Comments on: Basra – Cheney’s Reward to Oil Pal al-Hakim

By: work2fish

work2fish — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:40:37 +0000

Unfortunately, the Sunni’s are rising up again, too, around Falluja in the Anbar province. Evidently we haven’t paid them as we promised for their shooting Al Qaeda and not shooting us. That means a war on two fronts – Anbar and Basra. If the Kurds and Turks get going again, that will be three fronts. As George said, “That was the plan. What happened?”

By: dmac

dmac — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:36:51 +0000

gg at 181–
thanks, i’ll check it out.

take care, gg.

By: DefendOurConstitution

DefendOurConstitution — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:24:09 +0000

Cheney is probably dissatisfied with oil retreating from over $110 so what best option does he have to drive it to $150 than to destroy Iraq’s oil distribution system permanently.

Ironically, it’s these high oil prices that will drive us to conserve and come up with alternatives. It will bring a little vomit to my throat every time I have to credit Cheney with helping (albeit that his aim was not this) the conservation movement.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:44:22 +0000

Try “Remembering Heavens Face” by John Balaban. He was a CO who went to the delta to work with badly injured kids. Great book by a great man.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:12:22 +0000

Haven’t read it, but I shall. And with true pleasure, Raven, thank you.

Happened to have just been gifted with a piece of plastic for books.

So soon, on the top of, my ‘looks for THE book list’ …

By: Siun

Siun — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:46:56 +0000

The discussions between Mike and Mohammed are very powerful and helpful for understanding. Mike is a very neat minister who has been so open to learning and does very good work himself.

By: GorillasGuides

GorillasGuides — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:12 +0000

Mine also. dmac

A HUGE part of what we do is a dialogue programme we’ve been doing that for more than 20 years -

You might want to read some of the dialogues between Mohammed and an American called Mike Kinman on our site.

The most recently opened one is here:

Mike & Mohammed - August 22 2007

By: dmac

dmac — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:37:13 +0000

gg at 163

that last part-

i ’get’ what you’re saying, but i don’t want to get used to it, and hopefully by the time i do, it will have changed.

that is my wish.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +0000

Have you read Christian Appy’s Patriots

Now, 25 years after the end of the Vietnam War, former MIT associate history professor and author, Christian G. Appy presents a definitive account from all sides. His book PATRIOTS: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides is the first oral history to bring together a diversity of voices and viewpoints that dramatically reveal the war’s impact on millions of men, women and children; civilians and combatants; Americans and Vietnamese.

In these gripping accounts we hear from generals, journalists, grunts, guerillas, peace activists, doctors, pilots, morale boosters, policymakers, draft resisters and a host of others. Some of the most shattering testimony comes from those who had never even set foot in the war zone, like the widow of Norman Morrison, the Quaker who incinerated himself in front of the Pentagon to protest the war. The North Vietnamese doctor who spent nine years treating patients in a jungle hospital, the South Vietnamese boy who saw his father captured during the Tet Offensive and the American door-gunner who helped rescue survivors of the My Lai massacre. Together these stories travel from the deafening jungle firefights to Oval Office policy debates, from POW torture chambers to peace negotiations in Paris and from press briefings in Saigon to dogfights in the skies over North Vietnam.

By: Siun

Siun — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:28:30 +0000

Oh my, Keith Olbermann does quite a mini rant on Cheney and Iraq