soldiers have died since that announcement of "victory" than had died in the course of the technologically spectacular Anglo-American war of occupation during the three weeks of March and April. A month ago, the average was one every two days. soldiers have been killed in Iraq over the past eight days, at an average of close to two a day. As I draft the present article some three months later, on July 28, some of the officially acknowledged statistics on American casualties in Iraq are worth reiterating.įourteen U.S. Bush duly announced "victory" on May 1 even as the new war - the war of resistance - was just beginning. The war isn't over it hasn't even begun" ("Wars Yet to Come", May 9). is planning to formally announce a victory in a few days. And the leadership for that shall emerge over the next few months. Their resistence has been deferred, and their war is yet to come. They are probably relieved by the demise of the Saddam regime even as they are revolted by the re-colonisation of their country.
IN an article I published in Frontline immediately after the United States' occupation of Baghdad, I wrote that "the quick surrender tells us nothing about the will of the Iraqi people to fight for their freedom or even the preparedness of the lower levels of the armed forces or of the ordinary cadres of the Baath party itself.
0 kommentar(er)
