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Thursday, June 10, 2004
A great read at TomDispatch
For those of you who don't read TomDispatch, it's a great time to start. Here's a nice snippet from the latest post
The main part of that post is a speech by Chalmers Johnson, which is quite good, concerning militarism and imperialism. Also this post made me aware of an interesting blog Baghdad Burning, by a woman in Iraq.
TomDispatch: For all of you, including the military officials cited below, who express amazement that the Bush administration -- despite its own Secretary of State's 'Powell doctrine' -- had no 'exit strategy,' there is a reason for this, though seldom discussed. Amid all the half-baked planning for and fantasizing about occupied Iraq, the lack of an exit strategy was in every meaningful sense planned for -- at least as much as the permanent military bases being built in Iraq by private 'contractors' and the Army Corps of Engineers to the tune of billions of our dollars. There was no exit strategy because the strategists of the Bush administration never planned on leaving. This wasn't just their mistake; this was their intent, and so is the most essential truth of our war in Iraq.
The main part of that post is a speech by Chalmers Johnson, which is quite good, concerning militarism and imperialism. Also this post made me aware of an interesting blog Baghdad Burning, by a woman in Iraq.
posted by Tom, 6/10/2004 11:30:00 AM
