Flutterby™! : More warblogging

Lt. Col. Tim Collins of the Royal Irish battle group, urging his command into battle:

We go to liberate, not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country. We are entering Iraq to free a people, and the only flag that will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Don't treat them as refugees, for they are in their own country.

Brian Whitaker points out that all is not as rosy as the U.S. propaganda machine would have us believe, pointing out several failures of politics in which the U.S. Marines raising the flag over Umm Qasr was just one example:

To have reached such a position against an adversary who is demonstrably one of the world's most disgusting tyrants, to have transformed him into a hero figure, and to have transformed the American flag into a symbol of oppression, is not only unfortunate but reeks of political incompetence.