Comments on: News That Isn’t News

by: Paul

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:01:26 +0000

That straw man about not confronting terrorists is particularly laughable, in that attacking Iraq was the course that was about not confronting jihadis, and distracted from the fight in Afghanistan which was. The obvious conclusion to be drawn from the leaked NIE is that, if in fact we HAD focused on ‘jihadis’, we wouldn’t have the mess we have in Iraq.

by: The Mahablog » Covering Their Behinds

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:27:16 +0000

[…] It’s National Rebuttal Day on the Right. The White House is rebutting the National Intelligence Estimate from April that came to public attention yesterday, and the Right Blogosphere is rebutting the Bill Clinton interview on Faux Nooz. […]

by: The Heretik

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:50:29 +0000

Our freedomistic ways and our love of a hopeful ideology will smite the evil doing dudes before they can load their ideology and shoot their hate this way. We have to fight them over there and over here and here too. We are too smart and too good to stop what never should have been started. Thank you and may god bless our underwear.

by: erinyes

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:15:41 +0000

Thanks Swami!
I was out there wrestlin’ them Crocogators from my airboat on lake Okeechobee, and Wham! the old back went out.
(actually, I went to pick up the newspaper from the drive way, but the reptile story is more fun!)It’s an annual event.

by: Swami

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:56:36 +0000

Erinyes..Hope you’re alright..Laid up sounds like a physical problem. You were riding the mechanical bull down at the local watering hole, were ya? Whatever it is that ails you..I hope it passes from you soon. get better.

by: Allwar Isbad

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:44:04 +0000

I think the focus should shift to Haliburton&Co as the reason we are in Iraq. They are the only winners at the moment and the glare of headlights should gather and the atrocities they are creating. This focus may cause some impact on the people. Out of the Billions going out, it is these companies who are “war-profteering”, whereas the actual soldiers are getting 20K/year salary and their families here have to live on food stamps ..
The other reason, similar in ideal, is that Iraq has to be made safe for the “oil-conglomerate” to take over. This is what our troops are really trying to do over there. 20,000 of our soldiers are involved in the building of the permanent bases in Iraq.
These are the unspoken reasons for the Iraq war and unless this is clearly dessiminated to the American people we will live in this limbo of the Iraq war and the fall of the US as a respcted world leader …

by: erinyes

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:34:25 +0000

If I remember correctly, the Northern Alliance was an ally of the Soviet Union, while the U.S. funded and aided the Mujahadeen, which morphed into AlQaida.I also remember something about the Mujahadeen as a proxy fighting force in the Balkans defending the Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims from the Serbian forces.
Weird-assed world, ain’t it?
Since I’m laid-up today, I’ve been doing some interesting “GOOGLE-ING”. There are interesting connections between the oil industry, Darfur in Sudan, and Angola.
While the US is bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, China is VERY busy cementing deals globally to secure its energy needs far into the future. On the tube, the talking heads are bashing Chavez of Venezuela and saying he’d better watch his mouth, lest “We” cut off buying his oil.The world no longer revolves around the U.S., and Thanks to MR.Bush, we may fall on even more interesting times.

by: Swami

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:26:50 +0000

Now Bush wants to give the jihadists the most coveted prize for their recruitment..State sanctioned torture of Muslims fighting jidhad..Just what you’d expect from Satan.

I might be a little blown out right now, but I can’t think of a bigger mistake to exacerbate the problem..If I didn’t know better, I’d swear it’s intentional.

by: Oh, that other war « cannablog

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:24:12 +0000

[…] Update: Maha has more. […]

by: Preston

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:53:07 +0000

There is only one reason for the war in Iraq: keep the Republicans in power. Maha and others have said this in earlier blogs, and I have felt this way since the election of 2000. G. W. Bush was going to have two terms–not one term like his father–and he was going to insure that Republicans retain control of the House and Senate. What better way than to start a war and then call everyone else unpatriotic? Altruistic goals of spreading democracy and raising the living standards of the people in the Middle East or anywhere else are only held by those not directly involved in setting policy; for example, our very idealistic young soldiers who really believe they are making a difference in someone’s life. In other words, it was all for politics and altruism be damned.