[lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions

[Brad DeLong]

>  > Bradford DeLong wrote:
>>
>>  >Alongside what looks like a vigorous popular spontaneous prowar
>>  >mobilization today in Baghdad...
>>
>>  ...by people who are, we've been told, well trained to flatter
>>  whoever's in power.
>>
>
>
>The Anschluss of Austria was also greeted with jubilation by certain
>segments of society.  The French right was quite eager to asquiesce to
>the Nazi invasion and form the Vichy governemnt.  The Soviet invasion of
>Afghanistan was warmy received by certain Afghani factions.  Why shoud
>the US inavsion of Iraq be any different?  Given the fact that Bush's
>credibility is at stake and Iraqu Kurds hated saddam and collaboarted
>with the US Army  - it would not surprise me if this "mobilization" was
>staged for public consumption, coutsesy of the US Army.  I am also
>pretty sure that WMD will also be "found" (maybe even with their "made
>in the USA tags)  pretty soon.
>
>Wojtek

Were the crowds at the fall of the Berlin Wall fake too?

I don't think the U.S. Army has enough people in Baghdad who speak 
Arabic to stage a mobilization.

Brad DeLong