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Sunday, August 19, 2007
I love the methods and logic of US media when it comes to concocting evidence of Iraqi support for the occupation of their country. This is like when Israeli media used to interview torturers of the South Lebanon Army to prove that Lebanese were supportive of Israeli occupation. We then saw those henchmen fleeing for their lives--literally--when Israeli occupation troops were forced to humiliatingly withdraw, leaving those behind. Same thing in Iraq. They find puppets of the occupation, and ask them for their opinions of US withdrawal: "Falluja’s police chief, Col. Faisal Ismail Hussein, waved aloft a picture of a severed head in a bucket as a reminder of the brutality of the fundamentalist Sunni militias that once controlled this city. But he also described an uncertain future without “my only supporters,” the United States Marine Corps."