Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

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That occurred on March 31st, and I went into the city on April 9th, and I went in with some other colleagues. And we chose that day because, according to the US military and the corporate media, it was a ceasefire. And so, we knew it would be dangerous, but we figured, well, if itâ€™s a ceasefire, at least our odds will be a little bit better. And we went in, and it was anything but a ceasefire. There were F-16s dropping bombs in the city. There were helicopters strafing. We could hear sporadic fighting all over the place. And we got into the city and took our supplies to a small makeshift clinic in the middle of the city.
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Right, because itâ€™s indicative of the fact that theyâ€™ve lost just about total control of the situation on the ground. I mean, I don't even know if we should call it the Green Zone anymore, because itâ€™s mortared almost every single day. My last trip in there, over a ninety-day period, I think there were maybe three days that it wasn't mortared. And itâ€™s called the Green Zone because itâ€™s theoretically a totally secure area. And the reality is that itâ€™s not. So -- and the rest of Iraq, therefore, by default, is known as the Red Zone, and the reality is that the US military is being attacked thousands of times every single month. They're not letting up. The situation, over time -- the one constant thread we can point to is that it will continue to get worse over time, not better.
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