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Iraq, United States - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 7:28 - 1 Comment
Home Truths You’ll Never Read in the Press
Image via WikipediaBy PATRICK COCKBURN
04/08/08 “Counterpunch” — American politicians and journalists have repeatedly made the same mistake in Iraq over the past five years. This is to assume that the US is far more in control of events in the country than has ever truly been the case. This was true after the fall of Saddam Hussein when President Bush and his viceroy in Baghdad Paul Bremer believed that what Iraqis thought and did could safely be ignored. Within months guerrilla war against American forces was raging across central Iraq.
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- Home Truths You’ll Never Read in the Press
- US Vilifies Faithful Old Ally
- Bush must be stopped before starting war with Iran
- Making Nuclear Extermination Respectable
- Bush Reveals True Reason for War in Push for Iraqi Agreement
- The war between the United States and Iran is on
- Bush Will Issue a Mass Pardon
- The Greatest Threat America Has Ever Faced: the GOP?
- US lawyer seeks to sue US over Iran threats
- Why is Gordon Brown repeating a mistranslation?