Comments on: Our Big Digs in the Desert http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:35:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Waxing http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-111135 Waxing Sat, 20 May 2006 12:00:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-111135 <p><strong>Homemade wax</strong></p> <p>homemade wax, madam tuso, meguires,<br /> zaino car wax</p> Homemade wax

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]]> By: LuckyLindy http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-69464 LuckyLindy Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:48:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-69464 <p>Did everyone else notice that I. Lewis Libby was a contributor or participant for the PNAC document posted as a .pdf in a prior post. He’s listed on the last page. Great example of how these guys are inserted all over our governemnt. What a web.</p> Did everyone else notice that I. Lewis Libby was a contributor or participant for the PNAC document posted as a .pdf in a prior post. He’s listed on the last page. Great example of how these guys are inserted all over our governemnt. What a web.

]]> By: noen http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-69119 noen Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:19:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-69119 <p><i>“I had never ever considered a military coup in the US a welcome prospect. But I’ve been thinking that maybe the big money folks in the financial sector –which would be devastated by the blowback of an attack on Iran–and the rebels in the Pentagon could get together with Patrick Fitzgerald and work out a scenario in which inditements would be issued against Bush/Cheny, backed up by a threat from the Pentagon to remove them forcefully from office if they don’t resign, in order to restore the Constitution.”</i></p> <p>Sorry, won’t happen. The “big money folks in the financial sector” have already moved their holdings to more secure depositories off shore and elsewhere. They will sit back and watch us drown in our debt. Just as they sat back and watched the stock market crash of 29. The truly wealthy suffered no losses on that day and won’t on any future crash either. Probably about time for another “harvest” anyway.</p> “I had never ever considered a military coup in the US a welcome prospect. But I’ve been thinking that maybe the big money folks in the financial sector –which would be devastated by the blowback of an attack on Iran–and the rebels in the Pentagon could get together with Patrick Fitzgerald and work out a scenario in which inditements would be issued against Bush/Cheny, backed up by a threat from the Pentagon to remove them forcefully from office if they don’t resign, in order to restore the Constitution.”

Sorry, won’t happen. The “big money folks in the financial sector” have already moved their holdings to more secure depositories off shore and elsewhere. They will sit back and watch us drown in our debt. Just as they sat back and watched the stock market crash of 29. The truly wealthy suffered no losses on that day and won’t on any future crash either. Probably about time for another “harvest” anyway.

]]> By: 3 http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68263 3 Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:38:41 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68263 <p>“We’re not colonizing a country. We’re colonizing the Middle East.”</p> <p>Yeah, see, it’s Darth Dick’em’s take on economic globalization.</p> <p>Instead of outsourcing jobs, we invade countries, thereby creating new employment opportunities for Americans right there in the colonies.</p> “We’re not colonizing a country. We’re colonizing the Middle East.”

Yeah, see, it’s Darth Dick’em’s take on economic globalization.

Instead of outsourcing jobs, we invade countries, thereby creating new employment opportunities for Americans right there in the colonies.

]]> By: 3 http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68258 3 Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:31:39 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68258 <p>Well, at least the contract didn’t go to Bin Laden Construction.</p> <p>I guess.</p> Well, at least the contract didn’t go to Bin Laden Construction.

I guess.

]]> By: shargash http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68156 shargash Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:36:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68156 <blockquote><p>When you colonize a country…</p></blockquote> <p>We’re not colonizing a country. We’re colonizing the Middle East.</p>

When you colonize a country…

We’re not colonizing a country. We’re colonizing the Middle East.

]]> By: clueless http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68111 clueless Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:44:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68111 <p><i>26 cathy says: </i></p> <p>April 15th, 2006 at 7:22 am </p> <p>Taylor-</p> <p>1.Haliburton<br /> 2.Haliburton</p> <p>3.Haliburton</p> <p>Did I name the companies correctly? </p> <p>cathy - you missed two. The article said FIVE companies. Here’s two more to add to your three:</p> <p>4. Haliburton<br /> 5. Haliburton</p> <p>That should take care of the entire list!</p> 26 cathy says:

April 15th, 2006 at 7:22 am

Taylor-

1.Haliburton
2.Haliburton

3.Haliburton

Did I name the companies correctly?

cathy – you missed two. The article said FIVE companies. Here’s two more to add to your three:

4. Haliburton
5. Haliburton

That should take care of the entire list!

]]> By: clueless http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68105 clueless Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:40:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68105 <p><i>19 kurotenshi says: </i></p> <p>April 15th, 2006 at 7:11 am<br /> “Score one more for our cultural sensitivity</p> <p>Temple of Babylon now a U.S. helipad and parking lot…â€</p> <p>This sickens me to the core. Antiquities are far more finite than oil and our inability to protect what is not only a source of pride for Iraqis, but also for civilization in general, leaves us without the most powerful commonality we share - history. Seeing how Egypt has successfully harnessed it’s role as a vibrant and far-reaching culture through it’s own atiquities and worldwide interest therein; I find it hard to believe that we could of not done the same with Iraq in order to strengthen common bonds and shared historical values.</p> <p>This may be part of the problem as to why we are not protecting Iraqi antiquities: Wouldn’t the rightwing nutjobs hate to discover antiquities that might be so old that they seriously impair the concept of Creationism??? Don’t the nutjobs claim that the whole world is only something like 6,000 years old? If Indiana Jones were to discover a jug that is 7,000 years old…….well there’d be a lotta splainin to do!</p> 19 kurotenshi says:

April 15th, 2006 at 7:11 am
“Score one more for our cultural sensitivity

Temple of Babylon now a U.S. helipad and parking lot…â€

This sickens me to the core. Antiquities are far more finite than oil and our inability to protect what is not only a source of pride for Iraqis, but also for civilization in general, leaves us without the most powerful commonality we share – history. Seeing how Egypt has successfully harnessed it’s role as a vibrant and far-reaching culture through it’s own atiquities and worldwide interest therein; I find it hard to believe that we could of not done the same with Iraq in order to strengthen common bonds and shared historical values.

This may be part of the problem as to why we are not protecting Iraqi antiquities: Wouldn’t the rightwing nutjobs hate to discover antiquities that might be so old that they seriously impair the concept of Creationism??? Don’t the nutjobs claim that the whole world is only something like 6,000 years old? If Indiana Jones were to discover a jug that is 7,000 years old…….well there’d be a lotta splainin to do!

]]> By: Arcturus http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68069 Arcturus Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:14:30 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68069 <p>Since no one has mentioned it, Dahr Jamail wrote about the permanent military bases & the embassy last month, in his piece <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031306A.shtml">Iraq: Permanent US Colony</a> in the light of military planning documents.</p> <blockquote><p>It appears as though “mission accomplished” in Iraq was not necessarily referring to guarding the Ministry of Oil and occupying the country indefinitely (or finding WMDs, disrupting al-Qaeda, or liberating Iraqis, blah-blah-blah), but to having a military beach-head in the heart of the Middle East. </p> <p>Note that while US officials don’t dare say the word “permanent” when referring to military bases in Iraq, they will say “permanent access.”</p></blockquote> Since no one has mentioned it, Dahr Jamail wrote about the permanent military bases & the embassy last month, in his piece Iraq: Permanent US Colony in the light of military planning documents.

It appears as though “mission accomplished” in Iraq was not necessarily referring to guarding the Ministry of Oil and occupying the country indefinitely (or finding WMDs, disrupting al-Qaeda, or liberating Iraqis, blah-blah-blah), but to having a military beach-head in the heart of the Middle East.

Note that while US officials don’t dare say the word “permanent” when referring to military bases in Iraq, they will say “permanent access.”

]]> By: concerned http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68064 concerned Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:00:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/our-big-digs-in-the-desert/#comment-68064 <p>hm, did we ASK our government to build that ?<br /> I think we should be protesting very loudly about this ! Sure, they can say that they’re hiding this for security reasons, but maybe it’s because they know what they’re doing is WRONG.</p> hm, did we ASK our government to build that ?
I think we should be protesting very loudly about this ! Sure, they can say that they’re hiding this for security reasons, but maybe it’s because they know what they’re doing is WRONG.

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