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September 23, 2004
More Violence Means We're Winning!
Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, using his robust self-confidence to try to counter growing pessimism over conditions in his country, said in an interview on Wednesday that the rise in the number and ferocity of terror attacks in the country by insurgents was proof that they were getting not stronger, but weaker.
"They are becoming more deadly because we think they are getting more desperate," said Dr. Allawi, visiting the United States for the first time as leader of his country and delivering a relentlessly upbeat assessment of his embattled nation.
Boy, is this guy a U.S. puppet, or what? He certainly knows on which side his bread is buttered. This is the same refrain we've been hearing from the Bush administration ever since the invasion of Iraq. They know how to pick their colonial governors well.
The New York Times article continues:
He criticized news coverage of Iraq, saying that it focused only on violence and other setbacks and failed to capture the gains for Iraqi society.
"Of course, the media will report these suicidal crazy persons who will come and kill us, that is obvious, but the media overlooks that there are other areas which are improving," he said.
I had no idea there were neocons in Iraq, too!
Posted by Mike Tennant at September 23, 2004 08:40 AM