Comments on: Is the most powerful man in Iraq an Iranian? http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:09:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bushie http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935462 Bushie Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:05:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935462 Where are our Suleimani's? Oh, I forgot, they were retired by Bushco so they could spend more time with their children. Where are our Suleimani’s? Oh, I forgot, they were retired by Bushco so they could spend more time with their children.

]]> By: lokidog http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935272 lokidog Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:06:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935272 >>A.....and they are now embarking on Marijuana (Google that too!)<< FINALLY! Some GOOD news out of Afghanistan! Keep those Taliban and other extremist types puffin' away, I gaurantee you'll see a drop in violence. No surge or more troops required. >>A…..and they are now embarking on Marijuana (Google that too!)<<

FINALLY!

Some GOOD news out of Afghanistan!

Keep those Taliban and other extremist types puffin’ away, I gaurantee you’ll see a drop in violence. No surge or more troops required.

]]> By: kassandrasduplex http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935270 kassandrasduplex Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:06:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935270 Gee, if I had the Great Satan bombing my neighbors' country into the stone age, I'd be doing everything I could to disrupt Satan's holiday! Can anyone blame Iran for supplying anti-American forces in Iraq? Seems logical to do what they are accused of doing... Gee, if I had the Great Satan bombing my neighbors’ country into the stone age, I’d be doing everything I could to disrupt Satan’s holiday! Can anyone blame Iran for supplying anti-American forces in Iraq? Seems logical to do what they are accused of doing…

]]> By: tokin librul http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935126 tokin librul Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:00:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935126 <blockquote>23 Daddy-O Says: Jeez, blogenfreude, we should coordinate. I’m so embarrassed. But the line is pithy, and endlessly applicable, no? April 28th, 2008 at 10:57 pm </blockquote> It is such a predictable assertion that I have made an acronym: "N-CHEAT." Nobody Could Have Ever Anticipated This/That...

23 Daddy-O Says:
Jeez, blogenfreude, we should coordinate. I’m so embarrassed.
But the line is pithy, and endlessly applicable, no?
April 28th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

It is such a predictable assertion that I have made an acronym: “N-CHEAT.” Nobody Could Have Ever Anticipated This/That…

]]> By: ff11 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935120 ff11 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:50:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935120 The accusations aren't particularly credible. Remember how we were told that the EFP explosives were made in Iran, and we knew that because they were so sophisticated that they had to be manufactured in Iran and we knew they were supplied by Iran because they were used by Iran backed militias and we knew they were Iran backed militias because they were using Iranian supplied weapons (how's that for circular reasoning) then we found factories actually making the shaped charges and EFPs IN IRAQ? But even if somehow the Bush administration accidentally released something approaching the truth, that would still make this guy the second most powerful Iranian in Iraq, after Al-Sistani. The accusations aren’t particularly credible.

Remember how we were told that the EFP explosives were made in Iran, and we knew that because they were so sophisticated that they had to be manufactured in Iran and we knew they were supplied by Iran because they were used by Iran backed militias and we knew they were Iran backed militias because they were using Iranian supplied weapons (how’s that for circular reasoning) then we found factories actually making the shaped charges and EFPs IN IRAQ?

But even if somehow the Bush administration accidentally released something approaching the truth, that would still make this guy the second most powerful Iranian in Iraq, after Al-Sistani.

]]> By: Proud American Liberal http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935110 Proud American Liberal Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:16:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935110 Wasn't Maliki complaining just the other day about his neighbors not stepping up to help out? Wasn’t Maliki complaining just the other day about his neighbors not stepping up to help out?

]]> By: kawika49 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935020 kawika49 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:54:18 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935020 You just don't get it do you...We are the largest consumers of oil and Dope in the world. Ok Afghanistan produces 90% of the Heroin on the market (Google it)...and they are now embarking on Marijuana (Google that too!) Guess we really bought into this one. We trained the Mujahadeen, how to fight the Russians, and tought them what we learned in Nam on how to fund arms purchases(dope), now the same fingers are pointed at us! They didnt like occupiers then, and I guess they feel the same way now. You just don’t get it do you…We are the largest consumers of oil and Dope in the world.
Ok Afghanistan produces 90% of the Heroin on the market (Google it)…and they are now embarking on Marijuana (Google that too!)
Guess we really bought into this one.
We trained the Mujahadeen, how to fight the Russians, and tought them what we learned in Nam on how to fund arms purchases(dope), now the same fingers are pointed at us!
They didnt like occupiers then, and I guess they feel the same way now.

]]> By: kawika49 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4935004 kawika49 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:38:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4935004 Max your staements...Have given Pro Choice ...all the validity in the world...Too bad your mother didn't get the word. Max your staements…Have given Pro Choice …all the validity in the world…Too bad your mother didn’t get the word.

]]> By: sacopenapa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934998 sacopenapa Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:33:47 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934998 Go on Max! Go and Bomb Iran and you 'will see with how many sticks you make a conoe'! Iraq had no WMD, and its army was destroyed from a decade of UN (US/UK) sanctions that killed millions of inocent iraqis. This criminal administration said Iraq would be a piece of cake and it would last weeks! Go on and Bomb Iran... you looser! It is like giveing a last 'wack' on a wasp nest! Go on Max! Go and Bomb Iran and you ‘will see with how many sticks you make a conoe’! Iraq had no WMD, and its army was destroyed from a decade of UN (US/UK) sanctions that killed millions of inocent iraqis. This criminal administration said Iraq would be a piece of cake and it would last weeks! Go on and Bomb Iran… you looser! It is like giveing a last ‘wack’ on a wasp nest!

]]> By: sacopenapa http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934992 sacopenapa Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:28:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934992 <strong> <blockquote>MISSION ACOMPLISHED!</blockquote> </strong>

MISSION ACOMPLISHED!

]]> By: kawika49 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934986 kawika49 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:22:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934986 Only problem my friend is...American ficundity is inadequate for the task...of providing cannon fodder. Only problem my friend is…American ficundity is inadequate for the task…of providing cannon fodder.

]]> By: Max-1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934982 Max-1 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:19:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934982 . This means BushCo was correct... Iran <em>IS</em> the biggest threat to the stabilization of the area, <em>not</em> the presence of US troops. FOUR MORE SURGES... STAY THE COURSE... BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, BOMB-BOMB IRAN... Wipe <em>THEM</em> off the face of the planet to show them who means what... humph! Please wake me when the rapture happens. . .

This means BushCo was correct…
Iran IS the biggest threat to the stabilization of the area, not the presence of US troops.

FOUR MORE SURGES…
STAY THE COURSE…
BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, BOMB-BOMB IRAN…
Wipe THEM off the face of the planet to show them who means what… humph!

Please wake me when the rapture happens.

.

]]> By: kawika49 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934976 kawika49 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:51:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934976 So? So?

]]> By: KingCranky http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934960 KingCranky Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:48:59 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934960 So Bush Jr can't even keep the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard out of the most heavily fortified area in Iraq, the Green Zone. Nor has Condi "Shopping For Shoes & Watching Broadway Plays Instead Of Coordinating Offers Of Help From Abroad During And Immediately After Katrina" Rice ensured housing adequate to withstand the daily bomb & missile barrages for the State Dept Personnel she's pressuring to station in the US Embassy and the Green Zone. Nor has Ahmed "We Are Heroes In Error" Chalabi been able to restore basic services and utilities in Baghdad to their pre-invasion status. With such stellar leadership like these three have shown, is there any doubt about "absolute victory with honor" at some point in the next 1000 or so years? And no doubt the voters will richly reward the GOP for still sticking with Bush Jr and the "Catastrophic Success" his Iraq & counter-terrorist policies have brought about at the price of a properly rested, armored and deployed military personnel. Even more doubtless will be how the GOP actually takes the Majority Party Status again, with voters rewarding the party for it's deft handling and concern of the economic worries of everyone but those already at the top of the political and economic ladder. Unfortunately for the GOP here on Planet Earth, the above will only result for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World" rel="nofollow">Bizarro World</a> GOP. The Planet Earth GOP is going to get crushed even worse come Election Day 2008 than it suffered in 2006, and not all the rigged Diebold machines can change that outcome or reality. So Bush Jr can’t even keep the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard out of the most heavily fortified area in Iraq, the Green Zone.

Nor has Condi “Shopping For Shoes & Watching Broadway Plays Instead Of Coordinating Offers Of Help From Abroad During And Immediately After Katrina” Rice ensured housing adequate to withstand the daily bomb & missile barrages for the State Dept Personnel she’s pressuring to station in the US Embassy and the Green Zone.

Nor has Ahmed “We Are Heroes In Error” Chalabi been able to restore basic services and utilities in Baghdad to their pre-invasion status.

With such stellar leadership like these three have shown, is there any doubt about “absolute victory with honor” at some point in the next 1000 or so years?

And no doubt the voters will richly reward the GOP for still sticking with Bush Jr and the “Catastrophic Success” his Iraq & counter-terrorist policies have brought about at the price of a properly rested, armored and deployed military personnel.

Even more doubtless will be how the GOP actually takes the Majority Party Status again, with voters rewarding the party for it’s deft handling and concern of the economic worries of everyone but those already at the top of the political and economic ladder.

Unfortunately for the GOP here on Planet Earth, the above will only result for the Bizarro World GOP.

The Planet Earth GOP is going to get crushed even worse come Election Day 2008 than it suffered in 2006, and not all the rigged Diebold machines can change that outcome or reality.

]]> By: tubino http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934914 tubino Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:00:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934914 Oh -- he DOES look like George Clooney. And yes, the Middle East experts predicted that removing the Sunni power from Iraq would empower Iran in the region. Turns out those elitists with their knowledge of cultures and languages and history and politics in the Middle East were right. Astounding, eh? Oh — he DOES look like George Clooney.

And yes, the Middle East experts predicted that removing the Sunni power from Iraq would empower Iran in the region.

Turns out those elitists with their knowledge of cultures and languages and history and politics in the Middle East were right. Astounding, eh?

]]> By: Daddy-O http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934908 Daddy-O Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:57:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934908 Jeez, blogenfreude, we should coordinate. I'm so embarrassed. But the line is pithy, and endlessly applicable, no? Jeez, blogenfreude, we should coordinate. I’m so embarrassed.

But the line is pithy, and endlessly applicable, no?

]]> By: Daddy-O http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934904 Daddy-O Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:56:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934904 "...President Bush’s decision to topple Saddam has enabled Shiite, Persian Iran to extend its influence in Iraq.” But nobody could have predicted! “…President Bush’s decision to topple Saddam has enabled Shiite, Persian Iran to extend its influence in Iraq.”

But nobody could have predicted!

]]> By: tubino http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934898 tubino Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:52:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934898 Since the comments have expanded the topic to the general longterm cost of the invasion and occupation, be sure to read <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19817.htm" rel="nofollow">Why The US Has Gone Broke</a>. Nice explanation of what happens when the US spends over $1 trillion/year on military expenses, all borrowed -- and what DOES NOT happen when that money isn't invested in more productive sectors of the economy. Since the comments have expanded the topic to the general longterm cost of the invasion and occupation, be sure to read Why The US Has Gone Broke. Nice explanation of what happens when the US spends over $1 trillion/year on military expenses, all borrowed — and what DOES NOT happen when that money isn’t invested in more productive sectors of the economy.

]]> By: dbadass http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934890 dbadass Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:42:28 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934890 Clooney? Are you all cracked. I don't even have tv and I recognize this guy as that dopey guy from one of those multitude of CSI spinoffs or wait a minute maybe he was that dopey guy in that Law and Order spinoff. Yes definately the Law and Order guy Clooney? Are you all cracked. I don’t even have tv and I recognize this guy as that dopey guy from one of those multitude of CSI spinoffs or wait a minute maybe he was that dopey guy in that Law and Order spinoff. Yes definately the Law and Order guy

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/comment-page-1/#comment-4934874 katy Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:23:06 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/28/is-the-most-powerful-man-in-iraq-an-iranian/#comment-4934874 oh hahaha! no! ... well, not necessarily... who knows? come to think of it... i just recall her fondness of the man, and wouldn't think she'd want him compared to this guy... ... anyone else see the threads below perino all underlined? TP having tech problems again? oh hahaha! no! … well, not necessarily… who knows? come to think of it…

i just recall her fondness of the man, and wouldn’t think she’d want him
compared to this guy…
…

anyone else see the threads below perino all underlined?

TP having tech problems again?

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