"Author and Middle East expert Amir Taheri spent several days on the ground in Iraq last week and found reality to be starkly different from what is so ubiquitously reported." That is the gist of this NY Post report.
I think this excerpt says it all-
The flower stalls along the Tigris are also making a comeback.
"Business is good," says Hashem Yassin, one florist. "In the past, we sold a lot of flowers for funerals and placement on tombs. Now we sell for weddings, birthday parties and gifts of friendship."
Thanks to our friend Russ for bringing this to my attention.
Posted by JohnGalt at July 24, 2003 09:19 AMThe blogosphere will get the story across. Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan and a thousand other bloggers are going to force the truth into the public, be it over the heads of the heads of the BBC, NYTimes and CNN. This is cool, thanks, Russ!
Posted by: jk at July 24, 2003 11:20 AM