What I Heard about Iraq
Eliot Weinberger: Watch and listen, 3 February 2005
“... to make a decision on when the cancer of Fallujah needs to be cut out.’ I heard Major-General John Batiste, outside Samarra, say: ‘It’ll be a quick fight and the enemy is going to die fast. The message for the people of Samarra is: peacefully or not, this is going to be solved.’ I heard Brigadier-General Kimmitt say: ‘Our patience is not ... ”