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Posted at 2:44am on Feb. 5, 2008 Caricatures Of War

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This essay is an important one for anyone who wants to know how the dominant narrative on Iraq--less dominant now that news of the success of the surge and the counterinsurgency plan have gotten out, but dominant still--has been developed and continues to be developed. The key ingredients are a fierce determination to stereotype the war and to refuse to listen to stories that might thrown a few gray patches into this black-and-white affair.

In short, it is yet another example of how "the reality-based community" utterly fails to live up to the name.

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