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Laying down the smackie: A US General speaks

Hundreds of Muslim fighters, many of them non-Iraqis, were putting up a stronger fight for Baghdad than Iraq's Republican Guard or the regular army, a top United States military officer said yesterday.

“They stand, they fight, sometimes they run when we engage them”, Brigadier-General John Kelly said.“But often they run into our machine guns and we shoot them down like the morons they are”.

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“They appear willing to die. We are trying our best to help them out in that endeavour,” he said.

This guy must be taking lessons from the Brits. [source]

BBC Bias Watch

More BBC bias. This article talks about how the BBC failed to report on the first American incursion into Baghdad while at the same time reporting the Iraqi claim to have driven the Americans from the Baghdad airport while other news services were streaming video of the Americans in the airport.

NY Times incoherence watch

Slate eviscerates R. W. Apple Jr. who, despite his incoherence, self-contradiction and reality dysfunction, continues to be a front page writer for the NY Times.