Comments on: Would You Buy A Used War From This Man?

By: Mary Alice

Mary Alice — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:40:36 +0000

What did W do when Maliki broke their date? Just fly Air Force 1 around in big circles until somebody decided they could stomach the sight of him?
Awkward.

By: rumi

rumi — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:22:26 +0000

If there is any doubt to the possibility of a global consortium running the show behind the scenes, take a quick look at the ind/mil/fin/ (and now with private military/security/intelligence contractors) connections to everybody in the Iraq Study Group.

or this

The Carlyle White House

By: fahrender

fahrender — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:21:42 +0000

kemo (at 9:12):

he doesn’t even like to be in New York, or Washington for that matter. i think that there are a lot more bends in the road ahead. if his handlers start playing their cards right fuckwad could end his eight years at least ten points higher in the polls. i’m not predicting that to happen but strangeer things have….

time for work. i’ll be back (in eight hours or so) ……

By: kemo

kemo — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:12:19 +0000

fahrender @ 112

BobbyG @
43

PM Maliki:

Dead Man Walking.

agreed. if he isn’t suicidal he should just hand over the keys to the car to moqtada and hike it to tehran.

This is desparation time for Bush. I can’t recall, outside his covert Thanksgiving nonsense trip, him ever being in the ME. The coalition demand for US troops out is the beginning of the end.

By: fahrender

fahrender — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:58:12 +0000

BobbyG @
43

PM Maliki:

Dead Man Walking.

agreed. if he isn’t suicidal he should just hand over the keys to the car to moqtada and hike it to tehran.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:32:57 +0000

I don’t buy used cars

By: Blub

Blub — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:28:06 +0000

My inclination is that this is less of a conspiracy theory and more theater of the absurd, with a good dose of a tragicomedy of errors, thrown in… like you said, antiquated dinosaurs playing at supreme power (concealing supreme avarice) using moves that were already quaint in 1947… unfortunately, you’re right, and the bodies that pile up around their incompetence and indifference are very real.

johnSwifty @ 108

Blub @ 99

My feeling has been that it’s all kind of like Indonesian shadow opera:–

I love a good conspiracy theory (I am, in fact, wearing a tin funnel — but that’s more in homage to Buddy Ebsen); but you’re perspective on the situation is fecund with real probability. It’s easy to say it’s the big Oil guys; or, it’s the military industrial complex guys…or whomever. More and more I am convinced there’s definitely *some* guys. What worries me most is not that they are a greedy, self serving secret aristocracy; rather that they are the inbreed, hemophiliac, stupid last throws of a dynasty that should have been buried long ago.

By: Cozumel

Cozumel — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:21:58 +0000

montag @ 100

Cozumel @ 69

Those were the first troops on the ground in Afghanistan. I can’t buy that the alleged casualties families weren’t notified, buddies said nothing, etc etc ? No sale ; )

Beyond that, his articles don’t exist in a vacuum–his sources are scrupulously fact-checked by The New Yorker’s staff.

Single source fact checked IRRC.

I’m suspicious but that’s me. I like provable facts. Or absent that, two or more sources. Preferably named ; )

By: johnSwifty

johnSwifty — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:19:16 +0000

Blub @ 99

My feeling has been that it’s all kind of like Indonesian shadow opera:–

I love a good conspiracy theory (I am, in fact, wearing a tin funnel — but that’s more in homage to Buddy Ebsen); but you’re perspective on the situation is fecund with real probability. It’s easy to say it’s the big Oil guys; or, it’s the military industrial complex guys…or whomever. More and more I am convinced there’s definitely *some* guys. What worries me most is not that they are a greedy, self serving secret aristocracy; rather that they are the inbreed, hemophiliac, stupid last throws of a dynasty that should have been buried long ago.

By: scarecrow

scarecrow — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:19:08 +0000

Blub — My feeling has been that it’s all kind of like Indonesian shadow opera Yeah, nothing is as it seems.

I remember seeing a play [Noises Off!??]- a comedy that consists of a play inside a play, in three acts. Each act, we see the inside play from a different angle. The first act is what they want you to see; the second reveals that there may be strange things going on behind the scenes; and the third act shows us what’s actually happening behind the scenes — and it’s total chaos. Only that was hilarious, while this is horrifying.