Iraq - Baghdad's "Fall From Grace"

Chrenkoff does a great job of fisking this bullshit from the AP's RAWYA RAGEH.

Here's my favorite part.

Rageh's last paragraph, however, really does it for me:

"Even democracy has taken its toll on Baghdad. Posters and banners of candidates running in the landmark Jan. 30 elections -- a collage of mismatching colors -- are still plastered everywhere, tainting roundabouts and walls two months after the vote."

Ah, that messy democracy. Baghdad was so much more orderly and aesthetically pleasing when only the countless pictures of the One Leader were allowed to grace the public spaces.

Got that? "Even democracy has taken its toll on Baghdad" - he actually wrote that. Do you have any doubt whose side the AP is on?
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