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Friday, August 24, 2007

A stark assessment released by the nation's intelligence agencies on Thursday depicts a paralyzed Iraqi government unable to take advantage of the security gains achieved by the thousands of extra U.S. troops dispatched to the country this year.

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YEAH!

DUH!

"Who Woulda Thunk it" uncorking hundreds of years of suppressed religious tensions would have resulted in something other than Big Rock Candy Mountain?!




On a summer day in the month of May a burly bum came hiking
Down a shady lane through the sugar cane, he was looking for his liking.
As he roamed along he sang a song of the land of milk and honey
Where a bum can stay for many a day, and he won't need any money

Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees near the soda water fountain,
At the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings on the Big Rock Candy Mountains

There's a lake of gin we can both jump in, and the handouts grow on bushes
In the new-mown hay we can sleep all day, and the bars all have free lunches
Where the mail train stops and there ain't no cops, and the folks are tender-hearted
Where you never change your socks and you never throw rocks,
And your hair is never parted

Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees near the soda water fountain,
At the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings on the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Oh, a farmer and his son, they were on the run, to the hay field they were bounding
Said the bum to the son, "Why don't you come to the big rock candy mountains?"
So the very next day they hiked away, the mileposts they were counting
But they never arrived at the lemonade tide, on the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees near the soda water fountain,
At the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings on the Big Rock Candy Mountains

One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fires were burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking, and he said "Boys, I'm not turning."
"I'm heading for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains;"
"So come with me, we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains."

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, there's a land that's fair and bright,
The handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarete trees,
The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall, the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, you never change your socks
And little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
And you can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin,
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain't no short-handled shovels, no axes, saws or picks,
I'm a-goin' to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I'll see you all this comin' fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains!


en.wikipedia.org


Oh, that's right ------ certainly not the "Commander-in-Chief"!

Iraq's government is no worse than ours.

President Bush is disappointed that an elected official in Iraq cannot bring the end to turmoil which a dictator was able to do. I personally doubt anyone could have really accomplished any more than has Malaki. If Bush admits this then he will also have to admit that Iraq was just not quite ready to govern itself as a democracy and may require a plan similar to Joe Biden's. The only problem I see with Biden's plan is that the Sunnis will end up with no oil revenue and they will not accept that outcome. Well, that and the fact that it would require the various ethnicities to live in their respective parts of the country and they may have lived elsewhere for generations.

Iraq's government is no worse than ours.

Posted by Burt at 2007-08-24 09:22 AM | Reply |

There one and the same.

***** I personally doubt anyone could have really accomplished any more than has Malaki. DANNI *****

.........Saddam was doing much better...........

WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE IRAQ WAR?

not George. not Halliburton.

YOU ARE!

Oh, the fiscally responsible Republicans have it all under control. A couple more tax cuts for the rich and it'll all be taken care of. Besides the oil will pay for it anyway.

Eventually the country must confront REALITY, in spite of the NeoCon/AIPAC BULLSHIT. Sooner is cheaper than later.

Follow the money trail...things in iraq a good for some.

Who cares about this NIE. They didn't read the one that mattered.

So now many of you want to believe intel agencies reports? Seems that only happens when you like what they say and if you do not then you discredit these same agencies - all very humorous.

an i'll djust bed dyou da presadent id dired of hearing it do!

an i'll djust bed dyou da presadent id dired of hearing it do!

Posted by bushskank at 2007-08-24 02:13 PM | Reply


What the fuck did you just say Buckwheat? Even fucking Stymie is scratching his head on this one.

Iran ready to go anyday now.

Saddam was doing much better...........

Posted by skizziks

Better at what?

""So now many of you want to believe intel agencies reports? Seems that only happens when you like what they say and if you do not then you discredit these same agencies - all very humorous.

More humorous is that when their report isn't to your liking you seem completely willing to ignore it. It should also be remembered that some of the biggest criticisms today of Hillary Clinton and others who voted for to give Bush the power to invade was that they did not read the NIE report which would have shown them the truth that Saddam did not have WMDs, was not associated with Al Quaeda and posed no threat to the US. So, some didn't read it to their shame, you pretend that we discredited the earlier reports when nothing could be farther from the truth so that you can conveniently ignore this report.
Like you said, humorous.

Even sadder Danni is the fact that our Elected Officials who are supposed there to represent us and protect and defend the Constitution did not even read the Patriot Act before they voted for it...

well said, danni.

and re....
"What the fuck did you just say Buckwheat? Even fucking Stymie is scratching his head on this one."

Get's a funny flag, 101.

"Intel agencies" as in INTELLIGENCE agencies. As in, people with brains who study this information impartially.
Antonym: Neocons with a political agenda best served by continuing the fiasco in Iraq.

Warner declined to join Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in calling for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. But Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Thursday also demanded that the Iraqi leader quit.

Spud been suggesting that Dumbya and Dickless just quit too but apparently they are not buying into the idear as of yet.

Spud notices that nobody says who they want to replace him with.

Guess that wouldn't be very democracy supporting now would it?

Purple thumbs down on this.

Be Well.

Dethspud-
Google "Allawi" and then "Allawi and lobbyists", just for kicks.

Dethspud-
Google "Allawi" and then "Allawi and lobbyists", just for kicks.


Thanx fer the heads up, Coop!

Ayad bloody Allawi?

Not again!

Barbour, Griffith & Rogers LLC, the registered lobbyists working on behalf of Ayad Allawi, sent out Levin's statements to their mailing list

So we're talkin' Ayad Allawi here? The thirty year Iraqi exile who's worked with both the US and UK intel guys? The guy who was hand picked to be the first appointed head of state fer the "New Iraq's" Interim Government after Saddam was removed from power? Now wot? He's using a republican lobbying firm to try and make himself the new Malaki?

Is Karl Rove gonna run his campaign?

Allawi and Chalabi are like peas is a pod, btw.

They are related you know, them two.

Allawi left Baghdad fer London back in'71 in order to study medicine. He quit the Baathist party which caused him some grief.

Allawi and his wife were later attacked in their bed in London by a madman with an axe. The mad-man left Allawi and his wife fer dead in a puddle of blood. He recovered but she went nuts.

Later, Allawi stirred controversy when he was alleged to have shot six insurgents at a police station in Baghdad himself in front of witnesses.

The Iraqi's will percieve him as they percieve Chalabi no doubt. Which is to say, another US backed Meat Puppet out to rip them off.

Levin and Dianne Fienestein seem adament about getting rid of Malaki after the last NIE but they still haven't mentioned Allawi's name as far as Spud has noticed.

Spud wonders if Levin and Finestein have been talkin' to the same people?

Be Well.

If Levin and Finestine really believe changing shias at the top will bring about the Great Baghdad Kumbaya Festival that the Bushies have been predicting since 2002, they are as stupid as Bush and Cheney.

We should change our justification to invading and occupying Iraq from "democracy" to "democracy by remote control."
Seems to me that only Iraqis should decide when and if Malaki steps down and who replaces him. The longer we meddle the longer we will keep our troops there to enforce our meddling.

Eventually the country must confront REALITY, in spite of the NeoCon/AIPAC BULLSHIT. Sooner is cheaper than later.

Posted by nutcase
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Indeed.
Straight to the point, and perfectly correct.

We should change our justification to invading and occupying Iraq from "democracy" to "democracy by remote control." How about to "dictator we can control for a while"?

Speaking of "dire". Iraq is like that Dire Straits song: "money for nothing".

Q. Is it possible that everything -- all this chaos -- is actually unfolding as planned? A diabolical NEOCON scheme? Or terrible miscalculation? One has to wonder...

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