Posted on 04/09/2003 6:20:46 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
Could it be a good 'ol American Fig Newton?
Posted 10:09 AM, Pacific
Posted at 6:40 AM, Pacific That looks like a pretty happy quagmire to me.
I read the New York Times editorial pages for the first time in a couple of weeks to see how the gang would spin this. It isn't easy, after all, being revealed as beyond-Pluto wrong about how the war would go. Tom Friedman goes local and files "pay no attention to the people in front of the curtain" article. Maureen Dowd just goes low, attacking Victor Davis Hanson as Dick Cheney's "war guru."
Davis was my guest yesterday, a couple of hours after he'd given a talk to the senior leadership of the Pentagon. It is no surprise that Dowd doesn't like Hanson. If Hanson sets a trend, Dowd is going to have to start using facts. Interesting how the left works --in defeat, no humility, only a snarling and another round of invective.
But the live feeds from Baghdad are live feeds. The Iraqi information minister is going to have a tough time spinning this, and if, as Tom Friedman argues, the entire Arab world is arguing about the occupation of Iraq, then we are dealing with a deep refusal to deal with the facts. The Iraqi people are becoming our best witnesses, and the best sign of the morning: "Human Shields Go Home." The Marines and the Army, it seems, are just what the oppressed people of Saddam's horror chambers wanted.
What a great caption!! Oh those poor women and little girls. You sure since their hands are up in the air that somebody didn't point a gun at them and said "SMILE DAMMIT!!" /sarcasm off
Those two young girls on the far left have the most beautiful faces. You can't manufacture that kind of happiness. I have loved that picture since I first saw it.
British= Wanker
American= Jackoffs
Iraqis cheer the arrival of U.S. Army forces to their neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003. 
Iraqi boys in a village near the city of Najaf in Central Iraq appear glad to be back in school April 4, for the first time since the war started. U.S. Army soldiers from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion helped clean up the school that was damaged by artillery fire. The soldiers also took money out of their own pockets to pay the teacher several months salary in advance. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell
A soldier from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion speaks with a boy while bags of rice and wheat are delivered to a village near the city of Najaf in central Iraq on April 4. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell
An Iraqi girl attends to her lessons April 4 in a village school near the city of Najaf. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell
An Iraqi boy offers a flower to a British solider during patrols in Basra, April 8, 2003. Photo by Mark Richards, Pool/Reuters
Young girls hold hands as they walk with their father down a street on the outskirts of the town of Al Hillah south of Baghdad, April 9, 2003.
A smiling Iraqi woman holds her baby as a column of U.S. vehicles from the 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor passes through the town of Kerbala south west of Baghdad, April 7, 2003.
A member of 21 Squadron in Britain's 3 Regular Army Air Corps, 16 Air Assault Brigade, walks beside an Iraqi boy near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.
Iraqi women and children dance with joy as they see soldiers from Britain's 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment enter their village, north of the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003
British Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade throw chocolate bars from their ration packs to Iraqi children, in the village of Qaryat Nasr north of of the city of Basra, in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.
Baby W!
Regimental Combat Team 1 gives medical attention to Iraqi civilians who led the Marines to a weapons cache in Aziz, Iraq
An Iraqi boy flashes a victory sign as he walks with U.S. soldiers shortly after they entered central Baghdad, April 9, 2003.
Residents wave at U.S. Marines of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment as they drive by while clearing an area of potential threats, about ten miles east of downtown Baghdad on Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun, John Makely)
Use it on Syria.
I absolutely agree. Bekkah Valley would be a good start.
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