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Post by Turk on Dec 31, 2009 13:06:59 GMT -5
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Post by Turk on Dec 31, 2009 13:08:15 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jan 21, 2010 15:25:34 GMT -5
www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/519073/iran_s_power_play_in_iraqWho "won" the War on Iraq? Could it be...Iran? "Victory" is so often a nebulous concept... "The Justice and Accountability Commission is heir to the old, circa-2003 de-Baathification Commission, a McCarthyite blacklisting body set up by the neocon-dominated occupation authorities after the US invasion of Iraq and headed by Ahmed Chalabi, the wheeler-dealer who was the chief proponent of the war in the 1990s and beyond and who was an intimate confidante of leading neoconservatives such as Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and various American Enterprise Institute apparatchiks such as Michael Rubin, Danielle Pletka, et al."
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Post by johng on Jan 21, 2010 15:50:28 GMT -5
I don't know for sure dreddy but I hear glass makers are at work to solve the issue in the entire region.
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Post by johng on Jan 21, 2010 17:25:25 GMT -5
Travelin’ Strangers
Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport passenger lounge in Abilene, Texas awaiting their flights. One is an American Indian passing through from Oklahoma City. Another is a Cowboy on his way to Fort Worth for the livestock show, and the third passenger is a fundamentalist Arab student from the Middle East.
Soon their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Once the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim the conversation falls into an uneasy lull. The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table and tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face.
The wind outside is blowing tumbleweeds around the old windsock is flapping, but still no plane comes. Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly speaks, "At one time here, my people were many, but sadly, now we are few."
The Muslim student raises an eyebrow and leans forward, "Once my people were few," he sneers, "and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?"
The Texas Cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his mouth and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says with a heavy southern drawl, "Cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet, but I do believe it's a-comin.'"
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Post by jdredd on Mar 7, 2010 22:17:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/world/middleeast/08sunnis.html?hpw“There’s no more war, it’s true, but we’re still not free,” Riyadh Khalaf, 47, a laborer, said as he stood near a polling station in the neighborhood of Andalus, where distant bombings reverberated through the morning. “We have an American occupation and an Iranian administration.” Was it worth our blood and treasure? Not nearly in my book.
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Post by dolphie on Mar 7, 2010 23:09:45 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/world/middleeast/08sunnis.html?hpw“There’s no more war, it’s true, but we’re still not free,” Riyadh Khalaf, 47, a laborer, said as he stood near a polling station in the neighborhood of Andalus, where distant bombings reverberated through the morning. “We have an American occupation and an Iranian administration.” Was it worth our blood and treasure? Not nearly in my book. If a reporter were to happen upon this forum - looking for an angle and were to observe the posters. They would choose the poster that best meets their angle. Since most LSM reporters share your opinion - you would be chosen. You would then be the voice of the people. Do you honestly think that is an accurate view of the people as a whole?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 28, 2010 2:04:54 GMT -5
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8590767.stm"The perception that the British government was a subservient 'poodle' to the US administration leading up to the period of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath is widespread both among the British public and overseas," it said. "This perception, whatever its relation to reality, is deeply damaging to the reputation and interests of the UK." Bush's invasion of Iraq...the gift that just keeps on giving.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 27, 2010 21:45:04 GMT -5
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451863370935240.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories"In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate. But the United States had a strong interest in regional stability, and some worrisome enemies to keep in check. So Eisenhower decided to leave tens of thousands of troops behind, and signed a treaty with the U.S.-backed government to formalize their presence. Thirty-five years later, South Korea emerged as a stable democracy. The situation in Iraq today bears some intriguing similarities." Yes, but in 1953 America was in it's prime, and now we are in decline because of _________ (fill in the blank with whomever or whatever you so desire), and may not be able or willing to spend the billions necessary to save Iraq from itself over the long term. Empire is expensive.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 31, 2010 9:12:27 GMT -5
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11135500"And because the Green Zone administration was thrown together in a huge hurry back in 2002-03, overseen by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - a man with no interest in nation-building - some of what was done involved grotesque levels of corruption and mismanagement. Mr Rumsfeld was sent a careful, conscientious 900-page report by the state department containing detailed plans for the post-invasion period. He reportedly dumped it, unopened, straight into his waste-paper basket." Ah, the good old days. Maybe President Romney could bring back Rumsfeld?
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Post by Turk on Sept 1, 2010 15:56:52 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Sept 1, 2010 20:30:06 GMT -5
english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/09/201091114455216711.html"The problem with this war, I think, for many Americans, is that the premise on which we justified going to war turned out not to be valid," Gates told US soldiers and reporters during an unannounced visit Wednesday to Camp Ramadi in Iraq. "Even if the outcome is a good one from the standpoint of the United States, it'll always be clouded by how it began". Wow, that's a cold shot at his old boss. english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/09/20109183124378690.html"Tony Blair, Britain's former prime minister, said he did not foresee the "nightmare" that unfolded in Iraq and wept for the war's victims, in memoirs released on Wednesday." THAT WAS YOUR JOB, DIPS**T, to foresee what might happen if you initiate a war. I weep that we had to put up with an a**hole like him.
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Post by Tired in CV on Sept 3, 2010 1:33:52 GMT -5
"The problem with this war, I think, for many Americans, is that the premise on which we justified going to war turned out not to be valid," Gates told US soldiers and reporters during an unannounced visit Wednesday to Camp Ramadi in Iraq. "Even if the outcome is a good one from the standpoint of the United States, it'll always be clouded by how it began". Wow, that's a cold shot at his old boss. Actually your just stuck on that point when, in fact, that isn't so much of a shot at his old boss (Bush) as it is at numerous intellegence agencies involving multiple countries of which Bush had to base his information upon. Don't forget, even the majority of Congress was supportive of the initial invasion (base upon the same data). Also, don't forget all the Democrats who have been recorded declaring that we need to prevent the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq AND those speeches were BEFORE Bush was president!
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Post by nikki on Sept 3, 2010 2:08:45 GMT -5
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Post by nikki on Sept 3, 2010 2:19:07 GMT -5
And, damn, I am still waiting to hear what Sandy Burglar STOLE from the national archives on behalf of HIS BOSS during the 9/11 hearings!!!!!
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