HULK SMASH
The Gulf state Arab princes want us there.
arabs?
Suck. On. This. Forever.
The Cleveland Browns are on the clock.
As I say, we're not leaving Iraq until we're forced to because our economy collapses or the military completely fails or Iraqis start killing our troops in large numbers.
The only way the occupation ends is when the exhaustion overwhelms us.
Ain't it grand?
FU!
Woke up this morning to find out that my neighbor has walked away from their house. Stopped paying a few months back and now the bank is changing the locks. Very disconcerting.
The Steelers have several major needs along their offensive line, and they most likely draft into the deep tackle class. They love Chris Williams, Jeff Otah and Cherilus, and hope at least one of them is still on the board here. They would also love to add cornerback Aqib Talib or Antoine Cason for a secondary that gave up too many big plays last fall. They would then address the offensive line in the second and third rounds with multiple selections.
Brought up from below:
The all volunteer army is the warrior class.
Maybe the West Point officers and career NCOs, but I'd wager the average grunt was just looking for a job or trying to find a way to pay for college.
Friedman Units will come back with the next Administration. Politicians will continue to be afraid of "losing Iraq" ignoring the fact that we lost in Iraq when the Chimperor invaded in March of 2003.
Woke up this morning to find out that my neighbor has walked away from their house. Stopped paying a few months back and now the bank is changing the locks. Very disconcerting.
Frenchie
The American Dream has become a nightmare.
arabs?
leibniz♘☮
Sure.
Iranians aren't Arabs. We may call it the Persian Gulf but the Saudis call it the Arabian Gulf. What a complicated mess that region is. Shias, Sunnis, Arabs, Persians...
The State of Israel is the only things that unifies them, sort of.
"cornerback Aqib Talib".
Yeah that will work.
The Friedman Unit will end when cab drivers quit answering Little Tommy.
Drives the mouthbreathers nuts when you tell them that Iranians are not Arabs.
The real Iranian threat is to the Saudis. That must be cast as a threat to America so our blood and treasure can be used to defend the Saudi princes and their oil.
Drives the Iranians nuts to call them Arabs.
Bush regime to America: We're not getting out of Iraq and you can't make us! Ha, ha!
This country is being run by a cranky toddler.
Fifty years ago or so, there were people who huffed and puffed against the UN. They worried about calls for a world government. It was the "liberals" who were espousing the ideas of giving away our american ideals to the tyranny of an authoritarian ruling regime. So what do we have now? We have a world-wide authoritarian ruling regime that imposes its "freedoms" on arabs and persians. Odd that.
there you go atrios, use some reverse psychology. i am serious, we are dealing with 3-year-old mentality in this country, you try to elevate the discourse and then you are pinned as elitist, etc.
how about the cost (in trillions) then tying it to how 35 million americans go to bed hungry most every night...and how teh taliban is powerful enough in afghanistan to negotiate...how the INFLATION of FOOD and ENERGY costs is typical rightwing: it comes on the last year of their administration
jeebus there is enough snarky reverse-psychology to run an entire blog off it
"cornerback Aqib Talib".
Yeah that will work.
I thought I heard someone say the Taliban were "coming back", but I must have misheard.
The Cleveland Browns do not draft until the FOURTH ROUND, the 122nd pick.
And it gets more expensive every year.
And the best part is, its all deficit spending! Let's destroy the value of Americans' life savings some more. Why the hell not?
The real Iranian threat is to the Saudis. That must be cast as a threat to America so our blood and treasure can be used to defend the Saudi princes and their oil.
Chico Marxist
I truly doubt that Iran was/is a threat to anyone. They were well on their way to an open society until Bush started all of this bullshit.
Well, I'm thoroughly pissed off now. And up to this point, I was only mildly pissed off.
I been walking . . .
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7i2AFRX-z0I
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how the INFLATION of FOOD and ENERGY costs is typical rightwing: it comes on the last year of their administration
I'm sure the plan was to get the hell out of Dodge before the shit hit the fan; certainly they've been trying to bullshit us about the true state of the economy for at least two or three years now.
Run out the clock and pardon the crime family and move to Paraguay.
What a complicated mess that region is. Shias, Sunnis, Arabs, Persians...
too bad yurop had to practically kill most their populations before they came together; maybe humans are only so able...can only accept so much without ridiculous amounts of violence
The real Iranian threat is to the Saudis. That must be cast as a threat to America so our blood and treasure can be used to defend the Saudi princes and their oil.
Chico Marxist
Yep!
http://thumbsnap.com/v/fQhhVFvL.jpg
i like how it's not an emergency to leave. why make a precipitous decision? why reverse course? why panic? Let's just keep tossing people into the meat grinder, in a ruminative mood.
Well, I'm thoroughly pissed off now. And up to this point, I was only mildly pissed off.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
Because the Vikings don't pick in the First Round?
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trai...gn-
history.html
make or break moments in past presidential campaigns.
The Eagles have several need areas that must be addressed, but the wide receiver and linebacker spots are high on their list. They would love to add Mayo for their aggressive defense
I'd get Swiss too.
Because the Vikings don't pick in the First Round?
Outside of last year, the Vikes have had a pretty lousy track record in the draft. So trading our picks for Jared Allen was fine and dandy with me.
Because the Vikings don't pick in the First Round?
Gomez
Well, they did a zero-round pick by getting Jared Allen before the draft.
Everything is on hold until the election. Once a dem wins the press will start pushing for a withdrawal date within 24 hrs. and call the prez to be a failure if the troops aren't withdrawn by the inaugeration.
Outside of last year, the Vikes have had a pretty lousy track record in the draft. So trading our picks for Jared Allen was fine and dandy with me.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
You should trade up and get a RB.
I truly doubt that Iran was/is a threat to anyone. They were well on their way to an open society until Bush started all of this bullshit.
1Watt, Hermit
Bush could fuck up a two car funeral.
You should trade up and get a RB.
Hmmmm.
Wait, we've got about seven of them now. And six of them are named Adrian Peterson.
If Jerod Mayo is held, they'll be holding the Mayo.
Wait, we've got about seven of them now. And six of them are named Adrian Peterson.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
You can never have too many.
I hope the Packers don't pick a QB. I want them to sign Daunte Culpepper.
I notice that the trolls don't like to talk sports.
Everything is on hold until the election. Once a dem wins the press will start pushing for a withdrawal date within 24 hrs. and call the prez to be a failure if the troops aren't withdrawn by the inaugeration.
I want some of whatever you're smoking.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson!
/Wistful Jets '07 draft class fan
I hope the Packers don't pick a QB. I want them to sign Daunte Culpepper.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
They're looking at Joe Flacco.
Which is a great name.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson!
/Wistful Jets '07 draft class fan
Apostate
Yunz took our Alan Faneca.
Everything is on hold until the election. Once a dem wins the press will start pushing for a withdrawal date within 24 hrs. and call the prez to be a failure if the troops aren't withdrawn by the inaugeration.
I hope we all pile on the new administration and Congress to get the U.S. out of Iraq. If a new president were to get the U.S. out, he/she would be very popular, despite the media, I think.
They're looking at Joe Flacco.
Which is a great name.
Yeah, but does it sound good when Terry Bradshaw says it?
"brettfavrebrettfavrebrettfavre"
We need to stay in the mid-east until the Battle Of Armageddon is completed and Pator John Hagee establishes his "Center For Religious Mental Defectives".
Everything is on hold we get a lineman
fyt
Yunz took our Alan Faneca.
Ferguson, Faneca, Manfold. Yes'sir.
But the offense still stinks.
The US isn't leaving Iraq until the Iraqis kick them out.
If a new president were to get the U.S. out, he/she would be very popular, despite the media, I think.
see: all the 'gates' the media made up during the clinton tenure; oh and impeached for a blowjob...nope teh media is there to skewer dems, period
The US isn't leaving Iraq until the Iraqis kick them out.
When Iraq stands up, the U.S. will stand down.
One thing I don't understand about 9/11 is why the iconographic view of the WTC was not left standing as a memorial.
http://colinfahey.com/oldpages/
2...er_rubble03.jpg
see: all the 'gates' the media made up during the clinton tenure; oh and impeached for a blowjob...nope teh media is there to skewer dems, period
Well, exactly. The public didn't buy into the media's hatred of Clinton, for the most part.
One thing I don't understand about 9/11 is why the iconographic view of the WTC was not left standing as a memorial.
There's money to be made off that property.
Gates that Obama is resposible for:
Bittergate; Bowlgate; Wafflegate; Wrightgate.
Gates that Obama is resposible for:
Bittergate; Bowlgate; Wafflegate; Wrightgate.
Lime Rickey
FlagpinGate
Nothing to do with nothing, here's a pretty picture of the Strait of Canso taken by a friend.
MichelleGate
"Gates" that are the fault of The Nixon Administration: all of them.
The US isn't leaving Iraq until the Iraqis kick them out.
I think there's a fair chance that some sort of financial disaster will force us out before then. But there will be at least 50,000 troops in Iraq in January 2010 no matter who is elected.
OJGate
McStain made the "gates of hell" remark, but the press don't call it "Hellgate."
GayHatingPreacherGate
" Once a dem wins the press will start pushing for a withdrawal date within 24 hrs. and call the prez to be a failure if the troops aren't withdrawn by the inaugeration."
yup. and every death will be front page news.
QuestionnaireGate
RezkoGate
ut there will be at least 50,000 troops in Iraq in January 2010 no matter who is elected.
theo. of athens
Three times as many. More, if you count contractors and mercenaries.
Abercrombie & Fitchgate.
The public didn't buy into the media's hatred of Clinton, for the most part.
Apostate
60% approval rate when he left office, I believe?
VotedPresentGate
GoolsbeeInCanadaGate
I notice that the trolls don't like to talk sports.
Gomez
Or books.
Or movies.
Or sex.
Or food.
RezkoGate
Apostate
That faded fast, didn't it?
sheetsies.
That faded fast, didn't it?
Alive and well at Larry Johnson's joint.
Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.
It reads: "Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?"
Byrd said that the message wasn't meant to be racial or political.
"It's simply to cause people to realize and to see what possibly could happen if we were to get someone in there that does not believe in Jesus Christ," he said.
When asked if he believes that Barack Obama is Muslim, Byrd said, "I don't know. See it asks a question: Are they brothers? In other words, is he Muslim ? I don't know. He says he's not. I hope he's not. But I don't know. And it's just something to try to stir people's minds. It was never intended to hurt feelings or to offend anybody."
Hater
owls!!!!!
Latest news from Iraq:
40 U.S. military deaths in Iraq this month.
We've passed the total for the last two months, and equaled January's total.
Looks like the effect of the surge is on its way out.
Iraq is an intractable situation, because there are too many competing armed groups, willing to fight, with too many numbers and weapons. It is not a place where we can do good in a lasting way right now.
The U.S. troops who are dying there are not dying for a good cause, by any definition, any longer- they are dying for a President's vanity, or for the war planners' idiocy, or the war planners' stubbornness.
"I'll eat your cockage cheese for 6 months"-Charlie Rose to Tom Friedman
it's different now since we've morphed into bombing civilian neighborhoods indiscriminately like Russia did/does to Chechnya, LBJ and Nixon did to all of Vietnam, and Israel does to Palestine - whenever they want to for any reason at all or none, with ZERO regard for innocents and whether or not any so-called terrorists (who are desperately trying to defend their own neighborhoods and towns) are present.
The occupying nation loses its soul and loses its rationality leaving it stupid and blind and heartless, literally inviting the same type atrocities to be visited upon itself.
Yes, inviting!
We're actively in the mess and killing Iraqis pointlessly (American soldiers getting killed by them, just as pointlessly) until the Maliki puppetocracy falls.
IOW, until al-Sadr wins and becomes the Shiite unity leader.
Then there's an American military fall back to safe haven zones and a short'n'brutal Shiite lesson given to the Sunnis that they're the minority.
And then this stupid adventure ends.
We're only staying until we bomb Syria. Then we're moving! To Syria.
We're there. We're staying. That's it.
It bugs the hell out of me that these guys don't feel they have to even put up a front anymore. What do they have up their metaphorical sleeves that makes the lies and games no longer necessary?
Short version: Maliki is the central distortion in Iraq now that keeps the country at war. He unites the perverse and criminal coalition of interests operating against the average Iraqi in the country.
Smash him and his coalition, and everything resolves to its proper equilibrium condition for average Iraqis.
He got a pie "because we could".
One could argue (and some of us did, all along) that the 'six more months' talk was all just cushioning the blow. Which blow? The blow that would come when one day we all realized that the policy was *always* to stay in Iraq forever.
And here we are.
It's all conveniently swallowed by the angst over the Presidential race. (Again, as predicted. By the dirty fucking hippies.)
So now that we're all on the same page, what do we do after we've acknowledged that the US is a military empire? Voting for Obama won't change it. What will?
Why are you surprised we are staying in Iraq? We beat the Germans and Japanese 60 years ago, we're still there. We beat the Spanish over 100 years ago, still in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
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