncompromising Iraqis.
Read on...
# posted by Garth @ 11/17/2006 12:02:00 AM
ok, now I also belong to the Savage section as well? Can someone from the Forums bring two more bloggers from Iran and N. Korea so that there is an official "axis of evil" over here?
:)
MFL
I wait and i believe but i see no major changes just new names im sapost to remember.I guess when hope was let out someone had to catch it and put it back in the box.To bad faded dreams can't be let out.
