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just wait. and wait. and...
now at the left coaster and docudharma
by Turkana on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 01:51:00 PM PDT
of dollars be tossed around on Iraq, we can surely buy some flowers to be tossed around, cant we? the surge is working. lets celebrate! Toss some flowers .
Not.
Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Rufus T. Firefly: Oh, I see, then it was murder!
by ratador on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:13:14 PM PDT
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We burn through millions in a mattern of hours.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
by DWG on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:12:49 PM PDT
a couple trillion.
by Turkana on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:16:08 PM PDT
oil companies and contracting companies profit from it and gas prices keep going up....what a deal! snark
Orwell meet George the 43rd
by FreeTradeIsYourEpitaph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:24:26 PM PDT
they can pay for the flowers!
by ratador on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:26:45 PM PDT
The contractors will charge us $500 a stem for flowers. Huzzaaah
by DWG on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:52:50 PM PDT
we're charged $500 a stem for flowers, but the corporation gets $300 and the contractor gets $200...but all that parsing of numbers is accounting and we don't do that in this country anymore for anything.
by FreeTradeIsYourEpitaph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:51:29 PM PDT
Buy a Boat. Save the Seed.
by cumberland sibyl on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:12:25 PM PDT
. . . as surely as ten years in Afghanistan destroyed the Soviet Union.
"Do not forget that every people deserves the regime it is willing to endure." -- White Rose letter no. 1
by keikekaze on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:53:29 PM PDT
That number just stuns me.
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by kainah on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:40:54 PM PDT
sure Halliburton was given a no bid contract worth several hundred million dollars to provide the Iraqi people with flowers to toss at a "spontaneous" event. Problem is... well... Halliburton, need I say more?
Fox News is Not a Real News Outlet
by bunk on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:22:43 PM PDT
The problem is that they're in the form of funeral wreaths.
Now, go spread some peace, love and understanding. Use force if necessary. - Phil N DeBlanc
by lineatus on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:43:01 PM PDT
not many people care, it seems. I guess too much going on.
PolitiCook du jour.
by Asinus Asinum Fricat on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:50:34 PM PDT
have made it seem a non-issue. there's time.
by Turkana on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:17:20 PM PDT
When internet porn stars and cheerleaders are being murdered every year or two?
by klw1963 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:47:56 PM PDT
with britney, paris, lindsey, and tom & katie?
by Turkana on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:56:43 PM PDT
..."Dancing with the Stars", "Next American Supermodel", "The Next Iron Chef", "Black Friday" sales, Macy's 'One Day Super Sale', and oh those 'rumors' about Barack in the WaPo. Who's got time to worry about Iraq?
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." --Thomas Jefferson
by frisco on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:21:48 PM PDT
I thought that was just a hell of a fine addition to the important line-up.
by kainah on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:43:00 PM PDT
...for the oversight!
by frisco on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:18:27 PM PDT
As if it were May 1, 2003 again. Remember that victory? Dopey is all excited about another Codpiece Opportunity. ABC News cheerily chirped just tonight that Iraq is now "twice as safe as Afghanistan" because only two Americans out of 10,000 get killed in Iraq, while it's four out of 10,000 in Afghanistan--as if that constituted good news!
Meanwhile, Congress Murtha (D-Doubletalk) assures us that, while "The Iraq war is not winnable militarily," nevertheless, "The surge is working."
What, us worry?
by keikekaze on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:02:18 PM PDT
They're ready to bend over and take it one more time
I have a hard time understanding their willingness to go along sometimes.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. I see things that never were and ask why not?
by RFK Lives on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:58:28 PM PDT
if a million iraqis and thousands of american troops die, if congress gets to keep their jobs.
american soldiers and iraqi civilians don't pay for junkets. the war machine does.
surf putah, your friendly neighborhood central valley samizdat
by wu ming on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:24:09 PM PDT
Daily Kos used to be worthwhile.
by andgarden on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:59:39 PM PDT
catch...
by Turkana on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:17:45 PM PDT
by andgarden on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:21:08 PM PDT
whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.
by Turkana on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:29:24 PM PDT
once a month and it wouldn't get old.
by andgarden on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:29:58 PM PDT
It's a New Year's Eve tradition in my house.
But I must admit, andgarden, I missed the "and wait. and wait. and wait."
Welcome back to the fight. This time, I know our side will win.
by kainah on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:47:29 PM PDT
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." Maryanne Williamson
by blueskygal on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:36:19 PM PDT
by kainah on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:47:51 PM PDT
on a million Iraqi graves. None will be thrown.
by scoff0165 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:00:17 PM PDT
Turkana, you are one of the best diarists on Iraq here. I hope you'll look into the massive expansion in the US payments to Iraqi Sunni "concerned citizen groups," which is now the media term for militias that we are paying. An article yesterday documented that the US is already paying over 70,000 Sunnis to patrol the streets and man checkpoints, and expects to be paying 100,000. Additionally, the US is working to force the (Shiite controlled) Iraqi governmental ministries to start paying Sunni militias as well.
The US is keeping a temporary lid on things by paying both sides, but that won't last. And when the fighting renews in full, both sides will be better armed because of US funds. The US will have to choose sides, and it will almost certainly take the Sunni side against the Shiites.
by weasel on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:03:21 PM PDT
and that doesn't even take into account all the missing weapons. it seems there is no aspect to this that the bushies haven't made as bad as is possible.
by Turkana on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:21:24 PM PDT
"There will be flowers," said one Kossack, tongue-in-cheek.
"And candy," sez another, tongue also in firmly in cheek.
"...shot out bazookas," said I.
Unfortunately, looks like it's one of those neverending stories.
:/
Never, never brave me, nor my fury tempt: Downy wings, but wroth they beat; Tempest even in reason's seat.
by GreyHawk on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:22:12 PM PDT
It's about on par with getting sucked into a black hole.
As Olbermann might say - 'Iraq worst debacle in the world!'
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything. Harry S. Truman
by deepsouthdoug on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:28:56 PM PDT
TheWapo still lets him write this crap as of the 23rd of this month:
It does not have the drama of the Inchon landing or the sweep of the Union comeback in the summer of 1864. But the turnabout of American fortunes in Iraq over the past several months is of equal moment -- a war seemingly lost, now winnable. The violence in Iraq has been dramatically reduced. Political allegiances have been radically reversed. The revival of ordinary life in many cities is palpable. Something important is happening.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
by bobinson on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:11:48 PM PDT
Iran and Pakistan are forcing refugees back into Afghanistan despite the fact many have not been there in years, or have no home to go to. The Afghan government is unable to help.
And the UN seems useless in helping, they may give the people bus fare, some medical care and a bit of food. After that, they are on their own.
Damn George Bush
01-20-09: THE END OF AN ERROR
by kimoconnor on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:49:16 PM PDT
around his neck until he leaves office or is impeached:
"It was definitely so much better for us before the war," he said. "We were never suffering the way we are now."
You can lead a conservative to facts--but you can't make him think.
by DelicateMonster on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:20:38 PM PDT
part of the bribe Bush/Condi paid to Arab states to get them to come to Annapolis?
My understanding is that Iraqis are NOT returning to Iraq because the drywall guys finally finished work on their brand new 4 BD 2.5 Ba brick-&-vinyl colonial w/ walkout basement & his-and-hers closets; Iraqis are going back to Iraq because they're running out of money to stay in Syria, Jordan, etc. and their Arab 'hosts' are making exile life a living hell.
Somebody needs to remind the Middle East that both Babylon and Persia were good hosts to Hebrews in exile.
I wonder if the Iraqi refugees who fled to Iran -- half a million of them -- are coming back to Iraq.
When a coward sees a man he thinks he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight. -Chinhua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
by BughouseWW on Sat Dec 01, 2007 at 12:57:13 AM PDT
And the enemy has been "decimated" ...
And we're "winning" ...
(Pay no attention to the looming fall of Kabul, Afghanistan ... )
I wonder why so much of America doesn't care enough to know this.
"They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. [...] That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary." -Handmaid's Tale
by Cenobyte on Sat Dec 01, 2007 at 06:23:07 AM PDT
wide narrow
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