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Paul Wolfowitz
failure. republican failure.
He is forbidden to discuss anything about his time in the Green Zone.
Is freedom and liberty good enough for Iraq but not good enough for America?
or serious torture, not just waterboarding, but the hardcore stuff that you dont hear about in the media.
So, Cheney doesn’t give a flying fuck and McCain thinks that it is more reason to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. It has nothing to do with their visits, the occupation or the Bush foreign policy because if we could just get in there and bomb Iran everything will fall into place and the Middle East would fall down on their knees thanking Bush and Cheney.
All of this death and destruction that the Bush/Cheney/McCain policies have led to but all the MSM wants the American people to worry about is what one black man said about the US. I believe that these are the most dangerous times that we are in right now, Bush/Cheney/McCain will not just give up power quietly and go into retirement, death and destruction and a way to profit from it is all they know. The pursuit of power and keeping it at any cost, look at Bill and Hill they want power again so badly that they are willing to destroy the Democratic party in the process. They know that Hillary has lost to Obama but Bill and Hill have promises to keep and a lot of favors to pay back before they sleep.
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There was an article, maybe a year or two ago where a former Iraqi Army officer said when they are ready, they will push into the Green Zone and destory the occupiers. He mentioned they had the firepower, and inside intel to pull it off.
the other side of the family
Consequently, these latest numbers should be the lede on the front pages of every American newspaper of record -- but don't bother to look for them there beyond passing references embedded in a related article:
U.S. troop deaths in Iraq to date (and counting): 3996
U.S. troops wounded and requiring medical air transports (hostile and non-hostile) as of March 1, 2008 (and counting): 40,229,000
U.S. troops requiring medical air transport for diseases and other medical issues as of March 1, 2008 (and counting) 23,052,000
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Earth to Bush: There is nothing "romantic" about these grim statistics and nothing "noble" about this tragic loss of life -- and that realization takes nothing away from the extraordinary courage and endurance and bravery and valor demonstrated by the soldiers and their families.
Like the Iraq invasion/occupation that it was meant to rescue, the "surge" has not only failed, it has failed miserably!
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As an atheist, I very much prefer that George W. Bush and the entire Bush Crime Family be held accountable in public trials and punished with huge fines and prison sentences carried out right here on plant Earth for their massive crimes against humanity and the U.S. Constitution and the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions and for multiple and serial violations of the U.S. federal statutes.
Divine justice, if any there be, would just be a bonus.
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right before cheney landed, they leafleted and gave out portable youtube players to all in the area
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I
http://www.juancole.com/2008/03/iran-danger-and...
via http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1461/135/
via via http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/03/th...
Irony much?
When The Day endorsed Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman for re-election in November 2006 it was supporting a candidate who demonstrated a history of pragmatic leadership and a willingness to seek bipartisan solutions.
We wonder what happened to that senator.
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=ebf24507-9e00-...
"Money Trumps Peace Sometimes"
Excellent point -- the irony did not escape me, either, as I watched and compared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's very public and much anticipated announced-in-advance ceremonial visit to Iraq -- with Iraqi PM Nouri al-Malaki there to welcome him with pomp and fanfare, hugs, kisses, and holding hands -- with the furtive slithering in and out of Iraq in the dark of night that characterized the recent Cheney and McCain visits.
Also worth noting is the fact that Ahmadinejad came and went without a massive and sustained barrage of rockets and mortars raining down upon the Green Zone, like the attacks which we have witnessed today.
Actually one could get irony fatigue from the double and triple doses of irony that we have to withstand in a 24-hour news cycle -- such as this bit of supreme irony from the Guardian on Friday:
"Sunni militia strike could derail US strategy against al-Qaida"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/21/ira...
But, you really need to watch the video link at the Guardian website to get a visceral sense of just how pissed off the so-called Sunni Awakening Councils really are at the U.S. military:
"80,000 Angry Men: Is the US Surge collapsing?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/mar/...
“In an investigation carried out by GuardianFilms for Channel 4, we uncover how thousands of Iraqis employed at $10 a day by the US to take on al-Qaida are threatening to go on strike because they say they have been used by the 'Americans to do their dirty work' and haven't been paid ."
And this embarrassing bit of gross incompetence reported by the BBC yesterday didn't help, either:
"US air strike kills 'Iraq allies' "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7309292.stm
"Six people have been killed in a US air strike near the Iraqi town of Samarra, with some reports suggesting they were US-allied anti-al-Qaeda Sunni fighters.
"The US denied claims by a police source and a militia member that those killed at the checkpoint were members of an Awakening Council.
"The US-funded groups are credited with helping to curb the level of violence."
It's pretty fundamental -- you don't make “allies” out of the Sunni militias, aka Awakening Councils, and pay them not to shoot at American soldiers, and then kill the new "allies" by mistake with air strikes. It pisses off the new "allies" every damned time. Oh, the irony!
Irony, upon irony, upon yet more irony....
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