Hahahah. CI you crack me up. Using your own past screw ups to justify not listening to current intelligence. But, what you dont seem to understand is there there was LOTS of intelligence out there, previously quoted by Powell and Rice, that saddam was contained and had no WMD. Its just that YOUR boys cherry picked all the info they wanted to hear and ignore the rest. So….since this intelligence was very unlikely cherry picked by mr. “we know where the weapons are” cheney, I dont think it should be assumed its all dubious as all the past info they used to support their case.

Both the past and the future are a continual and perpetual source of proof that the things you and your heroes believe about iraq are wholly and completely wrong.

Comment by Merlin — June 8, 2007 @ 2:22 pm

TP Is there something I should know about my post being removed? I would appreciate you informing me so I will understand your position. I saw nothing wrong with what I had posted.

Comment by Merlin — June 8, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

…somebody had better get the word to…

…General Betraeus…

General Peter Pace bows out of being Joint Chief because he’s afraid of being asked questions about the Iraq occupation. The media lets this very telling story slide.

Bush, the ex-alcoholic, is spotted drinking a beer yesterday and calls in sick TODAY reportedly with a stomache ache. The media does NOT connect the dots.

Iraq Oil workers enter third day of strike. They refuse to work due to opposition to the Iraq Hydrocarbon Law which would give almost all Iraq’s oil profits to BP, Chevron etc. Media will not touch this story with a ten foot stick.

Paris Hilton has a rash or a nervous breakdown and gets out of jail free. Media covers every step she takes.

The Corporate Media is not stupid. They are complicit in protecting this fascist administration.

None of that and so much more should be in the least surprising. Elect the arrogant and grossly incompetent and what do you get? Arrogant gross incompetence.

This is the only BENCHMARK Bush truly wants to achieve.

The Hydrocarbon law will give 70% of the profits from Iraq’s untapped oil to Exxon, BP Chevron etc. The estimate is $220 TRILLION in untapped oil in the Iraq ground. 70% of that is approx. $180 TRILLION.

Bush threatened Iraq by telling them that we will not deliver billions in reconstruction aid UNLESS Iraq agrees to the Hydrocarbon law. In my world this is called a EXTORTION. This is outrageous considering we knocked down most of the buildings that need to be reconstructed.

Thank GOD for Dennis Kucinich, a man with a spine and a conscience. Dennis is LEADING while Hillary and Barack are whimpering.

Thanks for the info. I missed this unfolding situation. In as much as BushCo will not leave Iraq voluntarily, I will cheer on the resistance to the usurption of soverign Iraqi oil. However, this statement is really pie in the sky:

“Even the U.S. media will have to publish an honest analysis of the Iraq oil law and why Iraqis are resisting it.”

This will only happen outside the MSM, on blogs and foreign media.

Comment by Katie — June 8, 2007 @ 2:05 pm

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Count on it. He’ll likely declare that he doesn’t recognize ANY government in Iraq since it is outside U.S. borders, in the same way he denies habeas corpus to unlawful combatants simply because they are not U.S. citizens.

25. There is the remaining 5 terrorists and 4 family members each of the five terrorists who were killed who become terrorists when they learn about the killing of their loved one.

Then you have to consider how many terrorists we are creating every time we kill an innocent civilian.

There is no way this country is safer today than it was before 911.

Move on to the next flimsy anti-Bush post, TP.

Comment by Cynicon Implant — June 8, 2007 @ 12:25 pm

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Probably the same experts who presented intelligence to Colin Powell and Condi Rice which led them to state in 2001 that Iraq was not a threat to the U.S., was not a threat to their neighbors, had been contained, did not have the capability of restarting any WMD programs, and the sanctions against Iran had worked as planned and had actually been reworked in order to remain effective.

Nevertheless, we’ll never know what the true status of his WMDs was, seeing as how the inspectors were removed before they could finish their job:

That the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency was not permitted to make inspections might come as a bit of a surprise to Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, who reported on March 17, 2003, that “late last night…I was advised by the United States government to pull out our inspectors from Baghdad.” Inspectors had been in Iraq since November 2002. They remained until U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan ordered their evacuation on March 17, 2003, just three days before U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq.

Hopefully the Democrats will read this entire intelligence report and get off their duffs and do something about getting us out of this occupation.

It’s going to be very interesting to see what Bush is going to do once the Iraqi Parliament votes to ask us to leave. Anyone want to bet that he goes back on his promise to leave Iraq if asked to do so by the Iraqi government. Oh, know, he won’t recognize the Iraqi Parliament as the “government”. He will only recognize his hand-picked stooges as the government.

Every day stuff like this comes to light the Republics lose another former supporter. At this rate there will only be 28% of this country still calling themselves Republics by the time we vote in 2008.

Good for the Democrats, bad for this country because they can do an immense amount of harm in the next 18 months.

The situation in Iraq is coming to a head. Oil workers have been on strike for three days and are being threatened by the Iraqi government and surrounded by the Iraqi military. The Parliament passed a resolution urging an end to the U.S. occupation and has refused to act on the oil law the U.S. is demanding. Both the Democrats in Congress and the Bush Administration have united around the passage of the oil law as the top benchmark for the Iraqi government.

If these trends continue it will become evident to the world what this war was about all along – oil. Even the U.S. media will have to publish an honest analysis of the Iraq oil law and why Iraqis are resisting it.

…Members of (Iraq’s Oil Union) …have been on strike since Monday 4th June. Among the union’s demands is consultation on the proposed oil law, which the union opposes. On Tuesday, al-Maliki warned that he would meet threats to oil production “with an iron fist.” Maliki issued arrest warrants for leaders of the union on a charge of “sabotaging the economy.”

It (is) becoming obvious that he (Maliki) is willing to turn over Iraq’s oil to western oil companies rather than meet the needs of the Iraqi people. His already fragile government will lose support and may fall…The oil law may unite the resistance and focus their energy on the occupation.

1. Thanks freedomrings for the rundown, what a sad event. Make no mistake, police in this country in any uniform have incredible power.

2. Mr. P the best part of you ran down the bedsheets.