Nothing to smile about

[SHRED]

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Yet the American people are being duped once again into thinking we have "turned the corner" in Iraq. And the mainstream news sings along with the dog and pony show while ignoring such things as the Madhi Army's rise in control.

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Why Is This Man Smiling?
Posted on Sep 4, 2007

Bush at Al-Asad
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

All smiles: President Bush poses with the troops at Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq’s Anbar province.

By Robert Scheer

Excerpt:

"In Iraq’s Shiite-controlled south, the domination of the military and police by the fiercely anti-American Madhi Army and other militias was ensured by the final withdrawal of British troops from Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city and a vital center of oil production, on the same day that Bush visited Iraq. Instead of the liberated, united and democratic Iraq promised by this invasion, we are left with a nation ruled by religious fiefdoms sustained far into the future by U.S. taxpayers.

The French and the Germans, hoary veterans of various failed European adventures in imperialism, warned us about precisely this outcome. While U.S. troops spill blood to guard broken oil pipelines, the Chinese and others go merrily about the world buying up black gold on the open market. But hey, don’t worry about your tax dollars and the waste of lives—eat some freedom fries and learn, like our president, to keep smiling."


http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070904_scheer_sept_5_why_is_this_man_smiling/

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[lazer47]

1. "we have "turned the corner" in Iraq".. we have turned the corner

so many times that we now are going in circles..

[SHRED]

2. I think he went there...

...to get out in front of Congress' return from Summer break so as to spin Iraq in a "positive" light.

Also, to diminish the significance of the British pull out of Basra.
Which is a very big deal.
Here:

Basra: The soldiers' tales
A sense of relief tinged with loss as troops reflect on a brutal campaign
By Kim Sengupta
Published: 05 September 2007

The convoys from Basra Palace were lined up outside the airport yesterday, their dusty armour punched and dented by rocket-propelled grenades and bullets in the months of ferocious firefights in the "ambush alleys" of the city.

The 550 soldiers who had withdrawn from the one remaining British base in Basra to the airbridge, the last post for UK troops before the final departure from Iraq, were tired and reflective. There had already been mortar rounds fired at their new home, but it was nothing compared with what they had been facing, and most had not even noticed the attack.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2927085.ece


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[Freedomofspeech]

3. Okay, I think I'm going to puke now...

how many of those young people in that picture will be maimed or dead in the near future, since * is "playing until September of October".?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

4. Let me put it in terms...

...we can understand...
He's a shitsandwichmotherfuckingasswipefromhell.

[SHRED]

5. a way with words

xoxoxoxo

[QueenOfCalifornia]

6. I try

to say it like I feel it.

xoxo to you too

[1620rock]

7. Jeez, what's with the two headed girl? Umm, photo-shopped?

[reprobate]

8. It's BoyGeorge's other head. The one with the brain.