06/05/04

CounterPunch

by Derek Seidman

If we were to assume that Bush really means what he says, we'd have to come to the conclusion that he either pays absolutely no attention to events in Iraq, or that he's living on a separate planet from the rest of us. After all, being told that the problem is 'Saddam's elite guards' and 'foreign fighters and terrorists' is at odds with virtually every headline concerning the Iraqi resistance for the past several weeks, which almost unanimously deal with the indigenous Shiite (read: anti-Baathist) rebellion of followers of Moqtada al-Sadr. Beyond that, much of the investigative reporting shows the fierce Sunni resistance that exists in places like Fallujah to be primarily native and from the grassroots, having little to do with nostalgia for Saddam and much to do with anger at the occupation.

http://www.counterpunch.org/seidman06052004.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp