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| Iraq |
| Basra looks like Damascus in the final scenes of Lawrence of Arabia |
| 2008-02-24 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #5 Scroll down to Opinion for commentary of the maligning of Prostitutes in comparing their trade with reporters. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-02-24 09:31 |
| #4 Why don't we just take the goddamned place , force order, and pump that damned oil right into our tankers? We have been running around for 5 years trying to convince everybody what nice guys we are, and spending billions of $ kissing ass. Lets just put our govt. in place, reap the oil and be done with it. /Dream Sequence |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-24 09:20 |
| #3 I'll save the rest of you the time and trouble of going to a (urk) New York Times article. Here it is in a nutshell: British and American officials say Basra’s experiment in self-rule could serve as a model for Iraq’s future, but if so — many locals and outside advisers say — that future remains dark. Of course, I didn't see any facts or numbers on the first page. Perhaps some braver soul could look at the other two pages. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-02-24 06:23 |
| #2 re SOLOMON MOORE: just to add [backpeddling] I've seen worser! /loves that woid. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-02-24 03:11 |
| #1 SOLOMON MOORE I wonder if this Soloman Moore: "My love of the biz [sic Rapporteur™] probably started in high school with me reading my father's New York Times subscription every morning," wrote Moore, 36. "And believe it or not, I first started thinking about being a foreign correspondent when I was 16 and watched a movie called 'Salvador,' by Oliver Stone. The movie is about this reporter who chucks everything and drives from New York to El Salvador to report on U.S. involvement in death squad killings. The reporter has no money, no power, no gun; he's not even a particularly virtuous fellow. But he's able to shake up the status quo just by the force of his questions, just by hewing to the truth. I loved that idea and still do." /uuurppuke |
| Posted by: RD 2008-02-24 02:54 |