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Yahoo News:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/thenation/20050106/cm_thenation/132106_1

Here's the reality check:

As Bush spins delusions, the chaos on the ground has never been dicier.

 Iraq's Shiite defense minister, Hazem Shaalam, and Iraq's leading Sunni politician, Adnan Pachachi, this week called for a delay in Iraqi elections.

 Seventy Iraqi security officers--including the Governor of Baghdad Province--and five American soldiers were killed this week in thirteen different attacks. Iraq's national intelligence director, General Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani, says the Iraqi insurgency comprises 200,000 people, overwhelming the US military presence.

 When asked if the insurgents are winning, Shahwani replied, "I would say they aren't losing."

After lying his way into the war, Bush is now trying to lie his way out of the quagmire. Yet his baselessly optimistic pronouncements have only dug the troops deeper into harm's way.

Long live IRAQ
President and Prime Minister IRAQ
Long live President Saddam Hussein

Interview with President Hussein:

An interview with Saddam Hussein
Sandy Shanks
The Daily Tribune
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 04th, 2005 03:12:32 PM


The 4 1/2-hour interview took place between Saddam and one of his defense lawyers, a Mr. Khalil Douleïmi. The exchange took place in some secluded and secure place in Iraq, probably near Baghdad International Airport. The conversation between Saddam and his lawyer was published in "al Ousboua" (the week) by its editor Mustapha Bakri. At this writing, the mainstream American press apparently didn’t think it was newsworthy. [emphasis added]
[or we have once again had our news 'blacked out']

Douleïmi reported that the former dictator was “in good health and serene.” After reading some of his own poetry, Saddam got down to business with his friendly interrogator by answering a few scripted questions. After waxing prophetic on the illegalities of the Iraqi war, the illegality of the court in Iraq judging him, and, in general, how life can be so darn unfair, Saddam provided what he thought was a stunner. He stated calmly,
 
“He [Bush] will leave Iraq by the small door because Iraqi Resistance is well prepared. It was prepared quite ahead of war. I had joined together the military and political commands and we had prepared this new page of the war against the Americans. What arrives today is not the fruit of chance.”

Readers of this column are not the least bit shocked by Saddam’s statement. They read here on Aug. 22, 2003, “… captured documents ‘have given some indication that preparations for a resistance movement were made prior to the war.’ [They] further state that General Abizaid, CENTCOM’s commander, views the current fighting in Iraq a ‘classical guerilla-type campaign,’ and that the resistance is comprised of the paramilitary Fedayeen Saddam, and ‘Republican Guard soldiers.’ ” A later article, on Sept. 2, added the elite Presidential Guards, 26,000 stone-cold, dedicated killers . . .The mainstream press hasn’t mentioned this crack unit since March 2003, but loyalists of this column have been reminded several times. . . .  our military commanders, including the C-in-C, President Bush, knew that the enemy would fade away into the populace and become guerilla fighters. How else can you explain that we sent two divisions, the 3rd I.D. and 1st MarDiv, to take Baghdad against an Iraqi regular army that consisted of three armored divisions, three mechanized divisions, and 11 infantry divisions along with six elite Republican Guards divisions, the latter being well-paid, well-fed, and well-equipped. . . . our brave and beloved troops, be they army, Marine, Navy, or Coast Guard, were being led by chronically inept leadership who thought it would be easy, leadership that declared an end to “major combat” on May 1, 2003. That declaration by our President gives surrealism a whole new meaning. Also, it appears that the enemy can hit where it wants, when it wants. The Jan. 30 elections in Iraq are pure illusory. Iraqis will need body armor to vote. Equally delusional is that we need only 150,000 troops to subdue this.