Comments on: Study: Iraqis Failing On Reconstruction

Audit Finds Iraq Has Accepted No U.S.-Built Projects In Last Year

[mcvet]

Reagan bankrupt the Soviet Union through the building of the US military.

Gorbachev acknowledges Reagan as the reason the Eastern Block disolved whch was marked most clearly by the night the Berliners took over the wall and started hammering on it.

That night was after Reagan left office.
Posted by donbl1 at 08:29 PM : Jul 28, 2007
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Sorry but you can't get away with this... History and EVERYONE on the PLANET knows that Afganistan Bankrupted Russia. H-e-ll the American Labor Movement, the AFL-CIO, did more to tear down the Soviet Union, than Reagan. We'd been involved in the Arms Race for decades and the amount spent by Reagan was SMALL in relations to what had been spent before. When you have to start USING those weapons thought... When you have to start repairing the veteran's limbs and paying them for life when they come home. That's what Bankrupts a Nation. It nearly got us in Vietnam my friend! Sieg Heil Bush!

[mcvet]

Depends on which systems.

I am sure there are for and against inside the administration.

One issue could be a rising fear of Iran.
Posted by donbl1 at 08:33 PM : Jul 28,

Iran is a problem and so is the situation in Afganistan. The problem is the Tax Payers of this nation and our Military has been used up for the most part. The INCOMPETENCE of Bush is almost breath taking!! We are neck deep in a dispute between Shiite and Sunni AND our leader can't seem to get the message. He simply does NOT know how to fight any Terrorist. His back ground was in BEING a Terrorist, having grown up with the Klan. The Shiite's in Iraq are the SAME Shiite's in Iran, EVERYONE who knew anything about the middle east knew that. Sieg Heil Bush!!

[donbl1]

Iran is funding Hamas and Hezbollah and is still enriching uranium for a nuclear weapon..... both hamas and hezbollah have armed conflicts going on in their regions.

Also, there is growing instability in Pakistan.

I suspect this proposed sale was a "deterrance" decision.

[coffeehead-2009]

This has more to do with than just this article.
Reconstruction to this administration means nothing unless it has to do with oil ...
And right now, they are NOT happy with the iraq workers...... american capitalism has bile boiling all over the world


They are the main opposition to the occupation's economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to that agenda's centerpiece - the privatization of Iraq's oil.

This week, Iraqi anger over starvation incomes and oil ripoffs boiled over. On Monday, June 4, the biggest and strongest of the Iraqi unions, the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, launched a limited strike to underline its call for keeping oil in public hands, and to force the government to live up to its economic promises. Workers on the pipelines carrying oil from the rigs in the south to Baghdad's big refinery stopped work. It was a very limited job action, which still allowed the Iraqi economy to function.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki responded by calling out the army and surrounding the strikers at Sheiba, near Basra. Then he issued arrest warrants for the union's leaders. On Wednesday, June 6, the union postponed the strike until June 11. Labor unrest could not only resume at that point, but could easily escalate into shutdowns on the rigs themselves, or even the cutoff of oil exports. That would shut down the income stream that keeps the Maliki regime in power in Baghdad.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=13042

[j-whitman]

donbl1,,,, Iran isn't so much of a problem,,, Arab Sunni's are ----- They kill the majority of Americans, 9/11 terrorists where mostly Sunni's from the UAE..... The UAE actively funds & supports the Taliban & Al Queda today.

[donbl1]

Depends on which systems.

I am sure there are for and against inside the administration.

One issue could be a rising fear of Iran.

[j-whitman]

donbl1 --- Gorbachev also said yesterday,, "Bush is destableising the World"

[j-whitman]

donbl1,,,, As we speak Bush is giving Sunni's a $20 billion arms deal ---- Sunni's cause 96% of our casualties in Iraq, over half of prisoners in Iraq are Sunni's --- Ossama Bin Laden is a Sunni

[donbl1]

Reagan bankrupt the Soviet Union through the building of the US military.

Gorbachev acknowledges Reagan as the reason the Eastern Block disolved whch was marked most clearly by the night the Berliners took over the wall and started hammering on it.

That night was after Reagan left office.

[donbl1]

Reagan bankrupt the Soviet Union through the building of the US military.

Gorbachev acknowledges Reagan as the reason the Eastern Block disolved whch was marked most clearly by the night the Berliners took over the wall and started hammering on it.

That night was after Reagan left office.

[donbl1]

Reagan bankrupt the Soviet Union through the building of the US military.

Gorbachev acknowledges Reagan as the reason the Eastern Block disolved whch was marked most clearly by the night the Berliners took over the wall and started hammering on it.

That night was after Reagan left office.

[donbl1]

Reagan bankrupt the Soviet Union through the building of the US military.

Gorbachev acknowledges Reagan as the reason the Eastern Block disolved whch was marked most clearly by the night the Berliners took over the wall and started hammering on it.

That night was after Reagan left office.

[donbl1]

Reagan bankrupt the Soviet Union through the building of the US military.

Gorbachev acknowledges Reagan as the reason the Eastern Block disolved whch was marked most clearly by the night the Berliners took over the wall and started hammering on it.

That night was after Reagan left office.

[donbl1]

j-whitman

Many do not know that FDR was not beloved. We assume that 4 terms makes a loved leader. He had vicious opposition.

But, in those days, the media respected the Presidency and hid his physical weakenesses and poor health.

Think they would do that today?

[j-whitman]

donbl1,,,, Reagan didn't tear down the Berlin Wall, it collapsed because Russia couldn't afford to keep it up & public outrage.

For Bush there is no Success in Iraq --- Millions of 14 year old Sunni Arab children in are working odd jobs for a bus ticket to fight the Occupiers in Iraq.

[j-whitman]

donbl1,,,, Note the name Prescott Bush
In 1933 Major General Smedley Darlington Butler reported to Congress a coup d'etat plot against President Franklin Roosevelt, sponsored by corporate interests. Alarmed by Roosevelt's Democratic "New Deal" which would redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, Irenee Du Pont, Prescott Bush, Grayson Murphy, William Doyle, John Davis and other representatives of J.P. Morgan banks, Du Pont, Goodyear and Bethlehem Steel sought to overthrow the U.S. government with a military coup and replace it with a fascist state, based on the recent success of Mussolini and Hitler in Italy and Germany.

[donbl1]

j-whitman

I think he made an honorable decision "at the time"..... When things started to come undone he should have been more forthcoming. That is the weakness of wanting to get reelected.

However, we will not know for many years the performance of this president. Truman is an example of a guy leaving office below Bush in popularity but saved MILLIONS of lives by dropping two nuclear weapons on Japan and is now respected.

If the Middle East changes and becomes stable, then Bush will be declared a success EVEN if Iraq is not finished by the time he leaves office. Remember when the Berlin Wall came down? Credit is always given to Reagan.

[samthetvcat]

donbl1

Well thank you for your service! The military by and large does seem highly motivated and competent, Bush not so much...

I think most of us would agree that optimism, determination, and confidence are great qualities and so often in life we humans have a tendency to be our own worst enemies by not believing in ourselves and giving up too soon. However, do people really appreciate that for somebody to reap the rewards of optimism, determination, confidence, etc that those qualities must also be based on REALITY which requires an ongoing reassessment of optimism against adversity, determination against roadblocks, and confidence in the face of conflicting interests? Like for optimism, determination, and confidence to be the determinant criteria of success, the chance of success needs to first realistically be assessed, the consequences of moving forward versus stopping need to be considered, and contingencies need to be thought out. And calculating the realistic chances of success requires an ACCURATE assessment of the relevant factors bearing on the failure/success of the project.

My point being that ungrounded optimism is a weakness when it's only factoring one's own locus of control...success in Iraq is outside this sphere and in the hands of the Iraqi people. This isn't my assessment, this is the assessment of the Iraq Study Group.

[j-whitman]

%u201CThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.%u201D
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

[seven-pesos]

thanks, bush!

thanks, southerners!

every time you dixie snakes get the power in america...

america gets war, hate, arrogance, phony christians, lost wars and lost of respect.

they still love bush in the south.

they're comparing bush to jefferson davis.

oh, well...that's the south for you, folks!