Iraq: Our Continuing Lil' Quagmire

As a NY Times editorial states, "Iraq is becoming a country that America should be ashamed to support, let alone occupy", the bad news continues to pour out of Iraq while the White House continues to insist everything is a-okay. The Times editorial focuses on the violence there, as well as the decidingly undemocratic religious extremists in charge of their government, and the steps our government is taking diplomatically to counter this. TruthDig has an excellent summary and complilation of articles on the 'desperation' in Iraq-

As the tortured bodies of Iraqi civilians pile up in the streets (50 dead on Sunday alone), and Condoleezza Rice and U.K. foreign secretary Jack Straw rush to Baghdad to plead with Iraqi officials to unify their government, the NY Times editorial page writes that "the United States, in its hubris, helped bring all this to pass," echoing conservative godfather William F. Buckley, who recently said, "the neoconservative hubris...overstretches the resources of a free country."

Meanwhile, much buzz is being made of Gen. Anthony Zinni's excellent interview on yesterday's 'Meet The Press'. Andrew Sullivan posts a good quote from Zinni, in which he blasts the Bush administration for their historically poor military planning and arrogance. He also discusses the way the administration mislead everyone on the case for war. You can see video of the interview on Crooks and Liars. Think Progress has a report on how Zinni called on Rumsfeld and others to resign (or- if it happens, 'spend more time with his family'). Hey, think if enough people ask, the President would listen? They also have a second report on how Zinni stated how the media is being made a scapegoat for all the problems in Iraq.

Speaking of scapegoating the media, I liked what this Huffington Post commenter had to say on our favorite chickenhawk journalists/armchair generals-

I believe the press has failed miserably in explaining the fantastic success of the American intervention in Iraq.

It is time to send Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Fred Barnes, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, David Frum, Podhoretz Sr. and Jr., to Iraq to tell the American people what is really going on.

Drop them outside the green zone, say, right about in the middle of the Sunni triangle, and let them report the truth.

I'm sure they won't need any American military protection because they are so fearsome and macho over here in the United States, when it comes to expending the lives of others to advance their agenda.

I'm looking forward to the first edition of Good Morning, Sunni Triangle!

Sounds good to me.

I'm sure they would make us all proud too.