Comments on: 4 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Diyala Province

Explosion Near Vehicle Claims Troops In Volatile Region; Truck Bomb Kills 18 In Baghdad

[nynative1340]

"If I were still a registered Democrat, I would probably vote for Dennis Kucinich at this point." Posted by feelfree1

Agree. Or Ron Paul. However, I think physicians do a better service by remaining physicians.

[feelfree1]

waynabq,

Re: "If there really was a god, the White House would have been fried to a crisp by lighting years ago."

Agreed.

Cheers!

[randalds]

With this attitude "Now that IM HERE" were going to see some results. Truly delicious to watch HANOI NANCY crash and burn =)

Posted by didntinhale at 02:38 PM : Apr 08, 2007

I keep looking, but so far I see no evidence of a crash or a burn. By all accounts, except for a few far right air-headed pundits, her trip has been a total success. She handled herself with dignity and established ties that a House Speaker certainly should have to exercise the co-equal parts of her job with the administrations. She did nothing that wasn't previously approved of (reluctantly, true) by the White House. I give her an A+. Good job Nancy and keep up the good work!

[waynabq]

Feelfree,

Thanks for the Negoponte Iraq Squad link, why the H*ll isn't some U.S. news organization exposing this story!!!! This Iraq "War" and this administration is just getting more and more disgusting by the second. If there really was a god, the White House would have been fried to a crisp by lighting years ago.

[feelfree1]

RandalDS,

re: "Four more names to be added to Bush's criminal indictment as murdered because of his war of choice, his war of aggression, his war for profit."

Good summary.

[jerr11]

The heart wrenching slaughter continues and as an American, my heart aches for the families who continue to lose loved ones to this senseless, futile and foolish war.

But these deaths will be the last. There are soldiers in Iraq now, parents, sons, daughters, who will continue to die in the coming months.

It's like seeing a car drive off a cliff in slow motion, knowing there are people inside who are about to die and knowing that there is nothing you can do to prevent their deaths.

[waynabq]

.- "we must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs." (Obama at an AIPAC conference.)

If I were still a registered Democrat, I would probably vote for Dennis Kucinich at this point."

Kucinich is a good man, he had the guts to vote against Bush when the public and Congress as a whole was out for blood, anyone's blood to get revenge for 9-11.

But our whole political system is all screwed up, its all about money and power. We desperately need compaign finance reform, the government is being run by corporations and not by the people. I don't disagree with anything you've said but there is no way you can win if you don't support Jewish/Israeli interests, I think this is a pathetic situation but basically true.

Feelfree,

I better get some stuff done around the house, good talking to you; have a great Easter Sunday.

[randalds]

Four more names to be added to Bush's criminal indictment as murdered because of his war of choice, his war of aggression, his war for profit. Four more soldiers who died for nothing. Who's lives were thrown away, wasted by a fat evil greedy as*shole and his ignorant puppet. Cheney and Bush are quickly climbing the ranks of the worst mass murderers in history. They'll soon be up there with "men" like Pol Pot. The sickest most disgusting part about these murders that they are committing is that they're slaughtering these people in our name and under our flag. that is why they MUST be stopped, before they drag our once proud nation down into the same category as Cambodia in the 70's or Germany in the 30's and 40's.

[nynative1340]

"I would like to see a real candiate from either party. Currently there are none." Posted by radiob

"Radiob, our current two party system, awash in special interest money, guarantees that mediocrity will rise to the top but some are certainly more palatable than others." Posted by omega39
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"palatable" is the key word. I don't know about you, but I can't remember when I voted for someone I actually liked. I'm always forced to choose from a handful of lackeys.

Early on I thought McCain just might be the first time I vote Republican. But, lo and behold, his true colors came through, loud and clear.

I'm beginning to believe that, with the exception of Bush, the problems isn't so much the president, it is the Congress. The congress needs to have term limits to keep them from setting up their little "empires."

In addition, it should be a requirement that every member of congress be a veteran of U.S. military service. If they don't have the courage to do the "real" service to their country then they shouldn't be allowed the "privelege" of making laws that affect others.

[feelfree1]

waynabq,

Realted article re- Negroponte death-squads:

"Under the "Salvador Option", Negroponte had assistance from his colleague from his days in Central America during the 1980s, retired Colonel James Steele. Steel, whose title in Baghdad was counselor for Iraqi security forces, supervised the selection and training of members of the Badr Organization and Mehdi Army, the two largest Shi'ite militias in Iraq, to target the leadership and support networks of a primarily Sunni resistance."

"Planned or not, these death squads promptly spiraled out of control to become the leading cause of death in Iraq. Intentional or not, the scores of tortured, mutilated bodies that turn up on the streets of Baghdad each day are generated by the death squads whose impetus was Negroponte. And it is this US-backed sectarian violence that largely led to the hell-disaster that Iraq is today."

www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IA11Ak03.html

[feelfree1]

waynabq,

I always enjoy your comments as well.

I am skeptical of Obama, however, as he appears to have plegded his allegiance to Israeli interests, which are definitiely not in our own interests, as we have seen.

i.e.- "we must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs." (Obama at an AIPAC conference.)

If I were still a registered Democrat, I would probably vote for Dennis Kucinich at this point.

[waynabq]

Feelfree,

"...We know that our Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, facilitated death squads in Iraq..."

I don't know if it was coincidence or not but about the time Negroponte showed up was about the time death squads started cropping up in Iraq.
Call me paranoid but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised by this administration if this were the case. Petty sick.

[waynabq]

Nynative,

"We still have 21 months to put up with Bush and anything can happen in that length of time."

You are so right. Isn't pathetic that if Bush decided to order airstrikes against Iran and possibly trigger WWIII, there is nothing, really absolutely nothing, to really stop him if he decided to do it. And we're the supposed model of "Democracy and Freedom" for the rest of the world? Oh my god.

[feelfree1]

nynative1340, (repost from a related thread):

From what I can gather, this "Sunni-Shiite schism" is way, WAY, overblown by the Western Corporate pess. Shiites regularly marry Sunnis, for example. Are we to believe that they secretly hope to kill their husbands/wives/in-laws? Absurd.

We know that the U.S. is supporting terrorist attacks against Iran, using Taliban affiliated fighters in Pakistan. We know that our Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, facilitated death squads in Iraq, just as he once did in Central America under Ronald Ray-Gun. We know that British SAS members were caught with Arab disguises and bomb-making materials in Basra.

Divide and conquer is the name of the sinister Western elite game. The supposed "schism" between Shiites and Sunnis is constantly amplified by the US/UK/Israel, because this division suits this 'divide and conquer' objective.

[inventagod]

Calling the Iraqi oil-grab a war is an attempt by the Bu$h script writers to legitimize the Halliburton treasury robbing. History may prove that 9/11 was just another Bu$hCo lie, that Mr. Cheney was pulling the strings that day in an elaborate scheme to fulfill his Secret Energy Plan...

and the beating goes on...

[waynabq]

"I haven't forgotten that, 'radiob'. Deep complicity in many of the most heinous Bush regime crimes is the reason that top national Democrats are so helpless to offer any substantial challenge to the pResident.

Until Democrats can acknowledge their grave mistakes and denounce them, they have little chance of offering any real opposition, in my opinion.

I have more hope that traditional Conservatives with retake power over the Republican Party, from the neo-cons/fascists. "
Posted by feelfree1 at 01:52 PM : Apr 08, 2007

Feelfree,

I think you hit the nail on the head. Your posts are always dead-on. As for Radiob's opinion that there are no viable presidential candidates, I beg to differ. Barack Obama would make a fine President. I would take ANY of the current Republican candidates over Bush. But that's not really much of a recommendation is it?

[nynative1340]

radiob wrote: "nynative1340, According to Debkafile Pelosi brought back a 4 stage plan to end the war. I posted the stages here on a earlier post in response to didntinhale."

The 4 stages are very interesting radiobob, but do you think they are achievable?

Can stage 1 be accomplished while Bush is still in office?

Given that Sunnis and Shias do co-exist peacefully in other parts of the world, the hatred for each other in the middle east and espepcially in Iraq is intense. Can they co-exist in Iraq?

I think stages 3 and 4 will be relatively easy once stages 1 and 2 are achieved.

As much as I would like to think (and hope) that my grandchildren won't be drafted to fight in the middle east, or anywhere else, I have to play the devil's advocate here. I don't see stages 1 and 2 happening while Bush is in office.

We still have 21 months to put up with Bush and anything can happen in that length of time. Perhaps even a peaceful settlement. But his record, attitude, mentality, and laziness don't give me a 'warm fuzzy' that it will happen anytime soon.

After all, he is the self-proclaimed "war president."

[waynabq]

Bush, Limbaugh, Fox News, how can one not be angry with the current state of affairs in this country? We're 5 trillion dollars deeper in the hole, the Iraq war is causing more instability and death in the Middle East. Our Constitutional Rights are being called into question by the executive and the Attornery General who swore to uphold them. And yet 30% of the population still approves of George Bush's job performance, not to speak of the Katrina Fiasco, the Abu Graib prison scandal, Plame scandal and the recent treatment of our soldiers at Walter Reed, just to name a few. I guess the remaining 30% are more concerned with the Lewinsky scandal and dying to find out the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.

[omega39-2009]

I would like to see a real candiate from either party. Currently there are none.
Posted by radiob

Radiob, our current two party system, awash in special interest money, guarantees that mediocrity will rise to the top but some are certainly more palatable than others.

[radiob-2009]

Bingo!! I have seen nothing but obfuscating from Hillary on this very point, I hope to see anyone but her get the Democratic nomination.
Posted by omega39


I would like to see a real candiate from either party. Currently there are none.