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While sites like American Progress are providing interesting refutation to Condi's testimony, I think, unless we want to impeach the president, the point is moot. I think by the time we take into consideration the Administration's lack of effort in counterterrorism measures before 9/11, given the number of reports, in addition to drumming up WMD intelligence in Iraq, and various dubious domestic policy deceptions, we probably have grounds.
But the real problem now is Iraq. Not two weeks ago, it wasn't going so badly. Data of "positive" surveys were coming out, etc. Now unrest is growing. Now it seems it is hard to please everyone.
Here's an interesting article from the American Conservative.
Another Ayatolla
An excerpt of interest:
Interestingly, Britain’s arch-imperialist, Winston Churchill, authorized the RAF to drop poison gas on “primitive tribesmen,” meaning Iraq’s Kurds and Afghanistan’s Pashtun, a fact conveniently forgotten by Tony Blair and George W. Bush when they excoriated Saddam Hussein for “gassing his own people.”
Here's a speech by Senator Robert Byrd.
Here's something that warrants more data. The question needs to be asked, what corporations are prospecting Iraq right now if Mark Levine's
But the real problem now is Iraq. Not two weeks ago, it wasn't going so badly. Data of "positive" surveys were coming out, etc. Now unrest is growing. Now it seems it is hard to please everyone.
Here's an interesting article from the American Conservative.
Another Ayatolla
An excerpt of interest:
Interestingly, Britain’s arch-imperialist, Winston Churchill, authorized the RAF to drop poison gas on “primitive tribesmen,” meaning Iraq’s Kurds and Afghanistan’s Pashtun, a fact conveniently forgotten by Tony Blair and George W. Bush when they excoriated Saddam Hussein for “gassing his own people.”
Here's a speech by Senator Robert Byrd.
Here's something that warrants more data. The question needs to be asked, what corporations are prospecting Iraq right now if Mark Levine's
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While sites like American Progress are providing interesting refutation to Condi's <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=44918">testimony</a>, I think, unless we want to impeach the president, the point is moot. I think by the time we take into consideration the Administration's lack of effort in counterterrorism measures before 9/11, given the number of reports, in addition to drumming up WMD intelligence in Iraq, and various dubious domestic policy deceptions, we probably have grounds.
But the real problem now is Iraq. Not two weeks ago, it wasn't going so badly. Data of "positive" surveys were coming out, etc. Now unrest is growing. Now it seems it is hard to please everyone.
Here's an interesting article from the <i>American Conservative</i>.
<a href="http://www.amconmag.com/2004_03_29/article.html">Another Ayatolla</a>
An excerpt of interest:
<i>Interestingly, Britain’s arch-imperialist, Winston Churchill, authorized the RAF to drop poison gas on “primitive tribesmen,” meaning Iraq’s Kurds and Afghanistan’s Pashtun, a fact conveniently forgotten by Tony Blair and George W. Bush when they excoriated Saddam Hussein for “gassing his own people.”
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Here's a speech by Senator <a href="http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10210">Robert Byrd</a>.
Here's something that warrants more data. The question needs to be asked, what corporations are prospecting Iraq right now if Mark Levine's <a href="http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10195>hypothesis</a> is correct?
Here is a link to Senator John McCain's <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/document/mccain200404080912.asp">speech</a>. Yes, we can find many reasons why this war isn't quite like Vietnam. But we may see vaguely similar outcomes, and it may impact us in many negative ways. I think an important difference is the Vietnamese don't appear to be as deeply in the terrorist business. I don't recall any Vietcong hijacking a plane. What's very interesting in McCain's article is that he states:
<i>We will never solve the war on terror as long as there are millions of young men standing on street corners all over the Middle East with no hope, no job, no opportunities, no future. They are the breeding ground. They are the ones who are taken off the streets and taken into the madrasahs — funded by the Saudis, by the way — and taught to hate and kill, and who want to destroy America, the West, and all we believe in.</i>
So, just what does that mean? We go after Iraq, who, for the most part, while rather evil, was minding its own business relative to the Saudis. We can't seem to fully validate funding of terrorism from Iraq, but now McCain can just flat out say that our seeming ally, the Saudies, are funding the angry fundamental Islamic youth!
Great. This fight for a democracy for a bunch of cockfighting bitter ethnic groups is such a noble blessing for us. We have our timing all screwed up. We have to keep allying with treacherous Middle East countries while we're trying to destroy another.
But the real problem now is Iraq. Not two weeks ago, it wasn't going so badly. Data of "positive" surveys were coming out, etc. Now unrest is growing. Now it seems it is hard to please everyone.
Here's an interesting article from the <i>American Conservative</i>.
<a href="http://www.amconmag.com/2004_03_29/article.html">Another Ayatolla</a>
An excerpt of interest:
<i>Interestingly, Britain’s arch-imperialist, Winston Churchill, authorized the RAF to drop poison gas on “primitive tribesmen,” meaning Iraq’s Kurds and Afghanistan’s Pashtun, a fact conveniently forgotten by Tony Blair and George W. Bush when they excoriated Saddam Hussein for “gassing his own people.”
</i>
Here's a speech by Senator <a href="http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10210">Robert Byrd</a>.
Here's something that warrants more data. The question needs to be asked, what corporations are prospecting Iraq right now if Mark Levine's <a href="http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10195>hypothesis</a> is correct?
Here is a link to Senator John McCain's <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/document/mccain200404080912.asp">speech</a>. Yes, we can find many reasons why this war isn't quite like Vietnam. But we may see vaguely similar outcomes, and it may impact us in many negative ways. I think an important difference is the Vietnamese don't appear to be as deeply in the terrorist business. I don't recall any Vietcong hijacking a plane. What's very interesting in McCain's article is that he states:
<i>We will never solve the war on terror as long as there are millions of young men standing on street corners all over the Middle East with no hope, no job, no opportunities, no future. They are the breeding ground. They are the ones who are taken off the streets and taken into the madrasahs — funded by the Saudis, by the way — and taught to hate and kill, and who want to destroy America, the West, and all we believe in.</i>
So, just what does that mean? We go after Iraq, who, for the most part, while rather evil, was minding its own business relative to the Saudis. We can't seem to fully validate funding of terrorism from Iraq, but now McCain can just flat out say that our seeming ally, the Saudies, are funding the angry fundamental Islamic youth!
Great. This fight for a democracy for a bunch of cockfighting bitter ethnic groups is such a noble blessing for us. We have our timing all screwed up. We have to keep allying with treacherous Middle East countries while we're trying to destroy another.