Re: The Times of London on victory in Iraq

"PJ O'Donovan" <Xentinc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:80c7d846-4e51-4527-b9ed-
3f763d06f9f3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <<American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its
>  last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of
>  the most spectacular victories of the war on terror. After being
>  forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the
> past
>  two years, Al-Qaeda's dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant
>  "last stand" in the northern city of Mosul...".
> 
> PJ>>
> 
>  <Oh goody
> 
>      Progress in Iraq!
> 
>      Oh, wait - haven't we heard that before?
> 
>  Bush Sees Iraq Progress....
> 
> Mitchell Holman>
> 
> Don't believe Bush? Do a google search on the news of progress in Iraq
> and get over 12000 hits from other independent news sources.


    Perhaps you are too young to remember all the re****ts
of "progress" in Vietnam and some district was "cleared"
of VC and how the side was "close to collapse". Given that
the Bush administration has admitted planting optimistic
stories in the press what are we supposed to believe?