Comments on: Bush Admin. "Silent" On Iraq Corruption

Former State Dept. Officials Tell Senate Democrats U.S. Ignored Corruption To Protect Al-Maliki

[tryhonesty]

This article is about, yet another RepubliCON cover up of their MESS. Please quit pisssing away all of Americas hard earned money in Iraq. So sad, not one lesson learned from Vietnam. Ah, those who discount history are sure to repeat it.

[j-whitman]

Rowdy,,, McCain has also been a major player in all of Bush''s lies, especially on the war

Major General Kevin Burgener (ph) convened a news conference in Baghdad last Wednesday to list 20,000 items of ammunition, explosives and weapons captured or uncovered by U.S. and Iraqi governmental forces in the last weeks of fighting, 45 rocket propelled grenades, 570 assorted explosive devices, 1,800 mortars and artillery rounds.

The point? This was the big day, this was the day, according to the %u201CL.A. Times,%u201D that the American military was to show the media of the world the conclusive evidence that at least some of the weaponry used by Iraqi insurgents had been supplied by Iran. The U.S. military spokesman confirming to that newspaper that that%u2018s what the dog and pony show was to include. They were all ready to show off Iran%u2018s tangible responsibility for some of the haul of the machinery of death, to establish the link between American fatalities and Iran, trademarks or company logos or made in Tehran stickers or something.

When U.S. explosive experts took a second look at all this stuff, they then said, none of this is from Iran. Twenty thousand blowing up things, hard count of those supplied by Iran, zero. Percentage imported from Iran, no percent! Amount of tangible evidence linking Iran to anti-American uprising in Baghdad? None.

You do realize they are making all this up about Iran?

[j-whitman]

Rowdy,,,, All that ignorant garbage of Obama being a muslem extremist came straight out of McCains camp.

Lieberman is now embracing the most scurrilous divisive garbage the right wing has to offer against Barack Obama. Asked about the false rumor that Hamas endorsed Obama for president, Leiberman not only repeated it, he inserted his own tenuous links to insinuate that his fellow senator, fellow American wishes death for America, death for Israel.

[j-whitman]

Rowdy,,,, On the dishonorabel rhetoric of Obama being supported by Hamas ???

The spokesperson for Hamas was actually the senior political adviser to this man. Ismail Haniya, elected as Palestinian prime minister from the politico ring of Hamas, who%u2018s written op eds for both the %u201CNew York Times%u201D and %u201CWashington Post.%u201D

And second, the reporter quoting him was a right-wing neo-con who sold a book last year using the line: %u201CWhy is Hillary Clinton the jihadist choice for president?%u201D

Thirdly, the nation%u2018s biggest Jewish groups have already defended Senator Obama against this stuff.

[barbaraf4]

Is it just me or does Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki look so sleazy that you wouldn''t consider buying a used car from him? Or for that matter, letting your daughter marry him? I sure wouldn''t want to add his DNA to our genepool.

[rowdytexan2]

Rowdy,,,, Then don''''t vote for McCain, he keeps saying we are safer because of the Iraq War


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Posted by j-whitman at 06:10 PM : May 13, 2008

Sorry, J, can''t vote for the Islamofascist Obama. He''s WORSE than Bush.

[j-whitman]

Rowdy,,,, Then don''t vote for McCain, he keeps saying we are safer because of the Iraq War

[rowdytexan2]

THis is an artificial democracy...only propped by the US military....I would bet that when we leave we''''ll get the civil war that has been brewing since 1945. I would call our own civil conflict a "democracy" either....if the Iraqis ever had a democratic vote on their own...that''''d be success. However, history tells us it will NEVER happen because there are too many factions across the country and region.


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Posted by arlt1627 at 06:03 PM : May 13, 2008

Exactly! And the country will totally go back to Sharia law which is the way they want to live! They want no part of a western style thieving capatalistic government. They want their own kind of thieving government and they don''t want America in it! And we don''t need to be in it!

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by notblue at 05:55 PM : May 13, 2008

Ask yourself. Is the US one whit safer now?

If you give any other answer beside NO, then I suggest you need to think again!

[arlt1627]

Boy it sure would have been nice if Junior had read his dad''''''''s memo on how to handle Iraq.....and to consider the long term consequences to any kind of military attack on Saddam & Iraq!! Amazing how much of that has come true only 10 years later!

LOOKS LIKE JUNIOR''''S IQ 43 IS AT LEAST 10 POINTS LOWER THAN SENIOR 41. BRAIN POWER WAS NOT ONE OF GEORGE W. BUSHIES STRONG POINTS.
Posted by acolton1 at 06:03 PM : May 13, 2008

I''ll give him a little credit and think he''s a decent, intelligent American. He raised taxes even though it would be political suicide because he needed to after the Reagan tax cuts.....he followed through with a major UN resolution and stuck to his word. He also was a proactice thinker and considered long-term impact/consequences. That is more than many that have held the office. #43...not so much.

[j-whitman]

Everyone remembers the "Shot heard around the world" over 200 years ago ---- We''ll be hearing about the "Oop''s heard around the worid" for the next 200 years.

[arlt1627]

911 was perpetrated by MUslim extremists who show no allegiance to any specific country. While Sadam may have had no direct connection he was guilty of amy things that justified his removal. The powers that be decided Iraq, the heart of the middle east, strategically was the best place to fightthis new enemy. And they were right, the nemy came to the fight and logistically Iraq was the place. As a further bonus 12 million Iraqis voted for a freedom, a greater percentage that votes here in the U.S., and while Iraq is not yet stable, democracy inthe hgeart of the middle east is a good beginning to making America safer. Have you ever asked yourself waht benefit Amercia would get from letting Iraq fall into tyhe hands of extremists backed by Iran? Would that make Amercia safer? the greater world safer? Or do you just care about losing in Iraq and pointing blame at fellow Americans because you are riven by hatred for politcal rivals? TIme for you to answer a question.
Posted by notblue at 05:55 PM : May 13, 2008

THis is an artificial democracy...only propped by the US military....I would bet that when we leave we''ll get the civil war that has been brewing since 1945. I would call our own civil conflict a "democracy" either....if the Iraqis ever had a democratic vote on their own...that''d be success. However, history tells us it will NEVER happen because there are too many factions across the country and region.

[acolton1]

Posted by arlt1627 at 05:58 PM : May 13, 2008

Boy it sure would have been nice if Junior had read his dad''''s memo on how to handle Iraq.....and to consider the long term consequences to any kind of military attack on Saddam & Iraq!! Amazing how much of that has come true only 10 years later!

LOOKS LIKE JUNIOR''S IQ 43 IS AT LEAST 10 POINTS LOWER THAN SENIOR 41. BRAIN POWER WAS NOT ONE OF GEORGE W. BUSHIES STRONG POINTS.

[j-whitman]

arlt1627,,,, Yep, the Oop''s heard around the world

[bobnjersey]

[While Sadam may have had no direct connection he was guilty ... ]
[Posted by notblue at 05:55 PM : May 13, 2008]

so it''s a legal thing?

[As a further bonus 12 million Iraqis voted for a freedom, a greater percentage that votes here in the U.S., and while Iraq is not yet stable, democracy inthe hgeart of the middle east is a good beginning to making America safer.]

a muslim''s idea of freedom and liberty has no correlation whatsoever to ours.

you''re a fool.

[acolton1]

CAPTAIN CORRUPTION GEORGE W. BUSHIE AND IS LOOSER SIDE KICK MISS-MANAGEMENT THE DRAG QUEEN RICHARD CHENEY.

[j-whitman]

notblue,,,, And,,, Viet Nam has charged an American with Terrorism, we can''t do anything about, nor stop them from torturing him. --- That''s your & your people''s fault for allowing this administration to go this far.

[arlt1627]

Boy it sure would have been nice if Junior had read his dad''s memo on how to handle Iraq.....and to consider the long term consequences to any kind of military attack on Saddam & Iraq!! Amazing how much of that has come true only 10 years later!

[arlt1627]

A little food for thought for everyone on here:

Excerpt from "Why We Didn''t Remove Saddam" by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time (2 March 1998): While we hoped that popular revolt or coup would topple Saddam, neither the U.S. nor the countries of the region wished to see the breakup of the Iraqi state. We were concerned about the long-term balance of power at the head of the Gulf. Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.''s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome.

[notblue]

911 was perpetrated by MUslim extremists who show no allegiance to any specific country. While Sadam may have had no direct connection he was guilty of amy things that justified his removal. The powers that be decided Iraq, the heart of the middle east, strategically was the best place to fightthis new enemy. And they were right, the nemy came to the fight and logistically Iraq was the place. As a further bonus 12 million Iraqis voted for a freedom, a greater percentage that votes here in the U.S., and while Iraq is not yet stable, democracy inthe hgeart of the middle east is a good beginning to making America safer. Have you ever asked yourself waht benefit Amercia would get from letting Iraq fall into tyhe hands of extremists backed by Iran? Would that make Amercia safer? the greater world safer? Or do you just care about losing in Iraq and pointing blame at fellow Americans because you are riven by hatred for politcal rivals? TIme for you to answer a question.