We Should Start Over

Washington Monthly by Kevin Drum | Aug. 31, 2007 (Opinion)

This is becoming a comedy of the absurd. Scrap the Iraqi police force? Start over from scratch? Is this a joke? Even if we could do it, it means (a) putting 26,000 armed and pissed off Iraqis back on the street, (b) running the country without a police force until a new one is recruited and trained, and (c) spending two or three years building a replacement. And that's the good news. The bad news is that there's no reason to think the shiny new police ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Aug 31, 2007 - 12:11 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Jack Dinkmeyer (review), Joe Taylor (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review), Allen Schultz (review), Mark Monday (review)
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Jack Dinkmeyer
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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Isn't this "deja vous" all over again? Back when Bush and company decided to fire the Iraq army and turned out thousands of well-armed angry people onto the streets? And all of us, except Bushies, know where that ended up. Iraq is turning into America's lifetime career.

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Mark Monday
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 by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008
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Patricia Blochowiak
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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008
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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
Kaizar posted this story.
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Joe Taylor
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 by Joe Taylor - Oct. 1, 2008

Op Ed piece

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Allen Schultz
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 by Allen Schultz - Oct. 1, 2008

There is a clear intent to bias the reader by the language used as much as facts and statements presented. In the end, the conclusion may be correct, but as a reader, I feel I've been forcefed.

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