Iraq chaos:
By on Mar 12th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Iraq chaos:
“At least 40 people were killed and 95 wounded in three car bombs that exploded almost simultaneously in two markets in the Shi’ite Sadr district of Baghdad on Sunday,” Reuters reports. Also, “Eight bodies were found with their hands tied and gun shot wounds to the head in Rustamiya, a suburb in eastern Baghdad.” (Via Atrios)
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Stop moaning. It’s only been three years since the invasion. What do you think we are? Liberators?!
March 12th, 2006 at 12:51 pmBush and Rumsfeld still deny that a civil war is underway and that “we are making progress”. Talk about determination to keep their heads buried in the sand. This is stubborness to the point of sheer stupidity and recklessness. I think that most Americans are waking up to the fact that the neocons who sold the public on this quagmire are a gang of fascist flim-flam artists.
March 12th, 2006 at 12:54 pmBe calm, be calm, support the president, ignore your own eyes and ears there will be no civil war!!! Oh how reassuring to echo my leader and my King G.W.B.
March 12th, 2006 at 1:10 pmNew York Times Bureau chief in Baghdad, John F. Burns, who has spent much of the past three years In Iraq, said that the civil war is there, it is only to what extent that is in question.
March 12th, 2006 at 1:21 pmRummy knows better, however, from his perch here in the U.S., blaming the bad news of more death and destruciton on the media. The man is clearly in the throes of senile dementia.
I was reading the other day that in Iraq, a huge amount of oil is leaving “Unmetered.” So I guess we let the locals slaughter each other as long as the tankers keep rolling to the sea.
The oil leaves and in return roll the cement trucks building the fortified compounds of long term occupation.
War abroad, dictatorship at home.
Dude, where’s my 21st Century?
50Ways To Dump The Dubya
March 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pmThis is a war between Muslims and Republicans.
March 12th, 2006 at 1:33 pmThis is not my war.
If soldiers want to die for nation building why should I care?
“Feeding your children into the insatiable gaping maw of the military industrial complex.”
Vote Republican in 2006/2008
-GSD
March 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pmStop the war, get rid of bush,
March 12th, 2006 at 1:56 pmOff topic apologies tended to all, but this is of note:
Report: Web Searches Can ID CIA Employees Sat Mar 11, 5:53 PM ET
CHICAGO – The identities of 2,600 CIA employees and the locations of two dozen of the agency’s covert workplaces in the United States can be found easily through Internet searches, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune.
The newspaper obtained the information from data providers who charge fees for access to public records and reported on its findings in Sunday editions. It did not publish the identities or other details on its searches, citing concern it could endanger the CIA employees.
Not all of the 2,653 people the newspaper said it could identify as CIA employees were supposed to be covert, an issue raised in the Justice Department investigation of whether someone in the Bush administration leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame to reporters in 2003.
Some in fact were non-covert analysts or senior executives, such as former CIA Director George Tenet. But the newspaper said it shared some of its findings with the CIA, and that the agency acknowledged the partial list of names included covert employees.
“Cover is an issue we look at all the time, and we are always looking to improve it,” CIA spokesman Tom Crispell told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Through the data providers, the newspaper said it identified people by telephone listings, real estate transactions, voting records, property tax records and other financial and legal documents. The investigation also uncovered internal office phone numbers of the agency and covert mailing addresses used by undercover operatives.
“Cover is a complex issue that is more complex in the Internet age,” the CIA’s chief spokeswoman, Jennifer Dyck, told the Tribune. “There are things that worked previously that no longer work.”
The Tribune also located two dozen CIA facilities in Chicago, northern Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state. Some of the facilities are heavily guarded, while others appear to be private residences with no obvious connection to the CIA.
One of the facilities, a CIA training area dubbed “The Farm” at Camp Peary, Va., was a well-kept secret for decades. The agency refused to publicly acknowledge its existence, even after former CIA personnel confirmed its presence in the 1980s.
But the Tribune said an Internet search for the term “Camp Peary” produced data identifying the names and other details of 26 people who apparently work there.
Additionally, a review of aviation databases for flights at Camp Peary’s airstrip revealed 17 aircraft whose ownership and flight histories also could be traced.
March 12th, 2006 at 1:59 pmThe wingnuts will be flocking soon, I thought we should be prepared for the inevitable rain of droppings.
March 12th, 2006 at 2:06 pmReading the original Chicago Trib piece, the first thing that strikes me is the way the information was used only to discredit the notion that Plame was a NOC, and ignored the much larger story of CIA operatives identities and front businesses being accessable by these databases. I think they just got caught telling half the story, and surprise, surprise, it’s the part that gives the administration cover. Very curious.
March 12th, 2006 at 2:16 pmThe invasion of Iraq and its mired conflagration, as illustrated by this breaking news, reveals that Bush’s whole war on terror has in fact been a fomenting of terrorism, a metamorphosis from a regional conflict to a global and virulent spread of anti-American ideologies with “terrorsts” being born and bred exponentially.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
March 12th, 2006 at 3:05 pmIn 2004, President Bush made jokes about the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
March 12th, 2006 at 3:18 pmIn 2004, President Bush made jokes about the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Here’s what Bush was joking about last night at the Gridiron Club…
March 12th, 2006 at 3:20 pm#13 – In all of George Bush’s years spent on this planet, people have made jokes about Bush. He’s making sure he has the last laugh.
March 12th, 2006 at 3:21 pm‘things are going VERY VERY well in Iraq’, because General Pace said so…..no one is laughing,dead people can’t laugh.
March 12th, 2006 at 3:27 pmAnyone out there, heard that soliders in Iraq haven’t been paid for a month. A friend of mine’s son, is in Iraq (Marines) and hasn’t been paid in over a month. His wife is in NC wondering how she’s going to get by on her paycheck. Has the country finally gone broke? Or the supplement passed for the war, but no money to pay it?
March 12th, 2006 at 4:02 pmAs for a civil war, there’s an old saying, “if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, chances are pretty good it’s a duck.”
four US soldiers, too, I hear… bring the boys back home! (the girls, too)
March 12th, 2006 at 4:25 pmGeneral Pace says all is fine, and going to plan. Rumsfeld says the media is subverting the truth. Have faith in them, God is on their side. Do not believe the death numbers or the photographs. Do not believe the reporters on the ground. Stay the course.
March 12th, 2006 at 5:01 pmhttp://hatestheright.blogspot.com/
In times like this, the left plans to embolden the terrorists in Iraq by trying to formally denounce Bush
March 12th, 2006 at 5:16 pmIn times like this,Gary Ruppert comes on TP and starts regurgitating all the Bushit he has been eating. Its really gross too
March 12th, 2006 at 5:34 pmOff thread but on the mark.
We old folks had our Cheech and Chong but you have Chimp and Chump.
Just click on Clyde.
March 12th, 2006 at 8:51 pm#22 – Clyde the Ripper,
March 12th, 2006 at 10:06 pmWhippersnapper!
Walt,
Actually my time was Abbott and Costello but NOBODY remembers them. Maybe Laurel and Hardy but I get them confused with Kukla, Fran and Ollie mixed in with a little Beanie and Cecil the Sea Sick Sea Serpent (The live one by Stan Freeberg).
March 12th, 2006 at 10:17 pmIn times like this, the right plans to embolden the terrorists in Iraq by torturing prisoners and formally demonstrating that Bush and republicans don’t believe in the rule of law or american values.
Gary, if you want to ’set an example’ for how to be unethical, illegal and a terrorists, republicans definitely have the history and the game plan to do so. And fools like you are just too retarded to know that YOU are as much terrorists as Bin Laden is. Shame on you – fool!
March 12th, 2006 at 10:39 pm#17,
March 12th, 2006 at 10:55 pmI missed one supplemental in 1965. It was the 15% war zone prepayment(cigs and sin). Spouse got hers. Problem was that provost marshal met a mine. Really messy. A jeep does not provide much protection against a weapon intended to destroy a tank.
Just remember, there is no civil war because Rummy said so, but even if there is, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Somewhere in the back of my mind is the notion that the occupying force is responsible for the security of the people living in the occupied territory. We broke it. We own it. We have to pay for it. All these additions to the sum of human misery are now posted to our account.
March 12th, 2006 at 11:05 pm#24 – Clyde the Ripper,
March 12th, 2006 at 11:13 pmIt’s Howdy Doody Time. Pops was an EE. He had me wire our first TV in 1944. The color code was Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly. I was four at the time and had no concept of what the phrase meant in real terms, but, I assembled a B&W TV in about three months and only reversed one germanium diode.
Off topic, but I found this interesting:
March 12th, 2006 at 11:31 pmU.N. blasts U.S. treatment of Western Shoshone
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3591807
man o’live. I thought the war was going to last a few weeks, cost less than 50 billion dollars, have no casualties (according to the gospel of George Bush), the Iraqis would greet the liberators with roses, and it all would be a cakewalk.
Wha’ happened?
March 12th, 2006 at 11:52 pm#28 Walt
Click on Clyde and continue by E-mail, TkX C
March 13th, 2006 at 12:05 amHEY EVERYONE IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, YOU MUST GO SEE “WHY WE FIGHT” BY EUGENE JARECKI. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FILMS OF OUR TIME!
March 13th, 2006 at 1:13 amI watched the news reports last night about the car bombs in Iraq and wondered if Bush was proud of his achievement. Think he is?
This may be an obvious statement, but nobody else has said it that I’m aware of: The Iraqis were better off under Saddam.
I feel so sorry for them, and so ashamed, embarrassed and angry at Bush and the entire corrupt, fascistic modern conservative movement. What in God’s name are we doing? We had it all after Afghanistan. . . we coud have really been a force for good in the world. We had everyone on our side, the bad guys didn’t have a moral leg to stand on, and we were as strong and united as ever.
But Bush and neoconservatism unleashed an ugly, unilateral, arrogant America upon the world. Bush never wanted to be good for the sake of being good. He wanted to punish, avenge, destroy, and even scores.
Bush is no Christian, and he’s no conservative. He is the ugliest of ugly Americans.
March 13th, 2006 at 8:43 am#20 “In times like this, the left plans to embolden the terrorists in Iraq by trying to formally denounce Bush
Comment by Gary Ruppert — March 12, 2006 @ 5:16 pm”
Nobody is more responsible for the nature of the times than Bush himself. He created and inspired an entirely new terrorist movement by his unnecessary invasion of Iraq — justified by a series of lies to the American people, which I guess is OK as long as you aren’t a Republican and it isn’t about sex — and by his brutal and immoral policies regarding those caught up in the American gulag system.
Anything at all that slows Bush and his fascistic movement down can only be a positive step for the world and the American people.
March 13th, 2006 at 8:50 amGary Ruppert
Your boss is going on the road again today in an effort to convince the 34% ignorant people like you that war is a glorious thing, killing with a bullet is a manly art, dead and wounded american soldiers are to be glorified and extolled to the heavens for the dirty work he has them doing.
This is all OK with you I presume from your writings and comments, but I was in Korea from the start, and found it inglorious to say the least.
March 13th, 2006 at 11:00 amclick you heels together 3 times and repeat after me,
this is not a civil war
this is not a civil war
this is not a civil war
Republican wish-list.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:35 pmRepublicans start search for George Bush’s replacement
Mr Frist won 37 per cent of the 1,427 votes. Perhaps more intriguing, however, was the second place finish of Mitt Romney, the Governor of Massachusetts, ahead of George Allen, Virginia’s affable junior senator who was widely fancied for 2008.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350913.ece
March 13th, 2006 at 3:15 pm