Letters to the Editor
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Haley Barbour's man
It's Haley Barbour's man or the terrorists have won!
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well..that was the idea, originally...
to install another Saddam, just one who would do what we told him to do.
Once Chalabi was out, Allawi was the next choice. The Pentagon sure knows how to back a winning horse, doesn't it?
This whole thing is such a mess. You'd think, after Cuba, and Vietnam, and Lebanon, and the Balkans (and the Balkan thing was actually fairly straightforward compared to iraq, which is saying something when you think about it), and Somalia, and any number of more obscure involvements, we'd have figured this out, and would never have made the same mistake twice.
But, here we are, in Iraq, essentially recapitulating Vietnam in all its main components (other than the American casualty count is much lower. Not that this is any comfort to families who have lost a son, or daughter, or to the severely injured, who now number in the 10s of thousands..'course, if we count the Iraqi dead, it starts to look a lot like Vietnam).
Amazing what a bunch of lying proto-fascists have to do to get traction with the American Voter. Even more amazing: that the American voter is so wilfully ignorant that they fall for it.
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Does Haley Barbour know?
That he's the former governor of Mississippi? He's behaving as if he's still in office.
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And the Mississippi .gov Website....
Thinks he's still in office, too.
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Eyes Wide Open
This is definitely one to watch. Thanks for the heads-up, Joan!
P.S. Thanks for your follow-up video on the "unknown soldier" shall we say.
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It just maybe that simple
Joan:
Billions of dollars have disappeared from the treasuries in Iraq. They are being recycled, I am sure. So much of Iraq's cash wealth has been looted; but, its most lucrative wealth of oil reserves and the control of public utilities remain up for grabs among our various and ever changing friends and enemies. As has happened since the first days after 911 and continues, this Administration is being danced and storied thru the chapters of 1001 Arabian nights. Sinbad left Baghdad nine times on voyages for fame and fortune. How many times has Allawi departed to deposit what he carried out and to seed future extractions?
Barbour's is an enabler who is working the disasters at home (Katrina) and away (Iraq) quite nicely also.
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Joan, the question that immediately occurred to me was:
Are US taxpayer dollars paying for Haley Barbour to launch this campaign to put the CIA in charge of Iraq?
Please, can you follow the money trail and see if this is another one of those faith-based initiative types of slush-fund deals that uses tax money to enrich the politically connected?
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This is confusing
This is confusing. Is our country's diplomatic effort with Iraq and its elected leader being led by a lobbying firm? Is it with the support, knowledge, encouragement, direction from Bush and his crew? If not, what the hell is going on that a lobbying firm can get mixed up in a situation so critical as our country's support of the elected leader of Iraq, where by the way, there's a war going on and Americans are being killed.
Also, Garry Trudeau has written about Ol' Duke's lobbying for another strongman. It seems ridiculous that life imitates art in the Iraq war.
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FYI, This exchange is no longer on the transcript
Joan, I went to White House.gov and checked the gaggle transcript and the second part of this exchange--the "maybe they got a really good contract" -- is no longer there. I'm wondering where you got it, if from actually watching the press gaggle or if it was ever on the transcript to begin with.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070824-2.html
Or, maybe it's there and I'm just not seeing it!
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Never Mind
I see now it was in Thursday's press gaggle, I was looking at Friday's. Never mind!
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Follow the Money
Could the sudden dislike of Maliki be because he failed and now won't be able to get the oil apportionment (read, big oil company revenue stealing) bill thru Parliament? It is all so painfully transparent.