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  • Getting Iraqis to Take Over

    08/26/2003 9:35:07 PM PDT · by Pokey78 · 5 replies · 327+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 08/27/03 | George F. Will
    It is sad yet stirring to say. With a realist's melancholy sense of the human cost of things, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz is saying it: Part of the good news out of Iraq -- good news obscured by recent bad news, and sometimes mistaken for unalloyed bad news -- is that the deaths, including of 62 Americans, caused by hostile action in Iraq since major combat operations ended include the deaths of almost 50 Iraqis. They died, Wolfowitz says, as exemplary pioneers of Iraq's progress up from tyranny, while working with coalition forces to secure public order and...
  • Friedman: Starting From Scratch

    08/26/2003 9:27:28 PM PDT · by Pokey78 · 3 replies · 1,745+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 08/27/03 | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
    As I was riding back from the U.N. office in Baghdad a few days ago, I came to an intersection where an Iraqi civilian in a brown robe was directing traffic. I don't know whether he was a good samaritan or simply out of his mind, but he had a big smile on his face and was waving cars here and there with the flourish of a symphony conductor. Some cars obeyed his directives, and others didn't (there are still virtually no working stoplights in Baghdad), but he was definitely better than nothing — and he was definitely having a...