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Yet the American people are being duped once again into thinking we have "turned the corner" in Iraq. And the mainstream news sings along with the dog and pony show while ignoring such things as the Madhi Army's rise in control.
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Why Is This Man Smiling?Posted on Sep 4, 2007
Bush at Al-Asad
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
All smiles: President Bush poses with the troops at Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq’s Anbar province.By Robert Scheer
Excerpt:
"In Iraq’s Shiite-controlled south, the domination of the military and police by the fiercely anti-American Madhi Army and other militias was ensured by the final withdrawal of British troops from Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city and a vital center of oil production, on the same day that Bush visited Iraq. Instead of the liberated, united and democratic Iraq promised by this invasion, we are left with a nation ruled by religious fiefdoms sustained far into the future by U.S. taxpayers.
The French and the Germans, hoary veterans of various failed European adventures in imperialism, warned us about precisely this outcome. While U.S. troops spill blood to guard broken oil pipelines, the Chinese and others go merrily about the world buying up black gold on the open market. But hey, don’t worry about your tax dollars and the waste of lives—eat some freedom fries and learn, like our president, to keep smiling."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070904_scheer_sept_5_why_is_this_man_smiling/ ---