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ovidsen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:08 AM
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What We Got Right in Iraq - L. Paul Bremer (Wash Post)
No, really! Paul wrote this. What a thigh slapper!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102054.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

I'll admit that I've grown weary of being a punching bag over these decisions -- particularly from critics who've never spent time in Iraq, don't understand its complexities and can't explain what we should have done differently. These two sensible and moral calls did not create today's insurgency. Intelligence material we discovered after the war began showed that Hussein's security forces had long planned to wage such a revolt.


I didnt know that the Washington Post published articles rejected bt "The Onion" and that you CAN pull the wool over the eyes of he editors at "Mad Magazine' every once in a blue moon.

But you can, can't you?
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:09 AM
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1. Is it April Fools day again?
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:14 AM
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2. IT'S NOT MY FAULT! Feith made me do it! And we did what IKE did!
And we had more problems to deal with!
And we saw these PLANS (although we had no translators to tell us what they said, and we have since destroyed them, you simply have to trust me to tell you what those docs said.

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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:21 AM
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3. PPPPPPPPTT!
Oops. Pardon me.

It's, at least, less morally reprehesible than Perle's "How The CIA Failed America." Not by much, but less.

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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:30 AM
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4. Hey, how many of those missing billions did you keep, Paul?
Remember flying your tailor in from Italy when you were in Iraq? Still wearing those handmade $1000 suits? Pretty good dough for a civil servant.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:33 AM
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5. In the last 6 mos. the WP's op-ed page has become a right wing tool. nt
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:34 AM
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6. Still trying to pretend that the illegal invasion of Iraq is the equivalent of WWII!
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:35 AM
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7. I thought it was going to be the shortest article ever.
Nothing.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:49 AM
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8. He should be hiding somewhere hanging his head.....
He doesn't even know that he's running around in the street naked, does he?

(shakes her head in amazement, amusement, and embarrassment for the clueless)
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:57 AM
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9. Proconsul Bremer
Like your mentor Kissinger, your reading of history is disturbingly flawed. Comparing Iraq to Germany is absurd in so many ways.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 08:30 AM
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10. Oh no he di' 'int!!!
The war's critics have also comprehensively misunderstood the "disbanding" of Hussein's army, arguing that we kicked away a vital pillar that kept the country stable and created a pool of unemployed, angry men ripe for rebellion. But this fails to reckon with the true nature of Hussein's killing machine and the situation on the ground.

It's somewhat surprising at this late date to have to remind people of the old army's reign of terror. In the 1980s, it waged a genocidal war against Iraq's minority Kurds, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and more than 5,000 people in a notorious chemical-weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja. After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Iraq's majority Shiites rose up against Hussein, whose army machine-gunned hundreds of thousands of men, women and children and threw their corpses into mass graves. It's no wonder that Shiites and Kurds, who together make up more than 80 percent of Iraq's population, hated Hussein's military.


:mad: :mad:

yeah, that 1980s incident which was CONDONED/IGNORED by the Almighty himself: Reagan. Remember that pic of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand long AFTER this incident occurred?

And that 1991 uprising? Who was it that was pushing those Shiites to rebel? Oh yeah, Poppy Bush! And guess what assistance the US provided to keep Saddam's helicopter gunships from mowing them down? NONE!!!


FUCK YOU, BREMER!!

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huckleberry Donating Member (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 09:09 AM
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11. read the comments from WaPo readers --
I like this one --

"Many intelligent people warned against invading Iraq and predicted this catastrophic outcome. No good can come out of something based on lies and misinformation. This war was illegal and immoral from the beginning, and now everyone is pointing fingers. Unfortunately, there are no tenable solutions to the Iraq debacle. We can throw more American lives and dollars at a hopeless situation, or pull out and watch the Sunnis get massacred, at least until the other Arab Sunni countries decide they've had enough and join the conflict. If that happens, the whole Middle East will be involved in a huge regional war. The only other option is to totally overwhelm that country with force, but we don't have any force left. Our military is on the breaking point with soldiers already facing multiple deployments. We can always reinstitute the draft, but don't think people in this country will go for that. So, thank you George Bush and company for being the architects of the biggest foreign policy disaster in this country's history, a
clusterf@#!ck of epic proportions."
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 09:43 AM
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12. The only place this bastard should be spitting out excuses is at his trial
at the Hague.
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