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2003-12-18 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-18 00:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...including minutes to a meeting of resistance attacks leaders that listed by name those who attended.

Cheez! Did these guys go to the Terrorism School for Stupid People? Minutes???? In writing? What else were they doing, roll call? Bunk checks? Swim buddies?

Posted by Steve White 2003-12-18 12:09:55 AM|| 2003-12-18 12:09:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Repressive regimes tend to document everything. Old habits are hard to break.

Posted by Pappy 2003-12-18 1:05:21 AM|| 2003-12-18 1:05:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe they'll find those WMD's in Saddam's shirt pocket

Posted by NotMikeMoore 2003-12-18 1:51:54 AM|| 2003-12-18 1:51:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 You sound bitter NMM. Unhappy that we're doing so well this week? Don't fret maybe someone will get killed soon...that should brighten your day, eh?

Posted by RMcLeod 2003-12-18 2:56:17 AM|| 2003-12-18 2:56:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Maybe they'll find those WMD's in Saddam's shirt pocket".
Witty.
We know he had 'em, NMM...or did your precious U.N. pass 17 resolutions about his WMD violations for nothing?

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-18 3:58:24 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-18 3:58:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Now now. Mike is having a bad week. First the economic news is great, the Dow is over 10,000, and Saddam is in our jail. He has to grasp at something.

I find it very amusing that lefties like Mike always go on about the WMD issue. Ignoring completely the mass graves, the plastic shredder, or Uday's "special relationship" with the local high school principles. As if the suffering for the Iraqi people is simply not worthy of being relieved. So much for the compassionate left.

Different people supported this war for different reasons. WMDs, Saddam's links to terrorism, his past actions, as well as the horror he visited on the Iraqi people all were cases for the war. The case against amounts to what? France would be mad at us?

Even if you don't like America and want to see it fall, surely you don't want the people of Iraq to be murdered, robbed and rape in perpetuity do you? Well, do you?

Posted by Ben 2003-12-18 4:54:28 AM|| 2003-12-18 4:54:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Repressive regimes tend to document everything.

Useful to keep people in line.

Posted by rkb 2003-12-18 6:10:47 AM|| 2003-12-18 6:10:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 People like NMM would have no trouble at all- not even a little bit- finding a host of good reasons for this war, if only a Democrat were waging it. The reasons were numerous, and obvious.

Saddam's WMD were never "the" reason for the war: they were just one reason among many, and were emphasized for the purpose of bringing the U.N. on board.

For justification, one need look no further than the mass graves, the childrens' jails, the torture chambers and the shredders.

Anyone who cannot accept the imperative of ending that evil tyranny as sufficient reason for what we did, is not a decent human being.

Posted by Dave D. 2003-12-18 7:19:33 AM|| 2003-12-18 7:19:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Swim buddies

ROTFLMAO

Posted by Dragon Fly 2003-12-18 7:33:44 AM|| 2003-12-18 7:33:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Can't add much more to the commentary noting the callousness and cynicism of NMM. One gleans more about the voids in his character from what he doesn't say as from what he does.

Old Patriot's observation of increased troll activity being dependant on good news for George Bush and/or America seems to be holding. I vote that we elevate it to a theory. Too bad we can't design experiments to test it properly...

Posted by Ptah 2003-12-18 7:53:58 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-12-18 7:53:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Repressive regimes tend to document everything

Agreed, just look at the detailed records the Nazis kept on the death camps, the Soviet archives, the East German Stasi spy files, etc. I believe they found the same in Cambodia. That may be one reason for the "looting" and all the fires in government buildings when we took Baghdad. Someone was trying to destroy as many records as possible. Look at the mountain of records the WMD team is sifting through. When Cuba and North Korea fall, watch for the same thing to show up.

Posted by Steve 2003-12-18 8:39:31 AM|| 2003-12-18 8:39:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 "if only a Democrat were waging it."

so lets all vote for Joe and test NMM out.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-12-18 9:05:26 AM|| 2003-12-18 9:05:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Actually NMM, Saddam is hiding WMDs............ up his pussy.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-12-18 10:16:21 AM|| 2003-12-18 10:16:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 "...so lets all vote for Joe..."

Nah. I'm gonna do what any good Republican's gonna do: contribute to Howlin' Howard's primary campaign, then vote for Bush.

The Democratic Party deserves no less.

Posted by Dave D. 2003-12-18 10:27:56 AM|| 2003-12-18 10:27:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Or it could just be that there was no list of names, but the intel guys put out the word that there was to see who bolts.

Posted by mojo 2003-12-18 11:55:55 AM|| 2003-12-18 11:55:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 it'll still backfire Dave D. Dean goes down like a lead balloon in '04, dem hawks led by Hillary smash doves led by Gore in '08. Clinton(H)-Edwards beats Bush(J)-Rice in general.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-12-18 1:19:48 PM|| 2003-12-18 1:19:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 LH, one problem bro'; no self-respecting hetero-sexual man will vote for Billary. Maybe some pseudo-enlightened intellectual weenies who like to go to wine tasting events - but no straight shooters. Rice would split the black vote. A lot of folks in N.C. don't even like Edwards. Better hope it's J. Bush running and not McCain. If its McCain, the dems get crushed again.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-12-18 2:19:09 PM|| 2003-12-18 2:19:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 If I were an intel troop in Iraq right now, I'd be watching for massive runs on consumables, especially, as someone mentioned, toilet paper. Anything CAN be used, even the stuff the Germans sell, but good toilet paper is hard to find. When you're scared enough to not know whether to sh$$ or go blind, nature usually makes the decision for you.

Jarhead: I don't feel comfortable with McCain. For some reason, every time I see him, hear his voice, or read what he's said, I get flashbacks of the "Manchurian Candidate" running through my head. I've had enough experience with personal life-saving prescient episodes I don't ignore them.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-12-18 2:24:20 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-12-18 2:24:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Interesting observation by Jonah Goldberg over at NRO, concerning news reports about the course of Saddam's interrogation:

"A few quick points before I get on a plane. First, where are all the Democrats denouncing these leaks from Saddam Hussein's interrogation room? I mean we were told that leaks are terrible, especially pertaining to intelligence operations, right?

"More important, I'm kind of at a loss as to why all of these reports of Saddam being defiant and arrogant are being taken at face value. . . .

"Since when does the CIA -- who's handling Saddam -- leak how super-important interrogations are going? In other words, any news that's allegedly coming out of Saddam's pie hole is news his handlers want leaked. My most hopeful guess is that Saddam's actually singing like a bird but the Americans don't want the bad guys to know it. Normally, you keep even the capture of an important asset secret so you can roll-up all of his contacts without them flying the coop. Since that was impossible, my hope is that the Americans are saying he's not cooperating even as they have all of these successful raids. Doesn't that seem plausible?"

Posted by Mike 2003-12-18 2:25:12 PM|| 2003-12-18 2:25:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 "Clinton(H)-Edwards"

Damn! That sounds like a plan, liberalhawk! Here, I'll buy you a tube of lipstick: put enough of it on that pig, and you might even get her into the prom.

But not into the White House.

LOL...

Posted by Dave D. 2003-12-18 2:27:38 PM|| 2003-12-18 2:27:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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