Bush dissected
Tuesday, May 11th, 2004Juan Cole today has a scathing point-by-point dissection of yesterday’s ludicrous dog-and-pony show in support of Donald Rumsfeld.
Cole writes, “So far American-ruled Iraq has been the biggest black eye for democracy since the Reichstag fire. And, the photographs now circulating of prisoner torture are the biggest recruiting tool for al-Qaeda and other anti-American terrorism that Bin Laden could ever have hoped for. The US occupation of Iraq has been so incompetently handled that it has made all Americans less secure by an order of magnitude”.
Also, don’t miss Cole’s translation of an important story on the background of the Spanish pullout from Iraq.