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2008-06-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 did he think of that himself? Or from the thoughts randomly beamed into his brain? Perspiring minds wanna know?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-28 00:28|| 2008-06-28 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Costs that have accrued couldn't have been made up by oil revenues. However, the entire Persian Gulf was a British ditch until the 20th century. The area didn't even support much fishing. It was Anglo-American interests that developed it and commenced the futile efforts at civilizing locals. The Arab and Persian presence centred around the Stait of Hormuz (Arabs live on both banks). Oman has been settled for at least 3 millenia. Otherwise, the Arabian Peninsula was desert other than the once barely populated Tigris and Euphrates marshes. Locals claim sovereignty only because the post WW1 political climate allowed tribes to be deemed nation-states. That can all change with a commitment to realism in foreign policy.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-28 00:34|| 2008-06-28 00:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The British should have made the Kuwaiti colony larger, include most of the oil, and made it a crown colony similar to Hong Kong rather than locally run. The Middle East would be very different today if they had. Bediuin would still be doing there thing oblivious to the modern world and we'd all be happier.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-06-28 02:18|| 2008-06-28 02:18|| Front Page Top

#4 I am for water blackmail. Blow up the Saud's water supplies and they will pay off the US deficit. Seriously, what kind of moron would respect their sovereignty after their terror financing? The Sauds have roots only in the Negd section of their territorial-demographic cess pool. It is a fake country, manufactured by Anglo-American interests, in deference to anti-colonialist ideas. Ideas can revert.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-28 07:33|| 2008-06-28 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Cause Dennis if it does turn out we made another successful democracy like Germany or Japan, then you and yours who claim to represent the 'people' will be among the great betrayers of human rights and you just couldn't face that could you, you little Wormtongue.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-28 09:40|| 2008-06-28 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 He's a shitbag, I guess he'd rather see Sudan or China get the contracts than us.

He can die of AIDS and rot in hell forever for all I care.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-28 10:34|| 2008-06-28 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Ye, so---you walk to work, Rep?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-28 11:49|| 2008-06-28 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Alalam Iran sure seems impressed with him. Are they aware that over here he's seen as some kind of a midget clown good only for comic relief? That most folks outside of his district see him as an object to point and laugh at?

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-28 11:53|| 2008-06-28 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Dennis believes that Dick Cheny's people live in vast underground cities spewing forth extra rich carbon every night so as not to be detected.

I know this because I'm a Carbon Person myself. Don't tell Dennis tho because we've tunneled under his house and we're gonna GAS HIM with Special Carbon real soon!
/coo coo

Posted by RD">RD 2008-06-28 12:53|| 2008-06-28 12:53|| Front Page Top

#10 I like your plan McZoid.

Posted by Hellfish 2008-06-28 21:37|| 2008-06-28 21:37|| Front Page Top

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