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November 30, 2005
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Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware on Morning Sedition this morning:
I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he’s completely lost the plot or he knows he’s spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he’s not talking about any country I’ve ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting.
Lieberman is lying. The man is one of the lowest life forms and yet if anyone were to say that Lieberman would insinuate that you were an anti-semite. I wonder how real victims of anti-semitism would feel about a sleazebag like Lieberman using their misery to peddle his own anti-semitism.
Still he won’t need to do a Shimon Peres. The demopublicans show no signs of growing balls and deciding that the this mess that the US and Israel have worked so hard to create is a total disaster, or that the party needs an injection of socialism.
Speaking of lies and Peres who remembers the crocodile tears when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated? Peres lived in the martyrs shadow for a few years but that hadn’t helped him stay in power so he sidled up to the murderer Sharon who I have always believed to have been implicated in Rabin’s death.
The Labour Party finally comes to it’s senses and elects Amir Peretz as leader but as far as Peres is concerned if it isn’t him no Labour Party leader will be PM.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Nov 30 2005 10:06 utc | 2
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
US paying Iraqi press to run favourable stories
Posted by: roro | Nov 30 2005 12:32 utc | 3
A couple of top Army analysts say the U-S shouldn’t expect so much for Iraq’s future.
Andrew Terrill and Conrad Crane advise against setting a schedule to withdraw of U-S troops. But a new study from the Army War College experts says an American presence in Iraq probably can’t go on more than three more years.
Terrill and Crane also think it’s increasingly unlikely that coalition forces will “crush” the insurgency before withdrawing.
They also believe it’s “no longer clear” the U-S will be able to train an Iraqi military that can secure the country.
Terrill and Crane say the U-S may have to “scale back” expectations for a future Iraq and accept a relatively stable but undemocratic state.
Before the U-S invasion in 2003, Terrill and Crane accurately predicted much of the turmoil U-S troops have encountered since toppling Saddam Hussein.
Army analysts foresee bleak road ahead in Iraq
Damned realists, always drifting off message just when extra special spin is required. Anyone know anything about their wives?
Posted by: roro | Nov 30 2005 13:36 utc | 4
Bush gave Lieberman a very fulsome namecheck in his speech this morning.
Posted by: Tantalus | Nov 30 2005 17:32 utc | 7
I get a ittle “lugubrious drollery” watching those gas prices fall.
hotcha!
Posted by: soccer mom | Nov 30 2005 18:08 utc | 8