April 07, 2003
PAUL SHEEHAN does the math:
PAUL SHEEHAN does the math:
While an entire standing army has been demolished up and down the country, the civilian casualty rate has been of an order of magnitude of around .005 per cent of the population. Prior to the invasion, the percentage of truncated, fearful lives of Iraqis was of a magnitude of 99 per cent of the population. Not even the army's generals were immune from execution.
And Sheehan's summary of events is terrific:
After just two weeks, all that remains of Saddamistan is a shrinking, ranting, desperate, isolated rump collapsing down to its essence - guns, terror and hatred. There's nothing else left.
Oil wealth: gone. Economy: gone. Territory: almost gone. Ports: gone. Airports: gone. Border control: gone. Credibility: gone. Ideals: never existed.
UPDATE. Aaron Oakley writes:
Posted by Tim Blair at April 7, 2003 06:54 PM"A shrinking, ranting, desperate, isolated rump ..." The same summary is also true of Margo Kingston's Web Diary, wouldn't you agree?