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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 11:35 AM
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Must see TV - CSPAN2 - 3pm - Iraq: Where do we go from here? and
Personal Stories From Iraq

3pm ET
Iraq: Where Do We Go From Here?
Mark Danner, "The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History"
Scott Ritter, "Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the U.N. and Overthrow Saddam Hussein"
Robert Scheer, "Playing President: My Relationships with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton…and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush"
John Arquilla, "The Reagan Imprint: Ideas in American Foreign Policy From the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror"
Moderator: Marjorie Miller

4pm ET
Interview with John Arquilla

Live 4:30 pm ET
In War Time: Personal Stories From Iraq
John Crawford, "The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq"
Paul Rieckhoff, "Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington"
Evan Wright, "Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War"
Moderator: Doug Smith

5:30pm ET
Interview with Quang Pham

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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 11:41 AM
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1. Simple
HOME..... nothing to guess here
Too bad many will be going home in a casket.

Wanting something and getting it 2 different things.

Something just not possible.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 11:59 AM
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2. I thinks so too... just bring them home!
of course, the mis-administration will never consider that an option. :(
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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 12:07 PM
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3. I dont think they have a choice
Holding on a stock when it is falling like there is no tomorrow plain stupid.
End up ........BIG FAT ZERO
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:45 PM
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4. on in 15 min. KICK!
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:04 PM
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5. Introductions now
Scott Ritter gets huge applause. :)
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:12 PM
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6. Under Saddam, the Bath party was the secular glue that held Iraq together
Edited on Sun Apr-30-06 02:14 PM by Viva_La_Revolution
the invasion dissolved that completely... we now have 10-12 factions fighting amongst themselves.

Ritter says we need to withdraw completely and diplomatically back the Bathist party, it's the only one that has hope of being able to bring the country back together.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:15 PM
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7. Danner says ship Bush over to Iraq to take Saddams place.
:evilgrin:

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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:20 PM
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8. talking about GAO report that was just leaked to the NYTimes
Edited on Sun Apr-30-06 02:23 PM by Viva_La_Revolution
Iraq's New Premier Gains Support in Talks With Shiite Leaders
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/world/middleeast/28iraq.html?_r=1&ex=1146369600&en=50f17994c58920c7&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

Other newly released American government findings cast Iraq's situation in even less positive terms. The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, reported that attacks against American-led forces, Iraqis and infrastructure increased 23 percent from 2004 to 2005.

"The insurgency intensified through October 2005 and has remained strong and resilient since then," the G.A.O. said in a 31-page report. "Many Iraqis in Baghdad and the central and northern Sunni areas have lost confidence in the Iraqi Army and police to improve the security situation. In some Sunni areas, support for the insurgents has increased, and Iraqi Shias have expressed greater confidence in their militias."

The G.A.O. also found that in contrast to past assertions that four provinces were facing serious problems, six were in "serious" shape and one was "critical." The finding was based on a study by the military and American Embassy in Baghdad.

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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:34 PM
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9. Scheer - "We should challenge the very idea that
adults are minding the store."

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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:38 PM
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10. He's laying it all out...
9/11 was a result of our actions in Afghanistan.

We enabled the rise of fundimentalist Islam

Our policies have created this.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:40 PM
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11. Arquilla sounds like a shill for the administration
says we should quit picking on the Saudis, they're our allies. :eyes:

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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:58 PM
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12. Replay approx 11pm tonight
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:22 PM
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13. Replay in 10 minutes nt
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