Bombing Tikrit
Riverbend of Baghdad Burning has some more on-the-ground commentary from an average Iraqi-in-the-street: Difficult days. I must admit, our latest bombing campaign (along with the drive-by shootings and other “shows of force” the US troops have been engaging in lately) reminds me of nothing so much as Xerxes flogging the waves of the Hellespont. I thought it was the other side that was supposed to look desperate.
November 20th, 2003 at 9:48 pm
She sounds like the typical liberal American with her, “How can that ass of a president say things are getting better in Iraq……..” remark.
November 21st, 2003 at 10:01 pm
Herodotus says: “An appalling way to treat the Hellespont, and typical of a barbarian race”.