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Heck, why not make a special award for the most biased journalist and name it after Baghdad Bob

I nominate Peter Jennings...

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"Iraqis, very clearly, do not want to be 'liberated,' even many who had long opposed Saddam's brutal regime. To the contrary, the US-British invasion appears to have ignited genuine national resistance among 17 million Arab Iraqis, just as the 1941 German invasion of the USSR rallied Russians and Ukrainians behind Stalin's hated regime. ... The nasty, bloody urban warfare the Americans and Brits sought to avoid at all costs is now confronting them."

- Eric Margolis,

http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/archive/bush_parade.html

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Conventional Wisdom Watch, by Newsweek. A down-arrow for Dick Cheney: "Tells 'Meet the Press' just before war, 'We will be greeted as liberators.' An arrogant blunder for the ages."

Nope, Newsweek. Your article was the “arrogant blunder for the ages”....lol!!!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/893298.asp#cw

[StopThePress]

"In Baghdad the coalition forces confront a city apparently determined on resistance. They should remember Napoleon in Moscow, Hitler in Stalingrad, the Americans in Mogadishu and the Russians at Grozny. Hostile cities have ways of making life ghastly for aggressors. They are not like countryside. They seldom capitulate, least of all when their backs are to the wall. It took two years after the American withdrawal from Vietnam for Saigon to fall to the Vietcong. Kabul was ceded to the warlords only when the Taleban drove out of town. In the desert, armies fight armies. In cities, armies fight cities. The Iraqis were not stupid. They listened to Western strategists musing about how a desert battle would be a pushover. Things would get 'difficult' only if Saddam played the cad and drew the Americans into Baghdad. Why should he do otherwise?"

Simon Jenkins, the Times of London, in an article called - yes! - "Baghdad Will Be Near Impossible to Conquer," March 28, 2003

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-626095,00.html

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"[Al-Jazeera has shown] the resistance and anger of the Iraqi population, dismissed by Western propaganda as a sullen bunch waiting to throw flowers at Clint Eastwood lookalikes ... The idea that Iraq's population would have welcomed American forces entering the country after a terrifying aerial bombardment was always utterly implausible ... One can only wince at the way weak-minded policy hacks in the Pentagon and White House have spun out the 'ideas' of Lewis and Ajami into the scenario for a quick romp in a friendly Iraq ... pity the Iraqi civilians who must still suffer a great deal more before they are finally 'liberated'."

- Edward Said, London Review of Books, April 17, 2003

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n08/said01_.html

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"Is Wolfowitz really so ignorant of history as to believe the Iraqis would welcome us as 'their hoped-for liberators'?"

Eric Alterman, The Nation.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030421&s=alterman

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The key to remember, and I think Hugh Hewitt has made this one ring home better than any media pundit out there - HOLD THESE LEFTIST BLAME AMERICA FIRST "PUNDITS" ACCOUNTABLE!!! They said the same thing about Reagan: "Bush will start WWIII" and look what it got 'em - NOTHING! NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY!!!....INCLUDING HOLDING THESE CLOWNS ACCOUNTABLE WHEN THE SPEAK IN THE FUTURE!!!

"I have at times as the war has unfolded secretly wished for things to go wrong. I wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic. I wished for them to resist longer. I wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. I wished for all the things we feared would happen. And I'm not alone. A number of serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people who opposed the war have told me they've had identical feelings. More casualties would have been a preferred alternative to a larger moral negative of a victory that boosted President Bush's chances for reelection."

Gary Camilla, Executive Editor, Salon.com , April 17, 2003