What I heard about Iraq in 2005
Eliot Weinberger: Iraq, 5 January 2006
“... it up as they go along. The reality is that we’re losing in Iraq.’ I heard Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Wellman say of the insurgents: ‘We can’t kill them all. When I kill one, I create three.’ I heard that Congressman Walter Jones, Republican from North Carolina and the man who renamed French fries ‘freedom fries’, was now calling for the ... ”
