If the Leading NeoCon Think Tank Says It….
… It must be true. From the American Enterprise Institute:
Though the Bush administration hates to admit it, daily life in Baghdad has become worse. For those politically active, life is more dangerous now than ever.
It is irrelevant whether small businesses, imports, and school and hospital construction are doing better if Iraq’s political and intellectual classes (not to mention foreigners who are trying to help them) cannot walk out of their homes unguarded.
If Baghdad remains a killing zone, where Iraq’s leaders can safely gather only under U.S. protection, then the prognosis for the Iraqi national identity, which has always had Baghdad at its center, is poor. Lasting political compromises will probably be impossible if the increasingly vicious sectarian strife in Baghdad and its environs intensifies. Within a year, at most two, Iraq could become Algeria.
and the sound of nutters and Bush apologists is nowhere to be found
this fucking sucks.
Do they mean to imply that George Bush and Company are and have been lying to us?
It isn’t possible. But alas, here we are.