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Iraq hasn't even begun (Ash alert!)
LA Times ^ | July 19, 2007 | Timothy Garton Ash

Posted on 07/23/2007 4:15:43 PM PDT by amchugh

IRAQ IS OVER. Iraq has not yet begun. These are two conclusions from the American debate about Iraq.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gasbag; iraqwar; opinion; wot
I don't like most of this piece, but he nails it here:
Even if there are no scenes of helicopters evacuating Americans from the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, there will surely be some totemic photographic image of national humiliation as the U.S. struggles to extract its troops.

No, not that Timmy! South Park Timmy!

previously.

1 posted on 07/23/2007 4:15:47 PM PDT by amchugh
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there will surely be some totemic photographic image of national humiliation as the U.S. struggles to extract its troops.

Which would be the precise result of the type of drawdown the democrats are trying to ram through.
Pull troops out until the few left are under siege...


2 posted on 07/23/2007 4:19:50 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: amchugh

Ash Alert — That takes me back. At first I didn’t get it, but then I realized that the Author’s name was Ash. Maybe they’re the same?


3 posted on 07/23/2007 4:30:15 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq -- via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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Ha! That really does take us back a day or two. Wonder whatever happened to ole Ash?


4 posted on 07/23/2007 5:16:04 PM PDT by WVNan
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>>>Wonder whatever happened to ole Ash?<<<

http://www.freerepublic.com/~ash/in-forum


5 posted on 07/23/2007 5:46:45 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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Oh FCOL, I know he was banned. He was a lawyer (questionable) who hated everything freeper. I was just wondering whatever happened to him, because he kept on trying to be disruptive even after he was banned.


6 posted on 07/23/2007 7:32:26 PM PDT by WVNan
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