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2004-04-05 Iraq-Jordan

Fallujah: A reminder of what the future might look like if we fail

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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-05 12:08:37 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Exceptional piece - Thanks, Dr Steve. This is worth dissemination to all non-idiotarians.

And it points out what an extraordinary thing it is to have Dubya and his crew on the job... and what an utter fucking disaster the feel-good Clinton years were.

Posted by .com 2004-04-05 1:36:19 AM|| 2004-04-05 1:36:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me amen your amen, Steve. You guys (collectively, and that means all of youse guys reading this) on this site have more moxie than any other site on the whole damned internet. Keep up the good work just exactly like you do now.We just have to keep Dubya there at the helm. Just have to or we're fucked like a house cat. Chine

Posted by Chiner 2004-04-05 5:09:10 AM|| 2004-04-05 5:09:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Baathists, by playing off tribe against tribe, Arab against Kurd and Sunni against Shiite, were preparing the conditions for a Hobbesian state of affairs. Their looting and beggaring of the state and the society--something about which we now possess even more painfully exact information--was having the same effect. A broken and maimed and traumatized Iraq was in our future no matter what.

I agree totally.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-04-05 10:07:02 AM|| 2004-04-05 10:07:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sure, Iraq was a sucking wound that was going to have to be dealt with eventually.

My problem is that the execution has been less than optimal. I continue to curse Rummy for believing this could be done other than the old-fashioned way, with lots of boots on the ground.

Hopefully the clever schemes will eventually work.

Posted by Hiryu 2004-04-05 11:32:54 AM|| 2004-04-05 11:32:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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