Iraq: Worse than ever
Bush says that we must stay the course, yet more evidence surfaces that our policy is a real horror show.
Hours before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees. This cable, marked "sensitive" and obtained by The Washington Post, outlines in spare prose the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees' constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government.Here's the cable -- entitled Public Affairs Staff Show Strains of Public Discord -- it's a must-read.
If we "stay the course," we'll get more of the same.
It's time to change direction.
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Someone, maybe Kahlizad himself, is running their own psy-op against the White House out of Foggy Bottom.
I'd expect this from CIA at this point, but this definitely was a leak from State.
My guess, because of the timeing and the fact that there is no stated reason for his departure, is Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, the department's No. 2 official.
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June 20, 2006 12:57 AM