From Reuters:
“Iraq as a political project is finished,” a top government official told Reuters — anonymously because the coalition led by the Shi’ite Muslim prime minister remains committed in public to a U.S.-sponsored constitution preserving Iraq’s unity.
Whoa. You hear that, over there? From under that plus-sized burkha? It sounds like slightly-muffled scales…
Fanny Roborat
17 comments
dee
July 21, 2006 at 11:29 am
1Also from that article:
There were also new clashes in Mahmudiya, a violent town just south of the city where nearly 60 people were killed in a mass assault by gunmen on Monday. Three police and three Iraqi soldiers were killed in Friday’s fighting, police said.
U.S. troops killed two women and a three-year-old girl during a raid that, they said, also killed two suspected al Qaeda militants in violent Diyala province northwest of Baghdad.
A U.S. Marine was killed in action against guerrillas in Iraq’s western Anbar province, the U.S. military said. A total of 2,557 U.S. soldiers have been killed in combat since U.S.-led forces invaded in March 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein.
Can we just leave now? Just fucking get on the boats and planes and whatever the hell else we can get our hands on and go? Because staying isn’t going to make it any better. Divide it up — Sunni, Shi’ite, Kurd, Larry Moe, Curly — I don’t give a rat’s ass.
The only good that could possibly come out of this is we airdrop Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and the Smirking Putz right in the middle of it all and let the Iraqis have at ‘em.
And a special place in hell is reserved for Colin Powell.
JOHN MURPHY
July 21, 2006 at 11:50 am
2A-men to that Dee
I was thinking just now. How many US service men died in Viet Nam? Was it like 52 thousand over about 15 years?
If those numbers are correct your looking at about 3500 deaths per year.
How many people have to die?
How many have to be maimed?
It’s just a waste.
Smirking Putz
July 21, 2006 at 1:02 pm
3The ‘Mer-can people voted for values and that’s what we’re givin’ them.
siobhan
July 21, 2006 at 1:11 pm
4Jon Stewart had a great piece on Iraq and stem cells. (via Crooks and Liars)
Keith Richards
July 21, 2006 at 3:21 pm
5siobhan — thanks for that link. I especially loved “They’re called Snowflake babies because no two of them are alike and they’re all white.”
David
July 21, 2006 at 4:23 pm
6The only good that could possibly come out of this is we airdrop Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and the Smirking Putz right in the middle of it all and let the Iraqis have at ‘em.
And a special place in hell is reserved for Colin Powell.
dee,
This is so worth repeating (and repeating, and repeating…), because it is so justified.
tess
July 21, 2006 at 5:59 pm
7I recall something about how our prez is very proud that he manages an exercise regimen in 100+ degree heat. Maybe it’ll come in handy if he’s cowering in a Saddam-style hidey-hole when given an AR15 with the express directive to “promote democracy” over in Iraq.
Katie
July 21, 2006 at 8:29 pm
8Keith -
“…no 2 are alike and they are all white.” SPLORT!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!
That line alone was worth getting out of bed this morning!!!
Katie
cooper
July 21, 2006 at 8:44 pm
9We can still declare victory and come home. We should have done that in Vietnam. We should do it now.
On a happier note, I attended the taping of WWDTM in Charlotte last night and all panelists were on their game, especially Paula. I don’t know what will be cut and what will stay, but listen and enjoy.
siobhan, thanks for the link. Every American should watch that segment.
Well, I hate to say it (ha!), but I’m off to Maine on Sunday. Keep the fun going.
dee, since you haven’t followed through on your opportunity to increase your herd of cats, I’ve found a “No Kill” pet adoption group who will take the little buggers. They are so cute, they’ll be snatched right up. BTW an interesting story about the kittens’ momma. I took this wildcat to the vet for her spaying operation, rabies shot, et al, and one of the staff members, who happened to be pregnant, decided she would like to handle the cat. Everyone in the animal hospital knew this was a ferel cat, new to civilization, and was wary of humans (smart cat). This pregnant staff member check me in and knew the whole story of the cat. Well, of course, she got scratched by the cat and since she is pregnant, Animal Control was called in. So, as it is now, Animal Control has the momma cat in the slammer for 10 days to make sure she doesn’t have rabies and we have to pay another $100 to get her out at the end of the quarantine or they gas her. Don’t you just love how the government steps in to help? Since we’ll be out of town (in Maine, did I mention that?!), one of our neighbors will pick her up for us.
hedera
July 21, 2006 at 9:19 pm
10I’ve never seen a burkha that wasn’t plus-sized. The purpose of burkhas is not to make one look elegant and svelte.
Nobody who regularly follows this site is surprised at this development. Disappointed, disgusted, appalled - but not surprised. Democracy requires a personal involvement from an educated citizenry - but mostly it requires a willingness to discuss disagreements instead of fighting over them. A tradition of blood feuds is also a bad sign.
I’m with dee - let’s bag it. They want it - they can have it. If we’re still holding Saddam Hussein, maybe we should turn him loose and see if he can take it back. We should never have gone there in the first place.
Sharon
July 22, 2006 at 9:35 am
11cooper, I blame the pregnant staffer, who should have known better than to go anywhere near the cat, much less handle her. I question whether such a person is fit to be a parent. Maybe we should take away her infant at birth and give it to a good. responsible, two-parent–one man and one woman, of course–family.
[tongue only half in cheek]
scott
July 22, 2006 at 11:33 am
12I thought “politics is a bloodsport” was a metaphor. My bad.
David
July 22, 2006 at 5:36 pm
13Cooper,
I gotta know. Was anything noteworthy cut from the live WW,DTM for the broadcast?
I did miss the first 15 minutes, but I got to hear the Humpster. He is so like the Southerners I grew up with. Loved that segment. And the woman he was playing for gets 2 free tickets to the next race at LMS. Sorry, Carl, but that trumps your voice on her answering machine, at least for us stock car heads.
cooper
July 22, 2006 at 7:58 pm
14David, nothing noteworthy was cut. A little back and forth between the panelists and Peter, that’s all. Actually, our friend Mo got in some good lines that I could not quite discern from high above the stage and towards the back of the theatre, where we sat in our cheap seats.
Sharon, actually I’m blaming the vet (she has more money), who did not require her to do only administrative work and ban her from helping with the animals. The pregnant staffer is in her early twenties, about the same age as my daughter (who is not pregnant, Saints be praised!) and I can vouch for the brain, at that point, not fully firing on all 8 cylinders. There is, however, hope for future maturation.
cooper
July 23, 2006 at 3:59 am
15Okay, if you will now, open your hymnals to page 56 and read along with me - http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war56.html
David
July 23, 2006 at 8:07 am
16Cooper,
Did you see Mo at the end of Friday’s edition of Keith Olberman’s program (the only MSM news show I respect at this point, even though they botched commentary on Stephen Colbert’s routine at White House Press Crap Dinner)? Love Mo’s “Here’s looking at you” delivery.
Thanks for link to latest GYWO. One of my bud’s from H’ville left a message on my answering machine singing “All we are saying is give war a chance.”
Send the brain up the road to Holman-Moody.
siobhan
July 23, 2006 at 8:25 am
17Thanks, Coop.