Nir Rosen Part 1: Iraq does not exist today

Nir Rosen living in Iraq for the better part of the past 5 years delivers a compelling description of the state of affairs. He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Cmte. Hearing on the Political Situation in Iraq. PDF of testimony http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/testimony/2008/RosenTestimony080402p.pdf
His excellent article on same subject in Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18722376/the_myth_of_the_surge/1

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[thbyrnes]

A very interesting point of view that most people have never heard.

[Narwal88]

Nir Rosen is great. I loved "In the belly of the green bird." But he's speaking too quickly. He has to slow down and "dumb things down" for these Americans whose only sources of information have been propaganda machines such as CNN, Fox, NYT, etc.

Most of them probably don't have a clue what he's saying.

[MrLamotta86]

@Narwal88 true, I'm reading "Aftermath", Rosen is much better in writing

[candisensation]

They're not dumb, they just don't care. Big difference. I'm American and I'm not dumb. All they wanted was the oil. American people know this. They don't care about Iraqi's or anything else there.

[TrueNewz]

@PERIZ99

lets play the devils advocate. Egypt was in chaos, political unrest when this happened. Keep in mind Lara Logan was a major Iraq war mongerer which has caused thousands of rape, brutal killings, millions of refugees, pretty much Somalia 2.0 and if you think about that Lara Logan along with the mass media liars should be hanged. She suffered nothing in that sense.

[Thelookoutslookout]

ROSEN IS SCUM

[PERIZ99]

Making fun of a woman who's been raped is as low as you can get. Nir Rosen is one big asshole..

[rachelgolem]

Yes, it is going to be a terrible tragedy when millions of "Anti-Zionists" start killing each other.

[KatieJoyV]

If you watch some other videos of interviews with him you'll see that his natural speech is nice and slow - quite lovely & stately. He had pre-written this statement and knew how much he was trying to squeeze in. Also, he must have been a bit nervous - speaking such truth to such power.

[athar077]

The general look on the cmmitee's face is priceless . They have no idea what the hell this guy is talking about , accept maybe Sen Hagel and Sen Finegold

[moctezuma112]

@Narwal88

your right he does need to slow down. Americans are slow lol. if you see the committee's reaction they are having a hard time listening.