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July 28, 2003

Post-War, The Tone Has Changed

I'm doing some catching up, so there might be some oldish articles (like this one) in the coming batch.

This one's a TruthOut translation of a Le Monde article. Here's the original.

Post War

Le Monde

Friday 11 July 2003

The tone has changed. It is no longer the triumphant and triumphalist tone of the Commander-in-Chief of the American armed forces strapped into an air force fighter pilot outfit, landing in a combat jet on the deck of an aircraft carrier of the Pacific Fleet to celebrate the end of combat in Iraq. Thursday July 10 President George W. Bush soberly acknowledged: "We have a security problem in Iraq, without any doubt." Since the end of the war three months ago not a day has gone by that American forces have not been the object of several daily attacks: more than 70 soldiers have been killed, thirty or so of them in ambushes. According to a CBS poll the same Thursday, less than half of Americans believe the situation in Iraq is under control...

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