Oriana Fallaci!

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on March 12, 2003

The Italian journalist has a piece in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.

My favorite part:

For Christ's sake, in 1991 the Iraqi army deflated like a pricked balloon. It disintegrated so quickly, so easily, that even I captured four of its soldiers. I was behind a dune in the Saudi desert, all alone. Four skeletal creatures in ragged uniforms came toward me with arms raised, and whispered: "Bush, Bush." Meaning: "Please take me prisoner. I am so thirsty, so hungry." So I took them prisoner. I delivered them to the Marine in charge, and instead of congratulating me he grumbled: "Dammit! Some more?!?" Yet the Americans did not get to Baghdad, did not remove Saddam. And, to thank them, Saddam tried to kill their president. The same president who had left him in power.

And some pundits are suggesting that we should be worried about street-to-street fighting against the Iraqi army in Baghdad?

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