Letters to the Editor
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Michael Diveroli
I read that article this morning. Apparently--or so I gathered, reading through not so many lines, since the younger Diveroli became president of that company at the tender age of 18, the company must have been a shell for the elder Diveroli. I googled him quickly and found very little except that he'd done some biz with FEMA and for Hurricane Katrina with his company, WorldWide Tactical (and that he had tried to sell a diaper plant).
Here is the intro to World Wide Tactical's Website:
"Here at Worldwide Tactical LLC we are dedicated to providing you with the highest quality riot gear and tactical clothing at the best possible price."
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The McCain Program
McCain.policies['Iraq'] = function(){
global $terror;
if ($_ENV['violence_in_Iraq']=="better"){
echo "The policy is working, and therefore
we must stay the course.";
echo "America must stay in Iraq for ".(100-(date('Y')-2003))." years.";
objFlag.wave();
} else if ($_ENV['violence_in_Iraq']=="worse"){
echo "We must stay the course, and never retreat."
echo "America must stay in Iraq for ".(100-(date('Y')-2003))." years.";
objFinger.point(target='Democrats');
objFinger.wag();
} else {
echo "Oops! What's this third option?"
$meds++
echo "I feel more focused now. Where was I? But anyway . . .";
echo "America must stay in Iraq for ".(100-(date('Y')-2003))." years.";
}
if ($_ENV['Iraq_population']>0)
$troop_levels++;
}
$error_handling_options := $ignore_undefined_goals;
}(Translated from the original COBOL.)
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That's brilliant, sysprog!
It really deserves to be featured more prominently, somewhere on someone's front page.
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@Good
I just can't figure you out! How did you know about the guppies? Anyway, I couldn't have said it better myself.
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Another thing about Kagan's speech
Kagan says that the threat of al Qaeda establishing a Islamic state in Iraq has been ended. But in my inexpert estimation the chance of that ever happening was very little, much less, e.g., than Ron Paul becoming the Republican nominee, for instance. I don't know about declaring victory over something that was not going to happen anyway.
Really what has been accomplished is the reduction of a threat that the US itself opened the door for in Iraq. While definitely a good thing to have accomplished, it merely brings us back to where we were before Saddam was ousted. The opportunity cost, of course, has been Afghanistan.
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Kagan is absolutely right
The surge has definitely removed the threat of civil war in Iraq. This has thus enabled the final chapter of the Iraq drama that we are witnessing this week -- the desperate last throes of Iran's proxies in Iraq, as they are systematically dismembered by the stalwart Iraqi military and police, who have finally come into their own.
It only remains to clean out this nest of vipers at its source in Teheran.
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This Is Good News for Republicans!
Silash... I only claim that [Kagan] was probably referring to the Shia/Sunni conflict, not the intra-Shia conflict that Mr. Greenwald cites.
Now that the two Democratic party factions are warring over the nomination, Republicans and Democrats will become one big happy united party!
How do these people get paid for teh stupid?
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Baghdad Nozzlebuffer
Stalwart! Good adjective, man!
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@Nazlbfr or whatever
the desperate last throes
Are those better than just plain old "last throes"? Cause those weren't very good.
C'mon man, with your track record, we depend on you to tell us what's going to happen. Have you missed yet?
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@ Sysprog - Epic Fail
I tried to run that program you wrote and it took down my whole network. It obviously has some serious bugs in it! LOL
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It's that NYTs article
seems to have made nazlbur excited so he blurturated some nonsense. Whatsamatter, Nazzy, you don't think those kids show the War On Terror in its best light?
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@ Sysprog - C.O.B.O.L
So COBOL now stands for Crazy Old Bastard Off Line
Yup, that McSame!
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@nabalzbbfr re: "the desperate last throes of Iran's proxies in Iraq"
Who are Iran's proxies in Iraq?
According to an A.E.I. "scholar" who supported the Kagan-Keane "surge" plan, Iran's proxies in Iraq are SCIRI and Da'Wa - - that is, the factions currently supported by the USA.
http://nytimes.com/2006/12/21/opinion/21gerecht.html
By REUEL MARC GERECHT
Published: December 21, 2006[...] In fact, attacking Mr. Sadr now and elevating the Supreme Council is likely to accomplish the exact opposite of what we want. And it shouldn’t be that hard to see why: the sine qua non for peace in Iraq, and for a democratic future for the country, has always been unity among the Shiites. Any violent struggle between the Mahdi Army and Supreme Council could provoke anarchy throughout the entire Arab Shiite zone, including Iraq’s holy cities and the oil-rich south. As bad as things seem now, such Shiite strife could impoverish all of Arab Iraq, dropping the non-Kurdish regions to an Afghan-like subsistence level.
[...] Yes, the forces of the Supreme Council might be able to beat Mr. Sadr’s militia, the Mahdi Army. Trained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Badr Organization is a serious army that might handle Mr. Sadr’s more numerous and passionate supporters. The mullahs in Tehran, who have aided both Mr. Sadr and Mr. Hakim, would probably throw their support to the latter’s Supreme Council in the event of all-out war. Such a confrontation, beyond wrecking Iraq politically, would probably allow the worst elements in the Supreme Council — those who envision a religious dictatorship along the lines of Iran — to become more powerful within the party.
- - REUEL MARC GERECHT 12/21/2006
So which side is nabalzbbfr cheering for?
For the Iranian proxies (currently supported by the Cheney-Bush Administration) who want to establish an Iranian-style theocracy in Iraq?
Or for the JAM (Jaish al Mahdi) and Muqtada?
Or is nabalzbbfr just cheering, as he typically does, for death and destruction in general?