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The Real Iraq (What the MSM is NOT telling you)
Commentary ^ | June 2006 | Amir Taheri

Posted on 06/07/2006 5:42:47 AM PDT by PurpleMan

Within hours of arriving here... one is confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable. It is created in several overlapping ways: through television footage showing the charred remains of vehicles used in suicide attacks, surrounded by wailing women in black and grim-looking men carrying coffins; by armchair strategists and political gurus predicting further doom or pontificating about how the war should have been fought in the first place; by authors of instant-history books making their rounds to dissect the various “fundamental mistakes” committed by the Bush administration; and by reporters, cocooned in hotels in Baghdad, explaining the “carnage” and “chaos” in the streets as signs of the country’s “impending” or “undeclared” civil war. ... —and it is no wonder the American public registers disillusion with Iraq and everyone who embroiled the U.S. in its troubles.

(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...


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Great article. Lengthy, but worth the read. Refered to in yesterday's Mona Charin article.
1 posted on 06/07/2006 5:42:49 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan

bump for later.


2 posted on 06/07/2006 5:53:03 AM PDT by walford (http://the-big-pic.org)
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To: PurpleMan

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634786/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634944/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639369/posts


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640537/posts


3 posted on 06/07/2006 5:55:30 AM PDT by croak
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To: croak

Oops


4 posted on 06/07/2006 5:57:59 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan; Chieftain

Wow. Just great and soooo helpful


5 posted on 06/07/2006 5:58:14 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Moderate Mooslims.....what's that?)
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To: croak; PurpleMan
Yes, but it needs to be said again and again.

It's one of the few truth pieces about Iraq that is out there.

Most of what you hear about Iraq from the media is fiction.

6 posted on 06/07/2006 5:58:22 AM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: PurpleMan

First time seeing for me


7 posted on 06/07/2006 6:13:54 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: PurpleMan
The Real Iraq

I had the opportunity to listen to Amir Taheri respond to callers the morning he was on CSPAN's Washington Journal. It was one of the most refreshing productive discourses I've heard regarding Iraq.

I tried to download this from the CSPAN Washington Journal archives without success. However, your time will be well spent if you are able to hear Amir Taheri's May 31, 2006 Washington Journal visit.

8 posted on 06/07/2006 6:47:50 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: PurpleMan


This is not true. CNN says otherwise (and they never lie).


9 posted on 06/07/2006 6:54:16 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: bmwcyle

Ping.


10 posted on 06/07/2006 7:16:08 AM PDT by Apple Blossom (...around here, city hall is something of a between meals snack.)
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To: PurpleMan

bttt


11 posted on 06/07/2006 7:18:14 AM PDT by petercooper (Cemeteries & the ignorant - comprising 2 of the largest Democrat voting blocs for the past 75 years.)
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To: Allegra

You said -- "It's one of the few truth pieces about Iraq that is out there."

I looked at the C-Span web site, where they had a video of the author, Amir Taheri.

Here is a quote from another Free Republic thread on this subject, which directed me over to C-Span:

He was on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" program this morning and made mincemeat of an anti-US pro-terrorist caller who kept insisting that "the Iraqis were much better off under Saddam"

It's still on C-Span, as of today. You might take a look at it, if you haven't seen it.

Regards,
Star Traveler


12 posted on 06/07/2006 9:05:45 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler
It's still on C-Span, as of today. You might take a look at it, if you haven't seen it.

C-Span's one of those things we can't get in Iraq.

I'd liked to have seen that, though. The media is lying through their teeth about what's happening here and I want to see them busted for it.

Thanks for the "heads-up." I might ask someone back home to tape it for me.

13 posted on 06/07/2006 10:11:37 AM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: Allegra

You said -- "C-Span's one of those things we can't get in Iraq."

I probably didn't make it clear, but I'm talking about their web site. I didn't see it on Cable TV, but rather, on their web site. Try that...

Regards,
Star Traveler


14 posted on 06/07/2006 10:20:03 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: PurpleMan

BTTT.


15 posted on 06/07/2006 11:16:07 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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