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30 June 2005

Where do you even begin combatting the head-in-the-sandism, brazen propaganda

Bumps in the Road

Journalist Christopher Allbritton, on the ground in Iraq, has a different take than Donald Rumsfeld's assessment.

News flash: Iraq is a disaster. I've been back one day, and the airport road was the worst I've ever seen it. We had to go around a fire-fight between mujahideen and Americans while Iraqi forces sat in the shade of date palms on the side of the road, their rifles resting across their laps. My driver pointed to a group of men in a white pickup next to me. "They are mujahideen," he said. "They are watching the Americans." Indeed, they were, and so intently that they paid no attention to me in the car next to them. We detoured around two possible car bombs that had been cordoned off while Iraqis cautiously approached.