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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Enigma who wrote (9491)	4/8/2003 12:18:28 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Actually I read the article before I saw it posted here. And Fisk is still swallowing Iraqi propaganda whole. And as you can see below he uncritically prints the claim by Iraq that it retook the airport. As I said "That dummy Fisk is still pretending to believe the Iraqis retook the Baghdad airport. What a doofus. " But then that's pretty typical of leftists - preferring their fantasies to reality. ..... But there were two tactical lessons to be learnt from all this. First, the American mission, whatever its original intention, was a failure. Their tank column did not "break into" the city as the Anglo-American headquarters originally stated. Iraqi resistance turned it back. ..... But there was one very interesting theme to the minister's daily peroration: his constant reference to the American tactic of testing Iraq's military defences, only to retreat the moment the Iraqis counter-attacked. "This happened at the airport," he said. "They came in and we pushed them back and pounded them with our artillery and they disappeared back to Abu Ghoraib. But when we stopped, they came back again." The American occupation of the airport, he insisted, was "for filming and propaganda". But twice more came that intriguing admission: "They come, we stop them and we pound them and they go and when we stop they return." ..... news.independent.co.uk