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Sunday, March 19, 2006
AOL is running the headline, "Iraq faces painful anniversary."
The scoop, of course, is that there's violence all over the place on the eve of the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion/liberation.
The basic impression one gets from the headlines is that if this started three years ago, it should all be over but the shouting. One is tempted to make facile comparisons to Vietnam if opposed to the war. Or World War II if in support - there the fighting went for years before the job of pacification could get underway. But I think the most apt comparison is to go back five or six years to another time when organized violence by control-driven thugs and nutcases could too lead to the deaths of a hundred overnight. The only difference is they were in the Iraqi government and CNN elected not to report it.
posted by gbarto at 11:10 AM
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