Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration's miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily "victory" but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
The story sounds like a lot of the rose-colored-glasses stories we have heard for 4 years from tour-guided embedded scribes. With a million dead and 4 million internal and external refugees, the number of live targets have to have decreased. And Bush's big benchmark is not pacification, it is getting the oil law passed to legalize the theft of the oil. And it is not a war, it is an invasion and occupation. Such battles have two losers, not a winner; and spawn decades of retaliation. See also http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hedges
