"Anyone who doubts that the Iraqi Army is prepared to defend its capital should take the highway south of Baghdad. How, I kept asking myself, could the Americans batter their way through these defenses? For mile after mile they go on, slit trenches, ditches, earthen underground bunkers, palm groves of heavy artillery and truck loads of combat troops in battle fatigues and steel helmets. Not since the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War have I seen the Iraqi Army deployed like this; the Americans may say they are "degrading" the country’s defenses but there was little sign of that here Wednesday." - Robert Fisk - Arab News.

---Robert Fisk, and if you don't know who he is you should, is the biggest America/Israel hating Left wing neo-Nazi stooge this side of Noam Chomsky. He makes no pretense of objectivity and regularly lies and distorts to make the West look evil, imperialist, racist, etc. He is also a celebrated and honored journalist, who is considered brilliant, incisive, and courageous by the likes of the BBC, CNN, and numerous other media organizations and outlets. If you want an idea of how far the mainstream media has fallen, how violently psychotic they ave become, how thoroughly they have embraced anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and racism, you need look no further then this gentleman and his vaunted reputation.