Comments on: Baghdad or Bust http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:27:22 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Wallace http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-420414 Wallace Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:39:50 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-420414 <p>Michelle Malkin is an articulate idiot.</p> Michelle Malkin is an articulate idiot.

]]> By: BushYouth http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-420222 BushYouth Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:47:06 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-420222 <p>“Now you want to fly her to Iraq?”</p> <p>Yes! Yes! Yes! Please fly her to Iraq! I’ll even chip in as long as its a one way ticket.</p> “Now you want to fly her to Iraq?”

Yes! Yes! Yes! Please fly her to Iraq! I’ll even chip in as long as its a one way ticket.

]]> By: The Oracle http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419832 The Oracle Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:38:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419832 <p>In the 1980s, the WAR ZONE during the Iran/Iraq War that was waged between Shia and Sunni-led factions was along their shared border, limited to a relatively narrow (although long) strip of land. Millions died.</p> <p>Today, and after Bush and the neo-con Republicans invaded Iraq, ousted Saddam Hussein and de-Baathified the “new” Iraq, the WAR ZONE is all of Iraq, with the epicenter of Sunni/Shia sectarian fighting taking place in Baghdad, with untold thousands of Iraqis being butchered every month…while untold thousands of Iraqis flee with their families for their lives.</p> <p>And the Iranians are eating it all up, supporting their Shia proxies in Iraq, something that was unimaginable with Saddam Hussein in power.</p> <p>And the Saudis are getting ready (if they haven’t already) to jump into Iraq with both sandaled feet by supporting their Sunni proxies there by any means at hand.</p> <p>Bush and the neo-con nuts put a match to a powder keg in the Middle East…and then placed our soldiers on top of this powder keg…with the warring Sunni and Shia factions throwing even more sparks at the powder keg.</p> <p>When it blows, everyone will be a loser, including all the U.S. citizens who continue to blindly support everything Bush and the neo-con nuts do, both in the White House and Congress. Idiots!!!</p> In the 1980s, the WAR ZONE during the Iran/Iraq War that was waged between Shia and Sunni-led factions was along their shared border, limited to a relatively narrow (although long) strip of land. Millions died.

Today, and after Bush and the neo-con Republicans invaded Iraq, ousted Saddam Hussein and de-Baathified the “new” Iraq, the WAR ZONE is all of Iraq, with the epicenter of Sunni/Shia sectarian fighting taking place in Baghdad, with untold thousands of Iraqis being butchered every month…while untold thousands of Iraqis flee with their families for their lives.

And the Iranians are eating it all up, supporting their Shia proxies in Iraq, something that was unimaginable with Saddam Hussein in power.

And the Saudis are getting ready (if they haven’t already) to jump into Iraq with both sandaled feet by supporting their Sunni proxies there by any means at hand.

Bush and the neo-con nuts put a match to a powder keg in the Middle East…and then placed our soldiers on top of this powder keg…with the warring Sunni and Shia factions throwing even more sparks at the powder keg.

When it blows, everyone will be a loser, including all the U.S. citizens who continue to blindly support everything Bush and the neo-con nuts do, both in the White House and Congress. Idiots!!!

]]> By: mrJJ http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419796 mrJJ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:55:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419796 <p><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2076137.ece">http://news.independent.co.uk/.....076137.ece</a></p> <p>A devastating attack on Mr Blair’s justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain’s key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.</p> <p>The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction</p> http://news.independent.co.uk/…..076137.ece

A devastating attack on Mr Blair’s justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain’s key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.

The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction

]]> By: Terry Olson http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419627 Terry Olson Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:58:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419627 <p>Okay. The Mansur District, which is upscale but not the most upscale, has drastically lost value. ASKING prices are about one quarter of what they were in the spring/summer of 2005. You can now purchase a 4bd/4bath/2 reception room home with all marble for only $550,000. </p> <p>The only problem is…who would buy it?</p> Okay. The Mansur District, which is upscale but not the most upscale, has drastically lost value. ASKING prices are about one quarter of what they were in the spring/summer of 2005. You can now purchase a 4bd/4bath/2 reception room home with all marble for only $550,000.

The only problem is…who would buy it?

]]> By: dlake http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419622 dlake Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:52:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419622 <p>Maybe Malkin will get kidnapped by one of the factions…but, then they would have to release her because she’d drive them crazy like her. hmmmmmmm.</p> Maybe Malkin will get kidnapped by one of the factions…but, then they would have to release her because she’d drive them crazy like her. hmmmmmmm.

]]> By: Terry Olson http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419603 Terry Olson Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:37:30 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419603 <p>Thanks for the best map I’ve seen of Baghdad. I hope that Malkin will be reporting from Sadr City. Interestingly, I was looking at real estate in Baghdad in the summer of 2005, (thinking it was devalued due to “circumstances”) and it was REALLY expensive. I’ll check again now to see how prices compare, but I’ll betcha…</p> Thanks for the best map I’ve seen of Baghdad. I hope that Malkin will be reporting from Sadr City. Interestingly, I was looking at real estate in Baghdad in the summer of 2005, (thinking it was devalued due to “circumstances”) and it was REALLY expensive. I’ll check again now to see how prices compare, but I’ll betcha…

]]> By: swoosh http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419591 swoosh Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:23:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419591 <p>If MM sets foot outside the Green Zone, she will no doubt be wearing a super-duper extra-extra petite suit of floor length body armor (remember Kim Dozier?)…oh wait. I forgot about her personal force field of prejudice and hate — nothing harmful can penetrate that!</p> If MM sets foot outside the Green Zone, she will no doubt be wearing a super-duper extra-extra petite suit of floor length body armor (remember Kim Dozier?)…oh wait. I forgot about her personal force field of prejudice and hate — nothing harmful can penetrate that!

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419534 David Ehrenstein Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:59:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419534 <p>Oh <b>PLEASE </b>fly her to Iraq!</p> <p>Just don’t let her anywhere near the Green Zone.</p> Oh PLEASE fly her to Iraq!

Just don’t let her anywhere near the Green Zone.

]]> By: Everythingseemssoneat http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419492 Everythingseemssoneat Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:11:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/14/baghdad-or-bust/#comment-419492 <p>GrandmaJ-That’s a long list.</p> GrandmaJ-That’s a long list.

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