An excellent piece by Eliot Weinberger, entitled
What I heard about Iraq in 2005, appears in the latest issue of
The London Review of Books, a contrarian journal rather much overlooked by the Kos Community.
The piece is packed with bullets, of which I offer this sample:
"I heard a man who had been in Abu Ghraib prison say: `The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house.'"
Also this:
"I heard a Pentagon spokesman, Major General Rick Lynch, say: `We do empower our operational commanders with the ability to inform the Iraqi public, but everything we do is based on fact, not based on fiction.' I heard him quote the al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: `Remember, half the battle is the battlefield of the media.'"
We all suffer from outrage fatique in the face of the Bushite onslaught; this will help re-sharpen your edge.