If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
– Moshe Dayan
– Moshe Dayan
Something the Bush administration might want to make note of…
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is sticking with the term ‘sectarian violence’ this week. But I digress: NYT
What happened to all this happy talk about the Iraqis standing up for themselves? We’re obviously talking about a propped-up puppet here, not an independent government official.
Time tocall it what it is: a civil war in a failed state brought to the world by BushCo and the Neocons.
Seems that NYT is changing it’s tune..
US media talk of Iraq civil war
What a difference a day makes, eh?
I love it when you talk tough.
This comment was supposed to be in response to Cabin Girl’s comment below on Bush swimming with the sharks.
I gues now that Senator John Warner R-VA has nixed “Stay the Course” calling the Iraq mess -‘it’s a civil war.’
But we’re pass that debate – there is the crisis of the Al-Maliki Iraq government about to fall as Al-Sadr loyalists makes good their boycott. Quits the government.
It’s just nuts. And it’s about to get worse, I fear.
I’m suspicious of the timing of this “leak”. Bush telling al-Maliki to shape up and fix everything is ludicrous. So they think that al-Maliki can’t stop the violence? No shit, Sherlock. Only it’s not because he’s incapable or unwilling. I read somewhere that Cheney doesn’t like al-Maliki and would like to set up some strongman to whip Iraq into order a la Saddam. Except that to be a strongman you have to have a formidable militia or army. The strongest strongman in Iraq right now seems to be Muqtada al-Sadr. Not to mention the fact that they’re still sacrificing our men and women on the altar of “spreading democracy” and now would be happy to place a person as ruthless as Saddam right back in charge. Right.
I think Bush is beginning to find out just what kind of sharks he’s been swimming with for all these years. I hope they take him under and finish him off quickly.
leaders of more extreme Shiite groups but he relies on the Green Zone to even stay alive right now. Without the Green Zone he’d be just another kidnapping/suicide bombed/dumped body. But it isn’t a civil war 🙂
I wonder if al-Maliki is thinking about a career change about now? ‘Scapegoat in Chief’ is offering nothing to his retirement plan. Or maybe that IS his retirement plan.
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While Bush has been berating NATO countries for not sending enough troops into nasty Afghanistan, this is what’s simmering beneath the surface:
Nato’s fragile unity over Afghanistan has begun to crack ahead of an important summit – with one public call to discuss an exit strategy from the Allied forces’ bloody confrontation with the Taliban.
While heads of government are to make a show of unity over Afghanistan at tomorrow’s alliance summit in Riga, Belgium’s Defence Minister has questioned the future of Nato’s most important mission.
And heads of the alliance’s 26 nations are unlikely to agree to send reinforcements to Afghanistan – dealing a blow to Tony Blair’s hopes that others will take up more of the increasingly heavy burden.
And check this one out:Al Qaeda and Taliban Openly Operating in Pakistan
Now NATO is holding the shitty end of the stick.
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Pakistan is coming out of the closet on the Taliban it would seem. “Pakistan officials” are now telling NATO that they may as well stop fighting, accept the Taliban, and allow a new ‘unity’ government with Taliban elements, and without Hamid Karzai. Jeeze, I’m surprised that they didn’t also announce their undying support of the new al Qaeda political wing in Afghanistan. (snark)
We have Bush to thank for the second coming of the Taliban. He’s never finished anything he started in his life. There aren’t enough of Poppy’s minions to fix his slime trail of screw ups.
Ok, this is about the cutest news story I’ve ever seen.
Thanks, I needed that! (The Science Headlines are kind of gloomy today…)
I needed that this morning.
Depleting forests and coal reserves, compounded by the environmental cost of traditional energy sources, are forcing African nations to seriously consider developing nuclear power, experts say.
Another in the seemingly unending litany of Chinese environmental problems: Water from Beijing’s fourth-largest drinking source was not fit for human consumption or irrigation during the month of October, the capital’s environmental protection agency reported Tuesday. Of the city’s 21 water sources, the water quality at one other reservoir was suitable for irrigation, while four other reservoirs were dried up and could not provide any water. In a separate report on Beijing lakes, seven out of 16 lakes in the city were so polluted that their water could not be used to irrigate the parks that surrounded them. Only four of the city’s lakes could be used to supply drinking water, while water from the other lakes was only fit for industrial use. Untreated wastewater, industrial effluent and agricultural pollution are to blame for Beijing’s deteriorating water quality in its lakes and reservoirs, Xinhua news agency reported.
It’s time for the United States to have a national climate service – an interagency partnership led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and charged with understanding climate dynamics, forecasts and impacts – say six members of the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group.
The roof of the world should be covered in trees. Today, Tibet is mainly covered by desert pasture, but it was likely once adorned with cypress forest, which was destroyed by local inhabitants over the past 4600 years.
German radiologists say they’ve found strong brand recognition elicits strong activity in our brains, processed with less effort, possibly determining what items we will purchase.
Scientists have identified a group of genes that control the formation of shapes and color patterns on the shell of the marine mollusk abalone. The shape and color patterns on the shell of the mollusk mirror the localized expression of specific genes in the mantle, a layer of skin situated just below the shell.
Global warming is creating a climate time bomb by storing enormous amounts of heat in the waters of the north Atlantic, UK scientists have discovered. The study suggests heat stored in the oceans could be released into the atmosphere in future, tempering efforts to stabilize global temperatures with cuts in manmade greenhouse gas emissions. This effect could boost temperatures by 8 degrees Celsius making large parts of the surface uninhabitable and threatening billions of peoples’ lives. Climate scientist James Lovelock, who angered climate scientists with his Gaia theory of a living planet and then alienated environmentalists by backing nuclear power, said a traumatized earth might only be able to support less than a tenth of its 6 billion people. “We are not all doomed. An awful lot of people will die, but I don’t see the species dying out,” he told a news conference. “A hot earth couldn’t support much over 500 million … Almost all of the systems that have been looked at are in positive feedback … and soon those effects will be larger than any of the effects of carbon dioxide emissions from industry and so on around the world,” he said. [So people, if you believe in a higher power, pray that the Supreme Court does the right thing in the case it’s hearing today… – K.P.]
I’ve read that 500 million number being tied to the need for population control.
Exceptional as alwys KP.
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Christmas trees are nice, but giving soldiers adequate equipment would be better.
Yeah, but PR photos of body armor just don’t have the same warm fuzzy factor for the X-tians.
Thinkprogress cites a report that Bill Frist has said he’ll not run for President.
Strike 2 Judge strikes president’s “unfettered” authority to designate terrorist groups
Frist story confirmed:
Finally, a proper diagnosis.
Finally, a proper diagnosis
WW, that’s rich.
But have pity on his patients. Oh my.
ineffectual retard: AP/Yahoo
How pathetic. Like North Korea can’t buy Ipods somewhere else?
Good freaken grief..the tiny minds making up bushco’s foreign policy(an oxymoron in itself)seems to have sunk to a new low even for them. I think I’ll call their so called foreign policy from now on the ‘Ipod Policy’. Nah nah nah nah nah na..no ipods for you..that’ll learn ya to mess with the mighty US.
Not only worst president ever but most embarrassing ever.