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		<title>By: davidrmark</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-390948</link>
		<dc:creator>davidrmark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sean Hannity wasn&#039;t &lt;a href=&quot;http://jabbs.blogspot.com/2006/01/hannity-during-testy-radio-interview.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;happy with Bremer&lt;/a&gt;, as JABBS points out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sean Hannity wasn&#8217;t <a href="http://jabbs.blogspot.com/2006/01/hannity-during-testy-radio-interview.html" rel="nofollow">happy with Bremer</a>, as JABBS points out.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=390948', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Evil Spaniard aka kharma</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-387931</link>
		<dc:creator>Evil Spaniard aka kharma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Only one word or two about the mention of spaniard forces in the Bremer&#039;s book: he says that spaniard troops where sitting on their tanks instead of helping the americans in an act of war against the Al Sadr militias. Sorry for Bremer and Bush, but the then Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a far righter, who acted as a lackey for Bush under imperialistic dellusions, the invasion was sold to the contrary to the war and skeptic to Aznar spaniard people, in the basis of a humanitarian (UN-LIKE) mission, where troops shouldn&#039;t shot any single bullet in the conflict, and only were there to hand food and assist the people of Iraq to rebuild their country. All the reports (PR-staged) of the spaniard GOP were rosy, talking about a peaceful farming province, to calm the spaniard people, who was very upset, because our GOP was a very bad one, not only by the Iraq involvement, but a long series of botches (the Prestige oil spill, a lot of soldiers dead in a plane crash, when they were flying home from Afghanistan, since the plane was an old russian flying coffin, erroneous ADN testings for every officer dead, ending in erroneous identification of 20 of them, only for the shake of ending the test too fast, and repatriate our soldiers 24 hours after, when the needed ADN tests would take several days) and an overpresumptuous attitude against other parties and minorities.

So, in 2003, our GOP had a big problem. There were milion people demonstrations against the war in our bigger cities, coming from left and right, but Jose Maria Aznar acted on his own, and wanting to please Bush, sent a number of troops on the pretext of &quot;rebuilding&quot; Iraq, handing out food and reconstructing damns and bridges. So the orders for our military were crystal clear: the rule of engagement is &quot;no engagement at all&quot;, and so said the spaniard general in charge of the province to Bremer. Sorry, pal, but the rule &quot;shot every moving iraqi in 300 yards around&quot; is an american engagement rule, not the rest of the world one. Btw, the american rules of engagement have fueled badly the insurgence.

So, having sold us the invasion of Iraq as an humanitarian task, if spaniard soldiers ended engaging in combats, the difficult equilibrium who was doing Jose Maria Aznar to win another term (this was at mid 2003 and elections were due for March 2004) would end as a giantic failure.

This explains also why the March 2004 bombings in Madrid, and the subsequent losing of 2004 elections by the Jose Maria Aznar&#039;s Party (PP, or Popular(?) Party, very rightwinged), ended in the withdrawal of spaniard troops from Iraq, not to appease terrorists as said many times by the USA media (we have our own brand of terrorism, ETA, so we know who to deal with terrorists, and have a lot of experience dealing with it who the USA hasn&#039;t), but to act coherently with the wishes of the majority of the spaniard people, including left, center and right leaning people.

To help you understand of the &quot;loving&quot; of the spaniard people for Aznar in 2003, think of Bush 2006.

And, yes, I agree with Bremmer, so much for the coalition of the unwilling. If Bush wants to go alone, with only opportunists Prime Ministers seeking for a personal prize (the medal of Congress, lobbied wy Aznar and never attained) without the backing of their own peoples in an illegal war, so much for the USA &quot;Imperium&quot; and their coalition of the willing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only one word or two about the mention of spaniard forces in the Bremer&#8217;s book: he says that spaniard troops where sitting on their tanks instead of helping the americans in an act of war against the Al Sadr militias. Sorry for Bremer and Bush, but the then Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a far righter, who acted as a lackey for Bush under imperialistic dellusions, the invasion was sold to the contrary to the war and skeptic to Aznar spaniard people, in the basis of a humanitarian (UN-LIKE) mission, where troops shouldn&#8217;t shot any single bullet in the conflict, and only were there to hand food and assist the people of Iraq to rebuild their country. All the reports (PR-staged) of the spaniard GOP were rosy, talking about a peaceful farming province, to calm the spaniard people, who was very upset, because our GOP was a very bad one, not only by the Iraq involvement, but a long series of botches (the Prestige oil spill, a lot of soldiers dead in a plane crash, when they were flying home from Afghanistan, since the plane was an old russian flying coffin, erroneous ADN testings for every officer dead, ending in erroneous identification of 20 of them, only for the shake of ending the test too fast, and repatriate our soldiers 24 hours after, when the needed ADN tests would take several days) and an overpresumptuous attitude against other parties and minorities.</p>
<p>So, in 2003, our GOP had a big problem. There were milion people demonstrations against the war in our bigger cities, coming from left and right, but Jose Maria Aznar acted on his own, and wanting to please Bush, sent a number of troops on the pretext of &#8220;rebuilding&#8221; Iraq, handing out food and reconstructing damns and bridges. So the orders for our military were crystal clear: the rule of engagement is &#8220;no engagement at all&#8221;, and so said the spaniard general in charge of the province to Bremer. Sorry, pal, but the rule &#8220;shot every moving iraqi in 300 yards around&#8221; is an american engagement rule, not the rest of the world one. Btw, the american rules of engagement have fueled badly the insurgence.</p>
<p>So, having sold us the invasion of Iraq as an humanitarian task, if spaniard soldiers ended engaging in combats, the difficult equilibrium who was doing Jose Maria Aznar to win another term (this was at mid 2003 and elections were due for March 2004) would end as a giantic failure.</p>
<p>This explains also why the March 2004 bombings in Madrid, and the subsequent losing of 2004 elections by the Jose Maria Aznar&#8217;s Party (PP, or Popular(?) Party, very rightwinged), ended in the withdrawal of spaniard troops from Iraq, not to appease terrorists as said many times by the USA media (we have our own brand of terrorism, ETA, so we know who to deal with terrorists, and have a lot of experience dealing with it who the USA hasn&#8217;t), but to act coherently with the wishes of the majority of the spaniard people, including left, center and right leaning people.</p>
<p>To help you understand of the &#8220;loving&#8221; of the spaniard people for Aznar in 2003, think of Bush 2006.</p>
<p>And, yes, I agree with Bremmer, so much for the coalition of the unwilling. If Bush wants to go alone, with only opportunists Prime Ministers seeking for a personal prize (the medal of Congress, lobbied wy Aznar and never attained) without the backing of their own peoples in an illegal war, so much for the USA &#8220;Imperium&#8221; and their coalition of the willing.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=387931', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
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		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Iâ€™ve always wondered about Bremer. He learned Arabic (I think the Farsi dialect) during his assignment in Iraq. That would indicate that he was not a complete idiot. 

Comment by WaltTheMan #31

Walt,

Almost anybody (even some Bushite inbreds) can be trained to ask for a coke in &quot;any&quot; foreign language. 

Bremer fu*kedup, all of the generals fu*ked up, Rumsfeld fu*kedup, Bushiva fu*kedup, L&#039;il Dick fu*kedup, Wolfowitz fu*kedup, Karl Rove fu*kedup, Richard Perle fu*kedup, Ken Adelman fu*kedup, Scooter Libby fu*kedup, Judith Miller fu*kedup, William Kristol, fu*kedup, Fox propaganda fu*kedup, CNN fu*kedup, the NYT fu*kedup...

Get my drift?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Iâ€™ve always wondered about Bremer. He learned Arabic (I think the Farsi dialect) during his assignment in Iraq. That would indicate that he was not a complete idiot. </p>
<p>Comment by WaltTheMan #31</p>
<p>Walt,</p>
<p>Almost anybody (even some Bushite inbreds) can be trained to ask for a coke in &#8220;any&#8221; foreign language. </p>
<p>Bremer fu*kedup, all of the generals fu*ked up, Rumsfeld fu*kedup, Bushiva fu*kedup, L&#8217;il Dick fu*kedup, Wolfowitz fu*kedup, Karl Rove fu*kedup, Richard Perle fu*kedup, Ken Adelman fu*kedup, Scooter Libby fu*kedup, Judith Miller fu*kedup, William Kristol, fu*kedup, Fox propaganda fu*kedup, CNN fu*kedup, the NYT fu*kedup&#8230;</p>
<p>Get my drift?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=385609', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bush Bites</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-385430</link>
		<dc:creator>Bush Bites</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bremer&#039;s a scoundrel, but I&#039;m of a mind that if it makes Bush look bad, it&#039;s all good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bremer&#8217;s a scoundrel, but I&#8217;m of a mind that if it makes Bush look bad, it&#8217;s all good.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=385430', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Gregor Samsa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gregor Samsa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Bush&#039;s invasion of Iraq [is] &quot;the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.&quot;
--Lt. Gen. William Odom, director of the National Security Agency during President Reagan&#039;s second term, and a scholar with a distinguished career in military intelligence.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/4/205423.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Greatest Strategic Disaster in U.S. History&lt;/a&gt;
 
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;I think this is the worst government the US has ever had in its more than 200 years of history. It has engaged in extradordinarily irresponsible policies not only in foreign policy and economics but also in social and environmental policy&quot; &lt;/i&gt;
--George A. Akerlof, American Nobel Prize laureate for Economics 

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0729-06.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US Nobel Laureate Slams Bush Gov&#039;t as &quot;Worst&quot; in American History&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;i&gt;Bush arguably has committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory. To put it bluntly, he attacked the wrong target. While he boasts of removing Saddam Hussein from power, he did far more than that. He decapitated the government of a country that was not directly threatening the United States and, in so doing, bogged down a huge percentage of our military in a region that never has known peace.&lt;/i&gt;
--James Webb Jr., Vietnam veteran, first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs during the Reagan Administration, and former Secretary of the Navy 

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Webb_062204,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Veterans Face Conundrum: Kerry or Bush?&lt;/a&gt;
 
&lt;i&gt;For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president&#039;s men. If convicted, they&#039;ll have plenty of time to mull over their sins.&lt;/i&gt;
--Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University, and only non-American author on the U.S. Army&#039;s required reading list for officers.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forward.com/articles/6936&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Bush&#8217;s invasion of Iraq [is] &#8220;the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Lt. Gen. William Odom, director of the National Security Agency during President Reagan&#8217;s second term, and a scholar with a distinguished career in military intelligence.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/4/205423.shtml" rel="nofollow">The Greatest Strategic Disaster in U.S. History</a></p>
<p></i><i>&#8220;I think this is the worst government the US has ever had in its more than 200 years of history. It has engaged in extradordinarily irresponsible policies not only in foreign policy and economics but also in social and environmental policy&#8221; </i><br />
&#8211;George A. Akerlof, American Nobel Prize laureate for Economics </p>
<p><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0729-06.htm" rel="nofollow">US Nobel Laureate Slams Bush Gov&#8217;t as &#8220;Worst&#8221; in American History</a></p>
<p><i>Bush arguably has committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory. To put it bluntly, he attacked the wrong target. While he boasts of removing Saddam Hussein from power, he did far more than that. He decapitated the government of a country that was not directly threatening the United States and, in so doing, bogged down a huge percentage of our military in a region that never has known peace.</i><br />
&#8211;James Webb Jr., Vietnam veteran, first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs during the Reagan Administration, and former Secretary of the Navy </p>
<p><a href="http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Webb_062204,00.html" rel="nofollow">Veterans Face Conundrum: Kerry or Bush?</a></p>
<p><i>For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president&#8217;s men. If convicted, they&#8217;ll have plenty of time to mull over their sins.</i><br />
&#8211;Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University, and only non-American author on the U.S. Army&#8217;s required reading list for officers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/6936" rel="nofollow">Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=385000', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jackovel</title>
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		<dc:creator>jackovel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Purvis, if the insurgency in Iraq is your
best friend, whatâ€™s killing your troops?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Purvis, if the insurgency in Iraq is your<br />
best friend, whatâ€™s killing your troops?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384740', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Monica</title>
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		<dc:creator>Monica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good work Faiz. Also, the American Conservative magazine did a write up on the corruption of Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority. Truly sickening.

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/cover.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good work Faiz. Also, the American Conservative magazine did a write up on the corruption of Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority. Truly sickening.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/cover.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/cover.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384667', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: purvis ames</title>
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		<dc:creator>purvis ames</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Farsi isn&#039;t Arabic. It&#039;s what the Iranians speak.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Farsi isn&#8217;t Arabic. It&#8217;s what the Iranians speak.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384622', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WaltTheMan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve always wondered about Bremer. He learned Arabic (I think the Farsi dialect) during his assignment in Iraq. That would indicate that he was not a complete idiot. At the same time, he toed the line with the Bushies. That would seem to indicate that he was a good soldier like Powell - don&#039;t question Big Brother. Could we be looking at another pawn of the great Dick?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered about Bremer. He learned Arabic (I think the Farsi dialect) during his assignment in Iraq. That would indicate that he was not a complete idiot. At the same time, he toed the line with the Bushies. That would seem to indicate that he was a good soldier like Powell &#8211; don&#8217;t question Big Brother. Could we be looking at another pawn of the great Dick?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384589', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Heretik</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Heretik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not much of a surprise Bremer would change his tune when the time came to sell books.  The narrative requires redemption, if not for us, then for Bremer.  Linked you on this at the update&lt;a href=&quot;http://theheretik.us/2006/01/08/iraq-true-or-false/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; at Iraq: True or False&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not much of a surprise Bremer would change his tune when the time came to sell books.  The narrative requires redemption, if not for us, then for Bremer.  Linked you on this at the update<a href="http://theheretik.us/2006/01/08/iraq-true-or-false/" rel="nofollow"> at Iraq: True or False</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384549', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RightPunch</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-384533</link>
		<dc:creator>RightPunch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&quot;Hey IRI, did you and Judd have a heart to heart or something? Youâ€™ve been far more lucid and thoughtful as of late. Giacomo&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

Maybe I-RIGHT-I is afraid that he can be arrested using the new &#039;anonymous annoyance&#039; law that bush signed today.  Considering the hate speech I saw him post last week, I can&#039;t say I&#039;d mind much if he were arrested for the crap he posted.  There&#039;s free speech, and then there&#039;s hate speech. I&#039;m sorta surprised this site doesn&#039;t manage the hate speech, because it&#039;s frankly a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially in light of the new law.  The &#039;bar&#039; on the crime is being annoying, and clearly that&#039;s a low bar to meet for most partisan trolls.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;Hey IRI, did you and Judd have a heart to heart or something? Youâ€™ve been far more lucid and thoughtful as of late. Giacomo&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Maybe I-RIGHT-I is afraid that he can be arrested using the new &#8216;anonymous annoyance&#8217; law that bush signed today.  Considering the hate speech I saw him post last week, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d mind much if he were arrested for the crap he posted.  There&#8217;s free speech, and then there&#8217;s hate speech. I&#8217;m sorta surprised this site doesn&#8217;t manage the hate speech, because it&#8217;s frankly a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially in light of the new law.  The &#8216;bar&#8217; on the crime is being annoying, and clearly that&#8217;s a low bar to meet for most partisan trolls.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384533', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: purvis ames</title>
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		<dc:creator>purvis ames</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First, it doesn&#039;t now and never would have made any difference how many troops we have in Iraq. Second, the insurgency, strangely enough, is our best friend in Iraq. Consider what would happen if we took the purple thumbs out of our ass and actually allowed democracy in Iraq. The majority Shia would take over, quickly align themselves with Iran, and possibly encourage the disaffected Shia in Saudi Arabia to rise up against the Saudi royals. That&#039;s a helluva lot of oil to control and China and India have already made their intentions of pursuing it clear. India is the country to which we have outsourced much of our information processing technology. China owns a huge bloc of our debt plus a substantial amount of our manufacturing imports. Neither one of them is frightened of us at all. So Bush and the neocon&#039;s gamble to take over the Middle East has completely failed and there are several other players standing in line to take our seat at the table once we have tapped out. For this reason alone, the President shall go down in American history as the biggest idiot who ever held the office.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First, it doesn&#8217;t now and never would have made any difference how many troops we have in Iraq. Second, the insurgency, strangely enough, is our best friend in Iraq. Consider what would happen if we took the purple thumbs out of our ass and actually allowed democracy in Iraq. The majority Shia would take over, quickly align themselves with Iran, and possibly encourage the disaffected Shia in Saudi Arabia to rise up against the Saudi royals. That&#8217;s a helluva lot of oil to control and China and India have already made their intentions of pursuing it clear. India is the country to which we have outsourced much of our information processing technology. China owns a huge bloc of our debt plus a substantial amount of our manufacturing imports. Neither one of them is frightened of us at all. So Bush and the neocon&#8217;s gamble to take over the Middle East has completely failed and there are several other players standing in line to take our seat at the table once we have tapped out. For this reason alone, the President shall go down in American history as the biggest idiot who ever held the office.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384530', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-384280</link>
		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rumsfeld&#039;s rebuttal to Bremer&#039;s account doesn&#039;t bode well for the military.

Those scumbag Bushite beeotches are setting the stage to BLAME THE MILITARY for the caca in Iraqa!

What a country, what an administration....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rumsfeld&#8217;s rebuttal to Bremer&#8217;s account doesn&#8217;t bode well for the military.</p>
<p>Those scumbag Bushite beeotches are setting the stage to BLAME THE MILITARY for the caca in Iraqa!</p>
<p>What a country, what an administration&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384280', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WORFEUS</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-384144</link>
		<dc:creator>WORFEUS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Bush, and the right wing constantly talk about &lt;em&gt;&quot;honoring the sacrifice of our troops&quot; &lt;/em&gt;by &lt;em&gt;&quot;staying the course&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.

In reality, the only way this President and those who follow him have to honor the sacrifce of our troops, is to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sacrifice more troops&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Bush, and the right wing constantly talk about <em>&#8220;honoring the sacrifice of our troops&#8221; </em>by <em>&#8220;staying the course&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>In reality, the only way this President and those who follow him have to honor the sacrifce of our troops, is to <em><strong>sacrifice more troops</strong></em>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384144', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Flying Scotman</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-384086</link>
		<dc:creator>The Flying Scotman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Everyday Im getting more and more pissed off with America &lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Everyday Im getting more and more pissed off with America </strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384086', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-384049</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey IRI, did you and Judd have a heart to heart or something? Youâ€™ve been far more lucid and thoughtful as of late. 

Comment by Giacomo 

It&#039;s still early in the week. Just wait until the Prozac and bourbon kick in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey IRI, did you and Judd have a heart to heart or something? Youâ€™ve been far more lucid and thoughtful as of late. </p>
<p>Comment by Giacomo </p>
<p>It&#8217;s still early in the week. Just wait until the Prozac and bourbon kick in.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384049', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WORFEUS</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-384023</link>
		<dc:creator>WORFEUS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The pride of thine heart &lt;em&gt;hath deceived thee&lt;/em&gt;, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, 

Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Though thou exalt thyself as the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eagle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;though thou set thy nest among the &lt;strong&gt;stars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, 

...thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

Obadiah 1:3- 4</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The pride of thine heart <em>hath deceived thee</em>, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, </p>
<p>Who shall bring me down to the ground?</p>
<p>Though thou exalt thyself as the <em><strong>eagle</strong></em>, and <em>though thou set thy nest among the <strong>stars</strong></em>, </p>
<p>&#8230;thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.</p>
<p>Obadiah 1:3- 4<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384023', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-383991</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Got a case of CYA, Bremer?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got a case of CYA, Bremer?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383991', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: TJM</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-383869</link>
		<dc:creator>TJM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The details of the CPA problems have been set out  in the various reports to Congress since the war started. The DoD,State Dept.,SIGIR,USAID have all been reporting about the issues Bremer raises. Patrick Cockburn,Tom Lasseter and others have reported fron Iraq on these issues that Bremer and the CPA caused and the administration assisted in.
Bremer&#039;s attempt to cleanse himself won&#039;t change how history views his stewardship. Just another failure in a succession of failures by everybody but the military. And now they&#039;re being sacrificed on that altar of the failure of GWB&#039;s Iraq policy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The details of the CPA problems have been set out  in the various reports to Congress since the war started. The DoD,State Dept.,SIGIR,USAID have all been reporting about the issues Bremer raises. Patrick Cockburn,Tom Lasseter and others have reported fron Iraq on these issues that Bremer and the CPA caused and the administration assisted in.<br />
Bremer&#8217;s attempt to cleanse himself won&#8217;t change how history views his stewardship. Just another failure in a succession of failures by everybody but the military. And now they&#8217;re being sacrificed on that altar of the failure of GWB&#8217;s Iraq policy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383869', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dodgeball</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/bremer-whitewash/comment-page-1/#comment-383617</link>
		<dc:creator>Dodgeball</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;It never ceases to amaze me how these guys think they can mispresent THEIR RECORD and get away with it - itâ€™s the age of the Internet(s)! A smart ten year old with Google can point out their lies.&lt;/em&gt;

Who&#039;s gonna hold them to it?  Look what they&#039;ve gotten away with so far.  The righties screamed long, loud &amp; hard about sex with an intern.  You &amp; I know that&#039;s mighty small potatoes compared to what this gang has wrought--but the media have shriveled up &amp; died, and the dems in congress keep enabling it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>It never ceases to amaze me how these guys think they can mispresent THEIR RECORD and get away with it &#8211; itâ€™s the age of the Internet(s)! A smart ten year old with Google can point out their lies.</em></p>
<p>Who&#8217;s gonna hold them to it?  Look what they&#8217;ve gotten away with so far.  The righties screamed long, loud &amp; hard about sex with an intern.  You &amp; I know that&#8217;s mighty small potatoes compared to what this gang has wrought&#8211;but the media have shriveled up &amp; died, and the dems in congress keep enabling it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383617', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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