Letters to the Editor
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This article is all so very wrong
We are winning the war...
There are still many challenges left, but we are making progress...
The media is only reporting the "bad things..."
The Surge was a successful strategy (according to the LA Times in a story on McCain last week)...
These are not the Droids you are looking for...
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Lies....
BUT THE SURGE IS WORKING!!!
Just ask John McCain.
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Not to be a sycophant or anything:
I've had my differences occasionally with Salon's coverage. But reading about the Green Zone under fire takes me back an article you guys had in, I think, 2003: The Hermetically Sealed Conquerors. Then as now you were ahead of the spoon-fed writers of the Washington press corps. In that particular case, way ahead. Now the turmoil that boiled outside the Emerald City while we denied the Iraqis elections, slapped around people who got in the way of our convoys and ignored the depots filled with unsecured ammunition is creeping closer to the political hacks who bungled the occupation of Iraq.
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Good
Kill more Americans. I laugh.
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Prove it
According to Western security experts, the most recent proof of al-Sadr's Tehran connection is the fact that the projectiles landing in and around the Green Zone are Iranian made.
Yeah, sure they are. Prove it.
Steven Lee Myers was on NPR yesterday morning. When asked exactly how "they" knew the projectiles were being supplied by Iran, and that weapons have a way of finding their way across borders without the help of a Government, the answer given was basically "we don't know what group in Iran is supplying them, we just know that they are".
More lies.
http://ruthsreport.blogspot.com/2008/03/steven-lee-myers-on-diane-rehm-show.html
At one point, Ms. Rehm pointed out to him that weapons have a way of floating across borders all on their own with no need of help from governments. He took that and spun it into he was not sure what branch of the Iranian government was getting weapons into Iraq but they were doing it.
That was not the point Ms. Rehm made. That was the talking point he pushed over and over throughout his comments on Iran.
Adm "Too busy killing Cilivians in Somalia to Destroy Iran" Fallon is gone, "Iranian" shells dropping on the Green Zone, and the banksters declaring war on Iran's economy.
How long until the DU starts raining down on Iran. The neocons want to "Address the Iranian Problem" and surely War Hero John McCain wouldn't mind getting what he perceives as a huge boost by playing American War Hero in Iran.
How long does Iran have before we spread some Democracy in Tehran? Days? Weeks? Months? The Russian rumor is April 4th or 6th, and we'll leave the Russian built reactor alone while we bomb the rest of the country into the stone age. Next month should be pretty interesting....
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Diane Rehm Interview with Steven Lee Myers
Where he claims that "we just know".
http://wamu.org/audio/dr/08/03/r1080326-20177.asx
They don't know a damn thing.
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From Diane Rehm's show....
From the Interview:
Rehm: Steve Myers, going back to Baghdad yesterday, US Military Leaders said Iran was supplying the rockets that are currently hitting the Green Zone. Uh, what proof did they offer, and where are those accusations leading?
Myers: I think they base those accusations on the type of weaponry, that um, uh, you know, that they can tell what kind of rocket comes in, and they know who buys these kinds of rockets. So that's how they were able to trace it to Iran. That's not...
Rehm (interrupts): Couldn't they simply be Iranian made weapons? And as we know, weaponry travels very easily.
Myers: Of course. I was going to say that it's not always a direct link. It's always hard to tell which part of the Iranian Government, perhaps, is providing those weapons and to whom. But it's certainly disturbing trend, if it continues, to have a neighboring country providing a supply of weapons into a conflict that we can see is very volatile.
Rehm: But does that accusation take us one step further in this conversation regarding Iran?
Myers: I think it does, and I think thats been that situation all along in looking both at Iraq, and at the region in general, and of course the weapons program that is under scrutiny despite the intelligence community concluding that there isn't an active nuclear weapons program in Iran right now. The Bush Administration is very much concerned about what is happening over there, and I think the potential for conflict is great.
Stephen Colbert got it right:
<"Let's review the rules. Here's how it works. The president makes decisions, h's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know--fiction."
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@Chris Sinnard
I agree Sadr has no connection with Tehran but Bush and his henchmen have to make that connection in order to justify their next move...on Iran.
It's no surprise Sadr has given the green light to his Mahdi militiamen to pursue this outbreak. Sadr was just biding his time with the phony cease-fire.
Bush is lying, still, when he claims this is completely an Iraqi Army initiated confrontation of Sadr's followers. The US is doing the fighting and bombing, with Reuter's news even reporting Iraqi Armymen laying down their weapons and retreating.
Bush is just laying down more smoke and mirrors.
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I. Z.
Isn't Basra Arabic for Tet?
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Not Tet
Dien Bien Phu (sp?)
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I hate the republicans
so much. This is their fault, they should be the ones over there fighting and dying. To this day they refuse to accept the responsibility for what they have done to Iraq and the Iraqi people.
If there is a god, I pray for forgiveness for my own small part in this tragedy. And if there is a hell, I pray that everyone who voted for Bush ends up there.
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What hath we wrought?
Lets go back to the Obama Clinton wars, so much safer.
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The reporter fell for the spin
Iran's closest ally in Iraq is Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the SIIC (formerly SCIRI) party, which is the largest party in the parliament. They are also very close to the prime minister, Maliki. Sadr is fighting Hakim for control of the south, which would vote for Sadr's allies in the regional elections if they go forward as scheduled and the local Sadrists aren't arrested or killed in the meantime. Hakim spent 20 years in exile in Tehran, and the Iranian government basically created his organization.
Why should Iran attack the Iraqi government, when they basically run it? They helped Sadr in the past when his family was fighting Saddam, but compared to Hakim he's much more of a nationalist.
I don't say that to praise Sadr; his people are thugs (just like Hakim's people). But it's false to pretend that he's an Iranian pawn, and this line is being spread by Cheney's people who want to attack Iran.