The Times: the Murray Walker of Newspapers

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/261018.php

'Times of London: How Did Maliki Succeed In a Month Where Thousands of British Troops Failed for Years?'

'In related news, the Paper of Record [Retard] finally gets around to noticing that the Sunnis are rejoining Maliki's government, just a week after everyone else did.'

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/24/sunnis-return-to-maliki-government-and-the-ny-times-notices/

There was a famous Formula One commentator called Murray Walker- famous because pretty much every time he predicted something the opposite would IMMEDIATELY happen. "...And Nigel Mansell has won the Grand Prix- oh- no- he's crashed off at the last corner". Wry smiles all round. I get the same feeling from the London Times about its instant conclusion about the Maliki war on Jaish Al-Mahdi. No sooner had Maliki gone back to Baghdad after his week of personally overseeing the first round inn Basra, than the Times declared him utterly broken politically and militarily. And ever since that moment, everything has gone Malikis way.

Senior clerics lined up to condemn Sadr as illigitimate and to give up his militia, the Iraqi army and police smashed the JAM in both Baghdad and Basra, blustering threats from Sadr ended up making him look impotent, the US and British forces added extra bite and heft to already successful Iraqi military efforts, the largest Sunni political block decided on the basis of events in Basra that Milikis government was an IRAQI government rather than a Shia one and came back to the parliament- its just a litany of success beyond Malikis wildest dreams.

So keep it up, Times. Keep those rediculous stories of the poor, desperate Iraqi governments last twitches coming.