So it's a "truly remarkable achievement, is it? General Tommy Franks says so. Everything is going "according to plan, according to the British. So it's an achievement that the British still have not "liberated" Basra. It is "according to plan" that the Iraqis should be able to launch a scud missile from the Faw peninsula – supposedly under "British control" for more than a week. It is an achievement, truly remarkable of course, that the Americans lose an Apache helicopter to the gun of an Iraqi peasant, spend four days trying to cross the river bridges at Nasiriyah and are then confronted by their first suicide bomber at Najaf.


The monster of Baghdad is now the hero of Arabia, April 1, 2003

Robert Fisk Quotes

So it's a truly remarkable achievement, is it? General Tommy Franks says so. Everything is going according to plan, according to the British. So it's ...

So it's a truly remarkable achievement, is it? General Tommy Franks says so. Everything is going according to plan, according to the British. So it's ...

So it's a truly remarkable achievement, is it? General Tommy Franks says so. Everything is going according to plan, according to the British. So it's ...

So it's a truly remarkable achievement, is it? General Tommy Franks says so. Everything is going according to plan, according to the British. So it's ...