Comments on: Hagel: White House Originally Wanted 2002 Iraq War Resolution to Cover Entire Middle East

By: Sergeant John’s 3-D Chiller House of Terror! » Where Do They Stand on the War?

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:26:47 +0000

[...] seems to have helped head off extreme overreaching by the White House in 2002.Â You think their wars have been disasters?Â [...]

By: liz

liz — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:00:32 +0000

I hope he regrets the patriot act vote too….. wonder if he read it yet?>

By: Jay Pia

Jay Pia — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:18:10 +0000

Lets face it, Bush is whack job. He will say whatever we want to hear and do what ever he wants to do. On the other hand the democrats with few exceptions- thinking James Webb and Feingold here – have shown any real leadership but mostly just political mouthing. Where is meaningful immigration reform, meaningful goals in Iraq, impeachment proceedings that are so richly deserved. The list is long. Our tolerance for it is sobbering and unsettling. Where are the patriots as these mad men drive the company into the ground. They all sing from the smae page. The most irresponsible and destructive administration this country has ever seen – perhaps ever will- this could be the last hurrah at the rate it is going.

By: Bulcsu

Bulcsu — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:54:38 +0000

The really scary thing is, that the whole thing may be intentional. The intent is not to pacify Iraq, the intent is to depopulate it.
This civil war is maybe run by the CIA, just like the 9/11 attacks. The goal is to depopulate so later on they can pump out the oil without interference. This is planned not just for Iraq but the whole region. The intention is to ignite a general war in the whole Middle East.
GWB is the new Hitler.

By: bjobotts

bjobotts — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:54:22 +0000

Now is better than never and it was inevitable. With every bold plan like PNAC, or Bush/Iraq comes the little mouse out of the hole that in some small way disrupts everything. Iraq did not know what was best for them and instead of following along as planned you get a civil war between fanatics destroying their own country, people and livelihood. Now Cheney and possibly Rove get Libby as well as Cheney getting grandchild thru lesbian daughter. The administration gets bloggers and a Democratic congress just in time and Exxon/Mobile gets “An Inconvenient Truth”. We, the American people, get our eyes opened to corruption and lying for profit at the highest level. It’s not too late but rather just in time. Fool me once shame on…uh…you…a …can’t fool a divided house..or a fool..in a divided house…or…a…Can’t fool me again.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:10:18 +0000

Bush & Chainey are just killers, they like killing. With drol chainey, its mostly birds and well a friend or tu. Maybe he was just drunk, but, shooting birds being evicted from a cage strikes me as being more than a little demented. Bush got real pleasure from killing people when he wuz gov. of TX. Isn’t U.S.A a country of violent no nothing morons really?? I’m not talking New York here, I’m talking Texas, Montana. But then I suppose that when Germany was gasing the Jews, they kept it quiet, so its difficult to compare. I’ll be in DC Saturday to march & leave some shoes where ever they are being dumped. Finally, to get the real flavor of bushco, check out the video on utube of thecorrespondents diner at the white house, the one just after the attack on Iraq. Bush & white house staff were looking under chairs, uuuhh no WMDs here, in closets…..no WMD here and the gathered were laughing at the show. But the ugly reality,…….that bushco killed……hundreds ……….of thousands……………… of INNOCENT PEOPLE. Nearly everyone in a dictatorship is innocent except the dictator. After all, its not like theyare guilty of freely voting for a monster, LIKE WE DID HERE IN THE U.S.A..

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:01:57 +0000

Bush & Chainey are just killers, they like killing. With drol chainey, its mostly birds and well a friend or tu. Maybe he was just drunk, but, shooting birds being evicted from a cage strikes me as being more than a little demented. Bush got real pleasure from killing people when he wuz gov. of TX. Isn’t U.S.A country of violent no nothing morons really?? I’m not talking New York here, I’m talking Texas, Montana. But then I suppose that when Germany was gasing the Jews, they kept it quiet, so its difficult to compare. I’ll be in DC Saturday to leave some shoes where ever they are being dumped. Finally, to get the real flavor of bushco, check out the correspondents diner at the white house, the one just after the attack on Iraq. Bush & white house staff were looking under chairs, uuuhh no WMDs here, in closets…..no WMD here and the gathered were laughing atn the show. But the ugly reality, that bushco killed hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT people. Nearly everyone in a dictatorship is innocent except the dictator. After all, its not like theyare guilty of freely voting for a monster, LIKE WE DID HERE IN THE U.S.A..

By: sala

sala — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:23:11 +0000

Well as long as some people continue thinking “being Middle Eastern bad for your image” some people of the Middle East will continue to argue “We’re not Middle Eastern! No way!” Turks, Greeks or others it doesn’t matter.

Thing is how insane is Bush administration, and how blind their supporters are. This madness has to stop before they start the third World War. “We’re protecting American people and freedom and democracy” is a filthy lie, which rest of the world can see but some Americans can’t.

Sorry for my bad English

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:35:44 +0000

GRRRRRR!!!! There is only one thing and one thing only that will stop Bush and that is 1. Freeze the ENTIRE FEDERAL BUDGET so that Bush cannot spend a dime anymore. 2. Impeach and remove from office BOTH BUSH AND CHENEY!! No exception! Nothing else will stop the lunacy that permeates the White House and the people living in it now.

By: james

james — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:21:16 +0000

I do not trust any of them the dems or the rep, does the mid east include israel?

By: thelonegunman

thelonegunman — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:55:57 +0000

my question: WHY ARE WE JUST HEARING ABOUT THIS NOW?!?!?!?!?!?

By: Bozidar Kornic

Bozidar Kornic — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:57:14 +0000

Pax Americana, or, Global War, which is it? The weapons of mass destructions have been located, they are the job exports to China, astronomical deficits at home, and a steady decline of the standard of living at home for the disappearing middle class.

Our enemies are not the arabs, muslims, or alike. Our enemy is our administration that refuses to promote renewble energy, promote electric cars, and stop the bleeding of our scarce currency to OPEC. We need 1000 proctologists who would remove the heads of our politicians from the rectums of the major corporations and make them see the light, that they are supposed to serve us, THE PEOPLE, not just the profits of the blood suckers.

By: Zuraffo

Zuraffo — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:46:57 +0000

To answer those who asked: “Why this information is only revealed now, and not back then?” The answer was quite simple: “The congress had hoped for a swift victory in IRAQ and all this admission would not have been necessary. There won’t be a protest against war and the rest of the middle east could be taken care of one step at a time.”

Face it, the congress and the white house are in league as far as middle east is concerned. They just preferred different methods of war: Quick War vs Slow War. That’s about where the difference end. They are now turning against Bush because he failed to deliver a victory, NOT because they are concentious about the illegal war.

By: freespeechlover

freespeechlover — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:46:30 +0000

Parts of the Middle East and the “Mediterranean” overlap. I agree that the designation “Middle East” just like “Levantine” and “Near East” are names created by Britain and France and have more to do with politics than geography.

By: WB

WB — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:16:19 +0000

As outrageous as this revelation is, I can’t believe anyone is surprised. That was the neocon’s stated dream: the projection of US military domination throughout the world. They said so, very directly, in their “Pax Americana” manifesto. They essentially envisioned a world-wide American empire, saying that not going for it would be a “lost opportunity” for the one remaining superpower.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:17:13 +0000

Pluky, I am not disputing that there has been a great deal of cultural mingling between Greece and the Middle East. In terms of food, music, and lifestyle there is much more similarity between modern Greece and Middle Eastern nations than a great deal of other nations in Europe. Yet in spite of all those things, Greece has never actually been considered a Middle Eastern country, and that was my point.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:04:25 +0000

I think these statements have more weight than they may appear to. What would Iran or Syria, or even Egypt and Jordan, think about Hagel’s statements? Wow.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:02:45 +0000

HAGEL: Yes. Yes. Wide open. We had to rewrite it. Joe Biden, Dick Lugar, and I stripped the language that the White House had set up and put our language in it.

Oh boy. Yeah, see. Democrats and Republicans, the “sane” ones, just wanted to waste Iraq. We didn’t want to waste the whole region. What are we loony? Hey, a small quagmire is tough enough. We’re not stupid er nuthing. We only want to kill a few hundred thousand, not millions. We’re not evil.

By: pluky

pluky — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:10:08 +0000

Alexandra, you are correct in asserting that the customary definition of Middle East excludes Greece (along with the rest of the Balkan peninsula). However there are long-standing cultural connections between what is now the Middle East and Greece:
– The Magna Graecia of the post-Alexandrian world included much of what is now Egypt (under the Lagidae), Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and South-Western Turkey (under the Selucids).
– The Eastern Roman Empire was culturally more Hellene than Italic.
– Greece itself was ruled by the Ottomans for centuries.
– More recently, Constantine Cavafy (arguably the greatest poet in Greek since antiquity) was a child of the Greek diaspora in the modern Middle East.

By: devin

devin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:05:45 +0000

bush and cheney are strident Armageddonistas-clinically disturbed and extremely unstable and dangerous men.