Don't Believe the Media on Iraq


	Don't Believe the Media on Iraq

davboz

9-7-2007 5:57 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#cccc00;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/24c9cdc2-1097-4d63-9bcc-47d7369aa180/078A1DAB-8EBB-408F-9EFB-AD8DDBE1BE2D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/09/04/dont-believe-the-media-on-iraq-either/" href="http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/09/04/dont-believe-the-media-on-iraq-either/" style="font-size: 11px;">news.aol.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/09/04/dont-believe-the-media-on-iraq-either/">The second is a laughable story in the New York Times, <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/washington/04bremer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Envoy's Letter Counters Bush on Dismantling of Iraq Army</A>. In an attempt to discredit President Bush, the author of the article states that a recent quote of Bush claiming that the United States' original plan was not to disband the Iraqi Army was wrong </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/09/04/dont-believe-the-media-on-iraq-either/">This is only a little more difficult <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking">to fisk</A>, because you have to go all the way back to media reports right after the invasion to disprove it. Retired Lt. General Jay Garner was the man originally charged with <A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/iraq-army/2">rebuilding Iraq</A>. He, along with everyone else, thought that once Saddam fell the Iraqi Army would surrender <EM>en masse</EM> to Coalition</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/09/04/dont-believe-the-media-on-iraq-either/">Paul Bremer, replaced Garner as envoy. His assistant, Walter Slocombe (formerly undersecretary for policy at the Pentagon under the Clinton Administration), was the architect of the "disband the Iraqi Army" decree. Bremer then announced the policy in "Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2". They never consulted Garner, nor any other</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/078A1DAB-8EBB-408F-9EFB-AD8DDBE1BE2D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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