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The Real Story About Iraq: Do you dare to read it?
Mar 15, 2006
Why we cannot win in Iraq. This is the real news that is not portrayed by the mass media, due to pressure from Republicans and warhawk Democrats alike.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt171.html

Baghdad: The Besieged Press

By Orville Schell
This piece, which appears in the April 6, 2006 issue of the New York Review of Books, is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.

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"Ladies and Gents," the South African pilot matter-of-factly announces over the intercom, "we'll be starting our spiral descent into Baghdad, where the temperature is 19 degrees Celsius." The vast and mesmerizing expanse of sandpapery desert that has been stretching out beneath the plane has ended at the Tigris River. To avoid a dangerous glide path over hostile territory and missiles and automatic weapons fire, the plane banks steeply and then, as if caught in a powerful whirlpool, it plunges, circling downward in a corkscrew pattern.

Upon arriving in Amman, the main civilian gateway to Baghdad, one already has had the feeling of drawing ever nearer to an atomic reactor in meltdown. Even in Jordan, there is a palpable sense of being in the last concentric circle away from a radioactive ground zero emitting uncontrollable waves of contamination. "
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