How’s your surge, Mr. Oil Crony president?
It’s not working so hot for Iraqis.
But Exxon seems to think it’s peachy. I wonder if they plan to send flowers and a thank you note to the families of the 3943 US troops who died to make Exxon richer than 2/3rds of the planet’s countries.
How many troops per gallon does your car get?
February 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
They were mentally retarded…like you…that were used by these animals. You are a sick puppy to write what you wrote here.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I just dropped in to see if the analysis was really as context free and juvenile as Confederate Yankee made it out to be. Sorry to see that he didn’t exaggerate.
Any attack is a tragedy and we’re certainly not at the point where the democratically elected government is home free but even with Al Queda stooping to tricking the mentally disabled into wearing their bomb vests they can only manage two explosions years into a campaign to get a caliphate going.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Of course I oversimplified, but I stand by that generalization. You need deeper analysis? Okay….
So long as al-Sistani and al-Sadr believe it’s to the benefit of Shias to stay sidelined, the surge will proceed. A steady, slow bloodbath that will claim lives slower over more years, but will still result in the same number dead. And as long as the Iraq government leaders can enrich themselves without deadlines, they’ll enjoy their welfare dependency. One can have a strongman as a puppet or a whole slate of puppets feeding off the trough of the US public treasury. Money and perceived power trumps a whole lot of religious ideology.
Big Oil profits are more driven by speculators than by the increased demand of China and India. When speculators believe a troop withdrawal deadline is imminent, they’ll speculate the price of oil down far below what any economist is currently projecting. (And there’s no other proof for my assertion than we’ll just have to wait and see).
Of course, the use of handicapped women is vile, but that’s always how terrorism works. They can’t come close to matching our might toe-to-toe, so they’ll always adapt and innovate to achieve their objective, which is to defeat the superior power’s messaging.
After awhile, if most of the populace faces up and down violence instead of steady improvement, any occupation is doomed to fail. That’s elementary, no matter who the occupier is or how well motivated and well performing its soldiers.
But one needs only view the many examples of cronyism, such as the recent report on Parsons, to see how much war profiteering is going on. ‘Follow the money’ remains a viable adage. That and political concerns are the only remaining impetus that keeps our troops in Iraq. History’s lessons were completely ignored for nearly four years of this conflict and are still given short shrift now.
National security? Compassion for the Iraqi people? C’mon, don’t make me laugh.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Apparently not as many as it used to. But then again, I don’t have a particularly soldier-efficient vehicle.
Particularly one that runs on HUMAN BLO