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June 28, 2005

AH, FREEDOM: THE BLOODY NIGHTMARE OF IRAQ

The Light Of Reason[The Light Of Reason] I've discussed Patrick Cockburn's indispensable reporting from Iraq for the UK Independent before -- most importantly in this essay, Embracing Ignorance on Principle: And Still, We Will Not See, and also here. Here are a few excerpts from Cockburn's latest dispatch, which I strongly recommend you read in its entirety (and note the Then and Now

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

 Informed Comment[ Informed Comment] Al-Duri Leads Baath Birth of His Daughter in Mosu...: How today resembles yesterday and how what was said by the founding commander at that time still rings true now and applies to the situation of the battle of Iraq's liberation: 'The Arab Nation has awakened to Iraq's call and to the splendor of the leading role and honorable virtues it has embodied. Its historical steadfastness is the line of demarcation between conditions of impotence, deviation, and treachery and the new phase that will no longer permit anything other than the honest, open stance with the national truth that Iraq represents.'

[feminist blogs] Who Killed Marla Ruzicka?: During the 18 months since June 2003, this community of passionate intensities and its powerful media amplfiers had conducted a scorched earth campaign aimed at unseating the man who in its eyes was the deceitful author of the war Iraq. It had done this despite the fact that its hyperbolic cries - “Bush is a liar;” “he betrayed us;” the war is a “fraud” - were a more powerful force undermining America’s efforts to establish a postwar democracy in Iraq than any attack Medea Benjamin and her friends could possibly conceive.

http://theimpolitic.blogspot.com [The Impolitic] Inside track on Iraq: ..Even when I have travelled in the Shi'a areas, often after a bomb directed at say police recruits, people I speak to around the site say, 'Why are they attacking Iraqis like this, why don't they kill Americans instead?' The first part of the sentence often appears on American television. The second part is very seldom mentioned.

[Blog.masud.co.uk] Seeker's Digest: LRB | Patrick Cockburn : Diary from Mosul (Iraq) ... literature, life, technology, the net, spiritual music, and a little Law. ...

Americablog.blogspot.comhttp://americablog.blogspot.com [Americablog.blogspot.com] AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: Yes, the Shiite and Kurdish vision of Iraq doesn't include merely a trained and responsible national army. It apparently also includes armed ethnic militias, militias that the Sunnis claim are targeting and killing them. It's more complicated than that, of course.

[Countercurrents.org] large collection of articles on the war on iraq: The new documents and other documents received by the ACLU reveal that the illegal practice of abuse and torture of Iraqi men, women and children took place immediately after the US-led invasion of Iraq. Iraqi POW and Iraqi detainees not only at Abu Ghraib, the West’s convenient propaganda, but also throughout Iraq were imprisoned, abused, tortured and murdered by British and US soldiers

Gseis.ucla.eduhttp://www.gseis.ucla.edu [Gseis.ucla.edu] Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq ...: "Patrick Cockburn: The street speaks - Iraq's UN-backed government is made up of CIA pawns". Iraqis skeptical over new government Independent News: .

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Posted at June 28, 2005 11:40 AM

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