from MSNBC.com article regarding US troops picking up garbage in Baghdad...
The rotting waste presented enormous dangers not just for Iraqi trash collectors and for local residents exposed to the risk of disease, but for U.S. troops. Corbin said many of his unit’s civil affairs missions in Baghdad were connected in some way to the city’s garbage problem.
“If we didn’t pick up the garbage, then al-Qaida would put explosives in the garbage to kill us,” he said. “And if the streets are full of trash, the Iraqi people are going to be upset and blame us. … Everything is linked.”
I think that's the perfect analogy to the situation our Troops are in. It's a shame. If they don't do what the Iraqi's should be doing, they either get complaints or blown up! It's a total no-win situation and that's why we have to pull back to the fringes and let the Iraqi's do what needs to be done within their own country.
We shouldn't be risking our troops lives to pick up someone else's garbage. George, if you think it's necessary for us to be there, hire Halliburton to do it with your own money. The Republican National Committee should be able to loan you some money!
-Devon
Showing posts with label Iraq occupation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq occupation. Show all posts
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Oops.... wrong Al-Qaida!
from MSNBC.com
President Bush acknowledged that al-Qaida is strong today, but he said it's not nearly as strong as it was prior to Sept. 11, 2001 because the United States has kept the pressure on — worked to "defeat them where we find them" — so they won't attack America.
"Al-Qaida would have been a heck of a lot stronger today had we not stayed on the offensive," Bush said in the Oval Office after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "And it's in the interest of the United States to not only defeat them overseas so we don't have to face them here, but also to spread an ideology that will defeat their ideology every time — and that's the ideology based upon liberty."
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George "I wonder how you get so confused" Bush,
Lemme sit you down once again and explain things in the simplest way so maybe you can understand geopolitics, terrorism, and Al-Qaida. See... there's a several Al-Qaida groups. On 9/11/01, the Al-Aqaida group led by a Saudi Arabian named Osama bin Laden in Afganistan attacked the WTC because of US presence on Saudi Arabian soil. You went after the Taliban for hiding and aiding him, remember. Then you abrubtly dropped the hunt for Osama and invaded Iraq to get at Sadam who had nothing to do with international terrorism or Al-Aqaida. Because of the US occupation of Iraq, a group calling itself Al-Aqaida in Iraq was formed and they are now causing trouble there to protest our presence.
So, it's not so much a matter of you "finding" Al-Qaida. They seem to find us and we can't seem to find them in spite of our best efforts. The form because we are occupying Arab land. They are proof of the proverb, "The enemy of my brother is my enemy, too."
Will "they" attack America? Not the Al-Aqaida in Iraq! They are mostly concerned with US occupation of their country and lack the resources to go outside Iraq. However, the original Al-Aqaida led by Osama? Yes, they will probably attack again. Why? Because we are still occupying Arab soil AND, more imporantly, they've had several years to regroup and reorganize because you haven't been persuing them! While we've been spending 12 Billion dolllars per month in Iraq and all our available military power there, Osama's been regaining strengh and planning.
So, don't fool yourself, George. While you've been lining your defense contractors' pockets, the enemy's been building their offense and sooner or later, they'll unleash it and we won't be ready, thousands will perish, and it'll be just like 9/11/01 again. Who's to blame? You, George and no one else.
Also, W, you have a very twisted sense of "Liberty". But, I'll get into that another time. Your poor lil brain can only take so much as at one time.
-Devon
President Bush acknowledged that al-Qaida is strong today, but he said it's not nearly as strong as it was prior to Sept. 11, 2001 because the United States has kept the pressure on — worked to "defeat them where we find them" — so they won't attack America.
"Al-Qaida would have been a heck of a lot stronger today had we not stayed on the offensive," Bush said in the Oval Office after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "And it's in the interest of the United States to not only defeat them overseas so we don't have to face them here, but also to spread an ideology that will defeat their ideology every time — and that's the ideology based upon liberty."
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George "I wonder how you get so confused" Bush,
Lemme sit you down once again and explain things in the simplest way so maybe you can understand geopolitics, terrorism, and Al-Qaida. See... there's a several Al-Qaida groups. On 9/11/01, the Al-Aqaida group led by a Saudi Arabian named Osama bin Laden in Afganistan attacked the WTC because of US presence on Saudi Arabian soil. You went after the Taliban for hiding and aiding him, remember. Then you abrubtly dropped the hunt for Osama and invaded Iraq to get at Sadam who had nothing to do with international terrorism or Al-Aqaida. Because of the US occupation of Iraq, a group calling itself Al-Aqaida in Iraq was formed and they are now causing trouble there to protest our presence.
So, it's not so much a matter of you "finding" Al-Qaida. They seem to find us and we can't seem to find them in spite of our best efforts. The form because we are occupying Arab land. They are proof of the proverb, "The enemy of my brother is my enemy, too."
Will "they" attack America? Not the Al-Aqaida in Iraq! They are mostly concerned with US occupation of their country and lack the resources to go outside Iraq. However, the original Al-Aqaida led by Osama? Yes, they will probably attack again. Why? Because we are still occupying Arab soil AND, more imporantly, they've had several years to regroup and reorganize because you haven't been persuing them! While we've been spending 12 Billion dolllars per month in Iraq and all our available military power there, Osama's been regaining strengh and planning.
So, don't fool yourself, George. While you've been lining your defense contractors' pockets, the enemy's been building their offense and sooner or later, they'll unleash it and we won't be ready, thousands will perish, and it'll be just like 9/11/01 again. Who's to blame? You, George and no one else.
Also, W, you have a very twisted sense of "Liberty". But, I'll get into that another time. Your poor lil brain can only take so much as at one time.
-Devon
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Guns, God, and Gays won't do it anymore...
In the 2000 election and a little bit of the 2004 election, the Repugnicans could simply push their "hot button" issues of God, Guns, and Gays to motivate their voters. But that old trick has become passe' now and just doesn't have the impact it did a decade ago.
In 2000, we were still enjoying some of the good life of the Clinton administration. People were working, jobs weren't being sent overseas, all the wars (more acurately, skirmishes) we participated in were over before they started. We enjoyed a good reputation on the world stage due to our foreign policy. And, most importantly, we had a surplus in the Treasury! Things were so good that we were the perfect victims for the Fear Mongers.
The GOP spent eight years trying to pin some crime on President Clinton and, failing that, attempted the same with his wife, When they failed at impeachment for the flimsiest of charges, they had little left except fear. So they created the fear that Liberals, Progressives, and the Democratic Party were trying to take their God away in any way they could imagine... and they were VERY imaginative! Then, for those that didn't fear "god" being taken away, they pointed accusing fingers at those trying to control guns and crime as "trying to take our guns away"! Finally, for those who might still have some sense of security in place, they trotted out a Gay person and claimed they were trying to advance an agenda that included them "recuiting our kids to their sinful ways"!
We watched as the Fear Fector did it's worst in 2000 and 2004. In 2006, they realized the price to be paid for Fear-based Voting. The Fear-based voter got what it voted for and that was nothing but more fear. They were in no better place after three national elections. God's not any better off. Guns are still available; even assualt rifles are legal now! And Gay people are no better or worse off than they were in 1999. The net of the three "hot button" issues? Zero!
It appears however, that the GOP still hasn't gotten the message. The "debates" in North Carolina offered some insight into the formation of the GOP platform and, surprise, it's no different than it was in 2000! It's still God, Guns and Gays and that just won't do it anymore when there's an 800 gorilla called Iraq in the middle of the room.
(You know, W, if you're looking for a War Czar to act as the Commander-in-Chief, you should consider Bill Clinton. He had two wars while in office and an uncooperative, adversarial Congress yet managed to rise above that with hardly any losses and no lasting entanglement.)
In 2000, we were still enjoying some of the good life of the Clinton administration. People were working, jobs weren't being sent overseas, all the wars (more acurately, skirmishes) we participated in were over before they started. We enjoyed a good reputation on the world stage due to our foreign policy. And, most importantly, we had a surplus in the Treasury! Things were so good that we were the perfect victims for the Fear Mongers.
The GOP spent eight years trying to pin some crime on President Clinton and, failing that, attempted the same with his wife, When they failed at impeachment for the flimsiest of charges, they had little left except fear. So they created the fear that Liberals, Progressives, and the Democratic Party were trying to take their God away in any way they could imagine... and they were VERY imaginative! Then, for those that didn't fear "god" being taken away, they pointed accusing fingers at those trying to control guns and crime as "trying to take our guns away"! Finally, for those who might still have some sense of security in place, they trotted out a Gay person and claimed they were trying to advance an agenda that included them "recuiting our kids to their sinful ways"!
We watched as the Fear Fector did it's worst in 2000 and 2004. In 2006, they realized the price to be paid for Fear-based Voting. The Fear-based voter got what it voted for and that was nothing but more fear. They were in no better place after three national elections. God's not any better off. Guns are still available; even assualt rifles are legal now! And Gay people are no better or worse off than they were in 1999. The net of the three "hot button" issues? Zero!
It appears however, that the GOP still hasn't gotten the message. The "debates" in North Carolina offered some insight into the formation of the GOP platform and, surprise, it's no different than it was in 2000! It's still God, Guns and Gays and that just won't do it anymore when there's an 800 gorilla called Iraq in the middle of the room.
(You know, W, if you're looking for a War Czar to act as the Commander-in-Chief, you should consider Bill Clinton. He had two wars while in office and an uncooperative, adversarial Congress yet managed to rise above that with hardly any losses and no lasting entanglement.)
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Republicans Eating Their Own and Who's left Holding the Bag?
Eleven congresspeople met in the private quarters of the White House today to ask Bush to finally be "honest" and to have "candor" in his discussions of the Iraq Occupation. So, after 5+ years of lying and secrecy, they want the leopard to change its spots. What's in it for them? They're worried about their CONTINUANCE, not their CONSTITUENTS! Now they can go back to their voters and claim, "I TRIED to get Bush to stop lying!" or "I TRIED to get the W to be truthful!" Then, of course, they'll ask for their vote to continue their "fine work representing their districts" in the Nation's Capital.
They thought they could have it both ways. For the last six years, they've stood behind the Chief Liar and his gang while they looted the US Treasury and destoyed our reputation on a global basis --- a sort of "Global Coldshoulder" is about all we can expect from our former allies. They stood shoulder to shoulder with Bush/Cheney as the Imperial Pretender and his Surrogate Daddy ripped large sections from the US Constitution and undermined our time-honored military restraint. They didn't question the lack of WMDs or why we attacked Iraq because Osama, a Saudi being protected by Afganistan, attacked New York City. They didn't ask why we left Afganistan to be re-occupied by Al Qaida and the Taliban while we were spending our time protecting the Mobil/Exxon's profits by occupying Iraq. For all their time in Congress, they never asked a question. They were the Silent Majority, in fact. Now they want to pretend they can make effect a change in the Bush Regime.
Personally, I appreciate their effort but I think it'll take something akin to what we did to Saddam to get George the Second to give up his throne. Besides the fact that I think Bush being "honest" is like asking Al Quaida to be "friendly", it appears that those Repugnicans who've been so staunch in their support of Bush Regime's failed policy in Iraq are beginning to turn inward to feed on themselves.
Going to the Presidential bedroom and having a private "nite-nite" chat with the Drunken Frat Boy leaves behind those like our senators Cornyn and Hutchinson to wonder how they're going to "deal with this". Of course, they'll continue to "support the party" and their little buddy in the White House because they don't know what else to do. No where in their flash through the Senatorial sky have they ever had to come up their own talking points; they've always had the Karl Rove to tell them what to do. They simply stod behind the product they sold in 2000 and 2004 even though they knew it was killing thousands of our children and hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afganistan. Now they're all alone, left holding the bag. But, John and Kay, don't fret, we --- the US Public --- are left holding an even bigger bag!
-Devon
They thought they could have it both ways. For the last six years, they've stood behind the Chief Liar and his gang while they looted the US Treasury and destoyed our reputation on a global basis --- a sort of "Global Coldshoulder" is about all we can expect from our former allies. They stood shoulder to shoulder with Bush/Cheney as the Imperial Pretender and his Surrogate Daddy ripped large sections from the US Constitution and undermined our time-honored military restraint. They didn't question the lack of WMDs or why we attacked Iraq because Osama, a Saudi being protected by Afganistan, attacked New York City. They didn't ask why we left Afganistan to be re-occupied by Al Qaida and the Taliban while we were spending our time protecting the Mobil/Exxon's profits by occupying Iraq. For all their time in Congress, they never asked a question. They were the Silent Majority, in fact. Now they want to pretend they can make effect a change in the Bush Regime.
Personally, I appreciate their effort but I think it'll take something akin to what we did to Saddam to get George the Second to give up his throne. Besides the fact that I think Bush being "honest" is like asking Al Quaida to be "friendly", it appears that those Repugnicans who've been so staunch in their support of Bush Regime's failed policy in Iraq are beginning to turn inward to feed on themselves.
Going to the Presidential bedroom and having a private "nite-nite" chat with the Drunken Frat Boy leaves behind those like our senators Cornyn and Hutchinson to wonder how they're going to "deal with this". Of course, they'll continue to "support the party" and their little buddy in the White House because they don't know what else to do. No where in their flash through the Senatorial sky have they ever had to come up their own talking points; they've always had the Karl Rove to tell them what to do. They simply stod behind the product they sold in 2000 and 2004 even though they knew it was killing thousands of our children and hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afganistan. Now they're all alone, left holding the bag. But, John and Kay, don't fret, we --- the US Public --- are left holding an even bigger bag!
-Devon
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