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Found on TalkingPointsMemo blog …
A footnote to the excerpt published below .. I am not crazy about the increasingly persistent whine that "the Iraqi people must take responsibility".
Well yes, of course … d’oh … but let’s please remember who swung the wrecking ball, illegally, and consider that possibly a reasonable number of the people US forces are trying to kill may be people trying to take responsibility - for getting the foreign invaders out of their country, or for keeping themselves and their families alive in unimaginable-to-us conditions .. etc.
And yes, the USA will be inextricably bound up with Iraqi’s affairs for a long time to come.
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July 12, 2007 at 7:46 am
Anonymous
From the Department of Open Secrets
In association with the Department of Moot Points
Dan Froomkin compiles (for washingtonpost.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/05/31/BL2007053101144.html
press reaction to the White House announcement
at the end of may 2007
that
50 More Years in Iraq
is the plan.
Seems optimistic
“forever”
seems more like
the dope…
[includes]
Georgie Anne Geyer writes in her Dallas Morning News column [May 31 2007] that when it comes to his war in Iraq, “by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness.
“Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated ‘I am the president!’ He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of ‘our country’s destiny.’”