>We have completely turned Iraq into a deadly, unstable mess.
I don't think so. First thing, much of Iraq is MUCH better off. The problems we are having are in just a few of the provinces. I agree with Tann, it seems the only reporting we hear is of the negative type, we never hear news of the progress made there, the schools that are now open, the rape and torture rooms that are now closed, and so on. What "news" gets out is always tempered by the accusations of terrorists that we are bombing civilians. Remember the house with the "Wedding Party" that was bombed killing all inside? At 2:30 in the morning on a Tuesday? Yet their word is spread in our press at the same value with the statements of our military. Remember the NY Times which a few weeks ago ran a picture of an old man and a little boy with a shell casing, standing in what remained of a house in Pakistan where "innocent civilians" were killed when a Predator drone knocked it out? The shell casing was later identified as a Russian 155mm artillery shell (which, if you haven't guessed by now is not fired from a Predator) and the photo was actually two years old . . . and was taken in Afghanistan.
And who is it that has turned Iraq into a mess? Us, or the terrorists? The people of Iraq would have peace if given the choice. That is also our choice. It is not the choice of those who set off car bombs where children play and adults worship.
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Date: 2006-04-13 01:40 am (UTC)I don't think so. First thing, much of Iraq is MUCH better off. The problems we are having are in just a few of the provinces. I agree with Tann, it seems the only reporting we hear is of the negative type, we never hear news of the progress made there, the schools that are now open, the rape and torture rooms that are now closed, and so on. What "news" gets out is always tempered by the accusations of terrorists that we are bombing civilians. Remember the house with the "Wedding Party" that was bombed killing all inside? At 2:30 in the morning on a Tuesday? Yet their word is spread in our press at the same value with the statements of our military. Remember the NY Times which a few weeks ago ran a picture of an old man and a little boy with a shell casing, standing in what remained of a house in Pakistan where "innocent civilians" were killed when a Predator drone knocked it out? The shell casing was later identified as a Russian 155mm artillery shell (which, if you haven't guessed by now is not fired from a Predator) and the photo was actually two years old . . . and was taken in Afghanistan.
And who is it that has turned Iraq into a mess? Us, or the terrorists? The people of Iraq would have peace if given the choice. That is also our choice. It is not the choice of those who set off car bombs where children play and adults worship.
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