Lost In The Desert

By Maureen Dowd
New York Times

Wednesday 22 November 2006

Iraq now evokes that old Jimmy Durante song that goes, "Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go and still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?"

It's hard to remember when America has been so stuck. We can't win and we can't leave.

The good news is that the election finished what Katrina started. It dismantled the president's fake reality about Iraq, causing opinions to come gushing forth from all quarters about where to go from here.

The bad news is that no one, and I mean no one, really knows where to go from here. The White House and the Pentagon are ready to shift to Plan B. But Plan B is their empty term for miraculous salvation.

      Crossposted from TruthOut

More Violence In Iraq

Violence `spiking' all over Iraq
DEATH TOLL MOUNTS AS DECISIONS NEAR ON NATION'S FUTURE
By Hannah Allam and Zaineb Obeid
McClatchy Baghdad Bureau via MercuryNews

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqis are dying in record numbers and fleeing by the tens of thousands from an anarchic nation where armed men rule the streets and there's little faith in government institutions, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday.

The 3,709 Iraqis killed in October was the highest monthly toll since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Hundreds of the bodies turned up bound and blindfolded, with signs of torture and execution-style killings.

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