What? Iraq Could Be Better?!

Matt Barganier, August 20, 2007

Off-message alert! Off-message alert!

Glenn Reynolds lets slip that things in Iraq could be much better (if only Jacques Chirac had helped a brother out back in the day). But Glenn… what about all the painted schools? And the purple fingers – the purple fingers, Glenn! Who could ask for anything more?

(Reynolds link via Clark Stooksbury.)



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6 Responses to “What? Iraq Could Be Better?!”

  1. Edward
    August 21st, 2007 at 7:35 am

    Before the current Iraq invasion the Iraqi people had elections every bit as reliable and predictable as here in the states, that is, the same people got elected over and over and over. I understand your sarcasm, just wanted to add a little irony.

  2. lester
    August 21st, 2007 at 9:04 am

    Jaquese Chirac did help us out. He advised us strongly against going in to iraq, based in no small part on his own military service in Algeria. Blair is the one who screwed us. us being America.

  3. Shingo
    August 21st, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    Reynolds thinks that we’re not winning in Iraq because we’re not killing enough Iraqis.

    http://instapundit.com/archives2/008341.php

    A cautionary note: “While we have the will and the resources to fight in this context, we are effectively hamstrung because realities on the ground require measures we will always refuse — namely, the widespread use of lethal and brutal force.” That’s been a theme of many milbloggers. I hope it’s wrong, since otherwise it means that we will lose the war as a result of enemy psychological warfare and “lawfare.”

  4. Matt Barganier
    August 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    Shingo: Presumably, the French would have helped us kill extra Rackees, which would mean victory. Which we already have anyway. Except when some peaceniks or realists or Euros need a good tongue-lashing. Then we’re just shy of winning — because of them.

  5. Mark
    August 21st, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Look on the bright side – the stores must be filled with flowers and candy! Not too much of these were expended in the Great Welcome America To Iraq Parade forecast by the likes of Cheney and Wolfowitz.

  6. Chris S
    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    Unfortunately, the flowers and candy for the parade were being stored in the National Museum of Iraq…