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I’m getting an incomplete!
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Have they been using the “fight terrorists there instead of here” excuse anymore? Or did too many people see this was a contradiction with the “we did it for the Iraqi people” excuse? (“Let’s free them from Hussein who terrorized them, but make their home a magnet for terrorism”)
It’s an exercise in futility anyway. Part of the “reality” that still hasn’t sunk in is that as soon as the US makes haste and withdraws – and I very much doubt a retreat to permanent bases will be acceptable to Iraqis in general – odds are the National Assembly will fade into oblivion. I mean, really, even now they hold no real clout outside The Green Zone.
Ironically enough, that may yet turn out to be the best move for the US’s interests, for all signs point to a psuedo-alliance with the Shiite brethen in Iran if the status-quo were to prevail.
According to my local news, the two unresolved issue are women’s rights and Kurdish autonamy.
This is one time I must say you’ve been caught napping, 'luc. Because, even here in the SDMB, that well known “bastion of liberal thought,” they’ve been going full bore with the ‘let’s blame Michael Moore for all the sins of our Asshole In Chief’ for some time now.
Clearly, marching orders have been issued on this matter.
What RedFury said. Far as the Bush apologists are concerned, it’s never too early to blame the “leftists” (i.e., anyone who disagrees with Brainless Leader) for the nation’s problems and missteps.
I’m sure the folks over at Fox News are even now busily working out how to point fingers at Cindy Sheeham over this, too.
Whoops: Iraqi Parliament OKs Constitution Delay
I hope they passed their extension resolution with a large enough majority to overide the Interim Constitution. Otherwise everything from here on out will be illegal.
Ya know, for $350 Billion, I bet you could have bought the Iraqi army, and had them take out Hussein. Hell, for $350 MILLION, you could have bought a couple of key generals, and taken out Hussein.
Man! IF they’re admitting it’s this bad, can you imagine how awful it REALLY must be over there? ! ? !
For $350 billion we could have assembled a full time self-sufficient lunar base with a particle-beam gun and shot Saddam’s eye out!
And still have some dough left over to pay the gays off to not marry in public.
But the oil fields, those cost extra!
That’s a frightening point.
Unfortunately, this new “candor” will probably win them back a bunch of voters.
Why ruin the Badlands? I was just there camping and hiking with my girlfriend weekend before last. Bison, elk, mustangs, prairie dogs. It was plum purdy! Besides…everyone (at least anyone who’s seen the Medora Musical) knows that’s Teddy Roosevelt country. 
Don’t worry. The candor will ebb.
And now I must smack Cervaise for forcibly inserting the image of Dick Cheney in fishnets and bustier singing “Life is a cabaret, old chum!” to George W. while Osama bin-Laden walks by outside singing “Tomorrow belongs to me”…
That isn’t long enough for a really horrible, bloody civil war. First you have to have the US withdraw in disgrace, and only then can the killing really begin in earnest. Then, you need a Kurdish strongman to emerge from the blood and chaos to declare a Kurdish Islamic Republic. This stuff takes time.
I’m guessing September 27, 2007.
Think we’ll get footage of the helicoptors pulling out, ala Vietnam?
Nah, they’ll probably recycle that footage of the SH statue getting yanked down, and repeat how we liberated Iraq ad nauseum.