It’s almost New Year’s meaning it’s time for all top ten lists about 2006. Juan Cole has compiled a list of the Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006. Check out his post for the specifics about these myths:
- The United States “can still win” in Iraq
- US military sweeps of neighborhoods can drive the guerrillas out
- The United States is best off throwing all its support behind the Iraqi Shiites
- Iraq is not in a civil war
- The second Lancet study showing 600,000 excess deaths from political and criminal violence since the US invasion is somehow flawed
- Most deaths in Iraq are from bombings
- Baghdad and environs are especially violent but the death rate is lower in the rest of the country
- Iraq is the central front in the war on terror
- The Sunni Arab guerrillas in places like Ramadi will follow the US home to the American mainland and commit terrorism if we leave Iraq
- Setting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is a bad idea
thanks! seen at johnkerry.com
Will check here more often.