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Zitat:May 21, 2004
Congress, Media Could Talk U.S. Into Iraq Defeat
By Mort Kondracke

The American establishment, led by the media and politicians, is in danger of talking the United States into defeat in Iraq. And the results would be catastrophic.

The media - unperturbed by mistakenly likening both the Afghan war and last year's invasion of Iraq to Vietnam - focuses overwhelmingly on the bad news coming out of Iraq. There is plenty of bad news - but there is also much good, and it is being almost completely ignored.
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Both the media and Congress are obsessed with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. It is awful, but both institutions are treating it as if it were the most important occurrence of the war.

The decapitation of Nicholas Berg - which, it merits reminding, required several cuts of the knife to stop his screaming - was a front-page story for just one day. Only one newspaper that I know of, the Dallas Morning News, plus the Weekly Standard magazine, made the point that Berg's murder is "why we fight."
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In 1968 - by no accident, a U.S. presidential election year - the Viet Cong launched a massive countrywide offensive in South Vietnam, invading the U.S. Embassy complex in the process.

By every military measure, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces devastated the Communist forces. (It's all recorded in the late Peter Braestrup's masterful book "Big Story.") Yet the U.S. media reported the episode as a U.S. defeat, helping convince the American establishment that the war was unwinnable.

In this respect, there is a real danger that Iraq could become like Vietnam - a self-inflicted defeat. Public support for the war is down, and even conservative columnists such as David Brooks and George Will are implying that Bush's aims are unachievable.
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Zitat:Forces Raid Iraq Mosque, Kill 32 Fighters

Sun May 23, 7:11 PM ET

By HADI MIZBAN, Associated Press Writer

KUFA, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a Kufa mosque Sunday where they said insurgents stored weapons, and the military said at least 32 fighters loyal to a radical Shiite cleric were killed during the first American incursion into the holy city.
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Zitat:'I have not killed but, God willing, I soon will'
(Filed: 22/05/2004)


Julius Strauss meets the Mahdi army as it takes on American forces in and around the Shia holy city of Najaf


A hundred yards to the north stretched the Wadi al-Salam, the Valley of Peace, the largest Shia cemetery in the world. Less than a mile to the west lay an American base, manned by the 1st Armoured Division, probably the most dangerous posting in Iraq.
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