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  • From: David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] ...from Arab News
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:10:43 -0400

No Awe in Baghdad and Shock Is Creeping Into Washington

http://www4.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=31761&d=11&m=9&y=2003

"Now that “victory” in Iraq has become an invitation to a poisonous swamp, the bullying rhetoric, and the cowboy swagger, of the likes of Donald Rumsfeld and Ari Fleischer that preceded the war have given way to suggestions that all America wanted was to provide Iraq with a free press. People are not naïve. Indeed, the only children in this confrontation might be those who renamed French fries “Freedom fries” and poured wine into the Potomac while sneering at countries that made chocolate and cheese. Asking the chocolate nations for chocolate soldiers as well as cash for  reconstruction (another term that irritates: Who destroyed Iraq and therefore made reconstruction necessary?) must be privately galling for the Bush administration.  But the American President refuses to sound chastened. Anyone who opposes his fractured worldview is dismissed as terrorist, or perhaps terroristic."

and "Now for the bad news. In the past year, George Bush has recruited more jihadis to the Islamist cause than Osama Bin Laden could have dreamt of."

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offers a pretty interesting take on what went on in the past 2 years. perhaps from a perspective different than we(you,me,whomever) are used to hearing.




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