--- "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't, really. But several reports out of Iraq > that I've seen and heard > contain a notes about how the locals consider the > Iraqi exile community a > bunch of elitists who escaped when the going got > tough and who hope to > lord it over the rest when they return on Uncle > Sam's dime. Now maybe > that's an exaggeration...IIRC one of those reports > was on NPR, so it is > therefore immediately suspect to 1/2 or more of all > good red-blooded > Americans. :-) > > Marvin Long
More than that - my real objection to NPR is that they _never_ mention, _not ever_, that every interview they conduct in Iraq is conducted in the presence of the Iraqi secret police, and that people who say things opposed to the government _have been_ killed for doing so. You don't think that maybe that affects the reliability of what we're hearing? As for what Bush plans - as far as I can tell, he plans to set up a federal system in Iraq modeled on the very successful government that has already been set up in the northern third of Iraq. I'm not sure that more detailed plans than that are possible at this point - many things depend (for example) on how much of the Iraqi army survives the war (ranging from most of it to none of it as the various possibilities). But I'd say that the major reason you're not hearing about the plans is that: 1. Saying "so and so in Iraq" will end up running the government is a good way to make sure that these people are very dead in the near future 2. What he _has_ said about his plans has not been covered at all by a media that is viciously hostile to both him and the war. But the Wall Street Journal, for example, has quite a few mentions of it. Peggy Noonan, for example, had an off-the-record interview with the President himself before the State of the Union in which he talked about it extensively. Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
