Iraq Insurgency Far Larger Than Thought Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2004
CIA 'gross exaggeration' of Saddam's WMD threat
5 U.S. soldiers, 1 Iraqi guardsman killed
Paul Bremer was out of touch with Iraqis Before he skipped town, America's viceroy in Baghdad, Ambassador Paul Bremer III, had this pronouncement about the people who have been his subjects for the last year or so."You won't find more than 2 percent of all Iraqis," he told the New York Times, "for all their complaints they're making now, who think it would have been better if we had never come." Perhaps Bremer should have said "2 percent of the Iraqis I talk to." The feelings of Iraqis are clearly a mystery to the departed occupation boss.
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Embarrassing America Just when we thought the Bush administration had reached the bottom of the ditch in its unprincipled behaviour, it surprised us by digging deeper. US Vice President Dick Cheney’s use of the f-word to a senior Democratic senator and political opponent during a ceremony in the United States Senate on June 22 demonstrates that the Bush administration no longer feels the need to cover up its thuggish behaviour with even the pretence of decorum that gives the Democratic government its authority.
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Iraq Insurgency Far Larger Than Thought
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Emergency law
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