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.
Iraqi people drag the head part of the statue of Sadam Hussein after it was taken down by Iraqi prople with help by Marine's M88 Vehicle at downtown Baghdad April 9, 2003. A day after rejoicing Iraqis greeted U.S. forces in Baghdad following the collapse of Saddam's once-fearsome rule there were signs that the way forward for Iraq (news - web sites) may be difficult. REUTERS/Kuni Takahashi-The Boston Herald
I'm Out
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