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2003-03-17 Iraq

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Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2003-03-17 02:43 pm|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I hope they WILL say yes, but they haven't done so yet...only that they will take "urgent action".

Posted by becky 3/17/2003 5:09:28 PM|| 3/17/2003 5:09:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmm, did they notice Jacques might have overplayed his hand?

Posted by Anonymous 3/17/2003 6:33:11 PM|| 3/17/2003 6:33:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yesterday it was $15 million, today only $10, tomorrow, who knows. Suddenly it's a buyer's market.

Posted by Chuck 3/17/2003 8:30:49 PM|| [blog.simmins.org] 3/17/2003 8:30:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Suddenly that $15 billion is looking more than adequate for our needs."

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-17 15:04:46|| 2003-03-17 15:04:46|| Front Page Top

#5 *rolls eyes*

The world is not helping to keep us from becoming an empire. If they just acted cooperative, did the right thing without calculating or trying to embarass us, then we'd be cool about it, do our job, and get the hell out like the Cowboys we are, riding into the sunset.

As it is, they bluster, block, temporize, prevaracate, insult, and slander. They get themselves out onto a limb keeping company with the asshole we're trying to nail. Then, when we start sawing away at the limb, they suddenly recognize that, "SHIT, the Americans are SERIOUS!". I'm sorry, but they look very undignified scrambling off the limb and hurredly rearranging their dissheveled hair and clothes and pretend to act as if they were behind us all along. We can't help but get a nice, WARM, fuzzy, self-satisfied feeling of having made our point. Forcefully.

DAMMIT! That nice, warm, self-satisfied feeling is seductive and addictive. It's not empire, but it's the siren call of empire. I like it too much, so I must resist as a Good Christian should resist all temptations. I don't know how my fellow Americans can help resisting it, though. We don't want to run an Empire now, but I CANNOT say we will resist the temptation tomorrow if this, this COMEDY keeps up!

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-17 15:08:56|| 2003-03-17 15:08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Turkey's top political and military leaders called on the government Monday to urgently take steps toward allowing in US troops. The announcement came at the end of a meeting that included the leaders of Turkey's new government, President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, and top generals.
A statement released after the meeting referred to an earlier meeting of Turkey's top political and military leaders that called on parliament to take steps to let in foreign troops. "A unanimous decision was reached ... that there is a need to move urgently according to the National Security advisory taken on 31 January 2003," presidential spokesman Tacan Ildem said.
They noticed that our timetable doesn't seem to match theirs. Also the Turkish stock market tanked today.

Posted by Steve 2003-03-17 15:53:38|| 2003-03-17 15:53:38|| Front Page Top

#7 We have an expression in English: "Too little, too late."

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-03-17 16:19:37|| 2003-03-17 16:19:37|| Front Page Top

#8 "We'll give you $1B for overflight rights, and not a lira more."

Posted by tbn 2003-03-17 16:28:27|| 2003-03-17 16:28:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope they WILL say yes, but they haven't done so yet...only that they will take "urgent action".

Posted by becky 2003-03-17 17:09:28|| 2003-03-17 17:09:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Hmm, did they notice Jacques might have overplayed his hand?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-17 18:33:11|| 2003-03-17 18:33:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Yesterday it was $15 million, today only $10, tomorrow, who knows. Suddenly it's a buyer's market.

Posted by Chuck 2003-03-17 20:30:49|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-03-17 20:30:49|| Front Page Top

#12 I dunno, suddenly this is beginning to look like a masterful exercise in mis-direction. They won't, they won't, they won't, ... oh, ok, go ahead. In the meantime all the vehicles and gear were unloaded, put on trains and carriers, and sent south.

Doing it this way meant that Saddam couldn't plan any sort of spoiling or chemical attack on the north. Turkey was safe, our guys and stuff were safe, the Kurds were safe, and all of a sudden it's H-E-L-L-O Northern front!

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-17 23:22:59|| 2003-03-17 23:22:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Had an emergency metting to decide to make an urgent decsion.
How pollitical of them.

Posted by raptor 2003-03-18 08:35:16|| 2003-03-18 08:35:16|| Front Page Top

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