Another symbolic piece of news yesterday was the failure of the water supply in most of Baghdad, following an insurgent strike on a main power line that also slowed Iraq’s oil exports to a trickle. The gap between the narrow, sectarian concerns of the politicians inside the Green Zone and the chaos and poverty outside is already enormous, and it keeps getting wider all the time.
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August 23, 2005
WB: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
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I can hear the spin now if things don’t come together……”The Iraqi people love their privilege to vote so much that they are going do it again….and maybe again and”
Posted by: R.L. | Aug 23 2005 7:39 utc | 1
Even shorter version: the South has risen again, is in charge and is trying to boss the (sand) n*** around.
And that’s going to work out how?
B. is going to take me to task for advocating violence again, and he’ll be right (it’s wrong), and besides, someone like me who chose exile has no right to advocate violence, but the problem is not with Iraq but with America and short of our own Civil War here — or Balkanization, I don’t know we’ll ever see the end of the tunnel.
If we were a different America, we wouldn’t have invaded of course, but beyond that they would see us (possibly) as models to imitate; right now, they see just another corrupt thug and bully, a warlord with a bigger gun, that’s all. Like the Soviets trying to tell the Czech how to run a “republic” at the point of a tank.
Bullshit.
Posted by: Lupin | Aug 23 2005 8:04 utc | 2
Lupin,
Of course your right, it is the same civil war same as it ever was. The republicans have exploited in every respect, the very same exceptionalism that so characterized the run up to the original — that being the Ulster- Scotts culture of contradiction personified now as red-neck america. I wish I could consult an after battle summary with General Pickett after his report saying “I have no division left sir” knowing in part his charge was typical Scotts-Irish battle tactics, taking the offensive to a fault. These fucks are binge warriors, believing in force over circumspection, and all to willing to bleed the other to fill a void with something real, the suffering of the living.
Posted by: anna missed | Aug 23 2005 9:13 utc | 3
Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel
Guardian gains rare access to Iraqi town and finds it fully in control of ‘mujahideen’
Omer Mahdi in Haditha and Rory Carroll in Baghdad
Monday August 22, 2005
Link
Posted by: Noisette | Aug 23 2005 10:21 utc | 4
Sorry – reading another tread further down I see Billmon already posted the Guardian story.
Posted by: Noisette | Aug 23 2005 10:28 utc | 5
“All persons are free within their ideology and the practice of their ideological practices.”
w is not on vacation after all.
Posted by: beq | Aug 23 2005 11:46 utc | 6
“Of course your right, it is the same civil war same as it ever was.”
that would be “you’re”, not “your”.
Posted by: Aloyisius | Aug 23 2005 13:20 utc | 7
“All persons are free within their ideology and the practice of their ideological practices.”
Oh, my god. I told my 7th grader son to write the exact same thing as filler to get the word count up to 300 so he could hand in his English homework. When did school get so hard? Some people are still out on summer break and the little guy is already slaving over the books.
Posted by: christofay | Aug 23 2005 15:07 utc | 8
Uh-oh. I told myself that I wouldn’t worry about Bush attacking Iran until he went and hid in some missile silo in Idaho, just in case Iran really had a nuke. He’s getting pretty close now.
Posted by: Tim | Aug 23 2005 15:27 utc | 9
Notice Bush’s quote above:
“I suspect most mothers, no matter what their religion may be, will choose a free society so their children can grow up in a peaceful world,”
Ask Ms. Sheehan you asshole
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Aug 23 2005 17:19 utc | 11