The Good News You’re Not Hearing About Because Your Mom Just Got Shot
From a superb NYT overview of Dribble-era Iraq:
There are successes. Some Iraqi commanders instill pride and discipline in their units, the Americans say. In July, one Saydia policeman, Capt. Mushtaq Hassan, rescued a 9-month-old girl from a house where a death squad had just killed her family.
That’s the most impressive success worth writing about? Cop finds a baby and doesn’t kill it or leave it to die? I personally like my successes to be more . . . successful.
Comment by Nell —
September 8, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
Your Mom.
Just helping a good post title be better.
Comment by Jim Henley —
September 8, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Fixed!
Thanks . . .
Comment by Thoreau —
September 8, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
Why won’t anybody talk about the millions of Iraqis who haven’t been killed? In fact, some of them are doing so well that not only have they not been killed, they’ve actually had the necessary resources to safely cross the desert into Syria, Jordan, and other neighboring countries!
Comment by Gsnorgathon —
September 8, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
“Iraqis are traveling abroad in record numbers…”
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I like it!
Comment by Avram —
September 9, 2007 @ 12:04 am
Well, now we’ve got to stick around long to ensure that when that 9-month-old girl is school-age, she’s got a nice, freshly-painted school to go to.
Comment by Donald Johnson —
September 9, 2007 @ 7:46 am
It was a good story, but as usual with the NYT, there’s a lack of information on how much fighting the US forces are involved in. The US is there to “provide security”–details on how much violence that involves are scarce. One Shiite militia leader claims he gives (stolen) money to families whose homes have been destroyed or relatives killed by Americans, and an American colonel says he’s been attacked by children throwing hand grenades. This sounds like a typical guerilla war, but that’s about all we are told.
Comment by NYT —
September 9, 2007 @ 9:24 pm
From the UK Times:
“The medics had 20 minutes’ warning. A soldier badly wounded by a roadside bomb was coming in. It was only after the helicopter landed at the 28th Combat Support Hospital inside Baghdad’s green zone that they realised quite how badly.
As they cut away his blood-sodden bandages in the trauma ward they found that all four limbs had either been severed or were attached by little more than skin. He had 70 per cent burns to what was left of his body.
They worked frantically to keep him alive. All his remaining limbs were amputated except for the top of one arm. Within hours he was air-borne again – this time bound for Germany and an onward flight to the Brooke Army Medical Centre in Texas. ”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2402969.ece
Comment by bryan —
September 11, 2007 @ 4:56 am
that’s not a success. They later sent that nine year old girl to Dick Cheney for his dinner, and she was sent back as too ripe.
Then they shot her.
Huzzah!
Comment by bryan —
September 11, 2007 @ 4:56 am
that’s not a success. They later sent that nine month old girl to Dick Cheney for his dinner, and she was sent back as too ripe.
Then they shot her.
Huzzah!
Comment by bryan —
September 11, 2007 @ 4:58 am
hmm. I clicked the submit thought it was preview. that’s what I get for not being smart enough to see the surge is working.