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interesting. back once again to fundamentally divergent views of the iraq thing.
on oracle's post:
i do not understand the position from which this post was written--the basic underlying claim is "i am in iraq and so i know everything about the situation. you, reading this, are not there so you dont know anything." this seem a bit...um...arrogant, particularly when you move to the enumerated points in the post, which could come from any number of bush administration press releases concerning their particular view of the war.
i do not understand where this impression comes from that if you are in a situation personally that you know all there is to know about the situation in general. one might ask oracle where in iraq he is, how extensively he has been able to move around the country, under what conditions he has een able to move around, if he has, whether he has spoken to iraqi folk, whether he does this speaking in english or in arabic or in the local dialects of arabic...for example.
this is not to say that accounts of his particular experience would not be interesting to read--i would hope that some would appear here, myself--but accounts of his particular experience in a complex and confusing situation that would hopefully take at least some account of its complexity. the post above aint it.
i continue to be surprised by the ability of folk like stevo (and matthew330) to refuse to look at information that may cause their a priori political committments to support george w bush no matter what any problems.
i am surprised that this kind of behaviour persists---it seems to me kind of infantile---but am also quite bored with the fact of it, and so will simply stop here.
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