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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 03:14 PM
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Molly Ivins: The Progress Myth in Iraq
It was such a relief to me to learn we are making “very, very good progress” in Iraq. As the third anniversary of our invasion approaches, I could not have been more thrilled by the news reported by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on a Sunday chat show. Vice President Dick Cheney’s take was equally reassuring: Things are “improving steadily” in Iraq.

I was thrilled—very, very good progress and steady improvement, isn’t that grand? Wake me if anything starts to go wrong. Like someone bombing the al-Askari Mosque in Samarra and touching off a lot of sectarian violence.

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Could I suggest something kind of grown-up? Despite Rumsfeld’s rationalizing, we are in a deep pile of poop here, and we’re best likely to come out of it OK by pulling together. So could we stop this cheap old McCarthyite trick of pretending that correspondents who are in fact risking their lives and doing their best to bring the rest of us accurate information are somehow disloyal or connected to al-Qaida?

Wrong, yes, of course they could be wrong. But there is now a three-year record of who has been right about what is happening in Iraq, Rumsfeld or the media. And the score is: Press—1,095, Rumsfeld—zero.

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060308_molly_ivins_iraq_rumsfeld/
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necso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 03:55 PM
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1. One of her best,
and that says a great deal.
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 05:15 PM
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2. Yup, she really skewers Rummy on this one
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 11:42 PM
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3. Molly calls it as she sees it, and her vision is 20-20. I don't understand
why Ronald Dumsfeld is not looked up somewhere where they keep insane old lying bastards who have no concept of reality. Or are so corrupt and nasty that lying is just second nature, even when it causes the deaths of so many innocent people.

It's interesting to try to picture which of these bastids will get the hottest room in Hell. I mean, they are all so devoid of any redeeming qualities that it's amazing.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 01:38 AM
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4. kick
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