Yee gads these people are useless :
After all the bullshit from right wing bloggers, we get this:
The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media.
Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported by The Associated Press.
This should explain, even to the idiots, why Hussein didn't "come forward to clear his name," pretty nicely, doesn't it? It also explains why he quit talking once you started pushing this clearly stupid issue.
I don't know how the notion got circulated that the right wing blogosphere was anything other than the toenail clippings of the Mighty Wurlitzer. Check that — I do know. After they got used like a bunch of tools by the GOP to launder the Dan Rather story, they sat around pounding their chests like they were actually capable of independent thought and action and a bunch of stupid people believed it.
They can't raise money. They can't organize. They can't even acknowledge that they've been beating a dead story into the ground because like their fearless leader, they equate admitting they are wrong with failure. Yet they are wrong, almost all the time and about almost everything.
Wrong wrong wrong. You were wrong, Malkin, wrong. Dead wrong. Now please STFU and stay in your bunker before you and the wingnut nob-sucking Eason Jordan get any American servicemen killed guarding your skanky ass in your narcissistic vanity trip, because your desire to hoover up all the wingnut welfare in sight spreading the delusional stories of a desperate and sinking administration is truly not worth it.
Update: If you know anyone in Iraq who perchance encounters the dynamic duo, the General is going to keep tabs on "Floppy" and "Our Lady of the Concentration Camps." You just know there are going to be some dilly stories to be had, and the General is just the fellow to collect them.
Update II: Even I don't want her to go over there and get her ass shot up, so in the spirit of blogger comity I extend to that shreiking ding-dong a Steve Gilliard Reality Check. Not that she'll heed it, but at least I offered.
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oh, c’mon jane. tell us how you really feel! ;)
To paraphrase Jim Morrison…
They’ve been wrong so goddamn long…
That it looks like right to them…
It takes a lot of talent to be wrong so consistenly. The kind of talent that only wingnut welfare can afford to pay for.
From Arianna:
At the packed-to-the-rafters brunch preceding Nancy Pelosi’s formal swearing in, Melinda and I ran into Wes Clark (and I mean that literally; like I said, it was packed). Clark was really angry about what he’d read in this column by UPI Editor at Large Arnaud de Borchgrave. In the piece, which Clark quickly forwarded to my BlackBerry from his Trio, de Borchgrave details Bibi Netanyahu leading the charge to lobby the Bush administration to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, and paints U.S. air strikes against Iran in 2007/08 as all-but-a-done deal.
“How can you talk about bombing a country when you won’t even talk to them?” said Clark. “It’s outrageous. We’re the United States of America; we don’t do that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the military option is off the table — but diplomacy is not what Jim Baker says it is. It’s not, What will it take for you boys to support us on Iraq? It’s sitting down for a couple of days and talking about our families and our hopes, and building relationships.”
When we asked him what made him so sure the Bush administration was headed in this direction, he replied: “You just have to read what’s in the Israeli press. The Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..37837.html
I read yesterday that Malkin had been cleared to embed with military units over there. I say “Go on Michelle….and don’t come back until you’ve won the war for us”.
MADAME SPEAKER!
I was thinking of copying all the posts in the previous thread and posting them here.
Would that be wrong?
Wow. That last paragraph, just…wow.
I bow to you, Hamsher-sensei.
Patrick 4/4 @ 10
We’ve moved on from “Fair Use” to “Fairly Useless” I think.
TRex @ 11
Is that cause you claim one quarter of her traffic? (How’s that for meta-commenting?)
I am Ace. I rule.
Because I’m Ace. I rule.
OT, but I gotta brag. Thanks to the efforts of another local Deaniac and me (among others), it’s looking nearly certain that we will have challengers to all of the Republican incumbents in the state legislature from our county for the first time, well, ever. Rootz rule!
Any blood of Jamil Gholaiem Hussein’s that’s spilled is surely Malkin’s fault, now.
The Saddam Trial in 4 parts: Part 1
From Bush’s presser with Angela Merkel January 4, 2007:
The following is something I put together back on day of Saddam’s execution on December 30, 2006. His execution rushed and as hastily organized as it was got me thinking about how fair his trial had been. I had scattered memories but nothing very thoroughgoing. So I put together this timeline based in part on two I found at the BBC covering Saddam’s Dujail trial (completed) and his Anfal one (left hanging by his execution).
Dujail: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4507568.stm
Anfal: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5272224.stm
First, a few preliminary remarks. Trial procedure in Iraq is not based on the American model. In Saddam’s trials, there was no jury but a panel of judges. The Chief Judge presided and had wide latitude over how the proceedings occurred.
Interestingly, in both of his trials, the original judges left or were fired because of bias toward Saddam and were replaced by ones who were considerably less sympathetic to him. Also in the Dujail case for a crime against Shi’ites, the chief judges were Kurds. In the Anfal case for crimes against the Kurds, the chief judges were Shia.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that the Iraqi Special Tribunal did not meet international standards for a fair trial. Similar concerns were expressed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Note: Dates given with no further comment refer to days the court met without serious incident. An asterisk indicates an event outside the trial.
The Dujail trial
July 18, 2005 The Iraqi Special Tribunal lodges preliminary charges against Saddam for crimes against humanity in ordering the killing of 148 Shias from the town of Dujail in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt carried out by Dawa Party members. The Special Tribunal was originally headed by Salem Chalabi, a relative of Ahmed Chalabi. He was replaced because of his lack of legal experience and because the Americans had become disenchanted by that time with Ahmed. The tribunal was set up by the Iraqi Governing Council which in turn had been set up by Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority
The Saddam Trial in 4 parts: Part 2
The Prosecution’s Case
The Prosecution’s case put simply was that, following the botched assassination attempt, most of the male inhabitants of Dujail were rounded up, tortured, and executed without trial and that Saddam sanctioned their execution.
October 19, 2005 The Dujail trial begins against Saddam and 7 co-defendants. (I will be concentrating on what happened to Saddam.) The Chief Judge is Rizgar Mohammed Amin, a Kurd. Saddam questions the validity of the court. The trial is adjourned after 3 hours because witnesses have not shown up.
November 28 The trial is delayed a week in order to replace 2 of Saddam’s defense lawyers who were murdered and a third who fled to Jordan.
December 5 First walkout of defense lawyers (for an hour)
December 6 Saddam tells judge to go to hell.
December 7 First boycott of proceedings by Saddam
December 21-22
*January 23, 2006 (Not a trial day) Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin quits citing government interference and criticism that he was too lenient on the defense.
January 24 Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman, another Kurd, named Chief Judge. Trial again postponed because witnesses have not shown up.
January 29 Walkouts and ejections of Saddam and his defense lawyers
February 1-2 Trial continues in the absence of Saddam and his lawyers.
February 13 Saddam forced to attend; his half brother and codefendant Barzan al-Tikriti shows up in his underwear
February 14 Saddam announces he is on hunger strike
February 28 Saddam’s defense lawyers end a month long boycott and make their first appearance since January 29. A memo approving 148 death sentences signed by Saddam is introduced.
March 1 Saddam declares he is responsible but has committed no crime
March 12-13
March 15 Saddam takes the stand, states he is still the President of Iraq, and exhorts Iraqis to attack the occupation. His microphone is turned off.
April 5 Saddam back on the stand. He questions the authenticity of the memo introduced February 28 approving 148 death sentences. Another defense lawyer is ejected after trying to show pictures of American torture from Abu Ghraib.
April 17 Handwriting experts confirm the signature. The defense claims the experts from the Interior Ministry are not independent.
April 19 Chief Judge al-Rahman declares the signature is Saddam’s
April 24 The prosecution introduces another expert panel report confirming Saddam’s signature on the death sentence memo
May 15 The prosecution’s case ends with a reading of formal charges against Saddam. He refuses to enter a plea and states again that he is still the President of Iraq.
Meanwhile, about that dress, Michelle… the last time I saw one of those it was staggering off Molly Hatchet’s crew bus… was that you by any chance???
The Saddam Trial in 4 parts: Part 3
The Defense’s Case
The defense’s case was convoluted. It claimed that the executions never occurred and that if they did occur, not all of them occurred, and those that did were the result of trials, and that in any case Saddam never ordered anyone’s execution.
May 16 The defense’s case begins. Saddam not in court.
May 17
May 22 Another defense attorney is ejected.
May 24 Saddam’s Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz testifies on his behalf.
May 29 Testimony that death sentence trials were held for those killed at Dujail and that they were fair
May 30-31 Further rebuttal of the prosecution case: accusations that evidence was manufactured and that witnesses lied.
June 5 The defense complains that the prosecutions is holding some of its witnesses for making false statements.
June 12 Defense complains it is being rushed, that the prosecution was given months to present its case and they are being given weeks. Chief Judge al-Rahman supports charges of perjury against defense witnesses and says they have confessed.
June 13 Chief Judge al-Rahman declares that this is the last day that defense testimony will be accepted.
Closing Arguments
June 19 The prosecution presents final arguments.
*June 21 (Not a court day) Saddam’s chief defense lawyer Khamis al-Obeidi is murdered.
*June 21-23 Saddam on hunger strike in protest of murder.
*July 7-23 Another hunger strike over the trial and the murder of Obeidi. This ends when he is forcibly fed by tube.
July 10 Defense scheduled to give closing arguments but Saddam and his lawyers boycott the proceedings
July 11 Chief Judge al-Rahman reschedules defense closing arguments for July 24
July 24 Saddam is in the hospital after his hunger strike had been forcibly ended the day before. His defense team continues their boycott.
July 26 Saddam is forced to appear. He says if found guilty he would prefer to be shot, not hanged. In the continued absence of his lawyers, the court has appointed a new defense team which Saddam rejects.
July 27 The trial is adjourned until an expected verdict on October 16. Saddam is absent on this last day.
*October 29 Chief prosecutor al-Moussawi announces the verdict now expected for November 5 could be held up for 2 weeks to allow for judicial checks. US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad denies that the US is pressing for a verdict before the November 7 elections. However . . .
The Verdict
November 5 The verdict is announced. Saddam is found guilty and condemned to death.
Appeals and Execution
December 3 Saddam’s lawyers file an appeal.
December 26 Saddam’s conviction and sentence are upheld.
December 30 After considerable confusion and contradictory reports, Saddam is delivered from American physical custody to Iraqi authorities and is executed by hanging, just before the major Sunni religious holiday of Eid.
ThatSinger @ 18
That’s a camo tank top she’s wearing. They were three for $18 at Old Navy last spring.
The Saddam Trial in 4 parts: Part 4
After the Dujail trial ended but before any verdict was delivered, the Anfal trial began
The Anfal trial (highly abbreviated)
August 21, 2006 The trial begins. Saddam refuses to enter a plea and a plea of not guilty is entered for him.
August 22-23
September 11-12
September 13 Chief prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon accuses Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri, a Shi’ite of being prejudiced in favor of Saddam and asks for him to step down.
September 14 Chief Judge al-Amiri tells Saddam, “You were not a dictator. People around you made you [look like] a dictator.” Renewed demands for him to step aside.
September 19 Chief Judge al-Amiri is replaced by Mohammed al-Khalifa.
September 20 Saddam refuses to recognize the new Chief Judge and is ejected. His defense lawyers walkout and refuse to return until the government stops its political interference.
September 25-26 Saddam is ejected both days.
October 9
October 10 Saddam is again ejected.
October 11
October 17
October 18 Defense lawyers end their month long boycott.
October 19
October 30 Saddam’s chief defense leaves claiming the trial is not fair. New defense lawyers are appointed.
October 31
November 7
November 27-29
December 4 With Saddam sentenced to death in the Dujail trial, witness testimony for the prosecution concludes with documentary evidence to follow to produce at least a record for posterity.
The Anfal trial was superseded by the death sentence verdict in the Dujail trial and with Saddam’s execution remains incomplete. In many ways, the two trials reflect the distribution of power in Iraq. Kurds and Shia presided at each others’ trials. No Sunnis were chief judges, an effect of the politics and the de-Baathification process. The trial for crimes against the Shia came first and its verdict as subsequent events have shown was the only one that counted for the powers that be in Iraq, which is to say that the Kurds got whatever was left and whatever they could fit in before Iraq’s Shia dominated government acted.
The charges too were quite telling. Saddam was not tried for his brutal repression of the Shi’ite uprising following the first Gulf War in 1991 but for a much smaller and more specific incident involving the deaths of 148 Shia nine years before in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt on Saddam by Dawa Party members. It should be kept in mind that both the current Prime Minister al-Maliki and the previous one al-Jaafari belong to the Dawa Party. The Anfal crimes, by contrast, involved the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds.
Saddam was a very bad man but aren’t judicial systems put in place to, among other things, deal with very bad people? And do we not institute such systems precisely to distinguish our actions and methods from those of these same very bad people? Saddam’s trial and execution says a lot about the lack of any real, organized government in Iraq. This is important since Bush’s policies in Iraq hinge on there being an effective government to partner with and transfer responsibility to. Beyond this, if this is the justice that a once powerful dictator got, think what the average Iraqi faces.
But she’s going, right? I mean, that Ace person over at Tbogg’s said she wasn’t going simply to find the missing Iraqi Police Captain, her brief is broader, she’s Blogger Without Portfolio, right? Her investigative charter and mission comprise all the GWOT (GreenZones), do they not?
TRex @ 20
That would have been right after MalKKKin wore one in public the first time, I suppose?
TRex @
11
your humble commenter servant is also awed, sir and lady.
Somehow I see a picture of Malkkkins head spinning with steam coming from her ears. Personally, I would never wish any harm on anyone, but……
Bring our soldiers home NOW
I honestly have never heard a single word, or read one word from this person Malkin. Is that a picture of Malkin at the top. Seriously.
So sad, so true. Perhaps Time magazine will hire the entire right-wing-nut-o-sphere as a “star” columnist?
Jane,
Do you keep a paper bag by your keyboard?
I hyperventalated just reading you post!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 26
Yes. Isn’t she just the kind of girl Norman Bates would take home to meet his mom?
TRex @
20
One skank’s top is another skank’s skirt…
Either way, a chickenhawk in camo is just wrong on so many levels…
oddball @ 28
Probably a speed bag, not a paper bag.
TRex says:
Her kung-fu is strong, and really annoying.
EvilDrPuma @ 29
Malkin reminds me of the sadistic Cathy Bates character who beats and tortures James Caan (who plays a writer) that I can’t seem to remember the title of. Michelle is a bit younger and thinner but just as evil. I do recall the movie was adapted from a Stephen King story.
for So Cal West Coasters – PBS (Los Angeles) is re-running the Frontline featuring Joe Wilson and all the Plame stuff at 9pm.
newspaperbrat, wasn’t it misery?
“Misery”. One of the best books about writing ever. There’s more good information about how to write a book in that book than in any writer’s manual I’ve ever read.
Suzanne @ 35
Yes! Thank you Suzanne – hope I wasn’t having my first senior moment. :>)
OT But saw this in Froomkin…Seems so simple But GREAT!!!!
“And Roscoe C. Born writes in a Baltimore Sun op-ed: “There is a way for Congress to swiftly stanch the flow of American blood in Iraq without a bitter, partisan debate over the causes or conduct of the war. . . .
“Congress is morally obligated – now – to review its outdated joint resolution authorizing force against Iraq, and to undertake a new joint resolution declaring, in essence, ‘Whereas the purposes of the original authorization have been served; whereas the stated reasons justifying the authorization no longer exist; whereas the objectionable Iraqi regime has been removed and the new Iraqi regime poses no military threat to its neighbors or the United States; that, therefore, U.S. military forces are no longer authorized to remain in Iraq.’” “
p.lukasiak @ 4
I’m saddened by the lack of bipartisan spirit being displayed by this angry blogger.
< /lieberman >
I think it is obvious – as soon as MMKKK says she is going to Iraq, the Interior Ministry comes up with a reason to negate her trip.
They don’t want her there either.
newspaperbrat @ 37
No no dear, you’re just the owner of a very well-furnished mind.
(At least that’s what I tell myself!)
p.lukasiak @
4
I usually link to Xan’s post on Corrente whenever I mention the Rather thing but I forgot this time. Your presence reminded me, thanks Paul.
TRex @ 36
Now that you mention it I completely agree. The only other how to writing book I would confidently recommend is Writing Down Bones.
my contempt for joe lieberman is unrestrained in every dimension….
Margot @ 41
Thanks Margo – how very kind.
Suzanne @ 40
Can you blame them?
Maybe if we all play our cards right, Malkin will fall into the space-time anomaly that is a stopover at Heathrow, never to be seen again.
OMG!!! I LOVE THAT BOOK!!
You should read her others, too, “Wild Mind” and “Thunder and Lightning”. I would give my left nut(meg) to take one of Natalie Goldberg’s writing workshops.
the iraqi government has always never been associated with this person. there is no truth to the statements that he didn’t work for the prime minister. nor was this person in the room where he was reported to not be in. this person certainly doesn’t have the cell phone that the pictures were taken with, that was another person. no one took any pictures of the cameraman, and there was no camera
they have a good teacher, they just translate their american cousin’s statements made to and for idiots, lather, rinse, repeat.
Here’s Xan’s comment, one of my faves (suffering from link rot at Corrente, or I just linked it up wrong in the first place, more probable):
That about sums it up.
AkaDad @ 32
Jane’s Kung Fu is strong, but it’s not “annoying” at all. Malkin is annoying. Correcting her wrong-ness is refreshing.
TRex @ 47
LOL – you fracture me T-Rex. I think it is safe to assure you Natalie Goldberg would much prefer you hold on to your nut-meg. Her workshops are very affordable and I could probably manage to treat you to a gift certificate sometime soon. Just need to first honor my pledge for the FDL Washington apt.
I have been creeped out by Malkin for some time now…beyond her politics and overall stupidity, of course. And now I’ve realized it!
I dated a girl just like her in college. Shallow, vapid, ingnorant. Mirror for a best friend. God, looking back, I was so young. Like most men in college, I just wanted to get down her pants. I can still hear that grating voice. WAIT! I want to talk about me some more!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I wish I woulda drank away that memory while I had the chance.
I know it has been quoted already, but
“Wrong wrong wrong. You were wrong, Malkin, wrong. Dead wrong. Now please STFU and stay in your bunker before you and the wingnut nob-sucking Eason Jordon get any American servicemen killed guarding your skanky ass in your narcissistic vanity trip, because your desire to hoover up all the wingnut welfare in sight spreading the delusional stories of a desperate and sinking administration is truly not worth it.”
is priceless, Jane. I would have done a 707 if the underlying subject were not so serious.
TheGris @ 50
The “annoying Jane” bit is a running gag from the other day. Worry not.
new thread
EvilDrPuma @
54
Oops, thanks.
Small typo: Eason Jordan (not Jordon).
TRex @ 47
That is Writing Down the Bones.
I love that book. Anybody with any thought of being a writer should read it.
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-…..mp;s=books
Do you give Trex an equal share of the ad money that comes in, here? He’s just as much a fire dog laker as you are! You’d be nothing without him! It’s like stealing if you don’t.
Do you?
I’ts annoying in the sense that Jane annoys the hell out of the right.
Last night Jane was saying perhaps she hadn’t been as annoying as Keith Olbermann since he’s the most hated. I wasn’t insulting Jane at all, I like it when she’s “shrill, caustic, and annoying”.
AkaDad,
My apologies, didn’t see the post last night. My Kung Fu needs a little work. ;-)
From Malkin’s website:
Did you just hear the goalposts moving?
TheGris,
No problem.
Sometimes I’m the only one that considers my attempts at humor to be funny.
My contempt for joe lieberman blossoms into a new universe daily.
Let’s all be smart and offer no sustenance.
Nobody Much @
59
Okay, I admit. That was me.
TRex @
66
Way to blow the Xmas bonus
;>)
BTW: love the picture, Jane.
Looks like the Old Navy gang’s back from a shopping spree.
The Kenosha Kid @
62
Not really. MM said on 1/3 before this discovery took place:
“Our overarching goals are two-fold:
1) to report on how the troops perceive mainstream media coverage of the war (with a particular focus on the wire services relying on local stringers); and
2) to report on progress and interaction between U.S. troops and Iraqi Army trainees.
The “Jamil Hussein” story is one important item on our agenda, but not the only one.”
I think it’s excellent she is going, seriously, because that will mean she has all the ammunition she will ever have to “give it her best shot”. Let’s see what comes out re: points #1 and #2 above, and then opine as to how many contortions and distortions (if any) are required to reach any of her inevitable conclusions. And if she is any good as a beat reporter and investigator.
The whole thing is intriguing. Good theater.
Any chance the Powerline misadventure got tangled up in this anti-AP BS as well, or is having to eat their diagnosis that the Schiavo memo was a Dem dirty trick still the highlight of Powerline’s Powerbuffonery?
You’ve got to read the post at editor and publisher for a better hint as to what is going on. The fellow has been a source since 2004, and everything’s been accurate. Suddenly, he is supposedly making things up, or he doesn’t exist. The US military decides to ask that the story be retracted. The AP gives the name of their source. He is now arrested for “leaking to the AP,” which is suddenly forbidden. They’ve been taking lessons from the Bush administration.
So this guy Hussein is now under arrest. They will put him in a lineup, and get the AP to identify him. If they do, he will face jail and who knows what for something that was legal until after he did it. If they don’t, they will discredit their story. Nice people the Malkins of the world want to associate with.
Oh but I DO want her to go over there and get her ass shot up — and her fat casaba melon head as well.
Hitchens is over there right now. I expect his bloated corpse to turn up any minute now. And in preparation for that happy oocasion Here’s a bit a of satire so good it reads like the real thing.
How very bipartisan of you, Jane.
Say wrong one more time.
You’re so cool.
Nancy!
My guess is she won’t go anywhere near a war zone. Maybe to Turkey, so she can get some nice background shots and claim she was in an ‘undisclosed location in the Middle East’ on her blog. I wouldn’t believe she’d actually be brave enough to go someplace we send our bravest men & women unless she was sent kicking and screaming… now there’s an image I wish I hadn’t thought of.
i would like to blogwhore point out that at least the jawa report has issued a mea culpa of sorts.
also, it’s still not too late to send michelle to camp!
.
.
Congrats Jane, you’ve annoyed Patterico.
That low-life fascist shill has banned me from his site.
Not without good reasosn needless to say.
Absolute silence on her website today.
Not that I expected anything close to contrition…
If it were just a matter of her getting blown up – So be it, and Good Riddance!! I say.
But she’s going to cause other people to get hurt, and that’s what really upsets me.