Germany's Anitwar Spiegel: "The US Military is more successful in Iraq than the world wants to believe."

An abrupt about-face from last year's cover story called "Might and Lies: George W. Bush and the Lost War in Iraq.

I guess the neocon conspirators gulled another sucker.

"A few months ago, you couldn't have taken a single step here without getting shot at," says Lauer, a fair-skinned 30-year-old who still seems oddly pale under his suntan "We couldn't leave our fucking camp without being fucking shot at," he says. "Now it's peaceful and it's fucking great."

Fucking A.

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Since June, Ramadi residents have only known the war from televison. Indeed, US military officials at the Baghdad headquarters of Operation Iraqi Freedom often have trouble believing their eyes when they read the reports coming in from their units in Ramadi these days. Exploded car bombs: zero. Detonated roadside bombs: zero. Rocket fire: zero. Grenade fire: zero. Shots from rifles and pistols: zero. Weapons caches discovered: dozens. Terrorists arrested: many.

An Irritating Contraction

Ramadi is an irritating contradiction of almost everything the world thinks it knows about Iraq -- it is proof that the US military is more successful than the world wants to believe. Ramadi demonstrates that large parts of Iraq -- not just Anbar Province, but also many other rural areas along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers -- are essentially pacified today. This is news the world doesn't hear: Ramadi, long a hotbed of unrest, a city that once formed the southwestern tip of the notorious "Sunni Triangle," is now telling a different story, a story of Americans who came here as liberators, became hated occupiers and are now the protectors of Iraqi reconstruction.

Worth reading in full.

PS:

Main Entry: 2gull
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: obsolete gull gullet, from Middle English golle, from Anglo-French gule, gole
: to take advantage of (one who is foolish or unwary) : DECEIVE

I love this word.

posted by Ace at 02:44 AM

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