Letters to the Editor
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Shooter
As a conservative chrysalis, you were full of pupa and as a liberal warbutterfly, you still are full of pupa.
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Another untouchable subject ...
I suspect the Frontline specials did touch on it, but I don't think very much, the amazing disappearing 6 billion dollars in reconstruction money ... and just whose money it was ...
Like the recent "mysterious" ethnic cleansing which no one apparently noticed or thought to do anything about (but which I think must had be "allowed" by some policy decision regarding priorities and the possibility of stirring up a hornet's nest and spoiling the "surge effect"), how exactly does 6 billion dollars disappear ... and where does it go ... how many millionaires did this create? who are these suddenly flush "capitalists" and where are they? We saw the pallets of shrink wrapped $100 bills. Big, heavy, cumbersome ... are they living in some Baghdad basement?
But, to me, the most interesting thing is the question of just whose money vanished ... because it was being dispensed by us to the Iraqi bureaucracy "in charge" on reconstruction or something like that ... it was referred to as "reconstruction funds" (apparently American tax payer dollars) but gradually, if my memory is correct, it morphed into having been seized Iraqi assets and even oil-for-food revenues (Iraqi money) ... however, as far as I could tell, this raised more Geneva convention occupation guideline problems since as occupiers we were charged with protecting Iraqi assets, like 6 billion dollars of oil-for-food revenue.
Ever notice how nobody cares about that money any more?
But really, where did it go?
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@ L.W.M.
Shooter, your metamorphosis from the chrysalis of conservatism to the spreading of your beautiful butterfly wings of liberalism has been a remarkable transformation for the rest of us to behold. From the Queen of Denial to a Welfare Queen in one seamless motion. A stunning rebirth as a Dirty Fucking Hippie. This is one for the record books.
He's the White Queen of blogs:
"One can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Cheers,
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Anonymust
Yes, Iraqi women have the freedom to choose, too.
Yes, freedom's just another word for dying from things you didn't under Saddam.
Sh**ter's never given a damn about what happens to women anywhere.
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sunshine susan flower.
Into DOD A-1 flight cargo planes. Into duffle bag backpacks. DOS pneumatic lift jacks were used to cart the tonnage weight loads.
Remember tag along real estate PR?
DOD. Dear my O me. mea culpa.
Sassafras Tree Tea. So Perfumery.
Infuse with sweet honey. Medicinal.
OY! The economy? Ask Rumsfeld?
The sky is grey and rainy today.
The peas and onions are so happy.
~focus.
$100.00 bad bills are on USA streets.
The truth don't evoke any genuine smiles from thieves.
~fake smiles. death grins. creepy. not ss. You know!
Look @ black-backdrop, eyeballs with con's red-$-eyes.
Anonymust. sigh. The medical health care system? All Gone. Crumbled.
The American delivery of "democracy" system ran-off 35,000 physicians.
Keep telling the truth. Let's keep persisting and ask WHY is there no Trial?
susan sunflower. This is sure-enough, not saying, WHO, don't love people like you?
You know and thanks.
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susan sunflower
Ever notice how nobody cares about that money any more?
But really, where did it go?
Welfare to U.S. of Corporate America, just like the recent Bear Sterns bailout, but under the cover of "welfare for Iraqi Orphans".
It's ok to abuse tax dollars as long as they are being redistributed upwards to the corporate/military class.
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GC
The sky is grey and rainy today.
The peas and onions are so happy.
Indeed, and so are the lettuce seeds and orchids.
The spring chill rain is a good thing for gardens that grow.
The chill reign we bring, that destroys ancient gardens that grew before we ever existed, not so much.
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Pedinska.
Ask Mattel Toy and M-16-gun Company?
Plastic legos are shaped into a rifle image.
Cold Popsicles sticks are imagined a sword.
The sugar addicts will buy a DVD TV with '$'?
O. ah. More filthy lucre. O always terrified.
boo.
Maybe mommy never hugged a baby CEO?
Holding all the stolen loot and saying Yaw.
PLAYA! A dried up waste land once again?
America?
Oh. A pint-size elmer gantry fuddy-duddy.
They cool cats? Whores. Earrings, lipstick.
Dead serious? Thugs are bad-hysterical.
'um growl like a mangy scab bushy weasel.
'Um are narrow, empty, snarling, and dead.
Ask a black and white pole cat. Get close.
Thanks Pedinska. You smell like rosemary.
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Tell me. Orwellian, or simply Retarded?
President Bush: Iraq violence is a 'positive moment'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3628928.ece
H/T Raw Story
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bamage? Did you go to Cornell University to learn math?
It gets even worst. What a mess.
A googolplex is a simple term.
It was coined by a 9-year old.
Multiply a 'worst' X's a tenth power.
E. Kasner was a American math one.
I hate mathematic problems. Geometry?
I never studied math formulas and flunked.
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cat. rat. scat. Rats are in the White House. fumigate.
I do remember how to spell arithmetic? Use first litters.
a, rat, in, "trolls", house, might, eat, Turnips, (&) ice cream.
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@Ay
Why must you misstate the positions of others? I'm not *defending* Saddam.. I'm pointing out that just removing him while making no provision for the ongoing security of the Iraqi people was a profoundly evil and stupid act.
Heh. Of course you're defending Saddam. You just don't like that picture.
The choice was Saddam or us, in Iraq. You've decided that Saddam was better for the Iraqis and and are in the unenviable position of explaining why that's so. That is defending someone.I think in the long run the Iraqi people would have been better served by leaving a secular dictator in place than replacing him with a theocratic one.
We didn't go to war to nation build. That's always an after thought. In the marvelous world of using hindsight to predict the past, it certainly looks like you are right. But predicting the past doesn't change the present. Get used to it. At this moment all you're doing is reliving five year old history.
I honestly don't know what to do in Iraq, it is certainly beyond my ken and I suspect it is beyond the ken of any mortal.
Anticipating future events is hard to do with perfect accuracy?!?!? Alert the media!
And to think... you had all the answers just a second ago.My point is that going into Iraq the way we did was a profoundly stupid and hubristic act and leaving those who screwed the pooch in the first place in charge of the cleanup is another example of idiocy. -- Aycharaych
So your answer is to leave and set up a scenario for even more misery? Woulda, coulda, shoulda, is worthless today. Throwing your up in despair is capitulation. Surely someone invested in telling us all how smart you were five years ago can do better?