I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Nope.
You needed reminding?
You'd think for a billion a week they could do better than this.
nope they cant do anything right any of them the state department puhhlleezzeeeee a bunch of bumling fools defense department my god where did they find those idiots the us military what made them think they could evr do anything right i mean after everythig we learned from vietnam a bunch of baby-killers
To answer your question no they can't.
only an unsophisticated eye would not see that the American people don't care whether it's provincial or provisional, just that it's pro-kicking-Saddam's-ass.
p.s. we don't like him. never have.
We all know we can't do it right. Atrios called it: there's no way to protect pipelines, and we can't ever win the war on terror. It's hopeless!
It's not all bad. No flash, no frames, no pop-ups, and works on Mozilla as well as IE.
Do it right? Not even to save themselves.
Because that's what Clinton did.
Their website must be edited by Lambert.
Can you say "Imperialism?" I'm sure you can.
Taking a more charitable view: who among you has never mistyped a word and then posted it? Even editorials in the L.A. Times have terrible typos nowadays.
Pray that Ms. riverbend never sees this. We'd never hear the end of it.
But...but...
Its NOT a typo. Its not even a homonym.
Guess them provincial folks ain't so good at wordin'.
mad city:
"They" is not the State Dept in general, the Defense Dept in general, or the military in general. After 200+ years as a country, we're the rich, relatively safe, and we have the strongest military in the world, so obviously a whole lot of people have done a whole lot of things right over that time. I'm guessing that by "they," Atrios is referring to the feckless idiots currently running Defense and the administration in general.
What is it with wingers (apologies if you're not one and have merely not yet had your coffee) that they can't tell the difference between criticizing specific idiocies or idiots and saying "America sucks"?
On a related note, the NYTimes article linked to by ItAintEazy refers to the "Coalition Public Authority." Me, I always thought "CPA" meant "Certified Public Accountant" -- and hell, maybe one of those would do just as well as what we've got. At least we'd have some idea of how much the damn thing is going to cost. Or has cost. Or something like that.
communist party of america?
now that you be a cooler type
Speaking of can't do anything right. What are the killer D's doing with thaat collected money from MoveOn.org?
I saw this on the internet recently.
1) "The democrats hired a telemarketing firm in texas to plant the idea in the senior citizen community that they may have marked an unintended choice." Bullshit. The claims by the seniors were immediate. Not a chance that could happened
This is problem of donating money to a group of people that don’t yet have an idea about what they going to do with it. The killer D's are going to get one million dollars and then they're going to blow it. MoveOn.org should have asked the killer D's what hell they were going to do with the money first. They run risk of having fewer people donating if the see money going down the rat hole.
My god, the home-schooling crowd has nuclear weapons.
Think about that.
amazing what that anti-midas touch can achieve.
I don't think it was a mistake. I think it is part of the evolution of the name to "Colonial Provisional Authority".
Capture and Punish Arabs?
Someone over at Billmon suggested an Arabic speaker who designed the website may have goofed in the translation.
Which does make you wonder why we’re relying so much on translators for this (a stock of translators further reduced when some of them were discharged in training for what Rick Santorum might call, if he spoke Arabic, rajul aela rajul action).
Everyone should scroll down on Billmon's page to Dream Time. It is the best M.L.K. post I have seen out there. Great comments as well.
As far as doing anything right, Bush has f'ed up everything he has ever tried. Why break a perfect streak?
Look, Ma, I just got a tin-hat.
"Someone over at Billmon suggested an Arabic speaker who designed the website may have goofed in the translation."
Or was extremely sly.
Presumably, the US wrote the term in English first - otherwise the Viceoyalty would not need translators since it could throw together Arabic terms at the drop of a hat. How the hell do you get the translation right but fuck up the original? Provisional and provincial aren't spelled similarly in Arabic, so it defies probability that someone wrote it wrong in their own native language (English) but managed to get it right in a language that they just learned (Arabic), especially considering how Arabic works.
Arabic dictionaries group words based on the verb they are derived from (which means virtually everything, except prepositions and articles, is grouped this way). Ex: madrasa is not found in the Ms, but in the Ds (actually the daals, since there are two Arabic letters usually transliterated as D; go figure), because its root verb is darasa. So even if provisional and provincial were spelled as similarly in Arabic as in English, they would be in totally different parts of the dictionary; you aren't going to just willy-nilly get that far off the mark.
If you were able to pull off the stunt of getting the translation right with that original you would be an Arabic idiot-savant of unpallaled proportions. On the other hand, if you are clever enough to realize the similarity of provisional and provincial in English, you could make a subtle political statement; get it right in Arabic to prevent (more)needless anger, and flub it in English for a lark. I mean, exactly which boss will be able to catch the difference?
Actually, one could argue that for once, they got something right...
Grudge match: Freud vs. spell-check.
Mad City:
Are you stuck in some strange Sixties time warp with that "baby-killer" crap?
Many in the military--especially retirees who no longer had to answer to Rumsfeld--warned that going ahead with Operation Iraqi Fiefdom could lead to exactly the kind of chaos and violence we're now witnessing.
As I recall, Marine General Anthony Zinni was especially outspoken about this, and even Norman Schwartzkopf cautioned against action without a UN mandate.
Aside from Rumsfeld, who served stateside in the Air Force in the late 1950s, every one of those who planned and pushed for this war had two things in common:
1. They had no firsthand knowledge of the Middle East.
2. They had never served on active duty in the military.
But what's worse is that these arrogant shits will probably never suffer the consequences of having led us into this debacle. They'll all end up as fat and happy consultants and corporate directors, while ordinary GIs and Iraqis will pay the price for the blunders of the Busheviks.
Don't take it out on the soldiers; save your anger for the ones who sent them there.
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