5 on Iraqui Debacle

Here are 5 articles about the FAILURE in Iraq.....................PEACE....................Scott

William Fisher | Three Years Too Late
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106A.shtml
"While the Washington press corps chased the nine wise men (and one wise woman)
of the Iraq Study Group as they scampered from the White House to Capitol Hill
to press conferences to a multitude of talk show appearances in their efforts to
pull Dubya's chestnuts from the Iraq fire," writes William Fisher, "some
journalists seem to have missed some of its most important findings. One of the
more alarming was that, of the 1,000 employees of the massive new US Embassy
inside the Green Zone bubble in Baghdad, there are - wait for it - SIX who are
fluent in Arabic."

Bob Herbert | The Time Is Now
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106B.shtml
Bob Herbert writes: "On Wednesday, as if the release of the Iraq Study Group
report needed some form of dramatic punctuation, 11 more American GIs were
killed in this misbegotten war that just about everyone, except perhaps the
president, now sees as a complete and utter debacle."

Jonathan Chait | The Bubble Boy in the Oval Office
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106C.shtml
"Indeed, everybody seems to understand that if you want to help amend the
disaster in Iraq, the No. 1 rule is that you can't acknowledge it's a disaster
in Bush's presence," writes Jonathan Chait. "Weekly Standard executive editor
Fred Barnes, the court stenographer of the Bush administration, recently
reported that this was a key factor in the hiring of Defense Secretary Robert
Gates."

Dahr Jamail | "Today Is Better Than Tomorrow"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106F.shtml
"The fact is, for most Iraqis, there is little hope left," writes Dahr Jamail,
"though polls show that over 70 percent of them still want all occupation forces
out of their country. I've long since abandoned asking myself the question: How
much worse can it get in Iraq? My Iraqi friends and colleagues tell me that one
of the more popular sayings in Baghdad nowadays is, 'Today is better than
tomorrow.'"

Sara Daniel | How to Escape a Nightmare
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121106G.shtml
Americans are in agreement over one thing: their Army's intervention in Iraq is
a terrible failure. Even Kissinger admits today that "a military victory is no
longer possible." Just before the publication of the ISG report, Sara Daniel
laid out the six scenarios that have been proposed to extricate the US from the
quagmire.