Iraqi Republican Guard Pulls Back - Into City
An exhausted, almost-desparate sounding CNN correspondent changed some persepective tonight by saying the 'coalition' advance into Baghdad wasn't really that at all; instead, it was a move by the Republlican Guard to move closer to Baghdad... yet, still, again, pulling us in.
Pulling us into the urban war where "coalition' technology matters not as much. Where street fighting happens. Where many, many people die... ours, theirs, others, people not involved. An Italian correspondent reports a different story; but it's in the exact same tone... exhausted, resigned... And CentCom says we dropped 40 smart bombs on a single military storage facility in the Karhk district of Baghdad.
I hope the 'coalition' forces - the we I guess I mean most times - are smarter than our smart bombs... I wish we would see beyond a military victory and understand the ramifications of what we are doing. I wish no more barely-adult Jessica's would be filmed with broken bodies and held up as heroes. And no more stories of charred Iraqi children...
President Bush, are you listening, watching, understanding?
permalink posted by: jgh 11:32:23 PM
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