Fisk Freely Discusses Ugly Reality of Iraq Endgame
"...The Americans will soon, if they have not already, establish contact with the insurgents, and that will mean the beginning of end. It means that the project is over. That they have accepted, as I think, you know, they have already in terms of soldiers on the ground. If you are going to talk to the colonels, and they may -- the majors and the generals in Iraq, they know that the game is up. But the generals back at the Pentagon and the Centcom and down there in old Florida and the gentleman in the State Department and at the White House, they don't accept this because this is a screen of self-delusion between them and the reality on the ground. But it's over in Iraq. It's finished. What we're going to see this year is the beginning of the endgame, which is how do we get Americans out without losing face and ultimately - I should say faith as well - and ultimately, how do you start negotiation with the insurgents...[..]--Robert Fisk, in an interview today with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now
[..]..when I'm in Baghdad, and I read the American press or I turn on the television and watch CNN, what I'm reading and what I am seeing bears absolutely no physical, moral, political, or military relationship to the place that I'm living in...[..]
[...]"..it's getting worse all the time. But at least let us tell our readers and our viewers that we cannot move. But the [mainstream media] journalists don't do this, and of course neither does Mr. Allawi, who cannot even move around Baghdad. Neither does Mr. Rumsfeld, who for a long time wouldn't venture into Iraq. So, an illusion is created of calm and progress and well, things may get more violent, but that's because things are getting better, which is the most ludicrous topsy turvy I ever heard.."
William Blake: "On Another's Sorrow"
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