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	<title>Comments on: National Review writer: &#8216;Iraqis remain ingrates.&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just how insane can these rightwing morons possibly be?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just how insane can these rightwing morons possibly be?<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=5350616', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 1984</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5350350</link>
		<dc:creator>1984</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lets see, some possible reasons...
1. Supporting Saddam to power
2. Arming Saddam
3. Helping Saddam with his war against Iran
4. After Kuwait occupation left Saddam in power 
5. Years of sanctions and bombings
6. Saddam now removed, country &quot;liberated&quot; (except that people don&#039;t believe it. See military bases plus super large embassy)
7. Oil profits to go to multinationals..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets see, some possible reasons&#8230;<br />
1. Supporting Saddam to power<br />
2. Arming Saddam<br />
3. Helping Saddam with his war against Iran<br />
4. After Kuwait occupation left Saddam in power<br />
5. Years of sanctions and bombings<br />
6. Saddam now removed, country &#8220;liberated&#8221; (except that people don&#8217;t believe it. See military bases plus super large embassy)<br />
7. Oil profits to go to multinationals..<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=5350350', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ctcadguy</title>
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		<dc:creator>ctcadguy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Silly Fascists and their silly statements.

Perhaps we as Americans should demand an International Tribunal to finally Investigate 911. We need to expose who the real terrorists are.

19 Arabs with boxcutters defeating NSA, CIA, FBI, NORAD and the US Airforce? I think not.

PNAC is where I would start the investigation. Motive, Motive and Motive. I bet this clown is a PNAC fascist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Silly Fascists and their silly statements.</p>
<p>Perhaps we as Americans should demand an International Tribunal to finally Investigate 911. We need to expose who the real terrorists are.</p>
<p>19 Arabs with boxcutters defeating NSA, CIA, FBI, NORAD and the US Airforce? I think not.</p>
<p>PNAC is where I would start the investigation. Motive, Motive and Motive. I bet this clown is a PNAC fascist.<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=5350188', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: christopher wiwi</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5350120</link>
		<dc:creator>christopher wiwi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I totally agree, if another country comes into America and destroys are infrastructure,kills innocent civilians,sends millions of refugees into the wilderness and shoves 
democracy down my throat via the barrel of a gun, I guess I would feel like I owed that country something........NOT!
Why do people like this even get mentioned anymore?These guys on the Reich are as irrelevant as ever.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I totally agree, if another country comes into America and destroys are infrastructure,kills innocent civilians,sends millions of refugees into the wilderness and shoves<br />
democracy down my throat via the barrel of a gun, I guess I would feel like I owed that country something&#8230;&#8230;..NOT!<br />
Why do people like this even get mentioned anymore?These guys on the Reich are as irrelevant as ever&#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=5350120', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5350056</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know who else are ingrates?  The Vietnamese!  And the Panamanians, and the Lebanese, and the Palestinians, and the Afghans, and the Nicaraguans, and the gays, and the African-Americans!  We try to help them, but do we get any thanks?  No siree!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know who else are ingrates?  The Vietnamese!  And the Panamanians, and the Lebanese, and the Palestinians, and the Afghans, and the Nicaraguans, and the gays, and the African-Americans!  We try to help them, but do we get any thanks?  No siree!<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=5350056', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Great Frybread King</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5350042</link>
		<dc:creator>Great Frybread King</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is disgusting.  How can a parasite like this look at himself in the mirror and not want to put his fist through it.  So the Iraqis are supposed to be grateful that their country has been in disarray for five and one-half years?  They&#039;re supposed to suck the neocon&#039;s cocks because we removed Saddam from power that resulted in the emergence of a foreign terrorist group (al-Qaida in Mesopotamia)?  They&#039;re supposed to be happy that the occupation caused millions of people to flee Iraq for Syria and Jordan?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is disgusting.  How can a parasite like this look at himself in the mirror and not want to put his fist through it.  So the Iraqis are supposed to be grateful that their country has been in disarray for five and one-half years?  They&#8217;re supposed to suck the neocon&#8217;s cocks because we removed Saddam from power that resulted in the emergence of a foreign terrorist group (al-Qaida in Mesopotamia)?  They&#8217;re supposed to be happy that the occupation caused millions of people to flee Iraq for Syria and Jordan?<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=5350042', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And big surprise, the damned ingrates are now friends with Iran......who could have seen that coming?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And big surprise, the damned ingrates are now friends with Iran&#8230;&#8230;who could have seen that coming?<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=5350028', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MapleStreet</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5350024</link>
		<dc:creator>MapleStreet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>May I suggest that Canada invade us and see how grateful Kristol becomes ?

But its not just Iraq who should be grateful.  The invasion funneled large amounts of resources into the destruction of Iraq which led to record deficits in the USA economy.  At the same time, it destabilized the region and disrupted oil supply.

It would be proper for all nations on earth to thank us for the current economomc meltdown.  They should thank us for being at the brink of war with Iran.  They should thank us for heating up the nuclear nation of Pakistan.  Not to mention all the drug junkies should thank us for returning Afghanistan to tribal rule - leading to an increase in the supply of poppies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>May I suggest that Canada invade us and see how grateful Kristol becomes ?</p>
<p>But its not just Iraq who should be grateful.  The invasion funneled large amounts of resources into the destruction of Iraq which led to record deficits in the USA economy.  At the same time, it destabilized the region and disrupted oil supply.</p>
<p>It would be proper for all nations on earth to thank us for the current economomc meltdown.  They should thank us for being at the brink of war with Iran.  They should thank us for heating up the nuclear nation of Pakistan.  Not to mention all the drug junkies should thank us for returning Afghanistan to tribal rule &#8211; leading to an increase in the supply of poppies.<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=5350024', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: AlphaLiberal</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5349998</link>
		<dc:creator>AlphaLiberal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, no kidding. You drop a few thousand pounds of explosives on people, abduct them in the dead of night, torture the innocent and &lt;strong&gt;where&#039;s the gratitude?&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, no kidding. You drop a few thousand pounds of explosives on people, abduct them in the dead of night, torture the innocent and <strong>where&#8217;s the gratitude?</strong><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=5349998', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Praedor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Praedor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They SHOULD be grateful to us:  for destroying the historic city of Babylon by building a base right next to/on top of it, for destroying Ninevah, by building a base right next to it, for allowing the looting of their national museums.  They should be grateful for the people we imprisoned and tortured at the various prisons in Iraq.  They should be grateful for their new &quot;gated communities&quot; with all the concrete barriers separating people from each other (and creating and condoning the conditions that led to their need).  They should be grateful that they have no healthcare, no clean water, no industry.  

What is there NOT to be grateful for?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They SHOULD be grateful to us:  for destroying the historic city of Babylon by building a base right next to/on top of it, for destroying Ninevah, by building a base right next to it, for allowing the looting of their national museums.  They should be grateful for the people we imprisoned and tortured at the various prisons in Iraq.  They should be grateful for their new &#8220;gated communities&#8221; with all the concrete barriers separating people from each other (and creating and condoning the conditions that led to their need).  They should be grateful that they have no healthcare, no clean water, no industry.  </p>
<p>What is there NOT to be grateful for?<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=5349984', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Uncle Ho Says: 
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darladooner; Some of us were fully aware of that BEFORE the first shot was fired in this illegal, immoral, and totally unjustified SUPREME WAR CRIME!&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Agreed, Americans did want to kick someone&#039;s ass at the time.....how&#039;s that working for ya America?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Uncle Ho Says:<br />
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<p>darladooner; Some of us were fully aware of that BEFORE the first shot was fired in this illegal, immoral, and totally unjustified SUPREME WAR CRIME!</p></blockquote>
<p>Agreed, Americans did want to kick someone&#8217;s ass at the time&#8230;..how&#8217;s that working for ya America?<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=5349952', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Arn Gunnutes 



Hey Arn,  where have you been.  How about the recent turn of events.......so far so good, eh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arn Gunnutes </p>
<p>Hey Arn,  where have you been.  How about the recent turn of events&#8230;&#8230;.so far so good, eh?<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=5349950', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Uncle Ho</title>
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		<dc:creator>Uncle Ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>darladooner;  Some of us were fully aware of that &lt;strong&gt;BEFORE &lt;/strong&gt; the first shot was fired in this illegal, immoral, and totally unjustified &lt;strong&gt; SUPREME WAR CRIME!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>darladooner;  Some of us were fully aware of that <strong>BEFORE </strong> the first shot was fired in this illegal, immoral, and totally unjustified <strong> SUPREME WAR CRIME!</strong><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=5349948', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
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		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;(a) the U.S. interest in Iraqi democracy remains tenuous (our interest was the elimination of Saddam’s terror-mongering, weapons-proliferating regime)&lt;/strong&gt;

Translation: you know how we explained that the lack of terror connections or WMD&#039;s was justified by the fact that we&#039;re spreading freedom?  Well, we&#039;re reversing ourselves on that.  We don&#039;t actually give a rodent&#039;s rectum about Iraqi freedom, we just really hated Saddam &#039;cuz he had terror connections and WMD&#039;s.

&lt;em&gt;PS: Unless you point out the facts that those connections and WMD&#039;s don&#039;t exist, and then we love the Iraqi people and their freedom again!&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;(b) Americans were assured, when the nation-building enterprise commenced, that oil-rich Iraq would underwrite our sacrifices on its behalf.&lt;/strong&gt;

Here&#039;s the bill for all those bullets we shot at you.  Yeah, we actually believed we could get away with that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>(a) the U.S. interest in Iraqi democracy remains tenuous (our interest was the elimination of Saddam’s terror-mongering, weapons-proliferating regime)</strong></p>
<p>Translation: you know how we explained that the lack of terror connections or WMD&#8217;s was justified by the fact that we&#8217;re spreading freedom?  Well, we&#8217;re reversing ourselves on that.  We don&#8217;t actually give a rodent&#8217;s rectum about Iraqi freedom, we just really hated Saddam &#8216;cuz he had terror connections and WMD&#8217;s.</p>
<p><em>PS: Unless you point out the facts that those connections and WMD&#8217;s don&#8217;t exist, and then we love the Iraqi people and their freedom again!</em></p>
<p><strong>(b) Americans were assured, when the nation-building enterprise commenced, that oil-rich Iraq would underwrite our sacrifices on its behalf.</strong></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the bill for all those bullets we shot at you.  Yeah, we actually believed we could get away with that.<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=5349944', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 5th Estate</title>
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		<dc:creator>5th Estate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;&lt;em&gt;despite the facts that(a) the U.S. interest in Iraqi democracy remains tenuous...&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;

That makes absolutely no sense! 

1) Why should the Iraqis be &lt;em&gt;grateful &lt;/em&gt;for a &lt;em&gt;tenuous &lt;/em&gt;US interest in their democracy? 

2) Once Iraq was occupied (in all of three weeks) Bush and his minions spent the next five years insisting in public that it was &lt;em&gt;all about establishing Iraqi democracy&lt;/em&gt;, so US interest in Iraqi democracy was not &lt;em&gt;tenuous &lt;/em&gt; but absolutely firm (or rather the pretense was). 

&quot;...(&lt;em&gt; [In fact] our interest was the elimination of Saddam’s terror-mongering, weapons-proliferating regime)&lt;/em&gt;,&quot;

Saddam Hussein was no more of a &quot;terror-monger&quot; than any other national leader, nor was he involved in weapons proliferation ( whereas IN FACT the US is the world&#039;s largest proliferator of conventional AND nuclear weapons). 

&quot;&lt;em&gt;(b) Americans were assured, when the nation-building enterprise commenced, that oil-rich Iraq would underwrite our sacrifices on its behalf. &lt;/em&gt;&quot;

Americans like David Noon were promised &lt;em&gt;by stupid Americans&lt;/em&gt; like Andrew Natsios and Paul Wolfowitz (&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; Iraqis) that the invasion, occupation and reconstruction would be paid-for by the Iraqis.

Smart Americans (like us) knew it was bullshit. 

Call whaaaaambulance!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<em>despite the facts that(a) the U.S. interest in Iraqi democracy remains tenuous&#8230;</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>That makes absolutely no sense! </p>
<p>1) Why should the Iraqis be <em>grateful </em>for a <em>tenuous </em>US interest in their democracy? </p>
<p>2) Once Iraq was occupied (in all of three weeks) Bush and his minions spent the next five years insisting in public that it was <em>all about establishing Iraqi democracy</em>, so US interest in Iraqi democracy was not <em>tenuous </em> but absolutely firm (or rather the pretense was). </p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;(<em> [In fact] our interest was the elimination of Saddam’s terror-mongering, weapons-proliferating regime)</em>,&#8221;</p>
<p>Saddam Hussein was no more of a &#8220;terror-monger&#8221; than any other national leader, nor was he involved in weapons proliferation ( whereas IN FACT the US is the world&#8217;s largest proliferator of conventional AND nuclear weapons). </p>
<p>&#8220;<em>(b) Americans were assured, when the nation-building enterprise commenced, that oil-rich Iraq would underwrite our sacrifices on its behalf. </em>&#8221;</p>
<p>Americans like David Noon were promised <em>by stupid Americans</em> like Andrew Natsios and Paul Wolfowitz (<em>not</em> Iraqis) that the invasion, occupation and reconstruction would be paid-for by the Iraqis.</p>
<p>Smart Americans (like us) knew it was bullshit. </p>
<p>Call whaaaaambulance!<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=5349938', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Curlew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Curlew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ingrates?? I could have sworn that Wolfie testified that we&#039;d be &quot;greeted as liberators.&quot;  I guess the Iraqis missed the Roger Ailes memo on this one. Heckuva job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ingrates?? I could have sworn that Wolfie testified that we&#8217;d be &#8220;greeted as liberators.&#8221;  I guess the Iraqis missed the Roger Ailes memo on this one. Heckuva job.<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=5349912', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5349910</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t they even appreciate how much those bombs cost?  They&#039;re not cheap.  Not to mention the navy and aircraft to deliver them... I can&#039;t believe after all we&#039;ve spent on blowing them up they don&#039;t want us to hang around their neighborhood forever and ever and ever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t they even appreciate how much those bombs cost?  They&#8217;re not cheap.  Not to mention the navy and aircraft to deliver them&#8230; I can&#8217;t believe after all we&#8217;ve spent on blowing them up they don&#8217;t want us to hang around their neighborhood forever and ever and ever.<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=5349910', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: lokidog</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5349904</link>
		<dc:creator>lokidog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of &lt;strong&gt;course&lt;/strong&gt; they should be grateful for the US bringing them freedom:

&gt;&gt;Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don’t know what to do with all this freedom.
—AKEEL, A TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD BAGHDAD RESIDENT, ON LIFE IN THE NEW IRAQ&lt;&lt;

The abbove is from the excellent book by Christian Parenti &quot;The Freedom&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of <strong>course</strong> they should be grateful for the US bringing them freedom:</p>
<p>&gt;&gt;Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don’t know what to do with all this freedom.<br />
—AKEEL, A TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD BAGHDAD RESIDENT, ON LIFE IN THE NEW IRAQ&lt;&lt;</p>
<p>The abbove is from the excellent book by Christian Parenti &#8220;The Freedom&#8221;.<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=5349904', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mark701</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark701</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Andrew McCarthy, you arrogant prick. Comments like yours are not only inane but borderline sociopathic. We killed hundreds of thousands of their civiians, destroyed their infrastructure and economy, stole their only national resource and opened their country to terrorism. What do you expect them to do, throw roses at us??? Have you no shame, no conscience?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andrew McCarthy, you arrogant prick. Comments like yours are not only inane but borderline sociopathic. We killed hundreds of thousands of their civiians, destroyed their infrastructure and economy, stole their only national resource and opened their country to terrorism. What do you expect them to do, throw roses at us??? Have you no shame, no conscience?<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=5349906', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: darladooner</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/19/iraq-ingrates/comment-page-1/#comment-5349898</link>
		<dc:creator>darladooner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>we now know that saddam&#039;s regime was neither:

a) terror-mongering

nor

b) weapons-proliferating</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we now know that saddam&#8217;s regime was neither:</p>
<p>a) terror-mongering</p>
<p>nor</p>
<p>b) weapons-proliferating<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=5349898', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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