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2006-12-04 Iraq

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Posted by tipper 2006-12-04 09:26|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Next season on Fox:, "Everybody Hates Kofi". Sundays 8PM Eastern, 7 Central. Right after "Dancing With The Infidels".
27 days.

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-04 09:45|| 2006-12-04 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Tu :). If only public interest could be that high.

Posted by Jules 2006-12-04 09:49|| 2006-12-04 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 It's all about schedule positioning... run it right before Jihadi Idol and it would take off.

Posted by .com 2006-12-04 10:01|| 2006-12-04 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Saddam wasn't so bad - he made the trains ran on time. Or was that a different fascist?
And Iraqis weren't subject to kidnappings by Shia death squads - it was by Baathist death squads.
And they weren't subject to random roadside bombs and mortar attacks - it was focussed attacks resulting in mass graves for whole villages.
Yep, Iraqis were better off under Hussein.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-12-04 10:20|| 2006-12-04 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Kofi misses his sugar daddy.

Posted by danking_70 2006-12-04 11:08|| 2006-12-04 11:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Saddam Hussein made the death squads run on time and in known locations, rather than the currently most erratic schedules and places.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-04 11:34|| 2006-12-04 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 "If I were an average Iraqi, obviously I would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother or father ~~worrying: 'Am I going to see my child again?'~~

There, fixed that for ya, coffee. Methinks it'd be a great week/month for Kofi to be carted off-stage (27 days and counting), both Carter and Castro to become stable, and for the MMs to dismiss Ahmadinijad in a surprising show of rationality. Of course, some call me an optimist.

Posted by BA 2006-12-04 12:08|| 2006-12-04 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope five minutes after he leaves office, someone explodes an IED in Koffee's face. He has been the absolute worst person ever to serve in the UN in any capacity. The death toll attributable to his actions must be in the tens of millions, ranging from the Congo to Rwanda to Darfur to Somalia. I hate to think how many little girls have been raped by UN "observers" on his watch, but that must be a huge number, too. Justice demands this man's blood, violently and with malice of forethought.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-04 13:06|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-04 13:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Last year I went to Iraq. Before Team America showed up, it was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.

Posted by Sean Penn 2006-12-04 13:50|| ]">[ ] 2006-12-04 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 If you replace the term Iraqi with Sunni what he says is correct. But you know the Sunni aided and abbetted both Saddam and Al Queda so if they're having a tough time of it now, they can just bite me.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-12-04 17:04|| 2006-12-04 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Coffee boy went to school here in Saint Paul, at Macalester.

If memory serves me right he was on the track team and sold hot dogs. Make your own jokes.

Posted by Icerigger 2006-12-04 21:09|| 2006-12-04 21:09|| Front Page Top

#12 condition was better under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein

Translation - "I was making a LOT more money when Saddam was in charge".

Posted by DMFD 2006-12-04 21:13|| 2006-12-04 21:13|| Front Page Top

#13 It's the elites' two memes at work: 'stability' and 'acceptable losses'. They thrive on the former and are rarely affected by the latter.

Posted by Pappy 2006-12-04 21:15|| 2006-12-04 21:15|| Front Page Top

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