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2008-11-21 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Baath Party

#1 One day Iraq will dedicate a statue in honor of Bush the Liberator.

Posted by WilliamMarcyTweed 2008-11-21 08:37|| 2008-11-21 08:37|| Front Page Top

#2 One day Iraq will dedicate a statue in honor of Bush the Liberator.

Very true.

Posted by DanNY">DanNY 2008-11-21 08:42|| http://libertyboy.wordpress.com/]">[http://libertyboy.wordpress.com/] 2008-11-21 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 If they can stay free that long.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-11-21 08:53|| 2008-11-21 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 "Saddam's former regime is believed to have used chemical weapons in his Anfal campaign"

What the hell is with that qualifier? They've hung men, including Hussein himself, based on court fucking convictions. What will it take for some asshole writers to drop the allegedlies and "is believed to have"s?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-11-21 12:12|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-21 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Not much detail here but it's a little odd that an Anfal site was anywhere near Najaf, as seems indicated. There were Anfal mass graves down near the Kuwaiti border (evidence from one was used in the Anfal case), but in central-southern the only sites I'm aware of were, logically enough, graves from the 1991 Shi'a rebellion.

Don't hold your breath for any statues. Privately, regard for Bush and Americans among many Iraqis has and will remain very high. Toxic, stupid public culture in the Arab world ensures that that regard remains a discreet open secret. Meanwhile, here in the US, the insane demonization and public trashing of Bush has made the Arab world look less nutty by comparison. Quite an accomplishment.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-11-21 14:53|| 2008-11-21 14:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Make sure you're right, they go ahead.
-Davey Crocket

History will be the ultimate judge of President G.W. Bush, I have had my doubts about some of his decisions, but Iraq isn't one of them. Ask any Kurd, or Chaldean, or Maronite, or Amahdi, or Yazidi.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-21 17:31|| 2008-11-21 17:31|| Front Page Top

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