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2005-12-08 Iraq

MSM response to Bush's notes on Iraq progress

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-12-08 02:30|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How much do you miss all your State Dept perks there, Wayne? You were allowed to stay at least 4 years longer than you should've, asshole. This is a common "collect the bitchin" article. "Iraqi expectations". Yeah. I can find any number of similar opinions of expectations not met to the satisfaction of some selected assholes in any city on the planet. This is tripe. Seditious, disingenuous, cut 'n run tripe.

It's sad how demonstrably traitorous and gutless so many current and ex Govt employees are. Thinking short-term and solely about themselves they enable and embolden our enemies - and endanger us all. That the MSM features these assholes and beats the drum makes them as complicit as any accessory to a crime.

I hope I live long enough to see these cretins receive what they deserve - all of 'em. That they will persist until there's a a bloody backlash and showdown I do not doubt.

Posted by .com 2005-12-08 04:56|| 2005-12-08 04:56|| Front Page Top

Posted by .com 2005-12-08 05:01|| 2005-12-08 05:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Secret Master nailed it yesterday. Mosul is going to be a Kurdish city. The Arabs are just 'adjusting' to their change in circumstances.

Why this pisses the MSM so much is a different story.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2005-12-08 07:39|| 2005-12-08 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 although the city is still so volatile that she flew by Black Hawk helicopter

By this standard, south-west Ohio was just as "volatile" in October 2001 when the president flew from Wright-Patt to a ceremony at a school in a Chinook escorted by three or four Blackhawks.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-12-08 07:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-12-08 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 In an interview yesterday, Stuart Bowen, the U.S. inspector general for Iraq, said corruption is "pervasive and very serious

I don't see a problem here. Corruption is standard fare in Washington and numerous American cities (think Detroit or New Orleans).

Posted by BillH 2005-12-08 08:22|| 2005-12-08 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Ordinary Iraqis are financially better off now than they were at any time in the past two decades. According to World Bank and International Monetary Fund estimates, per capita income has doubled since 2003. Iraq's per capita gross domestic product is today almost twice that of Yemen and nearing that of Egypt and Syria, hardly a sign of failure in a country in which, just three years ago, antiwar groups insisted children were starving en masse. Statistics aside, the Iraqi economic boom is apparent to anyone who visits an Iraqi market. Not only are appliances and luxuries in the stores, but customers are actually purchasing them.

Iraqis today employ technologies that were nonexistent or off-limits to all but the Baathist elite just three years ago. As of September 2005, there were more than 3.5 million cell-phone subscribers in Iraq, for example. Under the Baath party, there was no cell-phone service, and possession of satellite phones was a capital offense. Internet cafÃ©s dot not only Baghdad thoroughfares, but also dusty back streets in provincial towns. When I visited the (restored) marshlands of southern Iraq, I checked my e-mail and sent dispatches from internet cafes not only in the Maysan provincial capital of al-Amarah and the Dhi Qar provincial capital of Nasiriyah, but also in small, dusty towns like Islah, a Dawa stronghold on the edge of the marshes.
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23402,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

Posted by Spaiter Hupereck8082 2005-12-08 08:48|| 2005-12-08 08:48|| Front Page Top

#7 "I hope I live long enough to see these cretins receive what they deserve - all of 'em. That they will persist until there's a a bloody backlash and showdown I do not doubt."

Hunter/Killer teams. Citizen Hunter/Killer teams.

Implacable and immune to begging and pleading. I hope I live long enough to participate.

Doitnow

Posted by Doitnow 2005-12-08 09:05|| 2005-12-08 09:05|| Front Page Top

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