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Originally Posted by AzTeK
Well, you picked one side of the medal here - the media "experts" that consider pulling out of Iraq the worst thing to do, while completely ignoring the other "experts" who firmly believe that pulling out of Iraq will surely have dire consequences, but it's the best choice you can make considering the alternatives.
For lack of a better article atm I'll post this from asiatimes
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
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Biggest pile of spew I've skimmed in a long time.
The writer seems to know his audience, though.
Neither he nor they seem at all knowledgeable about or concerned with the actual mission or the strategic importance of Iraq to US and the free world or to Iran and the Islamist world.
But he sure seems practiced at denigrating the US and the President and the Administration and the war and John McCain.
Anyone who likes that sort of stuff, you are in for a treat. By the way you can tell the writer seems to revel in US misdeeds and the Iraqi government's misfortune and he assumes that all of his readers do too. And if you don't go to the Juan Cole site, as he apparently does, to get your rocks off on all the "mayhem and disaster," well, he thinks you should...every day!
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True, you can go to Juan Cole's Informed Comment website, perhaps the best daily round-up of Iraqi mayhem and disaster on the Web, and you'll feel as if, like Alice, you had fallen down a rabbit hole into another universe. ("Two bombings shook Iraq Sunday morning. In the Misbah commercial center in the upscale Shiite Karrada district, a female suicide bomber detonated a belt bomb, killing 3 persons and wounding 10 ... About 100 members of the Awakening Council of Hilla Province have gone on strike to protest the killing of three of them by the US military at Jurf al-Sakhr last Sunday, in what the Pentagon says was an accident ... Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that officials in Baqubah are warning that as families are returning to the city, they could be forced right back out again, owing to sectarian tensions ...") But how many Americans read Juan Cole every day ... or any day?
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Like I said, if this is your cup of bile, then bon apetit. Otherwise, don't waste your time.