Comments on: Teh Stupid, It Burns

by: Swami

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:39:01 +0000

Speaking of the Embassy building.. It’s an architectural horror,even for the cubist style it’s a nightmare..looks like public housing from Tashkent that was built in the late 50’s. And to think that we dropped a billion dollars into that monolithic piece of shit. Rommel’s bunkers at Normandy had more architectural beauty and detail.

by: Michael

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:11:04 +0000

About that embassy building, it was made with imported slave labor and it’s defective, unsafe, and unusable.

by: felicity

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:50:57 +0000

SWAMI - speaking of security costs, a security guard in Baghdad makes $l,222/day whereas the lowly Petraeus makes $493/day and the even lowlier sergeant makes $7l/day and the lowest of the low, the Sunni militia fighter makes $l6/day.

MICHAEL - you’ll appreciate this: We must stay in Iraq in order to defeat those who do not want us in Iraq.

by: Comrade Rutherford

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:30:01 +0000

Yes, David Brooks and Billy Kristol ARE on the left. Simply because the GOP has dragged this nation about 5 points to the right since Acting-President was installed in 1980.

The GOP has gone so far to the right that the beliefs espoused by the John Birch Society or the KKK are now mainstream, historical Republicans like Barry Goldwater or George Aiken are ‘hard left’, and Liberal is now a worse epithet than ‘fag’.

The Democratic Leadership has been controlled by the GOP also since the 1980s, so there has been zero opposition to this push to the extreme far right. Even today, the ‘liberal media’ refer to the moderate Democratic position as the ‘hard left’.

Now that the plan to impoverish America and devolve the nation to third-world status is almost complete, we still have a Democratic ‘leadership’ eager to hand even more power to the GOP.

There is only one political party in America. Remember, George Bush’s grandpa was a Nazi finacier, so which party do you think rules America?

by: Swami

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:54:36 +0000

3 more GI’s killed today.. But that’s an acceptable level according to McCain, right? Like the vitamins..one a day, and we have no problems.

4,109

by: joel hanes

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:20:49 +0000

The surge provided political covering fire that enabled the Bush Administration to achieve their tactical goal: the US forces remained mired in Iraq at maximum attainable force level for two more Friedman Units. The surge was a thus a domestic political tactical success.

Bush and Cheney have never lost sight of the strategic goal, permanent development rights to Iraq’s oil fields.

Permanent war. Permanent bases. Permanent fortified embassy building.

by: Michael

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:30 +0000

More troops on the ground = larger occupation.

That’s the entirety of “the surge has worked.”

So we have a larger occupation of Iraq, which gets us no closer to ending the occupation, and no progress on any of the political objectives, which is nothing but a prolongation of disaster. We have not become more welcome in Iraq in that time.

So sure, if you want to keep occupying, you can keep sending more troops, and achieving ever more hostility not only in Iraq but throughout the Arab world, but the only purpose of this war is to have an eternal war.

We aren’t winning anything here. We are losing something very important. Our country, our constitution, and our humanity.

by: RTFirefly

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:06:13 +0000

We implemented X (the surge) in order to achieve Y (oil PSA, key legislation, political reconcilliation, etc.). We have not achieved Y. Ergo X is a success.
Only in “Alice in Wonderland” (or a David Brooks/wingnut column) does that make sense.

by: Swami

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:51:57 +0000

Well, the surge has been a big success for the 400,000 Sunnis who collect their monthly stipend from Petraeus’ surge success slush fund. Bush has tried to pass off that expense to Al-Maliki’s government,but the Shiites baulked that why should they have to pay the Sunnis not to kill Americans.

I tend to view the success of the surge with an eye on the money. Most of the 10 billion dollars plus that is spent in Iraq goes to security costs, and if those cost remain constant, as they have, then evidently real progress hasn’t been made.. just illusion.

Yeah, and 2 more GI’s died today in Iraq

by: Mark Adams

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:39:31 +0000

Troop levels be damned. The arguable progress under Petraeus (and this juror is still deliberating the verdict) is due to us engaging, paying and TALKING TO the leaders who constitute the “Sunni Awakening” councils.

Funny how talking to the “enemy” has direct (yet seldom discussed) results.