Richard Russell Comments on Iraq !!!!!!!!!!
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Aug 21 2003
"Today's Financial Times (London) headlines are, "World Bank Pulls Staff Out Of Iraq." In attacking the UN yesterday, Iraqi "terrorists" are putting all foreigners on notice that nobody is safe.
Writes columnist James Goldsborough in today's San Diego Union, "The Bush administration has lost all sense of reality about Iraq. This is perhaps human nature: One tries to defend bad choices by plunging in deeper -- what's called 'averaging down' on Wall Street, and "doubling up' in gambling."
Writes op/ed columnist in today's New York Times, "How long is it going to take for us to recognize that the war we so foolishly started in Iraq is a fiasco -- tragic, deeply dehumanizing and ultimately unwinnable . . . The American people still do not have a clear understanding of why we are in Iraq. And the troops don't have a clear understanding of their mission. We're fighting a guerrilla war, which the bright lights in the Pentagon never saw coming, with conventional forces."
A few subscriber complain that I sometimes include excerpts from the "far left" New York Times. Listen, I don't give damn whether a paper is left, right, center or off center, I only care whether what I read is intelligent, valid and honest. Don't tell me that everything is the New York Times is "pinko" or that everything in the Wall Street Journal is 'far right" or everything in the Christian Science Monitor is religiously-slanted. The truth is the truth -- I read everything, and I'll decide what I think is the truth and what isn't. And if I'm full of you know what, I'll admit it." |
