It's All Bad News: Chaos in liberated Iraq (Reason)

[troublemaker]

"It's All Bad News"
Chaos in liberated Iraq

Exquisitely detailed reporting on the violence of everyday life in Baghdad.


http://www.reason.com/hod/nr032604.shtml


...In the beginning of the occupation I entered a taxi and asked the driver what he thought of the events in Iraq. He looked away and started crying. I asked him if somebody in his family had died. "We all died," he told me. Now taxi drivers talk only of the latest explosion and how much they hate the Americans and want to kill them. One taxi driver drove by a mosque and saw Americans in the courtyard. "Look what they're doing!" he shouted hysterically. "They even enter inside mosques! They are dirty Jews, I swear if I had an RPG now I would shoot them! ...

[gristy]

1. Well, I made it about 1/3 of the way through the article

Far enough to get the general idea :(

[Bozvotros]

2. Lovely....

By rights, the Bush Administration should be preparing for their defense in front of an international tribunal for this clusterfuck, instead of preparing for reelection. Somehow news and pictures of the mess we made and are planning to pass off to warlords and zealots in Iraq and Afghanistan need to make it into the public eye. We cannot let Bush claim that the hundred billion dollar messes he made in either country represents a victory for democracy.

[mouse7]

3. Your US Intel people in action...

"We raided the house we were supposed to and arrested the man we were told to." Meanwhile Army intelligence was still confounded by the meaning of the intercepted conversations until somebody realized it was not a terrorist intent on obtaining weapons. It was a kid playing video games and talking about them with his friend on the phone."