Tuesday, December 21, 2004

 

Attack On Mosul Mess Tent Kills At Least Score Of Soldiers



Looks like Rummy will need to loosen up his condolences-signing hand . . . too bad the "cognitive dissonance" to the standard Orwellian misinformation shitstorm from yesterday's "news conference" comes not in the form of hard questions raised by a revitalized and skeptical press, but rather through more death and destruction.

Watched the Robert McNamara documentary ("The Fog of War") on the Independent Film Channel the other night, and had to laugh aloud when I saw, among the (largely Civil War-era) names that the military had assigned to battles during the Vietnam fiasco, one scrolled by on the screen as "Operation Certain Victory." I've been trying to track down just when that "mission [was] accomplished" (and more important, how many more soldiers died after that particular battle ended).

posted by Michael 2:54 PM