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Washington Post: President’s Iraq Success Story a ‘Tall’ Tale

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Posted on Mar 21, 2006
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The Washington Post throws cold water on Bush’s much-touted claim that the Tall Afar region of Iraq is a case study in the U.S.’ ability to help restore stability to a war-torn area.

(Check out the transcript of Bush’s speech—particularly the unscripted Q & A session at the end.)


Washington Post:

CLEVELAND, March 20—As President Bush tells the tale, the battle for Tall Afar offers a case study in how U.S. and Iraqi forces working together can root out insurgents and restore stability. “The example of Tall Afar,” he told an audience here Monday, “gives me confidence in our strategy.”

Reports from the streets of Tall Afar, half a world away, offer a more complex story. U.S. forces last fall did drive out radicals who had brutalized the mid-size city near the Syrian border. But lately, residents say, the city has taken another dark turn. “The armed men are fewer,” Nassir Sebti, 42, an air-conditioning mechanic, told a Washington Post interviewer Monday, “but the assassinations between Sunni and Shiites have increased.”

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By Clarence Swartz, March 22, 2006 at 7:38 am Link to this comment
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Is George W. Trustwerthy enough to have his hands on the atomic button? Will George w. say God told me to do it as he has said God told him to do things before? Could this man be the most dangerous man on earth? We are in a religous war,perhaps if all the religous fanatics kill each other the planit can become civilized again.

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By Old Salty Dog, March 21, 2006 at 1:53 pm Link to this comment
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He believes his own lies, which is part of his “con,” as well as the way he cons himself.  The across the board conceit and deceit is almost unbelievable. 

He has been talking now for about ten days straight, as if he could convince the public. The more he opens up out of fear to unrehearsed Q & As, the more often he will put his foot in his mouth, and we shall begin to see the hollow man, without character, that George W. truly is.

HIs presidency is collapsing and the GOP know if Democrats regain control this fall, he will face impreachment, which is one reason they are happy Feingold’s censure motion is going nowhere.

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By Dale Friedley, March 21, 2006 at 11:17 am Link to this comment
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It did not take long for the real truth about the Bush bluster on Monday to start making the claims fall apart.  Every presentation of ‘evidence’ for ‘making progress’ in Iraq inevitably proves at best exaggerated after proper vetting.  This fiasco needs to end now before we lose more of our kids and borrow untold amounts of additional money to keep the war going.  Bush and his people always go on that the opposition has no other plan.  There is a plan, the ‘Murtha’ plan, calling for us to get out from in between the civil war that has started and is accelerating.  Just move the ‘Green Zone’ to Kuwait and let the chips fall where they may.  I think it is a 3:1 underdog that things will start subsiding when the focused enemy of both sides (us) moves out.  Any one want to take me up on that?

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By Mike Murphy, March 21, 2006 at 8:27 am Link to this comment
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The criticism has been, the media only reports the negative side of the Iraq story. If Iraq is such a success story for the administration, how is the electrical service to the country’s citizens? Also, how are the oilmen doing at the job they know best? Are they supplying Iraqi oil to the market at levels equal to or higher than the oil for food program? No, they are not. The incompetence of this administration can be witnessed across a spectrum of issues. The conservative culture of corruption in America has damaged our nation’s credibility for decades into the future.

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By Shirley A. Frye, March 21, 2006 at 7:20 am Link to this comment
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There have been so many lies or better said; very shaded communication of the truth that I find I literally don’t believe anything anymore. I even find myself questioning whether I should start to put a little more credibility in the story from the other side. And by other side I mean much more than just the Democrats.

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