[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Hello from Iraqi Kurdistan!

[john Belanger]

i really don't like the whole mess in iraq. sometimes i think that it could be simply a matter of too many voices. i dont mean all sides shouldn't have a say. its just that for instance just in this country we have congress,  the white house, defense dept, the media, everyone running for office, joint chiefs, generals in iraq, fox news, just to name a few. most everyone has an opinion and almost noone is working from the same information. a general (retired) the other day was saying that the sectarian bloodbath is only being delayed by our continued presence and that what we are going to end up with in iraq is another strongman running things because that is the only way the country can be held together. 

Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:  Dave,

The author of the article you cite from Wapo has a new book coming out
Tuesday. The article was adapted from his book - it is not news in the
conventional sense. Wapo is not exactly unbiased (understatement) and
exists primarily to sell soap and other goods.

Here is a perfect example of the author's bias: "a recent graduate from an
evangelical university for home-schooled children were...". He assumes the
reader *knows *as he does that if he/she is an evangelical or home schooled
they must be a dope. Chandrasekaran sounds like another elitist asshole to
this reader, not that everything he says isn't true.

Now, having said that, there were thousands of bad decisions made regarding
the rebuilding of Iraq. That doesn't render the place hopeless. Start
here:

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

Pick any of the other Iraqi bloggers on the left and read their accounts.
You'll get the good, the bad, and the ugly. WaPo will only give you the bad
and ugly.

Not everything is a conspiracy.

Brad


On 9/17/06, DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote:
>
>
> Hank,
>
> Interesting. More interesting: who paid for their trip? Who paid for
> the
> television ads? Who's behind this? Inquiring minds want to know - or is
> the
> answer obvious?
>
> I hope you had the opportunity to read the front page of The
> Washington Post
> this morning. The story in the center of the page is titled "Ties to GOP
> Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent To Rebuild Iraq" - you may have
> noted it.
> You may have noted the quote on the top of page A24 "I'm Not Here For The
> Iraqis. I'm Here For George Bush". You may have noted the office, and
> named
> official, in the Pentagon that was tasked to vett the appropriate neo-con
> credentials for anyone sent to Iraq to rebuild the country - think
> political
> patronage and you understand staffing for the Iraq
> rebuilding program. You may have
> noted the 2+ full newspaper pages detailing some of the sorry performance
> of
> the "politically correct" crowd sent to rebuild the country. One
> principal
> activity of the politically correct crowd seemed to be telling people
> "things
> are great in Iraq" - think of your Kurdistan visitors.
>
> And now I think you probably know who paid for the Kurdistan visitors trip
> and the television ads. And I think you know why it's appearing
> this election
> season.
>
> Dave
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