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	<title>Comments on: Chlorine Restrictions Due To Security Concerns Help Fuel Spread Of Cholera In Iraq</title>
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		<title>By: Gregor Samsa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088429</link>
		<dc:creator>Gregor Samsa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does posting the same claptrap and nonsense in every other thread count as abuse?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does posting the same claptrap and nonsense in every other thread count as abuse?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088429', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088319</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this winger meme - &quot;Saddam Husseinâ€™s rape rooms, torture chambers, genocide, death squads, and such&quot;...

anyone have any numbers?
how many years did hussein rule? 
how many incidences, victims?

vs.

bushco war murders?

just curious...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this winger meme &#8211; &#8220;Saddam Husseinâ€™s rape rooms, torture chambers, genocide, death squads, and such&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>anyone have any numbers?<br />
how many years did hussein rule?<br />
how many incidences, victims?</p>
<p>vs.</p>
<p>bushco war murders?</p>
<p>just curious&#8230;<br />
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		<title>By: OleHippieChick</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088318</link>
		<dc:creator>OleHippieChick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amazing. Chlorine, vital to the water supply, &quot;has been held up at the Jordanian border.&quot; The article doesn&#039;t say just who&#039;s holding it up, but I&#039;m suspicious of a certain murderous and evil empire.

Would Iraq hold up its own life-saving chlorine at its own border? Water&#039;s limited anyway, and now what they do get is diseased. &quot;People are panicking...too dangerous to send medical help.&quot;

Secure shipments of chlorine to each water processing plant can&#039;t be managed? PATHETIC. Yeah, security&#039;s improving alright.

It sounds, looks, smells like long, slow genocide. It&#039;s another cheneybu$hCo war crime. Iraq won&#039;t be free till bu$hCo kills everyone there. They have to; they can&#039;t tell the difference between them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing. Chlorine, vital to the water supply, &#8220;has been held up at the Jordanian border.&#8221; The article doesn&#8217;t say just who&#8217;s holding it up, but I&#8217;m suspicious of a certain murderous and evil empire.</p>
<p>Would Iraq hold up its own life-saving chlorine at its own border? Water&#8217;s limited anyway, and now what they do get is diseased. &#8220;People are panicking&#8230;too dangerous to send medical help.&#8221;</p>
<p>Secure shipments of chlorine to each water processing plant can&#8217;t be managed? PATHETIC. Yeah, security&#8217;s improving alright.</p>
<p>It sounds, looks, smells like long, slow genocide. It&#8217;s another cheneybu$hCo war crime. Iraq won&#8217;t be free till bu$hCo kills everyone there. They have to; they can&#8217;t tell the difference between them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088318', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: progresivo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088260</link>
		<dc:creator>progresivo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So for Bush &amp; Co is more important to reduce attacks statistics than to keep Iraquis water clean, that&#039;s how they want to win their hearts and minds ??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So for Bush &amp; Co is more important to reduce attacks statistics than to keep Iraquis water clean, that&#8217;s how they want to win their hearts and minds ??<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088260', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: TheToonGuy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088241</link>
		<dc:creator>TheToonGuy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clearly Iraq was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If they didn&#039;t happen to be sitting on top of all of that oil at a time when Bushco needed to make a huge profit off of it, then we never would have invaded it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clearly Iraq was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If they didn&#8217;t happen to be sitting on top of all of that oil at a time when Bushco needed to make a huge profit off of it, then we never would have invaded it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088241', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088240</link>
		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oh, and bigtwat, I noticed how on one other thread you said you were withholding judgement on Blackwater until &quot;the facts are in&quot;? 

Funny how you selectively want to wait until the facts are in when it comes to accusations against your heroes the blood merchants, but you dont want to wait for the facts to come in before you say....INVADE a COUNTRY.

Should we have waited till &quot;the facts were in&quot; about WMD before invading iraq?


Bad news for you and your ilk, word is theres video footage of the massacre, looks like there may end up being more facts than you can handle...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh, and bigtwat, I noticed how on one other thread you said you were withholding judgement on Blackwater until &#8220;the facts are in&#8221;? </p>
<p>Funny how you selectively want to wait until the facts are in when it comes to accusations against your heroes the blood merchants, but you dont want to wait for the facts to come in before you say&#8230;.INVADE a COUNTRY.</p>
<p>Should we have waited till &#8220;the facts were in&#8221; about WMD before invading iraq?</p>
<p>Bad news for you and your ilk, word is theres video footage of the massacre, looks like there may end up being more facts than you can handle&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088240', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088237</link>
		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt; you can be wrong, yet still live here if you want to. 

heck Bigtw@t, america is such a great place, you can be wrong, yet still run the country if you want to:

we know where the weapons are.

saddam is devloping nuclear weapons

saddam and bin laden are friends.

i cant imagine the war lasting more than 6 months.

mission accomplished.

we will be greeted with flowers.

it will be a cakewalk.

iraq oil money will pay for its reconstruction.

general shinseki was totally off base when he said we needed several hundred thousand troops to occupy iraq

i will fire anyone involved in the leak

we will be greeted as liberators.

AMAZING how you have the audacity to call people who are dissenters &quot;Wrong&quot; (especially when our founding fathers specifically designed the american government to prevent consolidation of power in the hands of the few), and yet these idiots you support, who have been wrong about pretty much every single thing they&#039;ve predicted, in your mind, are the right ones...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; you can be wrong, yet still live here if you want to. </p>
<p>heck Bigtw@t, america is such a great place, you can be wrong, yet still run the country if you want to:</p>
<p>we know where the weapons are.</p>
<p>saddam is devloping nuclear weapons</p>
<p>saddam and bin laden are friends.</p>
<p>i cant imagine the war lasting more than 6 months.</p>
<p>mission accomplished.</p>
<p>we will be greeted with flowers.</p>
<p>it will be a cakewalk.</p>
<p>iraq oil money will pay for its reconstruction.</p>
<p>general shinseki was totally off base when he said we needed several hundred thousand troops to occupy iraq</p>
<p>i will fire anyone involved in the leak</p>
<p>we will be greeted as liberators.</p>
<p>AMAZING how you have the audacity to call people who are dissenters &#8220;Wrong&#8221; (especially when our founding fathers specifically designed the american government to prevent consolidation of power in the hands of the few), and yet these idiots you support, who have been wrong about pretty much every single thing they&#8217;ve predicted, in your mind, are the right ones&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088237', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-2/#comment-4088235</link>
		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;Face it: If Iraq hadnâ€™t allowed itself
&gt; to become embroiled in sectarian violence,
&gt; there would be no need to hold up
&gt; chlorine shipments today.

Back from your catfishing trip bubba? Catch any big ones?
Yes, gosh, those silly iraqis. I mean, just because we destroyed their  infrastructure and killed the only guy who was somehow able to keep them in line, doesnt mean its OUR fault. GO USA! USA! USA! 
USA can do anything, USA is all powerful and all beneveolent. Whenever the USA does something and it goes terribly awry, its someone elses fault.

Your the guy on the jury that lets the rapist walk because of what the victim was wearing..she was &quot;asking for it&quot;...

People like you are a time a dozen, a bunch of jingoistic flaghumping trash, lets face it, the holocaust happened because of a pack of &quot;my country is always right&quot; idiots like yourself.

Oh, and bigfoot, I dont notice you saying anything about the allegations of Blackwater selling weapons to terrorists groups in Iraq. I take it you agree with Bush&#039;s contention that anyone accused of aiding terrorists during a time of war doesnt deserve a trial, right?

&gt; . My son is heading for the New Mexico Military
&gt; Institute to begin his application process as we speak.

Is it worth your sons life, if iraq ends up democratically tranforming into a mirror image of Iran? You&#039;re ok with you son dying so Iraq can be run by Mullahs like Al-Sistani and have &quot;no laws which contradict islam&quot; ?

Ugh, I shudder to think of anyone with as xenophobic  a mindset as yours being in the military...just what we need, another @sshat redneck heavily armed and in a patronizing mood once he&#039;s deployed overseas. Much like cockroaches, I know you types have nothing better to do with your miserable existences than reproduce, but please, start thinking more and breeding less.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;Face it: If Iraq hadnâ€™t allowed itself<br />
&gt; to become embroiled in sectarian violence,<br />
&gt; there would be no need to hold up<br />
&gt; chlorine shipments today.</p>
<p>Back from your catfishing trip bubba? Catch any big ones?<br />
Yes, gosh, those silly iraqis. I mean, just because we destroyed their  infrastructure and killed the only guy who was somehow able to keep them in line, doesnt mean its OUR fault. GO USA! USA! USA!<br />
USA can do anything, USA is all powerful and all beneveolent. Whenever the USA does something and it goes terribly awry, its someone elses fault.</p>
<p>Your the guy on the jury that lets the rapist walk because of what the victim was wearing..she was &#8220;asking for it&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>People like you are a time a dozen, a bunch of jingoistic flaghumping trash, lets face it, the holocaust happened because of a pack of &#8220;my country is always right&#8221; idiots like yourself.</p>
<p>Oh, and bigfoot, I dont notice you saying anything about the allegations of Blackwater selling weapons to terrorists groups in Iraq. I take it you agree with Bush&#8217;s contention that anyone accused of aiding terrorists during a time of war doesnt deserve a trial, right?</p>
<p>&gt; . My son is heading for the New Mexico Military<br />
&gt; Institute to begin his application process as we speak.</p>
<p>Is it worth your sons life, if iraq ends up democratically tranforming into a mirror image of Iran? You&#8217;re ok with you son dying so Iraq can be run by Mullahs like Al-Sistani and have &#8220;no laws which contradict islam&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Ugh, I shudder to think of anyone with as xenophobic  a mindset as yours being in the military&#8230;just what we need, another @sshat redneck heavily armed and in a patronizing mood once he&#8217;s deployed overseas. Much like cockroaches, I know you types have nothing better to do with your miserable existences than reproduce, but please, start thinking more and breeding less.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088235', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bartolo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088232</link>
		<dc:creator>Bartolo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember &quot;With 12 You Get Egg Roll&quot;?

With Democracy you get Cholera.


Remember &quot;Would You Trade a Headache for an Upset Stomach&quot;?

Would you trade rape rooms for Cholera?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember &#8220;With 12 You Get Egg Roll&#8221;?</p>
<p>With Democracy you get Cholera.</p>
<p>Remember &#8220;Would You Trade a Headache for an Upset Stomach&#8221;?</p>
<p>Would you trade rape rooms for Cholera?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088232', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Doc Rock</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088231</link>
		<dc:creator>Doc Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding into Iraq--War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death and Dubya--oh, wait Dubya&#039;s afraid of horses and just flies in on occasion when the horses can be kept away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding into Iraq&#8211;War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death and Dubya&#8211;oh, wait Dubya&#8217;s afraid of horses and just flies in on occasion when the horses can be kept away.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088231', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Perry logan</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088229</link>
		<dc:creator>Perry logan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Republicans have written themselves quite a page in history.  It would be funnier if people weren&#039;t getting killed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Republicans have written themselves quite a page in history.  It would be funnier if people weren&#8217;t getting killed.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088229', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Damien</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088227</link>
		<dc:creator>Damien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah, new Republican talking points are out. Fun.

Let&#039;s see, I blame New Yorkers for not standing up to those planes when they flew into the World Trade Center. Damn lazy bastards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, new Republican talking points are out. Fun.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see, I blame New Yorkers for not standing up to those planes when they flew into the World Trade Center. Damn lazy bastards.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088227', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: had enough</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088220</link>
		<dc:creator>had enough</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>O Bigfoot
As it was US that took out the water supply, sewer systems and electricity years ago, and still have not successfully repaired this and refused to let the Iraqi people do the repairs as they requested doesn&#039;t that make the Bush crime family appear as the sociopath giggling killers they are?  10 billion dollars a month go to this rat hole and the Iraqi people still live in this unbearable squaller... and for how many years?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O Bigfoot<br />
As it was US that took out the water supply, sewer systems and electricity years ago, and still have not successfully repaired this and refused to let the Iraqi people do the repairs as they requested doesn&#8217;t that make the Bush crime family appear as the sociopath giggling killers they are?  10 billion dollars a month go to this rat hole and the Iraqi people still live in this unbearable squaller&#8230; and for how many years?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088220', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RUCerious</title>
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		<dc:creator>RUCerious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, who could have forseen a cholera epidemic.
You can&#039;t import chlorine, nor ammoniates, cause they might blow people up.
Or keep disease at bay, or fertilize date palm gardens.

Heckuva  job  chympie!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, who could have forseen a cholera epidemic.<br />
You can&#8217;t import chlorine, nor ammoniates, cause they might blow people up.<br />
Or keep disease at bay, or fertilize date palm gardens.</p>
<p>Heckuva  job  chympie!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088219', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dlet</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088218</link>
		<dc:creator>dlet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;No need for a draft. My son is heading for the New Mexico Military Institute to begin his application process as we speak.
Comment by O. Bigfoot&lt;/em&gt;

Wow. Your son can take the place of 30,000 troops?  That&#039;s one big foot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>No need for a draft. My son is heading for the New Mexico Military Institute to begin his application process as we speak.<br />
Comment by O. Bigfoot</em></p>
<p>Wow. Your son can take the place of 30,000 troops?  That&#8217;s one big foot.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088218', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dlet</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088217</link>
		<dc:creator>dlet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>According to Bush cholera and freedom and synonymous.  Go team purple finger.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Bush cholera and freedom and synonymous.  Go team purple finger.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088217', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: marlow</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/cholera-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4088216</link>
		<dc:creator>marlow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fujimori Returns to Peru to Face Trial

By MONTE HAYES Associated Press Writer
    12:15 AM CDT, September 22, 2007

LIMA, Peru - Former President Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru on Saturday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal. 

TAKE NOTE, CHIMPY. YOUR TIME WILL COME.</description>
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<p>By MONTE HAYES Associated Press Writer<br />
    12:15 AM CDT, September 22, 2007</p>
<p>LIMA, Peru &#8211; Former President Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru on Saturday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal. </p>
<p>TAKE NOTE, CHIMPY. YOUR TIME WILL COME.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088216', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zooey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zooey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shorter O Bigfoot -- Blame Iraq because they were such an easy target.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shorter O Bigfoot &#8212; Blame Iraq because they were such an easy target.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088212', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JosephW</title>
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		<dc:creator>JosephW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Face it: If Iraq hadnâ€™t allowed itself to become embroiled in sectarian violence, there would be no need to hold up chlorine shipments today.

Comment by O. Bigfoot â€” September 23, 2007 

YOU &quot;face it&quot; you small-minded sasquatch and realize that it was BUSH and his ADVISORS&#039; misplaced desire for a war that CAUSED the sectarian violence in the first place.  It&#039;s absolutely amazing that, in the quarter century during which Saddam Hussein ruled, there wasn&#039;t a single instance of sectarian violence--the religious folk were united in their hatred of Saddam and his Baathists.  (It&#039;s worth noting that Yugoslavia&#039;s devolution, including the sectarian conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, didn&#039;t happen for a full decade following Tito&#039;s death when the various republics began seceding from the central government in Belgrade.)
Once the US decided to play both sides against each other in Iraq, the sectarian violence was inflamed.  We supported the Shias when it proved beneficial to us; we supported the Sunnis when it proved beneficial.  The problem was that by supporting one side, we risked retaliation by the other.  The Iraqis didn&#039;t see us as neutrals--each side saw us helping their old enemy in trying to wipe them out.  The Shias would see us demanding that al-Sadr disband his militia without calling on Sunni militias to disband.  The Sunnis would see us offering favorable terms to Shia militias and politicians without giving them the same type of favors.  And the boneheaded Americans in charge of the country had ZERO knowledge of the political, religious, and ethnic differences between the factions (e.g., the fact that one of the top Kurdish political groups had long been a Marxist-oriented faction and had landed on US lists of recognized terrorist organizations and sponsors; for some reason, the Americans like Bremer and crew either didn&#039;t know that or simply ignored it--the latter point being more reprehensible as one of Dubya&#039;s MANY ever-changing &quot;reasons&quot; for the invasion had included Saddam&#039;s sponsorship of terrorists).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Face it: If Iraq hadnâ€™t allowed itself to become embroiled in sectarian violence, there would be no need to hold up chlorine shipments today.</p>
<p>Comment by O. Bigfoot â€” September 23, 2007 </p>
<p>YOU &#8220;face it&#8221; you small-minded sasquatch and realize that it was BUSH and his ADVISORS&#8217; misplaced desire for a war that CAUSED the sectarian violence in the first place.  It&#8217;s absolutely amazing that, in the quarter century during which Saddam Hussein ruled, there wasn&#8217;t a single instance of sectarian violence&#8211;the religious folk were united in their hatred of Saddam and his Baathists.  (It&#8217;s worth noting that Yugoslavia&#8217;s devolution, including the sectarian conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, didn&#8217;t happen for a full decade following Tito&#8217;s death when the various republics began seceding from the central government in Belgrade.)<br />
Once the US decided to play both sides against each other in Iraq, the sectarian violence was inflamed.  We supported the Shias when it proved beneficial to us; we supported the Sunnis when it proved beneficial.  The problem was that by supporting one side, we risked retaliation by the other.  The Iraqis didn&#8217;t see us as neutrals&#8211;each side saw us helping their old enemy in trying to wipe them out.  The Shias would see us demanding that al-Sadr disband his militia without calling on Sunni militias to disband.  The Sunnis would see us offering favorable terms to Shia militias and politicians without giving them the same type of favors.  And the boneheaded Americans in charge of the country had ZERO knowledge of the political, religious, and ethnic differences between the factions (e.g., the fact that one of the top Kurdish political groups had long been a Marxist-oriented faction and had landed on US lists of recognized terrorist organizations and sponsors; for some reason, the Americans like Bremer and crew either didn&#8217;t know that or simply ignored it&#8211;the latter point being more reprehensible as one of Dubya&#8217;s MANY ever-changing &#8220;reasons&#8221; for the invasion had included Saddam&#8217;s sponsorship of terrorists).<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088209', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: republicans are the Fear and Smear Party</title>
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		<dc:creator>republicans are the Fear and Smear Party</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The United State isn&#039;t the greatest county on the planet and never has been. From stealing the country from the native inhabitants, to fighting to keep slavery, to &quot;separate but equal&quot; for black and now gays, to &quot;electing&quot; a president and allows him to invade and destroy another sovereign nation is hardly a country that can claim greatness, moral or otherwise.
 
Maybe those Americans who have blind faith in anything our government does should leave so that the rest of us can make it better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United State isn&#8217;t the greatest county on the planet and never has been. From stealing the country from the native inhabitants, to fighting to keep slavery, to &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; for black and now gays, to &#8220;electing&#8221; a president and allows him to invade and destroy another sovereign nation is hardly a country that can claim greatness, moral or otherwise.</p>
<p>Maybe those Americans who have blind faith in anything our government does should leave so that the rest of us can make it better.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088199', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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