An Instructive Firefight
Rothschild, Matthew
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild An Instructive Firefight George Bush may never be able to awaken from his Iraq nightmare, as the insurgents continue to disrupt the occupation and kill U.S. and...
...Bush and Bremer...
...military seems to think the raid was a great success...
...soldiers managed to wound other civilians...
...Ah, yes...
...Rushing into a census in this time frame with the security environment that we have would not give the result that people want," said Charles Heatley, spokesman for the U.S...
...Not until we've rigged the outcome...
...The Administration said there wasn't a decent census yet of Iraq's voting population and there couldn't be one anytime soon...
...soldiers kill two Iraqi civilians...
...If I had a gun, I would have attacked the Americans myself," one shopkeeper told The New York Times...
...They are learning to hate their occupiers...
...We don't know for sure how many insurgents the U.S...
...Just not yet...
...He was shot outside a mosque, where he was standing with his dad, who was killed...
...Bush and the Joint Chiefs can't seem to understand the essential dynamic of this insurgency...
...When it turned out the Iraqi Ministry of Planning actually drew up a plan for a thorough census that could be completed by September 1, Bremer pooh-poohed it...
...The Bush Administration fears that a direct election would bring to power a Shiite whom Washington might not be able to push around...
...Take the firefight in Samarra, Iraq, on November 30...
...So he ordered Paul Bre-mer to construct an elaborate process for picking electors around the country, a process Bremer would control...
...Zinn, who has an essay for us this month, won the prize for his People's History of the United States...
...troops out...
...On December 1, at the National Assembly in Paris, Howard Zinn received the Prize of the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique...
...and allied personnel...
...Judged by Nobel Prize-winners Dario Fo and Jose Saramago, filmmaker Costa Gavras, and writer Jose Luis Sampedro, the award highlights intellectual innovation and is designed to "create a breach in the dominant thought...
...Bush is in a lose-lose situation...
...The U.S...
...The more brutally the U.S...
...We're for democracy...
...Bush's excuse for not holding direct elections was transparent...
...tries to crush the insurgency, the more outraged Iraq's citizens will become, and the more recruits the insurgency will find...
...That is the instructive lesson of Samarra...
...Congratulations, Howard...
...That leader could align with Iran, or renationalize industries, or order the U.S...
...But some Iraqi civilians are learning a different lesson...
...They attacked, and they were killed," said General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...And Bush wants none of that...
...The London Independent interviewed a little boy with bullet holes in both his legs...
...Meanwhile, Bush's claim that he wants to install democracy in Iraq gets more difficult to sustain by the day...
...Simply put, if you move too fast, the wrong people get elected," Noah Feldman, a former adviser to Bremer, told The New York Times...
...soldiers killed, but we do know they killed at least a few civilians, including one seventy-one-year-old Shiite Iranian, who was on a pilgrimage to a mosque, and a woman who worked at a pharmaceutical factory...
...The shopkeeper said he saw U.S...
...Which people is he referring to...
...I think it will be instructive to them...
Vol. 68 • January 2004 • No. 1
