Baghdad Mayor Killed

or, aside from that, mrs lincoln, how was the play???

MEANWHILE IN DOWN TOWN SAIGON ---etc etc etc

Not to laugh at the situation, but that punch line sums it up.

Hey, freedom is on the march, after all!!!!

we were building, back before Halliburton stole all the money we'd allocated to build them? And the close bonds being forged every day between friendly U.S. troops and the Iraqi civilians they're torturing in Abu Ghraib? Freedom's on the march, you know.

Aside from the comedic value of the question, which I enjoyed, that's a very, very good question indeed.

They were probably just throwing more of those flowers Cheney and Perle were talking about, and the mayor pricked his finger on a thorn. You know how the liberal press exaggerates everything. Now the good news they NEVER tell you. A 7 year old child made it to school yesterday without being shot dead in the street. Democracy is on the march.

Maybe when they break ground on the "George W. Shit-fer-brains Preznitential Liberry" in Fallujah?

That's LIBARY ya know

Dr. Condoomleezza Rice.

...on the way to democracy.

You're doing a hell-of-a job.

Just like you've done all of your life.

How's the bones society going at the white house?

Condi on CSPAN talking about all the great things going on in Iraq related to US policy. :puke:

Well, for the moment anyway.

the rest of his cabinet is scared for their crimes.

And the rest of the world is like F@#$ he's lose. We gotta get some nukes. They don't mean bin laden.

"There's a unique opportunity for a motivated individual to become part of an Occupation team. If you're a self-starter, know how to say Yes! in several languages, and can provide your own personal security contingent, then come join our organization. (Insurgents need not apply.)"

Isn't this a disturbing indicator of just how bad things are in Iraq? I mean, if you can't even ensure the safety of the mayor of the largest, most modern city.... Yikes.

Nothing says FUBAR like a high-level, high-profile assassination.

You are funny.

Just wonderin'.

What happened to the other guy - Hussein al-Tahaan? You know, the Shiite dude that ousted mayor Alaa al-Tamimi in August...

Baghdad's mayor deposed and replaced with a Shiite
By James Glanz The New York Times

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2005

BAGHDAD Armed men entered Baghdad's municipal building during a blinding dust storm, deposed the city's mayor and installed a member of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia.

The deposed mayor, Alaa al-Tamimi, who was not in his offices at the time, recounted the events in a telephone conversation Tuesday and called the move a municipal coup d'état. He added that he had gone into hiding for fear of his life.

"This is the new Iraq," said Tamimi, a secular engineer with no party affiliation. "They use force to achieve their goal."

The group that ousted him insisted that it had the authority to assume control of Iraq's capital city and that Tamimi was in no danger. The man the group installed, Hussein al-Tahaan, is a member of the Badr Organization, the armed militia of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/10/news/baghdad.php

I'm so confused.

not 'mayor' - a translation problem when going vis Bulgarian, perhaps? This is the only Google result for him:

Engineer Hatem Mirza Hamza, Baghdad municipalities’ president

Lost in translation might be what's happened here. 'Baghdad municipalities’ president' could easily be confused with 'mayor'.

and thank you for the link.

While it may not be the Mayor of Baghdad and his driver who were killed, it's still two more deaths in the midst of this madness.

I would have edited the title, but I saw this too late.

pissed Iraqis there.

Mr. Spin can set things straight again. After all, he's a jeeen-yuss. :sarcasm:

so the insurgents have been defeated...again.

Impossible!!:sarcasm:

I KNOW I've seen this headline more than once.

Y'know, the mayor's driving around with his bodyguard, gets stopped by a bunch of gunmen, runs for his life, and is shot to death. Very common occurrence in all American cities. When will the media stop reporting only the bad news?

:sarcasm:

A hemorrhoid waiting to erupt

:rofl:

:sarcasm:

It's going to be great from now on.

The Iraq was is such a stupid mistake, made by a stupid leader.

N/T

Along with brain matter and sometimes bone fragments from a IED. Yup, just ask Rummy the Dummy. Freedom on the march!

Archeology museum....he can use the vase to scoop that stuff up!

though...
:sarcasm:

LET FREEDOM REIGN---the CHIMPANZEE

... we're rounding the corner
... we're rounding the corner
... we're rounding the corner
...

both are judges (re: Sadaam's trial)... none of the court officers or other judges will go on camera.

Doesn't that say it all?

Vidkun Quisling (July 18, 1887–October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian fascist politician and officer. He held the office of Minister President of Norway from February 1942 to the end of World War II, while the elected social democratic cabinet of Johan Nygaardsvold was exiled in London. Quisling was tried for high treason and executed by firing squad after the war. His name has become an eponym for traitor


The term "quisling" has become a synonym in some European languages, including English, Norwegian and Serbian, for traitor, particularly one who collaborates with invaders. The term was coined by the British newspaper the Daily Mail.

how did you enjoy the play?

the mayor of Berlin was assassinated 36 times between 1945 and 1949. So we're really doing very well in Iraq. That's a fact. Look it up.













Actually, that's not a fact. I made that up.

Trying to remember how Stephen Colbert put it on his opening night

then I think they got the wrong POTUS.

They're now going to have to go door-to-door, with rifles, to "recruit" a candidate for Mayor of the CAPITOL?????

Yuh.

Goin' swell...... not.

once to take the drive from the Bagdad Airport to the green zone.

:argh:

and I find no other references on web...