I suppose you are right that Bush engaged in some impressive diplomacy in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. (I note, too, that unlike Israel’s reaction after 2 of its soldiers were kidnapped by Hezbollah, the Bush administration took nearly 4 weeks after 9/11 to utilize diplomacy and put together a plan of attack before going into Afghanistan on 10/7/01 … rather remarkable restraint, when you think about it.) My concern, however, is that we cut deals with Pakistan only to have OBL end up in Pakistan and, for now anyway, beyond our reach.

I’m not sure what we could have done differently, but it seems less and less likely we’ll ever bring OBL to justice as the years pass. Meanwhile, there appears to be no shortage of jihadists in Pakistan and I have my doubts that Pervez’ll do much to root out the extremists.

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…what Dr. Nakhleh is saying is…

…Bushiva has screwed up the Middle East in particular, and the world in general…

…the criminal Bushite junta is a domestic and foreign policy disaster…

…until there is new leadership in D.C.

…blood, guts, and American goodwill and treasure will continue down the toilet…

In Geneva, Mr Nowak, who has not personally visited Iraq…

Meanwhile back in Iraq… http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/70610.html Saddam set a pretty high bar and yet, it appears to have been cleared…

Thank you for that posting. The words of Barham Salih, an Iraqi who actually lived and suffered under the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein, should be a powerful reminder to the many posters here who are re-writing history, depicting Saddam as some sort of benevolent leader.

Vote Republican – “Again” (it feels good to be on the winning side)

Just look at the American Trops deaths on the above link and all you republican voters tel me – IS IT WORTH IT

The president of Pakistan claims the US threatened to bomb his country in the days after the 9/11 attacks.

Pervez Musharraf says he was warned Pakistan would be blasted “back to the Stone Age” if it did not help America.

The threat reportedly came from US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage in the lead up to the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

Mr Musharraf said: “The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, ‘Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age’.”

He added: “I think it was a very rude remark.”

Pakistan has been a key ally in America’s so-called “war on terror” since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.

“One has to think and take actions in the interests of the nation and that is what I did,” Mr Musharraf said.

Mr Armitage has denied the claim, saying he would never say such a thing and did not have the authority to do so anyway.

The White House has declined to comment.

As you see this guy is Kurdish, they people that Saddam gassed as Rummy and Bushco looked the other way, of course he wanted the overthrow of Saddam. Also remember that Bush sr pulled out of Iraq and left the Kurds to deal with the aftermath of Gulf I;

http://www.diamandagalas.com/defixiones/KurdObserv0303.htm

The war to liberate Kuwait in 1991 caused the death of over 250,000 innocent precious Kurdish men women and children of which the majority were Kurdish children. “250,000”. This is not just plain numbers rather it represents 250,000 living human beings with the oldest discovered civilization.

They died because those who caused this human catastrophes are a bunch of bigots and greedy left over from amongst “cold war era” U.S. Foreign policy makers still calling all the shots. These “few grannies” who have gone senile and enjoy their pay offs by Turkish regimes with their hands bloodied with the Kurdish victims since 1920; have absolutely no conscience nor human dignity and have sold out our American Foreign policy credibility’s and our belief to support human rights against the wishes of our American citizens.

Thats from the real ‘Kurds’ Fake Supa

for mature audiences only

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myv08r_y6sU

Let’s hear from someone who has suffered under Saddam and is grateful for his country to be liberated.

http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20060913iraq.htm

“I want to, ladies and gentlemen, lay out for you today our strategy of a country in transition, for a country that is at the crossroads of the Middle East, a country that is every day, regrettably, in the cross hairs of terrorism. It is a strategy of two compacts, a national compact and an international one, a strategy motivated by profound realism, not by defeatism. It is a strategy with a sense of urgency but with a refusal to give in to panic. It is a strategy without any regret for the just and moral act that was the liberation of Iraq from the racist and genocidal tyranny of Saddam Hussein, a strategy tempered by the difficult experience of recent years. Above all, it is an Iraqi strategy that is being implemented with broad international support and goes beyond the Coalition of countries that have supported our liberation.”

“Quibble the rationale for our liberation as much as some people may, nobody who has seen the mass graves, and as we discover more of them almost every month, nobody who has met the victims, nobody who knows of our decades of suffering can look the Iraqis in the eye and tell us that we would have been better off with Saddam Hussein still in power.”

Wha??

Shultz also introduced Governor George W. Bush to Condoleezza Rice, who in turn introduced Paul Wolfowitz to Governor Bush back in 1999. Shultz of course knew at the time that Wolfie and Perle and their neo-con Cabal were planning a war in Iraq [PNAC], and we know nice, little “doable” wars (Wolfie’s word), are meat and potatoes for the military-industrial complex. Instead of squeezing nickels and dimes out of the taxpayers to persuade Ghana [Iraq] to build a steel mill it doesn’t need and can’t run, even little wars run into the billions. And everyone gets into the act. The arms makers who produce airplanes, tanks, guns, jeeps and humvees get to blow up a country (like Iraq) and Bechtel and Halliburton come in right behind to rebuild it [US aid Natsios]. In announcing the Wolfowitz appointment today, President Bush said the World Bank is a big organization and Wolfowitz has experience running a big organization, the Pentagon!! As far as the military-industrial complex is concerned, Wolfowitz did a FANTASTIC job. He was only expected to plan for a $30 billion war and he screwed up so badly that it is now a $200 billion war, and counting. Anyone who can screw up that badly deserves a promotion, to the World Bank.

MA your stupid too, go drink a beer you drunk slut