As I’m watching Fox news broadcast live coverage of an Abrams tank blocking Saddam’s front door, and a huge equestrian statue of him at the parade grounds being blown up by a tank shell, Baghdad Bob (the Iraqi information minister) holds a press conference of the roof of the Palestine hotel. He says there are no American tanks in Baghdad, ¾ of the coalition troops have been slaughtered, and we’re committing suicide at the city walls. I’ll never understand how that guy, and Tariq Aziz before him, could just look at the camera and tell outright lies with such a straight face. Unbelievable. The Brits say they found what’s left of Chemical Ali under a pile of rubble in Basra. I think the collapse will happen very quickly now. I just hope we’re successful in leaving Iraq with a functional, effective democracy. That’s the part I worry about, unfortunately. We act like we won the war in Afghanistan, but there is still no national government outside of Kabul. Just factions of warlords who do as they wish, not a stable, prosperous nation that will discourage terrorism.
