Comments on: More Signs of “All the Progress Being Made” http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:49:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Siun http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1231023 Siun Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:15:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1231023 <p>Just dropped back before sleep an read the Dreyfuss link - brilliant and helpful piece! Thanks so much Erdla!</p> <p>Love to the family …</p> Just dropped back before sleep an read the Dreyfuss link – brilliant and helpful piece! Thanks so much Erdla!

Love to the family …

]]> By: Laura Doty http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1231017 Laura Doty Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:08:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1231017 <p>The article you link to is very helpful. Thank you!</p> The article you link to is very helpful. Thank you!

]]> By: Laura Doty http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1231012 Laura Doty Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:05:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1231012 <p>Hi Erdla, Had I known you were still around I would have left you a note earlier. Hope you catch this. Best to you, Du and the kiddos. Hope all is going well with the newest son on the block!</p> Hi Erdla, Had I known you were still around I would have left you a note earlier. Hope you catch this. Best to you, Du and the kiddos. Hope all is going well with the newest son on the block!

]]> By: GorillasGuides http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230998 GorillasGuides Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:59:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230998 <p>BFL - you might find this article useful about some of the political realities in Irak:</p> <p><a href="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00289" rel="nofollow">The media’s tragic misunderstanding of Iraqi domestic politics</a></p> <p>And as this thread seems to have died I’m now exiting.</p> <p>Erdla.</p> BFL – you might find this article useful about some of the political realities in Irak:

The media’s tragic misunderstanding of Iraqi domestic politics

And as this thread seems to have died I’m now exiting.

Erdla.

]]> By: GorillasGuides http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230916 GorillasGuides Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:29:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230916 <p>Flag issue - link below is to a Reuters feature - we posted the Arabic version and there a few differences nothing significant though. </p> <p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2662290320080126?sp=true" rel="nofollow">Discontent in Iraq over new national flag</a></p> <p>One thing though is VERY wrong. The three stars represent unity of the UAR which Irak at one point hoped to join, they’re not a symbol of the Ba’ath they’re a symbol of pan-Arab unity.</p> Flag issue – link below is to a Reuters feature – we posted the Arabic version and there a few differences nothing significant though.

Discontent in Iraq over new national flag

One thing though is VERY wrong. The three stars represent unity of the UAR which Irak at one point hoped to join, they’re not a symbol of the Ba’ath they’re a symbol of pan-Arab unity.

]]> By: GorillasGuides http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230897 GorillasGuides Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:22:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230897 <p>They’re not going to and even if they do it’s irrelevant. They’re not called the “Green zone Government” contemptuously by most Irakis for nothing. That’s about as far as their writ runs.</p> <p>In any event as we reported (Arabic) Maliki and co are facing an internal putsch from Jafari who looks like he might bring it off. That should make life rather interesting for the Americans, having to deal with a prime minister who was dumped at your demand and replaced by Maliki might make things a little tricky no?</p> They’re not going to and even if they do it’s irrelevant. They’re not called the “Green zone Government” contemptuously by most Irakis for nothing. That’s about as far as their writ runs.

In any event as we reported (Arabic) Maliki and co are facing an internal putsch from Jafari who looks like he might bring it off. That should make life rather interesting for the Americans, having to deal with a prime minister who was dumped at your demand and replaced by Maliki might make things a little tricky no?

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230895 Beerfart Liberal Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:21:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230895 <p>One more thing. And I’ll throw this out for anyone who knows. Remember te vaunted oil revenue bill that Condi was just glowing about becauase it meant they had met a benchmark? I read somewhere that there were some unhappy people. Are there problems? Could that thing unravel?</p> One more thing. And I’ll throw this out for anyone who knows. Remember te vaunted oil revenue bill that Condi was just glowing about becauase it meant they had met a benchmark? I read somewhere that there were some unhappy people. Are there problems? Could that thing unravel?

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230887 Beerfart Liberal Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:19:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230887 <p>That’s how I understand it, too. one of the tings I say (and tons of other people - like, everybody who’s not in the Bush Adnministration) is that we just don’t know enough about the Iraqis. Don’t understand them. I’m priobbaly guilty of that in my reaction to the flag story. My point is if they get bogged down in an isue like that, how can they be expected to make progress on truly difficult issues?</p> That’s how I understand it, too. one of the tings I say (and tons of other people – like, everybody who’s not in the Bush Adnministration) is that we just don’t know enough about the Iraqis. Don’t understand them. I’m priobbaly guilty of that in my reaction to the flag story. My point is if they get bogged down in an isue like that, how can they be expected to make progress on truly difficult issues?

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230876 Beerfart Liberal Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:16:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230876 <p>But can’t we agree taht they have ALOT of more important stuff to do? Lotta stuff isn’t simple but legislatures hash it out. I dare say they have more difficult stuff to address. How they gonna do that?</p> But can’t we agree taht they have ALOT of more important stuff to do? Lotta stuff isn’t simple but legislatures hash it out. I dare say they have more difficult stuff to address. How they gonna do that?

]]> By: GorillasGuides http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230858 GorillasGuides Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:09:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/27/more-signs-of-all-the-progress-being-made/#comment-1230858 <p>The flag issue btw isn’t simple - it’s being rammed through at the demand of the Kurds, nobody else, from what I make out, wants the changes that have been made.</p> The flag issue btw isn’t simple – it’s being rammed through at the demand of the Kurds, nobody else, from what I make out, wants the changes that have been made.

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