Comments on: More Pontification, More Propaganda on Iraq http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:51:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: joe http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8471 joe Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:15:09 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8471 This author said, "Stupidity, incompetence, and arrogance"...and there you have it, all that america represents after 500 years of genocide against the planet and its people...it's that simple...throw the history books in the dumpster! This author said, “Stupidity, incompetence, and arrogance”…and there you have it, all that america represents after 500 years of genocide against the planet and its people…it’s that simple…throw the history books in the dumpster!

]]> By: Hala http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8467 Hala Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:26:47 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8467 No to more Hashemite rule. No to more Hashemite rule.

]]> By: Michael Kenny http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8457 Michael Kenny Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:22:19 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8457 The problem is, I think, that in the age of government by television, politicians always pretend that they can solve any problem by some sort of "decisive action" and admitting that a war is unwinnable undermines that illusion. That the mutual finger-pointing has started among the warmongers is thus a very positive development. It means that they realise that they are defeated and are trying to pin the blame on someone else. The problem is, I think, that in the age of government by television, politicians always pretend that they can solve any problem by some sort of “decisive action” and admitting that a war is unwinnable undermines that illusion. That the mutual finger-pointing has started among the warmongers is thus a very positive development. It means that they realise that they are defeated and are trying to pin the blame on someone else.

]]> By: sk http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8453 sk Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:40:17 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8453 The first sentence of <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n20/holt01_.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> article also has the same theme: Iraq is 'unwinnable', a 'quagmire', a 'fiasco': so goes the received opinion. Then it goes on to more hardnosed analysis. The first sentence of this article also has the same theme:

Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received opinion.

Then it goes on to more hardnosed analysis.

]]> By: gerald spezio http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8452 gerald spezio Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:30:44 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/more-pontification-more-propaganda-on-iraq/#comment-8452 Scholarship, accuracy, and intelligence by one man in a single article. Scholarship, accuracy, and intelligence by one man in a single article.

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