Various quotes of note from a few of the Sunday News Shows:<\/p>\n
Joe “Anonymous” Klein on The Chris Matthews Show<\/i>:<\/p>\n The Bush Administration’s new man in Iraq, U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, on This Week<\/i> in re: the possibility of full-frontal attacks on the insurgencies in Fallujah and Najaf:<\/p>\n Hope so. But we’ll see. One could apply that argument to every mis-step the Bushies have made so far in their “War on Terror” and yet they never paid it any mind prior to today.<\/p>\n Newsweek’s Farid Zakaria, also on This Week<\/i>, adds the old Neocon-ignored chesnut :<\/p>\n In the meantime, here’s Brahimi on Bush throwing in with Sharon on the Palestinian “Right of Return” issue:<\/p>\n If true, it’s another good point, since even by the most Conservative standards, it is understood that peace — if it’s ever to come to Israel\/Palestine — will be brokered by negotiations lead by the United States. All pretenses of impartiality in the matter would seem to be completely gone as of now.<\/p>\n And finally, Republican Senator Jon Kyl on the War in Iraq:<\/p>\n So far, the most conservative estimates of Iraqi Civilian Casusualties<\/a> is a minimum of 8930 and a maximum of 10,781. John McLaughlin reports the number of Iraqi Civilians Killed at over 14,000.<\/p>\n That’s all in a country with a population of a little more than 24.5 million according to the CIA World Factbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n The United States — with a population of 290.5 million — lost 3,000 civilians on 9\/11. We got kinda unsettled and angry at the perpetrators of that event as I recall.<\/p>\n You can do the math. Any idea how the Iraqis might feel about Americans at this point?<\/p>\n (Not to mention their 1.1 BILLION Arab brethren?)<\/p>\n