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splat@14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 06:22 PM
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Ivins, "Morale, my ass. "
Iraq and the media, the media and Iraq -- over and over. Last week was supposed to be a good media week for Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was dead. Taken out, we said, by a combination of American and Iraqi troops with Jordanian intelligence.

The churlish might note this was the second time the American military had announced Zarqawi's death -- but, hey, we've announced the capture of Osama's No. 2 guy at least seven or eight times. Others claimed Zarqawi was never that important to begin with, indeed had been built up by our side. Still, that's a goal for our side, as they say in World Cup play.

Then reality got a bit bumpy. Zarqawi wasn't exactly dead when we found him. We put him on a stretcher and cleaned him up -- the fog of war intervened. I distinctly remember people predicting the first time we killed Zarqawi that it wouldn't make much difference, so I presume they did it again.

Thus, we get to revisit the old cackle over whether we are fighting international terrorists who have flocked to Iraq or a native uprising against our occupation of the country. Can't even agree on what's going on. I'm so used to one side saying this and the other side saying the opposite that I didn't even blink over the differences.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/37531/
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 06:23 PM
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1. Molly Ivins is a national treasure.
Redstone
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 06:31 PM
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2. Believe me Molly - I definitely WILL be holding a grudge.
:toast:

Thank goodness for Molly Ivins!
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 06:34 PM
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3. Doesn't matter.... people are dying.... approval ratings are taking
the appropriate illogical trend... all is well in the land of unbridled corporatism and military industrial complexion.
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