“[We] have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. [We] have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. Our unfortunate troops [under] hard conditions of climate and supply, are policing an immense area, paying dearly every day in lives for the willfully wrong policy of the civil administration in Baghdad.”
Who said this? Answer below the fold.
– T.E. Lawrence, Sunday Times of London, August 22, 1920.
Via Andrew Sullivan
Perhaps we could get the Brits to come and burn the White House?
makes one wonder as the change of heart. where has his head been for almost 5 years now with this administration. could it be is writing one in a sobor state of mind here.
so, why did we have to rely on the French to tell us it was a bad idea?
Got rid of everyone in State, CIA and DIA who knew T.E.L. from a hole in the ground.
Not only that, they refused the services of pretty much every Middle East Studies specialist in the country- a group which pretty much tried to volunteer en mass right after 9/11.
Chimpco exploits misery, the current status quo in Iraq IS THE BUSH PLAN.
Like I’ve always said, BushCo wanted Iraq for BushCo, not the U.S.- we just paid for it.
well, now that we are actually pissing off just about the entire world……….:o) whew!!!!!!!! what to do next???!!! put then in a jail isolated from the wole world and feed them MRE’s for the rest of their natural life, PLEASE!!!!!!!
give them a bucket to piss in and distroy their holey book and beat them on a daily basis and make them swear to their gastly deeds on a daily basis on the microphone of the world so we can all see and hear. deny them their god given rights, or so they say!!! turn them in other religious right that they really did not want in the begining and let us throw stones at them, burn them, disgust them…oh hellyouknow what I mean!!!!! just make them piss and shit in a bucket will be fine with me. no let them do it on themselves and lie in it days on end. Shut up Brenda…get a life, willyou…
I apologize to everyone here for my mouth. after I got to thinking what I said, I was embarressed of myself. Please excuse me for my mad mouth disease today. Thanks you to the posters and the establishment here. I do not want to degrade this site ever…so please except it for what it is worth..
I wouldn’t worry too much..I sound like a drunken sailor at times in real life(or half the time)..I have moderated my language here but what the fuck if you can’t say what you feel, right.
I don’t have time to do a diary and don’t quite know where to post it, so I’m posting it here. It’s a research document by Ret. USAF Colonel Sam Gardiner about the lead-up to the Iraq war, written in October of 2003. Much, much good information in there.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth_1.pdf
are here:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth_2.pdf
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth_3.pdf
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth_4.pdf
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth_5.pdf
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/documents/truth_6.pdf
Sounds like some kind of loony liberal. Why does he hate America? And why did he get in a time machine, go back to 1920, and insult the bravery of our troops like that? Will liberals stop at nothing to bring our country down??
And why does he look so much like Peter O’Toole?