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Quote of the day
2008-04-21 16:54:00 I discussed Condi Rice's playground bully moment below and Jazz did it over at The Moderate Voice. Juan Cole's reaction is the quote of the day: Has Rice ever said anything about Iraq that was true or useful? Even as she was talking up 'improved security' in Baghdad, mortar shells were falling about her in the Green Zone.
Bring em on!
2008-04-21 05:59:00 I have spent the last several years trying figure out if the Bush/Cheney administration and the neocons are stupid and delusional, just plain crazy or if there is some bizarre method to their madness. I'm beginning to think it must be all of the above. They are constantly ranting about Iran but they have and continue to do all of Iran's dirty work in Iraq. They toppled Iran's arch enemy, Saddam, they put the most pro-Iranian elements in Iraq in power and they continue to defend those elements with US blood and treasure. The latest example is this:Iraqi Army Takes Last Basra Areas From Sadr Force But of course they didn't do it alone. BAGHDAD ? Iraqi soldiers took control of the last bastions of the cleric Moktada al-Sadr?s militia in Basra on Saturday, and Iran?s ambassador to Baghdad strongly endorsed the Iraqi government?s monthlong military operation against the fighters.By Saturday evening, Basra was calm, but only after air and artillery strikes by American and British forc...
It would be funny if it were not so deadly
2008-03-04 06:59:00 As shocking as the evil of the Bush administration is it takes second to the complete incompetence the administration as demonstrated. The members of the Bush administration would have been at home in Leonard Wibberley's Duchy of Grand Fenwick. The newest example of the deadly incompetence of the Bush/Cheney cabal is documented by David Rose in Vanity Fair;The Gaza BombshellGo read the article but here are the facts in a nutshell: The administration demanded that elections be held in Palestine, the Democracy thing you know.Hamas won 56 percent of the seats in the Legislative Council which took everyone in the administration by surprise. They must not have been listening to Rumsfeld when he said Democracy is messy.The Bush administration told the Abbas to dislove the recently elected government and declare Marshall law.They then armed his party, Fatah.When word of this leaked out the result was a civil war which Hamas won.Hamas confiscated most of the US supplied weapons are are now...
Iraq's New Mercenary Bill
2007-10-30 18:30:00 Condi Rice's state department may not have a problem with mercenaries in Iraq killing Iraqis with no accountability but the Iraqis do.Iraq bill would lift contractor immunity BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament, a spokesman said.The question of immunity has been one of the most serious dispute between the U.S. and the Iraqi government since a Sept. 16 shooting involving Blackwater USA guards that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.The government's decision followed reports that the State Department has promised Blackwater bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's shooting.State Department officials declined to confirm or deny that immunity had been granted. Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell has declined comment about the U.S. investigation.Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the draft law approved Tuesday would overturn...
Still more incompetence and another debacle
2007-10-27 19:50:00 Most could see the problems with the PKK coming and many could see a way to avert them. Unfortunately none of those people were in the Bush administration' State Department.A Missed Moment In Iraq The Bush administration has only itself to blame for the quandary it faces with Turkish forces poised to intervene in northern Iraq. The Turks want to retaliate against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose insurgents killed 12 Turkish soldiers Sunday. A massive retaliation would be a major misfortune for Turkey, Iraq and the United States.First, it would undermine the stability of the only part of Iraq where the United States is welcome. Second, it could plunge Turkey into an Iraq quagmire of its own.Sadly, this crisis was predictable and predicted. U.S. officials have long known that a Turkish incursion was just one terrorist event away. As tensions mounted, the administration had numerous opportunities to engage in preventive diplomacy. A combination of lack of imagination, incomp...
Idiotic Headline of the Day
2007-10-14 17:38:00 The Idiotic headline of the day comes from Yahoo! News (AP):Rice worried by Putin?s broad powersOf course it should come as no surprise the a headline involving Condi Rice would be idiotic as she has brought new levels of idiocy and incompetence to every position she has held in the Bush White House. My friend The Gun Tooting Liberal has substituted Bush for Putin in the article and finds it still applies.Check out Condi Rice Troubled By Bush's Broad Powers
Putting the thugs on a leash
2007-10-06 03:27:00 Well it would appear that the Republicans in the House are now paying attention to which way the wind is blowing.Despite Bush opposition, House easily passes ?Blackwater bill? Republicans ignored President Bush?s opposition to legislation known as ?the Blackwater bill? Thursday, voting in droves with Democrats on the Iraq-related measure.Now it's understandable that Bush would not want his thugs leashed but it's significant that the House Republicans see their own positions threatened and are willing to go against Bush.A price too high? ?We?re fighting the good fight on SCHIP,? a Republican aide said. ?This is not something we need to force members to pay the price on.?Apparently Dr. Rice also detects the wind direction and orders some empty gestures.Rice puts cameras on Blackwater convoys WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday ordered tighter controls on U.S. security contractor Blackwater, including putting cameras on its convoys, after last month'...
The Cowboys
2007-10-02 01:12:00 I watched the movie Tombstone a couple of weeks ago. It's about the Earp brothers confrontation with "The Cowboys". They were a bunch of really bad apples. They would kill anyone who got in their way, they would kill just for the hell of it and when they were drunk they would just kill. Sounds a lot like Blackwater.Report Depicts Recklessness at Blackwater WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 ? Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilians and have sought to cover up the incidents, sometimes with the help of the State Department, a report to a Congressional committee said today.The report, based largely on internal Blackwater e-mail messages and State Department documents, depicts the security contractor as being staffed with reckless, shoot-first guards who were not always sober and did not always stop to see who or what was hit by their bullets.In one incident, the State Department and Blackwater agreed to pay $15,000 to the family of a man killed by ?a drunken Black...
I hope he is right!
2007-09-19 17:30:00 Steve Clemons thinks that the relatively sane Rice and Gates will prevail over the criminally insane Cheney and the neocons when it comes to Iran.Why Bush won't attack Iran To date, however, nothing suggests Bush is really going to do it. If he were, he wouldn't be playing good cop/bad cop with Iran and proposing engagement. If the bombs were at the ready, Bush would be doing a lot more to prepare the nation and the military for a war far more consequential than the invasion of Iraq. There is also circumstantial evidence that he has decided bombing may be too costly a choice.First, journalist Joe Klein documents a December 2006 meeting in which Bush met in "the Tank" with his senior national security counselors and the military's command staff and walked out with the impression that either the costs of military action against Iran were simply too high, or that the prospects for success for the mission too low. Then Bush asked about the possibility of a successful attack on Iran'...
Video novedad: Condolezza Rice riñe severamente a España por su apoyo a las
2007-06-01 18:08:00 Condolezza Rice lo ha vuelto a dejar claro en la cara de Moratinos: Cuba es una dictadura atroz que no respeta los derechos humanos y la política española, que margina de una forma escandalosa a los disidentes y apenas presta atención a los luchadores por la democracia encarcelados, no ayudará a una transisicón pacífica en la isla caribeña.En la rueda posterior, Moratinos, visiblemente descompuesto y nervioso, ha salido por la tengente en una infantil estrategia del "y tu más".La errática política de Zapatero está dejando las relaciones exteriores españolas a la altura de los zapatos. Y del betún.----
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