Being Their Own Hard Men

ExterminateAllTheBrutes
PNACVille

I have no idea whether or not Mr. Rumsfeld identifies with Colonel Kurtz.

But he sure seems hellbent on using the same methods.

The US military says it has launched its biggest air offensive in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, targeting insurgents near the central city of Samarra.....

A massive air offensive?

Three years after Mission Accomplished?

Regardless the bollocks of the realpolitique, perhaps this is worth considering.....

Imagine if the bombing came to our town.

Then, after the carnage, including the death of children, imagine if we found out that the people blowing up our neighbourhoods had called the thing 'Operation Swarmer'.

Would we not all be insurgents then?

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For a grown-up view of Iraq free of green-zone ensconced flack-hackery and pre-packaged info-dom pablum, please go to Dahr Jamail's place.

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