As for intelligence pre-Iraq invasion, and “everyone” believing that Saddam has WMDs, NO, NOT TRUE. Those of us who get our news from places other than the MSM, such as the BBC, foreign newspapers, the Duelfer Report, Hans Blix’s reports, the IARC’s reports, etc., KNEW that Saddam could have, at most, a very small amount of WMDs. Scott Ritter said that as of 1998 98% of all weapons had been found and destroyed or disabled.

Do you think Saddam could have reconstituted weaponry after the inspectors, AT CLINTON’S REQUEST, were kicked out in 1998? How? We have satellite surveillance capable of reading newspaper headlines from orbit. Saddam was under international interdiction, and if he were importing large amounts of materials needed to build new weapons, this would have been discovered.

Also, the Bush Administration was talking out of both sides of its mouth. They kept claiming that we could end up under a mushroom cloud (the weapons they had during Iraq War I weren’t capable of reaching us anyway). They bloviated about what a huge threat he was to us. They also were saying at the same time that the war was going to be a “cake walk”. So that was another clue that they weren’t telling the truth.

I knew this at the time leading up to the invasion, and I’m a lowly nobody with no access to classified information. So did plenty of others know this. I and my friends were watching the buildup to the war in horror, thinking, he CAN’T be serious, because we all knew that Saddam was no longer a threat. If we could know this by reading and researching, others could have as well.

Yes, many Democrats in Washington decided to support the war. This is to their everlasting shame. Their mail before the war was running 70-80% against the war, but they chose to support the war nonetheless, and to allow themselves to go along with what they should have admitted to themselves was false information, because they believed it would play better politically. I wrote letters to all of the Democrats supporting the war at the time and told them that if they ran for the Presidency, I would not vote for them in the primaries, and I didn’t in 2004, nor will I in 2008. They are just as complicit as the Republicans in this. But I will support Feingold or Clark or Gore or others who had the courage and the intelligence to come out against the war back in 2003.

Damn it, we who opposed this war were RiGHT!!! We deserve some respect for this, and our opinions should carry more weight than those who supported this misbegotten abortion of a war!!!

Harry Reid is an artful political spinner (the way all politicians,right, left or center are). He simply has the misfortune of exuding as much confident masculinity as a bowl of lukewarm tapioca pudding – this is NOT his fault – he is genetic pencil-neck. But to throw up “Ted the Swimmer” as a paragon of virtue?? I wouldn’t trust that mysogynist as a neighbor, babysitter, dog walker, gold fish feeder, uncle – not a thing!

You donate enough to mitigate your cabon footprint??? Wow! You must have REALLY small feet!

From a leftist political point of view that “values privacy and choice”I do not feel rude in telling you it’s none of your business how much I donate to charity, but our accountant says we are generous. Frankly, I prefer anonymous donations – they are more sincere and reap no return for the giver.

I have to admit, alliteration does wonders for the question – what’s in a name? ProgressiveParrot sounds far better than SocialistParrot.

google the above name and see many papers carry this story from Isreal to China and more interesting and some more detailed

PS well done to Iraqs new prime minister for installing this guy – he is more honest than the last Idiot Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi

The re-appointment of Mahdi may yet provide the Bush Administration with its most important victory in the Iraq war since Saddam Hussein was pulled out of a rabbit hole in Tikrit. However, Mahdi’s Vice Presidency may also ultimately generate at least as much hostility towards the United States as the invasion itself.

Bush wants to amend our Constitution to prohibit gays from marrying and people burning a piece of colored cloth. Do you really thinks he gives a sh*t about Iraq’s Constitution?

Comment by Mary Poppin — June 16, 2006 @ 2:04 pm

wrong :- Constitution of Iraq
Chapter Four: Powers of the Federal Authorities

Oil is defined as the property of all Iraqi people (Art. 109) and is to be managed by the federal government in conjunction with regional and provincial governments, Article 110 attempts to define how oil revenue is to be distributed among the country’s regions and provinces; however, beyond stating that it be done “fairly”, the constitution does not go into specifics. It also could be read as referring solely to “current” oil fields, not ones opened up in the future.

oil fields, not ones opened up in the future.
You will not in the month of sundays get these new contracts for new platforms do you think the people of Iraq want you to steal the countries wealth to pay for a war that has given them so much grief - NEVER –
do you think the people of Iraq want you to steal the countries wealth to pay for the failing American Economy - NEVER

Your stupidity is trumped only by your arrogance.

Simon Jenkins
Wednesday May 31, 2006

Both Bush and Blair seem to be deaf

Bush is showing so much neglect for the ordinary people of Iraq hes trying to starve them of medical goods, electricity, food and water until the Iraqi Govermet cant take any more and sign the oil contracts – Which will never happen

The world sees right though america

Tell you what, Parrot – I am a HUGE believer in volunteerism and charities. If you and your “compassionate” friends will jump out of my purse and wallet and donate YOUR $$$ to the poor and downtrodden and the “vile” wealthy can fund the charities and projects we support, think of how much good could be accomplished. When you wish to discuss “universal health care”, do take the time to talk to health care professionals in Detroit and Seattle. Living across the border from Windsor Ontario and Victoria BC, they see some of the problems with rationed government health dollars. But you are so busy taking OTHER PEOPLES MONEY and patting yourself on the back….not uncommon prog behaviour….

Comment by mighty aphrodite — June 16, 2006 @ 3:40 pm

How about I talk to Canadians about the Canadian health care system. They love it. I am a widower and met a dear widowed friend in an online support group who lives in Canada. We swapped stories about our ill spouses experiences in the hospital. My god, man, I would have taken the Canadian health care system any day over what I went through and the amount I had to pay! Her husband had CF and had the most top-notch health care I have ever seen in my life — even a lung transplant! Sadly, he was in his mid-30s and there sometimes isn’t anything that can be done at that point. But at least she’s not in a financial burden from his his health care costs.

I just love it when right-wingers automatically assume left-wingers want social programs because they don’t donate to charitable causes privately. So, how much do you donate to charity? I offset my “carbon footprint” every month through donations to help build alternate energy plants, such as wind farms, solar plants, biomass plants, etc… I donate to various environmental, wildlife, and pet-oriented charitable causes I believe in too. And after that, I still want socialized programs to pick up the slack. I guess I’m just not a greedy little terd like the average “it ain’t my problem” right-winger.

Bush Will be asked again very publically at the next Arab-League which been posponed till August now and dont forget the UN mandate for occupation runs out in DEC 2006

READ THIS ONE

Nov 2005
The surprising degree of consensus reached by the main Iraqi factions at the Arab-League orchestrated Reconciliation Conference in Cairo last weekend sharply undercuts the unilateral, guns-and-puppets approach of the Bush administration to the deteriorating situation in Iraq. The common demand, by Shia and Kurds as well as Sunnis, for a timetable for withdrawal of occupation forces demolishes the administration’s argument that setting such a timetable would be a huge mistake. Who would know better—the Iraqis or the ideologues advising Bush?

The communiqué’s feisty tone was facilitated by the conspicuous and unexplained absence of U.S. representatives. By shunning the conference, administration officials missed the beginning of a process that has within it the seeds of real progress toward peace. In addition to more than 100 Shia, Sunni and Kurdish participants, the conference was attended by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran—but no U.S. officials. The gathering was strongly supported not only by the Arab League but also by the U.N., EU and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Parrotlover, will you be voting for Hilary in 08? See doesn’t want to leave Iraq and doesn’t even want to set a timetable. What will the far left do with this women I wonder.

Comment by Jerad — June 16, 2006 @ 3:30 pm

Hillary won the Democratic primaries for 2008 already? Weird, I don’t remember voting in them.