Comments on: A Corrupt Bargain?

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:55 +0000

If the ISCI leadership bails with the loot they won’t have the protection they enjoy in the Imperial City. No matter where they went I wouldn’t give a plugged nickel for their sorry asses. I imagine Osama-rama would count their demise as great PR for the cause. Thieves don’t make such great martyrs.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:55:43 +0000

If this had happened in Nam folks from KBR wound have had to go around the bases in body armour and armoured vehicles. And that wouldn’t have helped. We’d have smoked ‘em.

By: whitebeard

whitebeard — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:32:36 +0000

“A Corrupt Bargain?”

Since Cheney is involved, I assume that is a rhetorical question.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:17:25 +0000

Astonishing. Thanks very much.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:45:50 +0000

I notice that eCahn slammed NYT correspondent John Burns in the last thread. I agree. I got so tired of Burns’ reporting from Baghdad. He would outline how bad things were and then conclude backing whatever the current Administration line was. It was infuriating and I lost all respect for him some time ago.

By: john in sacramento

john in sacramento — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:38:19 +0000

Dwight David Eisenhower must be rolling in his grave

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aDdEAj0M1nQ

By: CTuttle

CTuttle — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:37:08 +0000

Speaking of corrupt bargains… Interior is about to screw us again…

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1012

By: GregB

GregB — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:33:25 +0000

Mehdi Army clashes with Iraqi police again.

-G

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:32:11 +0000

Colbert has it nailed. Admonishing the troops for making Bush envious of their fun ‘n games in the Middle East, Colbert cautions them against having too much fun:

“Stop enticing the president. We could lose him again. Remember the last time he got excited about a war? He joined the Alabama National Guard, and nobody could find him.”

h/t Dan Froomkin

By: QuakerGirl

QuakerGirl — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:27:54 +0000

John McCain is a great supporter of Ahmad Chalabi. He wasn’t really an Iraqi lifer but left when he was a young child and returned to claim “his thrown” after the US invasion. Chalabi really needed the US to take on the expense of an invasion so he could realize his dreams.

Ahmad Abdul Hadi Chalabi is the son of an influential Iraqi banking family. He lost an election in 2005. Two years later he was back in government as head of a new committee to restore electric power, health services and other amenities still not working fully in Baghdad.

Chalabi’s forte is embezzlement, con artist, swindler, thieving, liar. He has other fine qualities of similar genre.

Given Chalabi’s bad history with the CIA and numerous failures, John McCain shows once again his confused choice of people to support. As prez, his entire cabinet will be Chalabis of the world.