Letters to the Editor
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@ pinkerton
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz and the royal Kagans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Huh? Random news reports from Afghanistan and other places in Iraq somehow proves something about Kagan's point that the surge is working, but a man-on-the-scene report from Iraq--by Iraqis--means nothing?
Just some more information for you to consider.... You know, like actual news articles.
But perhaps I'm missing sumptin': How many schools got painted yesterday? Maybe I'll reconsider.
And your ad hominem against the Wall Street Journal is a sure sign of a simple mind: the report is filed by Iraqi bloggers....
Ummmm, all of them?!?!? Or just the "Chalabiesque" types that the WSJ Editorial Board wants to post?
... Prove them wrong, but don't just dismiss them because you don't like the forum they appear in.
The WSJ is a bunch of hardline RW hacks. Demonstrably and repeatedly so. They were just as wrong as Kagan about Iraq. They deserve no credibility either.
Surely you can do better than that.
Look, buster: I have a track record of evaluating the evidence and the reports, and of being right in my evaluation. I was right about the (non-existent) WoMD before the invasion, and I was right about the casualties post-major-combat (although I will admit to underestimating how many more dead we'd have in the post-invasion occupation). If you're putting up the WSJ Editorial page, who have been wrong sooooooo many times on Iraq as to be pathetic, as an authority, you're still living in La-la Land.....
Worse yet for you, pretty much everyone here except the Dubya-a$$-kissing "23%ers" knows the WSJ Editorial page folks are tools and shills for the maladministration and don't bother listening to them. If you're trying to do "outreach", you'll have to find better and more reliable 'sources' than that.
Cheers,
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@ pinkerton
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz and the royal Kagans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mo' fer ya:
From "http://joancole.com"
After the extensive slaughter of the pilgrims during the past week, the Iraqi guerrillas appear to have taken Monday off. Still, 20 bodies showed up in Baghdad's streets on Sunday, and there were scattered assassinations and mortar attacks throughout the country on Monday.
The USG Open Source Center paraphrases Iraqi news items for March 12:
"Dar al-Salam carries on the front page a 150-word on the large demonstration in Al-Ramadi demanding the immediate release of a woman detained by occupation forces. . .
Al-Zaman publishes on the front page a 240-word report entitled "Iraqi National Bloc Calls for Postponement of Discussion on Oil and Gas Bill. . ."
Al-Zaman publishes on page 4 a 200-word report on the statement issued by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani yesterday, 11 March, urging pilgrims not to believe people alleging that they are ambassadors of the Imam Al-Mahdi [the Muslim Promised One] . . .
Al-Sabah carries on page 4 a 130-word report citing Amirah al-Baldawi, parliament member from the [Iraqi Shiite] Unified Iraqi Coalition, criticizing the Egyptian Foreign Minister's declarations calling for the rehabilitation of army and police forces on non-sectarian grounds. . .
Al-Mu'tamar runs on the front page a 120-word report saying that Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr has appeared in Karbala after reports that he fled to Iran. . .
Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah carries on the front page a 230-word report citing Sadr-al-Din al-Qubbanchi [of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq], during the Friday sermon in Al-Najaf, accusing Britain of leading a coup by foiling the political process. . .
Al-Istiqamah carries on the front page a 180-word report saying that Vice President Adil Abd-al-Mahdi met with Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and other Shiite clerics to discuss the latest political and security developments. . .
Dar al-Salam publishes on page 2 a 170-word report accusing Shiite terrorist militias of attacking Al-A'zamiyah and other Sunni districts and abducting four Sunnis in Al-Hurriyah District of Baghdad. . .
Al-Zaman publishes on page 5 a 1,000-word report citing academics and political observers attributing their refusal to appear on satellite television channels to the deteriorating security situation. . .
Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah carries on the front page a 270-word report saying that Al-Muqdadiyah's inhabitants are suffering from the shortage of food materials, unemployment, and the unpaid salaries due to the deteriorating security situation. . .
Al-Muwatin carries on page 2 a 1,000-word report citing a source at the religious authority in Al-Najaf informing Al-Nahrain Net saying that most Shiite clerics are concerned with the US measures against Al-Sadr City and some Shiite clerics. . .
Al-Zaman carries on page 3 a 900-word report entitled "Sabaeans Find Safe Shelter in Kurdistan; Barzani Meets With Hilu To Organize Arrival of Sabaean Families." . .
Al-Mada on 12 March runs on the front page a 100-word report citing Oil Minister, Hussein Al-Shahristani, announcing in Karbala that there are new negotiations to build a Karbala refinery, which would be the largest and the most modern refinery in the country. He added that the next months would witness the building of this refinery that will be achieved within four years. Its capacity will be 140,000 barrels per day, which is double the capacity of Al-Dura refinery. He asserted that the outcome of the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund resulted in the cancellation of some of Iraq's debts, depending on an increase in the price of oil products, which will be approximately 50 Iraqi Dinars per litter for kerosene. This price will be fixed until the 1 st of April. . . [Karbala is in a heavily Shiite area, so these projects will benefit Shiites.- JRIC]
Cheers,
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Ooops
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz and the royal Kagans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"http://www.juancole.com"
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@ "stretching the truth"
[Read the article: Lying to Congress has become a Republican principle, literally]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Greenwald writes: "Illegal behavior -- in the form of, among other things, continuous and deliberate deceit of the Congress -- is pervasive at the highest levels of the Bush Justice Department and it has plainly become a central part of the Republican ethos. It's become a plank in their ideology, literally."
... I am not discounting the seriousness of this issue, but I think Greenwald is stretching the truth a bit himself when he makes such broad generalizations about a diverse party.
Oh, you're right. The Dubya maladministration doesn't engage in illegal behaviour all the time. That's a slight exaggeration. It's just most of the time. Consider Glenn's comment to be literary license along the lines of "Every word out of his mouth is a lie including the words 'and' and 'the'"....
Cheers,