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Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"
Whenever it seems impossible, our nation's most revered war cheerleaders find new ways to descend even lower on the wrongness scale.
Glenn Greenwald [2008-03-27]

  • On another forum...

    (Ok, it was swampland)

    Christopher Hitchen's name came up because he wrote a truly rude column about Obama's race speech.

    In coming up with reasons why we should ignore Christopher Hitchins I found and posted this tidbit:

    Hitch......11/05/03.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2090772/

    The president has been widely lampooned by many a glib columnist for saying that increased violence is not necessarily a cause for despair and may even be evidence of traction. He is, in fact, quite right to take this view, which was first expressed, to my knowledge, by Gen. John Abizaid

    I added:

    Good to know that the increase in violence in 2003 was a good thing. Think of how much better it is now that it's still happening 5 years later.

    Rock 'n' Roll!

    Imagine my dismay when I realized that my snarky comment about an increase of violence being a good thing was actually being parrotted by GWB at the same time:

    http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/bush-iraq-positive/

    And the saddest part is the most detailed coverage I could find today on the subject of the new wave of violence went out of its way to lay blame at the feet of the Iranians.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/27/basra.analysis/

    All I can observe at this point is that my faith that "truth will win out eventually" will have to be put on hold for another few FU's.

    -- Paul Dirks
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 01:18 PM
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