The Story You Don't Hear
Reported by Eleanor - June 29, 2004 -
Tom Engelhardt on tomdispatch.com gives a slightly different version of yesterday's (June 28) events, than you see in the popular media,when the U.S. turned over power to Iraq.
Engelhardt says: Soon, the President will return to Washington's Green Zone to find himself further embattled, more alone, his "war on terror" in tatters: grand juries, investigations, angry leakers in the bureaucracy, mocking films, devastating committee reports, congressional hearings, lawsuits. Today, even the Supreme Court weighed in, declaring that this President's claims of unconstrained power as commander-in-chief cannot put our prison in Guantanamo, Cuba beyond the reach of the courts or Congress, even when the prisoners in question are not American citizens.
George Bush can travel anywhere in splendid isolation, and for him, there's always Crawford, Texas. But for our troops, 138,000 of them, in desperate danger, no such handy options exist. And what in the world are they supposed to do, while our leaders, who cut and ran in their moment of truth, continue to eye November and claim that no one will ever drive us from Iraq?
Read the entire article at A Cut & Run Transition
