Comments on: Iraq OKs Rehiring Baath Party Members

1st Of 18 Benchmarks Met: Elsewhere, U.S. Soldier Dies, Raising Toll To 3,944

[deboldt]

...I am going to make a couple of statements that I%u2019m sure will be misinterpreted. First, I am delighted (yes, delighted) that we have failed so miserably in Iraq and that the enterprise has blown up so completely in Bush%u2019s childish hands. Had it been the promised cakewalk lined with the flowers and sweets offered our occupiers by a grateful Iraqi people, it would have emboldened these pathetic Neocons to move on others in the area and in the world with an impunity unparallel in the history of atrocity. Pain is a great teacher. I hope this war will not only tarnish the legacy of this megalomaniac%u2019s last eight years in the history books but that this debacle may restore a semblance of democracy at home as well. My hope is that the upcoming election may help decide this...

[deboldt]

...I am sorry most for the Iraqi people in this whole disaster. They did not deserve the horror that has been visited upon them. Even though the Iraqi war continues to be an expensive lesson for us it will be an eternal continuing catastrophe for the people of this once great country. John McCain thinks the catastrophe could last for more than a hundred years. I get so tired of hearing Saddam derided while failing to mention that Iraq was one of the most progressive countries in the middle east. Unlike many countries we supported, Iraq had a high level of education, women held important positions in government, academia and business and there was an excellent system of healthcare. This secular state was even a bulwark against al Qaeda. Unfortunately, sanctions and the war have made all this fade (along with the infrastructure) like a beautiful dream with the dawning of this our new American Century...

[deboldt]

...Now I am going to say the second thing that I am sure will be misinterpreted. I am not interested in seeing any more documentaries on CBS about what a hardship this war is on the American servicemen and their families until I start seeing similar stories on the hardship our occupation is having on the Iraqi victims and their families. Unlike the infamous %u201Cbody counts%u201D of the Vietnam War, the number of dead and dismembered Iraqis has been veiled and rarely mentioned on CBS or the other broadcast news outlets%u2019 press reports...

[deboldt]

I don%u2019t want to hear that the civil war is the Iraqis%u2019 fault, that the faulty government in Baghdad is the Iraqis%u2019 fault, that the suicide bombers are the Iraqis%u2019 fault or that the rising tide of ungrateful citizens who want nothing more that to see us gone yesterday is the Iraqis%u2019 fault. All these things are our fault, only our fault. And the sooner they see the backside of our occupying forces the sooner this poor country will begin to mend. Until then I will continue to mourn the death of every Iraqi man woman and child. I relish the suffering of no human being, but I would rather see the death of any ten beloved members of the Iowa National Guard than to have the hair of one Iraqi child harmed. That is why it is so difficult to see a program like CBS%u2018s %u201CFathers, Sons and Brothers%u2026%u201D without being torn in half. Bob Boldt

[prinzowhales]

Why wouldn''t they rehire Ba''athists? The Washington Regime imported enough of them into the United States, settling many of them--with your tax dollars, of course--in Oklahoma City...where, embarrassingly, several were apprehended after the OKC bombing...but quickly released...while security tapes of some, embarrassingly, with Tim McVeigh and associates are now held from view for reasons of national security.

On the matter of the Iraqi women accused of blowing themselves up...here is an interesting story by Joe Quinn who dissects the Regime and its Quisling helpers response to the bombing...

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/148200-Burka-Bombers-Spontaneously-Exploding-Iraqi-Women

The undersea cables linking Iran to the rest of the world have been cut, undoubtedby by the Zio-Nazi/Neo-Cons...this is an act of war........and, if you think that there is no relation between this, the Regime''s bellicose attitude toward Iran, the move upward of Ziggy Brzezinski''s Obama creature in the polls and the recent upsurge in activity by the Russian military...then, by all means enjoy the Super Bowl and try not to wonder too much about where the Regime''s next false flag operation will be to kick off the war against Iran...and, who knows, who else.

[sgtrds]

"The U.S. military announced Sunday that an American soldier had died a day earlier of non-combat related causes in Ninevah province. At least 3,944 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count."

RIP Bro. Sorry you had to die in vain. Sorry Bush wasted your life and service for his madness.

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by j-whitman at 01:41 PM : Feb 03, 2008

Halliburton, Blackwater, Cheney...maybe not in that order.

[hungry1968]

"The law is the first of 18 pieces of benchmark legislation demanded by the Bush administration to promote reconciliation among Iraq''s Sunni and Shiite Arab communities and the large Kurdish minority."





One out of 18 benchmarks made?

Woo hoo! At this rate we just might be out of Iraq just after the turn of the century!!

[j-whitman]

Anyone figure out yet why the number of civilian contractors in both Iraq & Afaganistan outnumber American uniformed forces ?????

[j-whitman]

7,000 Sunni''s aren''t going to be too happy when they loose their jobs