I have been reading this outstanding blog for about a year, and I think I get that there is a race to be the first commenter to a new post. But I can’t for the life of me figure out this “Zed” thing. Can someone please explain?

In the old version of the blog software, the comment number adjacent to the first comment in a thread would be “Zero”.

The consequences of this policy, of course, will be horrible. The “collaborationists” left behind won’t simply be ostracized and shorn of their hair. They will greet the prophet and the one God much earlier than planned. But as Cheney always says, “Why do the right thing when the wrong thing hides my problems so much better?”

OKK at 119 — So your answer then would be “Sucks to be the Iraqis trying to negotiate food deals for their fellow citizens or translators trying to prevent more violence in their own neighborhoods. If they worked wiht the Bush Administration, a pox on their houses.” then?

Because that really isn’t in our long-term best interest, nor is it morally defensible, in my opinion. If you are saying something else, please let me know.

You are appear to be talking about oranges. I am pointing to apples. Bringing the folks who feed and care for Iraqis to the U.S. as a result of the Bush murderous escapade is not the issue. I am talking about collaborators who collaborate with the American military. Is this about a communication problem? If not, let’s do it.

Because that really isn’t in our long-term best interest, nor is it morally defensible, in my opinion. If you are saying something else, please let me know.

Toby Wollin @ 107

Collaborators with us, with the allies? Those were The Resistance in the various countries. They were heroes and people like Tito ended up as country leaders.
Collaborators with the Axis? Well, in Paris, as I recall, any woman who collaborted with the Germans had her head shaved and was made to walk naked through the streets with a sign around her neck.

I am talking of nazi collaborators.

Here you go – seems relatively encyclopedic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P…..laborators

OKK at 103 — The ones who worked with us were brought here to the US if need be while the conflict was ongoing. You know, folks in the French Resistence, in Nazi-controlled terrortory resistence movements, etc. People who work with us are supposed to be taken care of under our protection — that’s how we keep having people work with us.

The situation is different. Bush started an illegal war based upon lies. There were no WMD’s. And Bush knew it. World War two was about ethnic cleansing among other things. Like Greenspan said, Iraq was about oil.

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