Despite Huge Media Campaign, Facts Show Massive Failure In Iraq

[babylonsister]

Despite Huge Media Campaign, Facts Show Massive Failure In Iraq
‘Handed Over’ to a Government Called Sadr
by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail


BAGHDAD - Despite the huge media campaign led by U.S. officials and a complicit corporate-controlled media to convince the world of U.S. success in Iraq, emerging facts on the ground show massive failure.


The date March 25 of this year will be remembered as the day of truth through five years of occupation.

“Mehdi army militias controlled all Shia and mixed parts of Baghdad in no time,” a Baghdad police colonel, speaking on condition of anonymity, told IPS. “Iraqi army and police forces as well as Badr and Dawa militias suddenly disappeared from the streets, leaving their armoured vehicles for Mehdi militiamen to drive around in joyful convoys that toured many parts of Baghdad before taking them to their stronghold of Sadr City in the east of Baghdad.”

The police colonel was speaking of the recent clashes between members of the Shia Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army, the largest militia in the country, and members of the Iraqi government forces, that are widely known to comprise members of a rival Shia militia, the Badr Organisation.

Dozens of militiamen from both sides were killed in clashes that broke out in Baghdad, Basra, Kut, Samawa, Hilla and most of the Iraqi Shia southern provinces between the Mehdi Army and other militias supported by the U.S., Iran and the Iraqi government.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/02/8036/

[gateley]

1. MASSIVE Failure in Iraq --

Thanks for posting this, babylonsister! :headbang:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Really? You don't say....

colonial occupations end up failing, sooner or later...

[durablend]

3. Facts?!? We don't need no stinkin facts!

Repeat after me: "THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING THE SURGE IS WORKING"

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

4. Nothing has changed

except that the next generation of Americans is going to feel the harsh pinch of austerity, their futures mortgaged by a corrupt and greedy fascist regime. They will live in fear as no generation has before them: fear of hunger, of a world full of people that despise them for the atrocities their parents either wholeheartedly agreed to, or regarded with denial or ambivalence.

and Iraq? The best-case scenario is a complete fracture of the nation, a separation that will likely make for a whole-new melting pot of terror.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

[spanone]

5. if the media says it's bad you can bet it's horrific

[Disturbed]

6. The majority of the US Corp. Media were complicit in the

Illegal Invasion of Iraq & are still complicit in maintaining the Illegal Occupation of Iraq.

[annabanana]

7. "Despite Huge Media Campaign".. that pretty much

says it all, doesn't it.

Media campaigns are all PR. It is cotton candy in the rain...

[KansDem]

8. Leave it to the US media to take the neo-con stench of the rotting corpse of American imperialism

..and sell it as Chanel No. 5.