..."Americans brought the car bombs...Look what you have done"...

[SoCalDem]

MacNeil Lehrer report tonight had a reporter who was in Baghdad during the bombings. While he was at the first one today, he heard two more explosions and he and his crew went to them.. On the way they were attacked by a crowd of over 200 people throwing bricks and shouting at them. His cameraman was badly injured and was taken to the hospital..

He said that the crowd was very dangerous and that he was lucky to have lived through it.. He also said that there were FIVE bombings today...

A man who was very angry ,said the piece about the car bombs..

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The Iraqi people blame US for the anarchy, and well they should..
This reporter says that there is NO protection possible from the rocket attacks... a soldier told him that before the Americans came Iraq was an ammunition dump with a government, and now it's an ammunition dump WITHOUT a government..

[kentuck]

1. I was looking at the smoke, the fires, the sirens, the bloody shirts......

and I thought about how much better it is now than when Saddam was in power. I'm sure the Iraqis must think that?

[rustydog]

2. But..but..but..

Bush, Cheny, Powell, Rice and even Washington State's own
Republican lock-step mouthpiect: Nethercutt has blatantly stated things are so much BETTER in Iraq, but the "filter" placed on the coverage doesn't show the PROGRESS made!

My head hurts from having to think for myself...Got..to..watch..Fox..News....ow!

Humm...Is there still raw sewage dumping into the Tigris River.
I would judge progress on America repairing the sewage treatment plant we purposely destroyed which allowed raw sewage to dump into the Tigris...millions of people's bodily waste going directly into the river and affecting millions downstream. No electricity, no running water, homes destroyed, yet America made sure the oil started to flow.
Tens of thousands killed by "coalition" Forces. Fake letters sent home touting the progress America is making and how the Iraqis really love us.
I can't think of a reason why these people aren't dancing in the street as our troops pass by.

[Fovea]

3. This sort of terror will prove to be very difficult for the puppet Govt

to endure. Once the moderate Iraqis abandon the 'council', they will either radicalize religiously, ethnicly, or both. None of this points to a stable, governable Iraq. Bushco can kiss that idea goodbye. Nation-building is something that Dubya does approximately as well as being an oilman.

The balkanization of Iraq is almost a fait accompli at this point.
I call it Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Hippopotamia as non independent protectorates of the US and Britain. I predict that Rummy will get us into a shootin war in the region before 2005. By that I mean that we will do what Nixon did in Cambodia ... and violate soverignity of <insert regional oil interest, or Palestine supporting nation here>

Remember, these nuts see this as winnable, as though somehow they will stop it from bleeding on and on. I do not understand how they can be that deluded. But it really seems that they are.

I saw the pictures of Wolfowitz walking out in the open air of Iraq, and imagined that he saw himself as a second Patton, defying the bullets.

I saw another Westmoreland, heroically misguided. Sadly, there does not seem to be another MacNamera in the house.

I do notice a sudden crop of of deep throats though, and that is heartening. Imagine the humiliation that Bush must have felt when his double plus secret memo on leaking was leaked within the day.
I cannot imagine the hubris of someone in Paul's situation actually on the ground in Baghdad. I think he is dangerously disturbed putting American troops in such danger by his presence.
An arrogant fool, and a madman to boot.

[SoCalDem]

4. We have created another I/P situation

It's bad enough that I/P are going at each other, but now we will have another one almost next door, and THIS one we cannot ignore for long periods of time.. OUR PEOPLE are in the firing line and we cannot leave without suffering a "loss of face"..Normal people would say, ..."shit, we really messed this uo; let's cut our losses, apologize and get the hell out".. but we know the ones in charge will never do that..:(

The Iraqis were a resourceful, intelligent people before Saddam, and even during..there is NO reason on earth that THEY should not get the contracts for the rebuilding.. The fact that American Bush cronies are taking the lion's share is not lost on these people, and they are pissed..