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Friday Headlines To Make You Laugh And

Juan Cole 03/03/2006

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Friday Headlines to Make You Laugh and Cry at the Same Time

“Rumsfeld Cautions against too Many Troops in Iraq”. I swear to God, that is what it says.

“Iraq now ‘Less Safe’. Oh, I’d say so.

“Pentagon Dismisses US Troop Poll”. A Pentagon spokesman actually said, “It shouldn’t surprise anybody that a deployed soldier would rather be at home than deployed . . .”

Is that what Bush has been saying? “It is also important for every American to understand the consequences of pulling out of Iraq before our work is done. . . We would undermine the morale of our troops by betraying the cause for which they have sacrificed.”

Now it turns out the troops think the US should get out within a year.

“Iran to Invest $1 Billion in Iraq”

“Late 30s aren’t Too Late to Enlist”. Jonah Goldberg, Michael Rubin and Dan Senor alert.

Fox News asks, “Could All-Out Civil War in Iraq be a Good Thing?” You can’t make this stuff up.

Followed by: “Iraq Civil War: Made up by the Media?”.

“Coalition Commander Says Iraq Crisis has Passed.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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