The Story Gets Worse (NYT Opinion Alert)

The New Yawk Times ^ | 12/13/2003 | NYT team of crack reporters

[What Is Ain't]

Instead of driving away France, Germany, Russia and Canada with financial sanctions, the president should be creating the room for compromise that will lead to those countries' sending money and troops to Iraq. That would help to create a secure enough environment for the United Nations to come in and take over the nation-building responsibilities, giving the occupation an international face.

The paper of retards has spoken.

[88keys]

How progress in Baghdad can be achieved by a detour through Paris or Bonn they don't detail, but they insist such a path is the only avenue to success.

Well said, and so right...I continue to be appalled at the "elegantly crafted screeds" these people put out, most particularly since the "language" may be impressive enough to fool the less-than-perceptive reader into believing the "message".

[Iris7]

The Army has to run intelligence gathering operations in Iraq. To say that they shouldn't is to say that they should be defeated, that we should be defeated.

How else are you going to run intelligence operations than have Iraqis do almost all of the field work? If not the Iraqis, who should do it? Eskimos? American Liberals? Oprah Winfrey?

[Tamzee]

What's black and white and Red all over?

The New York Times...

[OESY]

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein

Einstein is only half right, but the Old Gray Lady at the Crooked "T" almost never gets it right.

[Spok]

When I was in college in the 70's, I had a professor at the U of Utah who was critical of the "tv generation"-people raised on the notion that every problem, regardless of magnitude, could be solved in an hour. He cautioned us against falling into the trap of expecting instant results. I've since heard this articulated as the "fast food generation". The NYT is playing on this to gin up opposition to GWB and promote its political agenda. Liberal thought thrives on fallacious thinking and a distorted reality.

[Valin]

Some people are incapable of democratic form of govt....without the internal policeman...

Riiiight!
http://www.healingiraq.com/
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
A great day for Iraq
The rallies today proved to be a major success. I didn't expect anything even close to this. It was probably the largest demonstration in Baghdad for months. It wasn't just against terrorism. It was against Arab media, against the interference of neighbouring countries, against dictatorships, against Wahhabism, against oppression, and of course against the Ba'ath and Saddam.

We started at Al-Fatih square in front of the Iraqi national theatre at 10 am. IP were all over the place. At 12 pm people started marching towards Fardus square through Karradah. All political parties represented in the GC participated. But the other parties, organizations, unions, tribal leaders, clerics, school children, college students, and typical everyday Iraqis made up most of the crowd. Al-Jazeera estimated the size of the crowd as over ten thousand people.

You can find a list of some of the parties that we noticed there at Omar's blog. At one point it struck me that our many differences as an Iraqi people meant nothing. Here we were all together shouting in different languages the same slogans "NO NO to terrorism, YES YES for peace".

I spent most of the time taking pictures. heh, I really enjoyed playing the role of a journalist. Everyone was tugging at my sleeves asking me to take their photos mistaking me for a foreign reporter. Some people recognized a reporter from Al-Arabiyah station and they started taunting him. One old man shouted to him "For once, speak the truth".

What was interesting, a group of Al-Sadr supporters showed up and started
shouting "NO NO to occupiers" obviously in an attempt to hijack the demonstration. They drowned in the rest of the crowd.

Tawfiq Al-Yassiri of the Anti-terrorism Popular Committee (which organized the demos) lead the crowd. GC member Samir Al-Sumaydai and deputy minister of interior Ahmad Kathim Ibrahim also attended along with several ministers.

The demonstrators gathered in Fardus square where party representatives gave speeches. We left at 3 pm, had a Kabab lunch at a nearby restaurant and went home. We're at the Internet cafe right now and I've been sitting for 3 hours trying to upload the pictures. I didn't imagine it would be such a time consuming thing job. AARGGHH. If it takes too long I'll try to upload half of them today and I'll leave the rest for tomorrow. But they're really good and I'm determined to put them all. I think I would make a great photographer, don't you think? Say yes.

note: Click on link scroll down

[McGavin999]

ROTFLMCO! I can't believe these guys are so eager to expose their ignorance. They've got the entire country laughing at them and they're too dumb to know it.

[diotima]

I read the NYT pretty regularly, but this seemed an especially shrill piece. Can't you hear a high-pitched voice of hysteria in these words?

[Lx]

It was a misprint by the slimes. It should have said NYT team of crack smoking reporters.

[McGavin999]

Ummmm, I'm not sure what it is. I've been going back and forth between hysteria, panic or utter rage.

[Prodigal Son]

What a difference a day makes.

[dighton]

Great timing, guys.

[hellinahandcart]

Instead of driving away France, Germany, Russia and Canada with financial sanctions, the president should be creating the room for compromise that will lead to those countries' sending money and troops to Iraq. That would help to create a secure enough environment for the United Nations to come in and take over the nation-building responsibilities, giving the occupation an international face.

I'm going to pass on any gratuitous mention of their HORRIBLE TIMING. The Sunday NY Times is put to bed on Saturday night.

But jeez louise, talk about tone deaf! Rush Limbaugh has better ears than these guys.

[hellinahandcart]

It's always fun to read this sort of "if I could turn back time I'd kill mnyself before submitting this" article. :D

[aculeus]

This is truly a day of grief for so many.

[CDHart]

I wonder if they regret this piece, now that Saddam is in custody?

Carolyn

[hellinahandcart]

LOL. It has to suck to be them.

[hellinahandcart]

Looks like a good place for this: