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![]() Just Above Sunset
April 11, 2004 - Things looking bad in Iraq over the last week? Oh heck, it'll only get worse.
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British Pessimism Here! __________________ Robert Fisk writing in
The Independent (UK), Tuesday, April 06, 2004 The British took three years to turn both the Sunnis and the Shias into their enemies in 1920. The Americans are achieving it in just under a year.
No, we certainly don’t. We seem to be getting it anyway.
… Yet they are still not confronting that truth. For
the past nine nights, for example, the main US base close to Baghdad airport--and the area around the terminals--has come
under mortar fire. Our government not understanding
the situation? Many don’t want to believe that. Our government not wanting
us to know the situation? Many don’t want to believe that either. As for Sadr, he will, no doubt, try to surround himself with squads of gunmen and supporters in
the hope that the Americans will not dare to shoot their way in to him. And sometimes you have to shut down newspapers – to allow democracy to work. No, that can’t be right, can it? This is beyond the reach of irony. |
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This issue updated and published on...
Paris readers add nine hours....
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