Robert Fisk (The Independent) : Don’t Say We Were Not Warned About This Mess

An American commentator, Rosie DiManno, wrote this week that in Iraq « There’s also the other cost, the one measured in human lives… one American a day slain since Bush declared the major fighting over. » Note here how the blood of Iraqis–whom we were so desperate to liberate six months ago–has disappeared from the narrative. Up to 20 innocent Iraqi civilians a day are now believed to be dying–in murders, revenge killings, at US checkpoints–and yet they no longer count.

C’est ce que l’on pourrait appeler le véritable Syndrome du Viêt-Nam.