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Ted stops by the HuffPo:
Robert Greenwald's new film, Iraq for Sale, shows how the Bush Administration has been outsourcing this war to corporate America – and how that effort has been mismanaged. His film is a convincing indictment of the Administration's decision to give multi-billion dollar sweetheart deals that have lined contractor's pockets while failing to meet the basic needs of our soldiers. All Americans should be asking how the Bush Administration could have allowed contractors to fail to provide our soldiers with safe food and drinking water.
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Sadly, the Republicans in Congress have been complicit in this incompetence and mismanagement. They have failed to exercise their oversight responsibilities and demand better for our men and women in uniform. The Republicans must be held accountable for their incompetence. But in November, the American people have a chance to make a change and put an end to these back-room deals. Greenwald's film is a poignant reminder of why this election is so important and why America needs a new course and a new direction in Iraq.
It makes me very happy that our leaders are not only discussing this problem, but that the Clintonian "let's all just find a way to move forward together" notion of triangulating forgiveness is not taking hold. The kleptocratic zombies just keep coming back, generation after generation, plunging us into global chaos with their fickle, puerile visions of international diplomacy that always seems to result in other people dying and them getting rich.
If you haven't seen it yet, take a cue from Teddy and find your way to one of the many groundbreaking independent screenings that are happening all over the country. Or better yet, host one yourself. (You can also order the DVD here).We're going to be discussing this a lot in the future, and as those who have seen it can attest, it's a powerful cinematic expression of something that will make your blood boil, no matter what your political orientation. A new Newsweek poll show that "58 percent want investigating government contracts in Iraq to be a top priority," and we're going to be fanning these flames a lot in the upcoming weeks and months.
Update: An Angry Old Broad has an interesting idea.
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V I C T O R Y !!!
Fitz!
dam cbl….I coulda been a contender.
Jane! Teddy (I have a pic of my mom shaking hands with him)! Greenwald!
Go, Esten!
ccmask!
Hey! Mommy! How goes it? I saw this movie and you had to hear everyone at the Unitarian Church groaning in unbelief! A lot of shaking of heads in Lakeland…
For those who are interested, here is Esten’s care page. There are frequent updates and a comments section. You’ll have to have a user name & password, and in case I’ve screwed up the link, the page name is estenmaxwell.
Thanks for the support. He’s grazing on popcorn and watching Pee Wee. I love it.
I’m going to call my library this week and ask if I buy a copy of the film if they’ll provide space to host it. They have a media room that holds about 30 people,which ain’t much,but it’s something.I’d host more than one screening if the demand is there. I’m half scared of asking the churches around here,I doubt they’ll talk to a heathen like me,lol.
Any other thoughts on whom I should approach about places to screen the film? I live in a super red state area,I’m not sure if the schools and churches are going to be places that are receptive,even though I think this transcends political and religious divides.
cc – you are a contendah !!!
personal note – have been thinking you may have some valuable input for Marksb – yes ?
Good Morning Jane Hamsher ! – are you posting from the poodle pile or are you continuing your peripatetic ways ? hope you are well – as a direct result of your efforts here, I spent the day yesterday GOTV at my little town’s fall fest – – ask the hubster, actually said “this one’s for Jane Hamsher” as I delivered one of many Repub bitch slaps – tearing another page from your book, employed adorable canines in my efforts*g*
I saw the movie last Thursday, bought the orginal Greenwald DVD and two burned copies. It was the first viewing of the film here in Phoenix and over 100 people turned out.
The part of the movie where I broke down was when the man who was in charge of water quality starting crying. In my 30 plus years of nursing, I experienced the effects of war and those who lived in foreign countries. Ex-military who suffered years and years of “mystery” symptoms which eventually and finally pinned down to parasites from contaminated water. Years ago the VA in Portland Oregon has one of the finest Parasitology units in the country, sure hope it still is in existence.
Yes the corruption is bad but it is the reckless endangerment of our men and women in uniform that REALLY pisses me off….
1. To save costs KBR meals are at specific times only…. making long lines and setting up situations where military are perfect targets
2. Contaminated water….
3. Contaminated food…. food outdated…. food hit with shrapnel…
4. Taking away the Troops jobs….. having to train the contractor who makes 3-4 times what they do….
First, I highly recommend Iraq for Sale. I quickly bought a copy and it is a riveting and repulsive tale.
Yesterday at a wedding my one far right libertarian friend is so disgusted with the Republicans that he likely won’t vote.
My police officer buddy who was once liberal but had drifted into the Limbaugh corner has returned to sane thinking.
My friend from a right wing news outlet alleges the head of said network is bringing the ship back to the center.
Also, apparently fascism runs in the Lieberman family.
A distant relative of Joe?
-GSD
katymine in moderation again….
I don’t just want to move forward. That implies accepting incompetance, accepting stealing, accepting lies, accepting failure, accepting what really amounts to treason and saying, oh well.
That’s unamerican; that’s unacceptable.
Since even Repubs are now seeing Iraq is a mess, why aren’t the fraud and waste and no-bid contracts getting more attention in the msm? Especially since the investigators for the House Appropriations Committee (that handles nearly a billion dollars a year) were fired last week. The people looking out for us taxpayers were fired, bringing many investigations to a halt.
This is an outrage.
USA Today
The chairman of the Appropriations Comm., Rep. Jerry Lewis has a LOT to answer for.
A Must Read!!!:
HOW TO GET NED LAMONT ELECTED IN ONLY TWO WEEKS!
http://www.elifsavas.com/ned.htm
Love it.
But a caveat. The word “American” is probably the most powerful word in our country. When we criticize corporations using the label “Corporate America” we lose instantly. We may as well be criticizing “Captain America”. In the mind of the public whoever wears the label “American” wins. We can demonstrate “Corporate America” of lies cheats steals and kills, but the public will probably rationalize, ‘They are the Americans, they probably had good reason to do those things’.
Corporations are both stateless and godless. They have the brain of a supercomputer and the conscience of a reptile. Real “Americans” are flesh and blood human beings.
Let’s win.
TheOtherWA @14
Hmm lets see….. Parent corporation is a BIG Defense Contractor who owns media outlets…..MSM cutting the throat of the Cash Cow… na… not going to happen..
fyi – for the budget challenged among us -
the dvd is only $12.95 – yikes ! go
Greenwald !
famile cbl will be at the 11/4 Austin screening
(found it under the Host One Yourself link) c’mon texan firedogs, let’s meet up
katymine @ 17
Yeah, I know. It sucks. But they should be covering it.
bergs @
15
cbl @
9
cbl, i have never had a better tribute.
We were in a poodle pile until I started watching the talking heads, then the dogs left the building to relieve themselves. I can’t say if there is a connection.
Netflix has the movie available.
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDi…..d=70055245
Tommy Yum, thanks for the link. My Sprout, 7, (how old is Esten?) wants to send Esten a soft toy of some sort. Does he have a favorite animal?
My Sprout met Jane at YKos and fell in love. When Kobe got so sick, Sprout was very worried and wanted to send her a stuffed poodle so she wouldn’t miss him, but we couldn’t find one.
Kidz. What the hell would we do without ‘em? (No, you don’t really have to list all the things you’ve given up since Kidz. I’ve got my own list. That was a rhetorical question.)
TheOtherWA @ 19
BUT we are covering it AND we are the New Media…..
The more the blogs address this movie, the more it will leak into the Traditional Media. Soon, you will see that scene on CNN with the monitor with the comment “Lets see what is on the Blogs” and it will be there…. then you will have Christy and Jane and John (pick one) and Duncan Black on one of the shows…. Then you will find someone from the movie…. the Halburton water guy would be good…. Corruption is a good story but doing something to harm the troops will make even the most cold hearted Repug pissed..
Barron’s Magazine did an analysis and claim that the Republicans will not lose enough seats.(Drudge is whoring the story)
Their analysis was based on the money race, not on polls or historical trends.
One of their conclusions was that Republicans had more money because of their “grassroots” support. Laughable on the face with that one.
Also their analysis collapses when you factor in matters such as this:
“The National Republican Congressional Committee has spent more than $3 million to hold the seat of Ohio Rep. Bob Ney. Ney, who recently pleaded guilty to corruption charges, has yet to resign, but is not seeking a new term.”
Yep, 3 million on what was a safe seat until “Mayor” Ney was outed as a Corruptican.
Myway link
-GSD
Jeebus. Is there anyone more irrelevant than Bill Frist right now? Why is he even getting air time?
Mommybrain @ 23
Sprout was very adorable. I loved the suit.
Jane, remember Trudeau used the floating feather cartoon representation for Dan Quayle…….Frist should be drawn as a floating hairball.
-GSD
tommy yum @
7
So glad to hear that Esten is doing well. They handle stuff like this better than we do often.
Katymine @24, yes, the new media is covering it and that’s a very good thing.
But, I want Foley-type coverage of the waste and fraud in federal contracts. I want this to be a daily, kitchen table topic of conversation.
Call me a dreamer. *g*
The goopers do NOT have a big money advanage for the last two weeks according to WP- in fact they have only a nine million dollar advantage- chump change. Still- the Barron’s prediction could turn out to be correct. Dems have brought a lot of seats IN PLAY- but they haven’t developed significant leads in many. We’ll see- but this is far from decided.
GSD @ 28
I have to say he did look happy that this is no longer his mess.
Jane Hamsher @ 26
Frist: Democrats will raise your taxes 58%
LOL
Bonus quote:
In Connecticut, GOP Reps. Chris Shays, Nancy Johnson and Rob Simmons face difficult challenges, although Republicans hope that Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s independent candidacy will help them.
Way to go Joe! Help those Republicans downticket, how bi-partisan of you.
-GSD
GSD @ 25
If, by “grassroots,” Barron’s means “high-level corporate whoremongers,” the usage could be defensible. In a pig’s eye.
This, via Digby. What tv news looks like when it’s not owned by the aforementioned defense contractors;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/vide…..60,00.html
Good morning Jane. Great post for spotlighint to the national media — they’re primed for this now, so lets send it out to them.
A suggestion: could you add a sentence with a couple of links to MATT O and Swopa posts here? That way we can send out more than one on post the same topic.
One of the few Republican pick-up’s is fading away with two weeks to go.
Also, Larry Craig(R-Idaho Closet) said that the latest national numbers were “devastating” for the party. He was overheard in a phone glitch with conference callers.
Also, it remains to be seen if Crist in Flordia starts to bleed Evangenital votes after the gay rumours about him have beguns swirling.
-GSD
You know things are changing when CNN’s Ed Henry does a feature on the do-nothing Congress. Then Candy does another hit on Repubs, then the next feature is on the horrors of torture and the detainee bill, and the next features Andrew Sullivan calling for a divided government because we need a check on despotic government and a party that’s lost its moral bearings. And end with Sandra Day O’Connor talking about threats to judicial independence.
that provides the context in which Wolf analyzes the RNC’s OBL will kill us all ad. Candy Crowley says it won’t work. Conclusion — Wolf says there’s a widespread view that we have “broken government.”
Did we ever in our wildest dreams a year ago think these would be the themes two weeks before the elections?
Jane Hamsher @
26
dayum, you write for me, poodle piles and all! Lady Jane is brilliant!
Hugs to the tommy yum family and son Esten!
“It makes me very happy that our leaders are not only discussing this problem, but that the Clintonian “let’s all just find a way to move forward together” notion of triangulating forgiveness is not taking hold.”
This voter cast his vote happily twice for President Bill Clinton. And there was time not so very long ago, if Senator Clinton had asked, I would have dropped everything (giving up a job I dearly love), in the interest of the “greater good”, and gone anywhere to work for her nomination, for free, for the presidency in 2008. Reflecting on this I cannot conclude who I am angrier with. The Senator or myself for being so impressionable. I was utterly fooled. I did not change. The Senator did. I feel genuinely humiliated. And embarrassed. I was mistaken.
The slimy ads the repubs are running is a sign of desperation. They know how bad the poll numbers are, and they’re freaking out. *g*
They’re so over-the-top they’ll backfire.
cbl: I had to step away for a little while.
You said ” personal note – have been thinking you may have some valuable input for Marksb – yes ? Was that a question for me? Who is marksb>
scarecrow @ 39
YES! And let’s give some credit to the ‘populist’ drum-beat from Lou Dobbs. It’s fair to say that I don’t always agree with him, but his relentless emphasis on “broken borders” and “war on the middle class” does seem to have resonance.
TheOtherWA @ 42
No matter how narcissistic they may be, they have to know what will happen to their gravy train if the Dems take control of even one house of Congress. So, yes, they’re desperate.
How soon before we get the Pelosi/Bin Laden morphing commercial?
-GSD
So all week long, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer tells us, CNN wil have nightly specials under the overall heading of “Broken Government.” These will be broadcast simultaneously while Glenn Beck is on the other CNN channel telling us why the people (like him) who advocated this entire mess should still be listened to.
[[bangs staw head into keyboard]]
PeteCo: I just put the movie in my queue at Netflix and it says “very long wait”. Do you know how long that wait means when they state that? TIA
ScrewBush @
13
That’s what I was thinking. Moving forward is what people were doing during the Gilded Age and the Great Depression, and now with huge medical care inequities, just to pick one subject. In Czarist Russia, life did go on, but I ask for more than that.
Avalanches “move forward.” A sense of momentum is not the same as desired results.
/rant
New poll shows that only 60% of evangelicals are planning to vote gooper as opposed to 75% last time around- if that’s close to right- it’s big trouble for goopers.
I talked to my baptist gooper mom last night- she’s not voting this time.
rwcole @ 50
Well, we couldn’t reasonably expect these bozos to do a party switch. I guess if they want to sulk instead, that’s their decision.
GSD: My GopMom votes straight Republican right down the line. She is not voting. I was in Boca this weekend visiting and she will not go to the polls, even for me and vote Dem. This is unheard of for my condo gopmom.
The whole “mobilize the base” is a canard these days. So what if you mobilize the base and the other 70% decides to show up and vote against Greedy Old Pervert Party.
Speaking of which:
Mark Foley says: “I’m always up for oral sex”.
-GSD
Kay Bailey Hutchison from the President’s home state of Texas who is now performing the greatest pre-election turnabout on Iraq. And in seeking cover from the woes of President Bush, Senator Hutchison has paradoxically lauded President Clinton’s intervention in the Balkans, a policy she once vehemently opposed.
For the complete story, see:
“Hutchison Backs Iraq Partition, Endorses Clinton Balkans Policy.”
“Also, Larry Craig(R-Idaho Closet)”
LMAO.
IMHO Larry’s situation could put enormous pressure on the ID Governor’s race. Larry might have to resign before January 07 and the Governor appoints his replacement.
ccmask, re guarding you 9:47, marksb has revealed to FDL that he is undergoing treatment for significant medical issues. Latest reports, that I recall, sound encouraging about recovery.
All this peckerwood jazz emanating from the Rove dungeon and the rest of the neo-cons about Lamont losing is wishful fantasizing. Senator Lamont is packing his bags. He’s just about ‘there’.
The anecdotal evidence I am hearing is making it appear more and more likely that the GOP will be devasted……
-GSD
tfitznc @ 44
Well, he may be a demogogue, but sometimes, on some issues, he’s our demogogue.
But on the whole I’ much rather give credit to the Ladies of the Lake, Pach/TRex, et al, and to the Glenn Greenwalds, Stollers, Atrios, kos (McJoan, DemfromCT et al), Digby, Billmon, Marsh, Matt O, Swopa, Jennifer Nix, etc, etc, etc. — they are the real heroes who changed the conversation and how we and the media (and even our party) talk about the world. This is a major victory for the progressive blogs, and we’re just getting started and still learning. And everyday that Glenn Greenwald destroys another piece of the neothug brand, I do a little dance. [well sort of!]
AngryOne @ 54
I do not like Kay.
ccmask @ 48
I just consulted with Mrs CO, who runs our queue, and she says she’s never seen that before. My guess is that if enough people request it, Netflix will acquire more copies, especially if it takes off in a big way. I think this is an encouraging sign, even if it’s frustrating.
KayOklahoma kiddo @ 59
Nor do I.
Apologies to cheerleaders everwhere!
Evil–Hey- that’s my MOM yer talkin about!
rwcole @ 50
Exactly. The fundies will stay home in large enough numbers to throw a lot of races to Dems. All we have to do is keep on going and GOTV!
One of the “toss-up” races that the R’s are spending on is Melissa Bean and she has been running close to 20% ahead of her GOP challenger.
The media loves a horserace…
Also remember the pre-election numbers in both Maryland and New Jersey had races very tight and still in the final wash the GOP was soaked and washed out……
(R)J. K. Blackwell in Ohio has been unendorsed due to his gutter-dragging campaign. By going so thoroughly negative the GOP is making themselves even more loathesome than ever.
-GSD
GSD @ 57
We’re comin’ to whoop up on them with our mighty karma.
Lou Dobbs is the voice of “the common man”. He sees the world from the same point of view as the average Joe on the street and what he says is what lots of em are feeling. There’s a reason for calling it “populism”.
Scarecrow @58 -
Agreed in full. Let’s also give all of us readers a hand for supporting the progressive blogosphere in so many ways. Ok, and I do occasionally watch Dobbs …
Ah, thanks Pete. Hopefully it means before the election. I want to bring it to work. My boss keep talking about trying to get gov contracts. If I give him the movie it should open his eyes.
JohnCasper: After my second surgery, I’m clean now. They have me on synthetic thyroid and all is well.
I also wanted to mention that all Mark Foley signs are officially gone. And I was also wondering what could have happened in January that caused Tim Mahoney to run as a Democrat? A head’s up from Rove or did he finally see the light?
Oh yeah, looks like Romeny is the new Moqtada Al Sadr in American..firing up his Mormon militia via e-mails…even referring to said like minded religious supplicants as their “troops”.
Say no to religious militias in America, tell Mitt to go digging for some gold plates or something.
-GSD
jane and firedoglake are a really important part of this effort in getting war profiteering forced into the national debate. And we are making progress, we will have more then 4,000 screenings this month! And because of alternative distribution, after each and every screening there will be a discussion of what people can do!Lets all keep pushing this issue hard till election day.Also, we have copies available to send to school,church, military who cant afford, just email us. and check iraqforsale.org to see notes from some who are in duty in iraq and their response to the film..
oh, you’re that little hippie gal who stands out on the highway in the mornings with that sign . . .
card table parked next to Bake Sale Booth, laptop playing Had Enough, table front says You’re The Decider!, flanked on each side by 2 adorable shelties wearing backwards baseball caps stencilled w/ Had Enough ? (total attention ho’s who made the whole 5 hours)
piece de resistance –
had oversized crayon box on tabletop labelled Republican Flash Cards – took rectangular raw hide chews and using cake decorating inks – marked the lower half of each with -
9/11 ! 9/11 ! 9/11 !
Cut and Run
Stay The Course
It’s Your Money !
When They Stand Up . . .
on the back, all of them said ‘Look Over There’
whenever a gooper/fundie came by to ‘debate’, I’d simply give the girls the appropriate chew to hold in their mouths . . .
official Repubs got so frustrated, they sent festival organizers over to verify ‘the girls’ were registered participants – oh yeah, my babies had ‘lammies’
I know so many Firedogs are out working harder than this as I type, but thought you’d all get a kick out of it
btw – ran out of my 350 Applications for Absentee Ballots and my Mary Beth Harrell for Congress lit
phone banking today – I gots da fever ! –
Go Dogs Go !
CCmask,
I think Mahoney was a Rahm-job.
-GSD
scarecrow @ 58
Absolutely. And thanks to Al Gore for inventing the InterWeb ;) Bush tries to bs his way through an interview “We’ve never been stay the course” and he is caught in his lie, almost instantly. When the history of these times is written, I think the role technology is playing will feature very prominently. Think “Macaca”.
Robert, another one of my reliably Republican friends said he is voting a straight ticket for the Democrats.
He is 43 and was just mobilized to head to Mosul.
Something about an aimless war with an ever shifting goal seems to have given lots of folks clarity.
-GSD
ccmask – if you’re still here – marksb has been recently diagnosed w/ throat cancer (getting top drawer treatment w/ excellent prognosis) just thought your having been there would ring more authentic to him
great to hear you’re doing so well
You are probably right.
This was on my list of things to do today. I set up a screening at my house. I tried to talk to the theater in town here, and this is a better option. It’s more direct. I love the idea of hosting films like this. Perhaps a independent film festival at my house will be in order after the new year.
I’m going to have a planning session afterwards to use the time time between Nov. 25, the night of the screening, and January to come out with some kind of action plan with the new Congress.
robert greenwald @
71
I know that it’s a side issue to getting the crooks called on the carpet and the major themes of the film, but the independent distribution aparatus Robert has set up has been incredible, and I say that as someone with an industry background. I would very much like to have him come on the blog and discuss it sometime, it may just be a conversation for us true progressive infrastructure chickens but it is incredibly valuable and has amazing possibilities, esp. with major chains of distribution (the control point of any media organization) dominated by people with less-than-honorable political intentions.
robert greenwald @ 71
Thanks for your hard work. Do you happen to know how many copies Netflix has ordered?
rwcole @ 66
Yes, but if you listened carefully to Lou at his Town Hall meeting-format show, you’d hear him struggle when he got to the pronouns: when he talked about the middle class worrying about whether “our/their” health care would cover something, whether “our/their” kids could afford college, etc. Man-o-the-people Lou was trying to be more man-o-the-people, but still acknowledged for everyone that HE does not face these very real problems, as a member of the chatterati class.
I still think of Lou Dobbs and Jack Cafferty at FDL’s crazy uncles — gotta love ‘em for their shouting right now, but sometimes I’m afraid I’ll be the one to get caught on their lawn!
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cbl@72
THAT is funny! LMAO!
new thread!
Sorry to hear about Marksb…wow.
From wiki:
Mahoney is currently chairman and chief operating officer of vFinance, Inc., which is located in Boca Raton. The vFinance website currently boasts 80,000 subscribers, but nearly 90 percent of the company’s $25.8 million revenues now come from brokerage and trading activities, according to vFinance’s annual report. The company has dropped from $8 per share in 2000 to 20 cents on September 26, 2006. It has turned a profit once in its first six years, has been sued for fraud and breach of contract and paid fines of more than $80,000 from securities regulators, records show. Yahoo! Finance shows vFinance has the lowest market cap of any publicly traded asset management company and identifies it as one of the “laggards” in net-profit margin. The company, though, has quadrupled its revenues in the past six years and increased its payroll from 21 employees to 197 during the same time.[1]
Robert Greenwald, bravo!! Thank you for all your hard work on this film and the others. You’re an angel.
The kleptocratic zombies just keep coming back, generation after generation, plunging us into global chaos with their fickle, puerile visions of international diplomacy that always seems to result in other people dying and them getting rich.
Ah, nicely put, especially the “generation after generation” part. This won’t end until we do, unfortunately. I give it ten years, tops.
NSS ! – pundits say all they’ve needed in the past is a 10% edge and they’re now down 15 ?!?! sweet jeebus
There’s a big push in anti-Melissa Bean advertising here … begins with a bit saying McSweeney will reform washington and demand accountability then attacks Bean on immigration and something … missed part since I was in shock at the idea that a repub was trying to play “reformer” … argh! but the ads are soooo badly done and so bizarre, I can’t see it working … you don’t become a reformer overnight and you aren’t a reformer if the RNCC is paying for your ads.
cbl@72
I’m so impressed with your enthusiasm and creativity that I had to apparate to give you a sitting brava (can’t stand and type on the laptop at the same time). Also, I’m a sucker for anything that includes dogs. Give your babies a “good girl” tummy rub or behind the ear scratch from me. [disapparating]
CBL!!!! now that’s a wonderful tale! Please get pictures so we can get them spread around … WOW!!!!
AngryOne @ 54
http://www.radnofsky.com/press…..ms_id=1166
Revelation: Hutchison will resign if re-elected
Another bravo to Robert Greenwald, for the fantastic work on this film and others!
And Jane, seeing as I’m a (very) small-time media producer myself, I’d love to hear Robert talk about his distribution efforts under what must have been challenging circumstances.
On a side note, I just added “Iraq for Sale” to my NetFlix list as an experiment, and got the availability tag of “Now.” Go figure.
An Angry Old Broad @ 8
I’d approach your local Unitarian Universalist church. They’d probably be totally jazzed about hosting it, and they’ll have a bigger space as well. Plus, the UU membership would be probably turn out in droves for it.
cbl @ 72
You MUST send us photos. You’re one dangerous gal.
Jane Hamsher @
79
The infrastructure is critical to keeping the public informed. I would welcome such a discussion!
That story on the diplomatic official admitting they’re looking for anyone but Al Queda to hand over power to pretty much confirms it’s all just an endless loop.
Obviously only the most brutal of sociopaths is going to give any kind of order to that degree of chaos. We put Saddam in there in the first place because he was anyone but the Ayatollah. The endless back and forths between evil not-so and so’s is turning into pretty tired schtick. For everybody that isn’t a major stockholder in the Carlyle Group, anyway…
For netflix members, Iraq for Sale is available there. Rate it up and it’ll get recommended more often.
Thanks for screening Iraq for Sale. At Brave New Films we’ve seen screenings happening in the most amazing and suprising spaces-
Everywhere from Baskin Robbins to breakrooms in retails stores to sorrority houses- it’s been wonderful to see how creative people get about screening locations.
Park rec rooms and community colleges are good secular public spaces.
I found a kick-ass new blog last week that focuses on war profiteering and the government outsourcing of espionage and the military. It’s http://www.TheSpyWhoBilledMe.com.