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Iraq In Fragments.

By Nico Pitney on Nov 15th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

The new multiple award-winning documentary on Iraq opened this week in select cities. Salon writes, “it’s head and shoulders above the rest [of Iraq docs] in its clarity, intimacy and poetry, and it illustrates the dreadful predicament America has created in Iraq, which drove so many angry people to the polls on Tuesday.” Watch the trailer HERE.

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16 Responses to “Iraq In Fragments.”

ForTruth says:

The country may have to be slit into 3 parts. Call me a nutcase. Whatever.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Dog_named_Boo says:

The country may have to be slit into 3 parts. Call me a nutcase. Whatever.

Comment by ForTruth

I don’t think your a nutcase, or whatever, I think I am a nutcase!!!

Actually I think that was the plan all along — divide and conquer.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
JustSomeDude says:

I think we should split it into 4 parts, and send the 35% of Bush/Iraq war supporters over there to live in peace and harmony.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Dog_named_Boo says:

Bye Bye TP, It was fun while it lasted.

Your blog software is abrogated and has become untenable.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
james risser says:

DnB,

i can’t post either…thought it was just me…you too?
November 15th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Zooey says:

What happened, Boo?
November 15th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Zooey says:

Boo & james,

I see both of you.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
james risser says:

i can only post one line posts, some of the time…i have been trying all a.m.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Zooey says:

james,

Oh, no. Is that on all threads, or just the grey boxes?
November 15th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
james risser says:

it has happened in grey and non-grey… others seem to post without problems? coffee time!!
November 15th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
SpudgeBoy says:

This is exactly why Dick Cheney, as Bush 1s Secretary of Defense, said this after Desert Storm:

“I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We’d be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.

And the final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don’t think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties, and while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the (1991) conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn’t a cheap war.

And the question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is, not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.”

November 15th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
JesusChrist_GodOfWAR says:

So what was Emperor Bush’s “plan for victory” in Iraq?

For the life of me I don’t understand why NeoCons didn’t just let the natural course of things play out. The old dictator would have been replaced by a new dictator. The NeoCons could have gone in and sold more arms to the new guy and kept the old ball rolling. But no, they had to go and invade a place NeoCons had no right to drag the rest of us into.

Draft young Republicans! Send ‘um all the Iraq.

ITMFA!!!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
RUCerious says:

Yeah, folks it seems like TP is experiencing technical difficulty at times. I am getting an out of memory on line 125 error, and poof, hangs. I don’t know how many of the others of you see the out of memory error??
They may be getting a denial of service, or more likely a sql injection attack.
I can’t imagine who would do such a thing?
November 15th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Zooey says:

Boo, james, RUCerious,

You guys shouldreally consider getting the hottest new thing. It’s called dial-up, and I never have problems unless I want to do anything other than keyboard. :)
November 15th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
goodscarrier says:

#4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14 james risser, RUCerious, Zooey

I hope TP is filtering out all personal chit chat bullshit that goes on in TP.

One person in particular uses TP, it seems, as a personal chat room or as a support group which in turn collectively thinks she has seniority and her posts are beyond scrutiny.

Good riddance until posts become pertinent!
November 15th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
goodscarrier says:

Iraq In Fragments?

TP perhaps needs to draw from more scholarly literature.

From the American perspective, Iraq in fragments.

But if Americans would read better literature, Americans would know that Iraq is becoming whole and not fractured.

How so?

Iraq is mostly Shiite.

The Al Dawa, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, and Muqtada al-Sadr are forming a strong Shiite fundamentalist state which is far from being fractured.

This in turn is vasting empowering Iran.

The ME is being solidified and hardened.

The problem is, though, it is NOT in the interest of peace that things are turning out.

It is so sad to think that in direct response to 9/11, Americans are getting a fundamentalist Islamic republic in Iraq in return.
November 15th, 2006 at 8:14 pm

Iraq In Fragments.

Iraq In Fragments.

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