E&P: 'Wash Post' Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad,

'Wash Post' Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardship


NEW YORK The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees."

This cable outlines, the Post reported Sunday, "the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees' constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government."

It's actually far worse than that, as the details published below indicate, which include references to abductions, threats to women's rights, and "ethnic cleansing."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002690071

Makes me think we'll be seeing this image again before long :(

Notice how we never hear one word about talking to 'insurgents' about peace. Full speed ahead. Onward to war.

...then yes, things are going very badly. Too bad the media is ignoring all the good news happening in Iraq.

once he invaded.

From the memo:

-- "More recently, we have begun shredding documents printed out that show local staff surnames. In March, a few staff members approached us to ask what provisions would we make for them if we evacuate."

Didn't Vietnamese staff at the Saigon embassy start making arrangements to take their whole families out?

Nobody knows what's going on like the locals. They know they're toast if they stay, no matter what happens.

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq left via midnight helicopter ride from the embassy roof because of the Iraqi government's and people's outrage at Kuwait being made a sovereign nation with the support of the U.S.

I wonder who leaked that puppy.

with blindfolded US hostages being paraded thru the streets after our embassy is overrun.

or are they too afraid or supportive of this admin?

Ain't it sad to see how far the WP has fallen?

I sure hope we don't decide to spread democracy anywhere else, except maybe, here at home.

So Bushy flew over there and is now satisfied that everything is okay (from his tour in the bubble zone). Greeeaat.
:nuke:

-- "Personal safety depends on good relations with the 'neighborhood' governments, who barricade streets and ward off outsiders. The central government, our staff says, is not relevant; even local mukhtars have been displaced or coopted by militias. People no longer trust most neighbors."

What does "Khalilzad" mean?

Former UNOCAL adviser and PNAC signatory