Iraq's deputy foreign minister slain in Baghdad

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5192903/

[Sugarbleus]

1. Thanks for the post...don't see anytthing on TV

So, we've got the Iraqi Head honcho in DC for RR's funeral while his countrymen are still being whacked back home. Geeeeez, what a mess.

[NMDemDist2]

2. oh man,

the insurgents are targeting anyone and everyone in the puppet regime. It can't be good for Bushit and the alleged "transfer of power"

[MajorFlaw]

5. The question is whether anyone in the provisional government

will still be alive to "take sovereignty" on June 30.

[Disturbed]

6. CIA assets

Seems that some Iraqis have figured out that most of the people selected for rulership are CIA assets. Iraqis lived under colonialism via the Brits for around 30 years. Many of them are still familiar what that program was like.

Even with elections in Jan. 05 it seems that any Govt there while the Occupation is in place will be a US Puppet Regime.

I predict a mass Uprising incl. the Kurds will take place sometime in July 04.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. It is such a good thing

that we have full control of the security situation...
Perish the thought if we did not.

::rolls eyes::

Look on the bright side, them exlosive tipped flowers and
candy now have more than just our troops and Iraqi
Civilians, but now include... our lackeys.

[alittlelark]

4. But, but, I thought 'they' 'respected' the 'governating' council

It MUST have been a stray bullet, or 20.

[LowerManhattanite]

7. Hoo-boy...

Why do I have the feeling that next week it's gonna be totally off the hook over there--pipelines bombed, electricity cut off willy-nilly and anybody who signed on to this new government having their aides start their cars for them.

Not to mention our guys who are sitting ducks for an angry populace.

Thanks for nothin' Dubya...you "Bible for Dummies"-addled, weasel-assed, war-mongering coward. Thanks for absolutely nothin'.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Now now he has given you something...

as well as me... a reason to get active to get
his sorry ass out.

Now there is gonna be a revolt and our
clueless fourth estate will take a couple
days to pick on it.

(To be fair the revolt started two months ago,
but it is about to get a tad livelier again. This
sickens me, since we will have one thousand dead troops
before long.... GRRRRRRRR)

[LowerManhattanite]

9. I have noticed...

...a shift in the press coverage in the last six weeks. Almost as if with their newfound cojones, the more critical pieces they write now have back stories thaty seem to have been reported on in the past---except these are things they willingly ignored---until now.

I hold the press accountable for much of this, but...they have moved me nearly to tears on occasion lately. The Times has had a couple of articles in the last ten days about a a female soldier who loats her left hand in a mortar attack. the Times reporter was there when it happened and reported on it somewhat generically as the "cost of war". But he followed it up a few days later when she was in the hospital and got some candid remarks from her about her jaundiced view (and the view of many co-horts) about the war and the reasons for it in the first place. There was a shot of her in her hospital bed smiling, but with a scarred face and of course a wrapped stump where her left hand was (of course she was a former college basketball player and was...f*ck the luck, a lefty!). She described calling her folks to tell them she was hurt and damned if i didn't welll up riding the subway reading it. It broke my heart.

Hate isn't a word I toss around lightly. But what this blithering dolt has done to our soldiers n sending them off to fight an ego/oil/religion-driven war takes me to where hate lives and strands me there.

We should be surprised that the Iraqi people are pissed? Pissed enough to do whatever it takes to kill us even if it's one at a time? Of course they are...and the object of my hatred/venom/EXTREME dislike sent our people there. A bastard to the 43rd power.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. hmm maybe we should contact Time

my husband retired from the USN, and saw first hand the
beauts of Halliburton

Trust me, I was going WTF over during the war? Of course
when I started to dig for the reasons for war... anger
just started to seethe, as my husband was going off to war
and could very well get killed... because some people wanted
to bet uber rich....

GRRRRRRR

[lebkuchen]

12. Today's Stars and Stripes headline: 1AD due home 15 July

Fat f*cking chance.

Not only will the 10th Mountain be needed, but the 1AD's reextension as well.

[the Kelly Gang]

11. accepting a seat in this Goverment.=a poisoned chalice

[Cheswick2.0]

13. the world was better off with Saddam in power

at least he kept the religious fundamentalists from taking over the country. I predict we will give up one day soon and Iraq will fall into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. Women will live in hell and the whole thing will be out fault.

[pinniped]

14. I tell my friends the same thing...

"I predict we will give up one day soon and Iraq will fall into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists."

Does anyone know how long it will take to drain the country with the second largest oil reserves in the world of all its oil?

Look for the U.S. to leave somewhere around that time frame if the long-term POS * plan stays in effect.

I got a bad feeling that if the U.S. doesn't get the hell out NOW something like Beirut 1983 will happen again.

[Sabriel]

15. Next! n/t

n/t

[Mari333]

16. Michael wrote, he is still standing there at Abu Ghraib, lonely

Thinking every day about coming home, writing to his dad about wanting to come home, wishing he were home, happy that we are thinking about him and that his family loves him. Its so depressing to hear from him, knowing how sad he is and how much he wants to be here, not there, and his unit is drawing names out of a goddamned hat right now to decide who gets to come back to visit in August..if Michael's name isnt pulled he stays there til January.
In the meantime, we missed all the holidays with him, all our birthdays, all the times we could have spent as a family this year.
The whole family is in a deep depression, even my sons, and now I know what One Day At a Time means.
Panic attacks are relentless arent they?
What the Bush admin has done to families is atrocious.
Lets throw those bastards out on their asses and demand they are held accountable for everything they have destroyed in this country.

[truth2power]

18. Mari..

My thoughts are often with you and your family. I hope Michael comes home safe. I have a son, and I can truly imagine what I would be going through if he were there. He is older now, but was of age during GWI. If it hadn't ended when it did, he would have been called I am sure (was considered in the ready reserves at the time.)

[truth2power]

17. I heard about this on NPR this morning

and the killers were described as "Sadaam loyalists" or some such, anyway, former Sadaam supporters. I though that was odd - sounded like the old propaganda where the resistance was described as "dead-enders".

I figured Kubba must be one of our puppets. These people know who they're going after.