By Deborah Newell Tornello a.k.a. litbrit
Damn. Just...damn. Go read this (I've linked to Common Dreams, since the source article in Britain's The Independent seems to be, er, not available; the article was first published in The Independent, now with a working link):
Myfinal argument - a clincher, in my view - is that the Bushadministration has screwed up everything - militarily, politicallydiplomatically - it has tried to do in the Middle East; so how on earthcould it successfully bring off the international crimes againsthumanity in the United States on 11 September 2001?
Well, I stillhold to that view. Any military which can claim - as the Americans didtwo days ago - that al-Qa'ida is on the run is not capable of carryingout anything on the scale of 9/11. “We disrupted al-Qa'ida, causingthem to run,” Colonel David Sutherland said of the preposterouslycode-named “Operation Lightning Hammer” in Iraq's Diyala province.“Their fear of facing our forces proves the terrorists know there is nosafe haven for them.” And more of the same, all of it untrue.
