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2006-03-16 Iraq
Life was better...
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Posted by Sleremble Spineter7889 2006-03-16 06:56|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." - Ben Franklin
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2006-03-16 07:38||   2006-03-16 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder how long it took Reuthers to pick-and-choose these gems?
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-03-16 08:13||   2006-03-16 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 A "Poll' will say whatever the pollsters want.
Especially when the pollsters get to pick and chose which answers to publish.

In short, a bullshit aeticle.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-03-16 08:15||   2006-03-16 08:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting that at least one of the interviews was done at a morgue. Kinda self-selecting.
Posted by 6 2006-03-16 08:46||   2006-03-16 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
Posted by eltoroverde 2006-03-16 09:33||   2006-03-16 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 "Our troops will be welcomed with flowers and
candy"

"Mission Accomplished"!!
Posted by Bystander 2006-03-16 10:28||   2006-03-16 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Not by Arabs, moron - that was another shining example of MSM stupidity attributed to others. Suck you thumb somewhere else, memeboy.
Posted by Glert Thetch2165 2006-03-16 10:32||   2006-03-16 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Take your pick folks, people being fed feet first into wood chippers, brides being raped on their wedding night, Olympic athletes being tortured for losing and all this amidst intense corruption, economic stagnation and autocratic minority rule.

Or, finding out that part of your own population who are of similar faith are willing to slaughter you endlessly because they are now free to do so.

One you have no control over and never will, the other can be changed if you have the stones to do it. What is it, stones or no stones?
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-16 11:47||   2006-03-16 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 This is b.s., maybe technically true for the moment... But Democracy and freedom are going to give Iraqis much better lives for the next 100 years. I mean if they really want, maybe we could just give Saddam back control... 'what?? whats that you say? Ohhhhh yeahh he was a tyranical dictator, responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 innocent people....
Posted by bgrebel 2006-03-16 12:18||   2006-03-16 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 The US was almost certainly better off under King George than the first ~10 years after the Revolution. Since then things have taken a turn for the better.
Posted by JAB 2006-03-16 12:28||   2006-03-16 12:28|| Front Page Top

#11 1781 Revolutionary War combat end
1783 Treaty of Paris war end
1787 Constitutional Convention
1788 First Elections

5 years is a better figure.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-03-16 12:38||   2006-03-16 12:38|| Front Page Top

#12 How about being even slightly more scientific, like percentages by areas, by sect, tribe, etc.
Posted by Unique Battle 2006-03-16 13:47||   2006-03-16 13:47|| Front Page Top

#13 UB: How about being even slightly more scientific, like percentages by areas, by sect, tribe, etc.

Since the point of the news media is to change the world (i.e. disseminate anti-American points of view), they're not going to let us know this information. Especially since it might show up their anti-American propaganda offensive for what it is.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-16 13:49|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-16 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 I understand there are still folks in Russia who pine away for Stalin.
Posted by kelly 2006-03-16 14:46||   2006-03-16 14:46|| Front Page Top

#15 "Well, yeah, my neighbors were dragged away in the middle of the night, but dammit, when Saddam was in power I didn't have trouble with my cable reception."
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-16 16:26|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-03-16 16:26|| Front Page Top

#16 LOL!
Posted by 6 2006-03-16 17:09||   2006-03-16 17:09|| Front Page Top

#17 Well the problem is that the people who would have found that life was not so good under Saddam are in mass graves.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-03-16 17:59||   2006-03-16 17:59|| Front Page Top

#18 Well the problem is that the people who would have found that life was not so good under Saddam are in mass graves.

So, even for them life was better under Stalin. Got it. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-16 18:26||   2006-03-16 18:26|| Front Page Top

#19 I understand there are still folks in Russia who pine away for Stalin.

Pinin' for the gulags? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did the economy fall flat as piss on a plate the moment we abandoned communism?

The Ukranian Red prefers kippin’ during work hours! Remarkable worker, id’nit comrade? Lovely uniform.

Look, I took the liberty of examining that worker when it got off shift, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its chair was that it had been NAILED there.

(pause)

Well o’course it was nailed there! If I hadn’t nailed that worked down, it would have nuzzled up to that old Iron Curtain, dug under with its spoon, and VOOM! Émigré, Émigré!

“VOOM”?!? Mate, this worker wouldn’t “voom” if you poured four million cups of coffee down his neck. ‘E’s bleedin’ comatose!

No, no! ‘E’s pining!

‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s pissed off! This worker is no more! He has ceased to drink. ‘E’s nekulturny and gone to meet ‘is quota!

‘E’s a psikhushka. Bereft of wealth, ‘e drinks like a newt! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to his chair ’e’d be pushed ‘round in a wheelbarrow!

‘Is liver is now ‘istory! ‘E’s on a bender!
‘E’s fallen off of the wagon, ‘e’s shuffled out of the ration line, run down a side street and joined the bleedin’ perestroika agitprop!

THIS IS IVAN DENISOVICH!
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-16 18:56||   2006-03-16 18:56|| Front Page Top

#20 My goodness, Zenster. Where did that mad as a hatter bit come from? I had to read it twice, I did!
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-16 22:05||   2006-03-16 22:05|| Front Page Top

#21 Yep, those whom Saddam put in mass graves - their anti Saddam opinions are known only by accident after their bodies are found. the validity of their beliefs or actions known only to their families and Allah.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-03-16 22:32||   2006-03-16 22:32|| Front Page Top

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