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Press failure. “If you blinked, you would have missed news of a Pentagon ‘strategic’ report to Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealing that U.S. actions ‘have not only failed, they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended.’ There was a bit in some newspapers about a damning classified cable from the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Baghdad that painted a dismal picture of Iraq's economic, political and security prospects. And, while it got notice when published in October, there's been no follow-up on a study in an esteemed British medical journal suggesting that up to 100,000 civilians had died since the invasion. No follow-up, that is, except to trash the research.”

This comes from the daily war news which is linked at the right under Today in Iraq. There's also information about body armour and the kits for the Humvees. Not only are we liberating Iraq, we are dropping the soldiers right in it. Someone , somewhere said that if 25 or something people would have been put on an island at the beginning of last year we'd have avoided all of this. If it's only that many people, how come the rest of us feel so futile and powerless?? How can so few people be detrimentally affecting and antagonising the rest of us? That is some power strategy.