re: "How would Iraq appear if we saw it through not the reporting of Western journalists, but the candid testimony of Iraqis themselves?"

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gbaikie — 1/4/2005 12:11:18 AM (archived)

"Let's take the neocons darling, Chalabi. He was the oracle for a long, long time, the authority on how Iraq REALLY was."

Nobody saw Chalabi as an authority on how Iraq really was.

Chalabi was a politican. It's like saying that Tom Dashele was the authority on how America REALLY was.

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Good News from Iraq, Part 18. - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2005 7:02:34 PM
- "How would Iraq appear if we saw it through not the reporting of Western journalists, but the candid testimony of Iraqis themselves?" - Bowser - 1/3/2005 10:25:39 PM
  - re: "How would Iraq appear if we saw it through not the reporting of Western journalists, but the candid testimony of Iraqis themselves?" - gbaikie - 1/4/2005 12:11:18 AM
- Until we put a stop to these daily attacks, nothing else will matter. - David F Mayer - 1/3/2005 7:31:52 PM
  - Greyhawk collects the military news reports - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2005 7:44:36 PM
    - The problem is simple: The frequency and intensity of terrorist attacks does not seem to be diminishing, or at least diminishing fast enough, to permit the transfer of security to Iraqi forces. - David F Mayer - 1/4/2005 12:06:41 AM
      - Of course they're not diminishing. - Tom Brosz - 1/4/2005 3:46:07 AM
        
        But that is the ONLY measure of a successful counter-insurgency campaign. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/4/2005 4:52:59 AM
        
        re: Don't think so. - Tom Brosz - 1/4/2005 5:09:01 AM
        
        Because the overall progress in reducing attacks and restoring civil order seems to be lacking. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/4/2005 2:02:58 PM

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