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2004-06-17 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-06-17 1:17:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Unless some juicier -- and dumber -- theme becomes the latest teen craze for the media, I've been expecting the "Iraqi government at odds with the US" thing to become the newest negative banner. Along with keeping up the pro-wrestling-type excitement over familiar attacks on police and infrastructure that won't change a thing in the long run. The additional irony in the "US, Iraq at odds" negative theme, obviously, is that it's mostly good news -- we don't want the damn place, PLEASE do run it, will you? Yet the unavoidable, desirable, and inconsequential differences with Iraq's temporary bosses will be portrayed as just the next bump in the long difficult path .... that -- oops -- is leading to Iraqi independence and sovereignty.

Posted by Verlaine 2004-06-17 2:04:11 AM|| 2004-06-17 2:04:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Verlaine - well said.

Iraq does what we intended for it to do and the AP spins it as a failure and a slap. I've noticed that the GOP is hitting hard the theme that the Dumbdownocrats are pessimists v/s GW and Repub's are optimists.

Personally, I think that's brilliant. Not much that Dummy's can do, since pessimism has been their campaign theme. Making their greatest strength their weakness.

In fact, once you get into the mindset - Dim's as pessimists, Repub's as optimists - this AP article plays right into GOP scheme.

Posted by B 2004-06-17 8:04:29 AM|| 2004-06-17 8:04:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 V- actually from what I see the left is taking the exact opposite tack - theyre playing up Allawis CIA ties, a rumor (false?) that Brahimi was going to resign due to frustration at being "outmaneuvered" by the CPA and IGC, etc. They are essentially ignoring disputes between the Iraqi Interim Govt and the US, since it doesnt fit their agenda. The only folks I see expressing frustration with IGC/IIG differences with the US are conservative pessimists, like Tacitus (who, unlike the left, is honest enough to admit they exist, but is frustrated that a strategy other than "empire" is being pursued)

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-17 9:48:00 AM|| 2004-06-17 9:48:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Deny Deny Deny:
By facilitating butchery of Secularism in Iraq, faith-based' Bush-Powell are delivering Iraq to the same animals who perpetrated the 9-11 genocide. At last notice, Fallujah is an al-Qaeda city, which will be a base for anti-American operations, on a global scale. At last count, al-Sadr has the support of 67% of all Iraqis (much higher if the Kurd, Turkemen, Christian, Assyrians, etc that faith-based' Bush-Powell have written off in favor of Sunni/Shiite elites, are excluded).
Only one hardliner posts here, and that is me.

Posted by Dog Bites Trolls 2004-06-17 10:45:58 AM|| 2004-06-17 10:45:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 only hardliner?
what does that make me then?
a poser or something ?

Posted by dcreeper 2004-06-17 11:57:40 AM|| 2004-06-17 11:57:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I think he's using "hardliner" as a synonym for "asshat".

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-17 12:10:12 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-06-17 12:10:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Only one hardliner posts here, and that is me.

Such arrogance. Such vanity. Is that you, Sen. Kerry?

Posted by Raj 2004-06-17 12:39:11 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-06-17 12:39:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, give it a rest, dogbite. Nothing about you is hard, including your line.

Dumbkopf.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-17 10:21:50 PM|| 2004-06-17 10:21:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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