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Monday, February 14, 2005
Hoping and Hopping
"Iraq's most wanted terrorist, the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is hiding out in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after fleeing from Mosul, according to police sources.
'He came to Kirkuk from Mosul,' a source in the Kirkuk police department told Reuters yesterday, speaking anonymously. 'There's a possibility that he might be captured at any moment.'
.... The claims came as British officials poured cold water on hopes (my italics) of substantial early withdrawal from Iraq, and suggested that Britain could be involved in Iraq for decades. It also followed an increasingly inevitable day of further violence across the country.
.... 'I think there is now a realisation that we underestimated issues such as the level of criminality (my italics) in Iraq and how that feeds into its instability and feeds its violence,' said one British official last week. 'There is an understanding now that this is a decades-long problem and we will be there for a long time.'
.... In the wake of last month's national elections, British and American policy-makers are hoping (my italics) that a new political process will begin to whittle away those who tolerate but do not actively support the insurgency to a point where the battle is perceived as a fight against a hard core rather than local populations. But they admit that attacks against foreign and Iraqi forces have been steadily increasing.
Allies move in on top terrorist February 13, 2005
Keep On Hoping (and hopping), for as long as the legitimate feelings of a people rising in Resistance against being occupied is not fully addressed, your feet will continue to be burnt.
How would they explain:"attacks against foreign and Iraqi forces have been steadily increasing."?
What will change these people's mind, having lost gaining their hearts?
(View this for a sample)
"Training of Iraq's security forces, crucial to any exit strategy for Britain and the US, is going so badly that the Pentagon has stopped giving figures for the number of combat-ready indigenous troops, The Independent on Sunday has learned.
Instead, only figures for troops "on hand" are issued. The small number of soldiers, national guardsmen and police capable of operating against the country's bloody insurgency is concealed in an overall total of Iraqis in uniform, which includes raw recruits and police who have gone on duty after as little as three weeks' training. In some cases they have no weapons, body armour or even documents to show they are in the police.
The resulting confusion over numbers has allowed the US administration to claim that it is half-way to meeting the target of training almost 270,000 Iraqi forces, including around 52,000 troops and 135,000 Iraqi policemen. The reality, according to experts, is that there may be as few as 5,000 troops who could be considered combat ready."
Pentagon covers up failure to train and recruit local security forces February 13, 2005
And in reality, those are these:
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Iraq was presumably to be brought "under control" so many times I've lost count. In no particular order: Saddam's capture; the killings of Saddam's two sons; the slaughter at Fallujah; capturing and/or killing various members of Saddam's regime; the "showdown" with Al Sadr; the fake sovereignty "handover" (yeah, right) when Paul Bremer bugged out; the fake election.
These and countless other events were treated in the Whitehouse-owned U.S. "news" media as watershed events that were to mark a decline of the Iraqi resistance. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, that never seems to happen. America is like a drunk at the bar thinking life will be better with one more drink - but, of course, it never is.
Anyone stupid enough to believe the situation will improve once Al Zarqawi is out of the picture is, frankly, lacking some serious cognitive ability.
And how 'bout those Iraqi Defense Forces, huh? The United States had better luck training the South Vietnamese... and just look how that turned out.
"Last one on the helicopter outta the country is a rotten egg!"
Fools.
These and countless other events were treated in the Whitehouse-owned U.S. "news" media as watershed events that were to mark a decline of the Iraqi resistance. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, that never seems to happen. America is like a drunk at the bar thinking life will be better with one more drink - but, of course, it never is.
Anyone stupid enough to believe the situation will improve once Al Zarqawi is out of the picture is, frankly, lacking some serious cognitive ability.
And how 'bout those Iraqi Defense Forces, huh? The United States had better luck training the South Vietnamese... and just look how that turned out.
"Last one on the helicopter outta the country is a rotten egg!"
Fools.
Arvin,
Truly the fools are those who put such a weak candidate up against Bush at the last election.
Truly the fools are those milions who believe that Bush is right.
Truly the fools are those who voted George Bush another four years in office.
Truly the fools are those in power in the US who do nothing to rein in the idiocy of their administration.
Truly the fools are those who put such a weak candidate up against Bush at the last election.
Truly the fools are those milions who believe that Bush is right.
Truly the fools are those who voted George Bush another four years in office.
Truly the fools are those in power in the US who do nothing to rein in the idiocy of their administration.
I couldn't agree more, probligo.
Hopefully, the people of New Zealand will recognize political refugees when they see them in the coming years.
I have no idea what it's like to be a New Zealander, but I know it must surely be preferable to what it feels like to be an American right now: Shameful. Embarrassing. Remorseful.
We will fall much further before the American population comes to its senses. I'd prefer not to stay for the journey.
And to the rightwingers who tell me to catch the first plane out of the country: That's exactly what I'll do if you care to raise the funds for my exodus post haste. Otherwise, peddle your cliche suggestions elsewhere.
Hopefully, the people of New Zealand will recognize political refugees when they see them in the coming years.
I have no idea what it's like to be a New Zealander, but I know it must surely be preferable to what it feels like to be an American right now: Shameful. Embarrassing. Remorseful.
We will fall much further before the American population comes to its senses. I'd prefer not to stay for the journey.
And to the rightwingers who tell me to catch the first plane out of the country: That's exactly what I'll do if you care to raise the funds for my exodus post haste. Otherwise, peddle your cliche suggestions elsewhere.
Arvin,
C'mon now! Your offer to exit the States is hardly a sincere one. You are obviously someone who loves to bitch and moan and criticize. Let's be honest --- there is no better place to do that than here in the good ole' U.S. where no one is going to kidnap you in the middle of the night, cut your head off and post the video on the internet. Donations could roll in the tens of thousands and there is no way anyone could get you a plane out of the country...no matter how embarrassed, ashamed or remorseful you might be feeling.
Get real!
C'mon now! Your offer to exit the States is hardly a sincere one. You are obviously someone who loves to bitch and moan and criticize. Let's be honest --- there is no better place to do that than here in the good ole' U.S. where no one is going to kidnap you in the middle of the night, cut your head off and post the video on the internet. Donations could roll in the tens of thousands and there is no way anyone could get you a plane out of the country...no matter how embarrassed, ashamed or remorseful you might be feeling.
Get real!
That's where you're dead wrong, Jim. I'm as real as the declining value of a dollar.
There are a lot of decisions to be made about becoming an expatriot. My wife of 21 years and I have had serious discussions about leaving because we hate what our country has become. Neither of us expect the trend to change and the primary reason we haven't left already is because of our elderly parents. And, no, I don't really give an amoeba's ass whether you believe that or not.
Given America's long trend down the increasingly steep slope of fascism, Mrs. Hill and I have no intention of dying on American soil should we be fortunate enough to enjoy a long life. We've narrowed it down to Canada or New Zealand, but there are a myriad of countries my wife and I would emigrate to.
America is so "free" now that if I was to use my real name on my blog, I would be placing my family's health and safety at risk -- solely because I dare to disagree with my neighbors and fellow American citizens. I don't even know if I have the freedom to board a plane, for God's sake. As you and your ilk frequently remind everyone: We're free to speak whatever we want... "but that speech has consequences." Which paradoxically means it's not free speech, as Bertrand Russell once noted.
The odds of my being abducted in the middle of the night and decapitated may be remote, but it's also perfectly legal should some Bush Flunky arbitrarily decide I represent a threat. That ain't freedom.
That, sir, is the essence of fascism and it is typical of the climate created by the NeoCon-Fundie Alliance you call The Republican Party.
So, by all means, Jim, while you're telling me all about myself and assessing my sincerity, go ahead and start the fundraiser now. I'll be more than happy to leave you and the rest of the mob to your Utopian paradise. Just make sure to raise enough to for five people. It's a lot of money, but I've learned to never underestimate the power of the Fascist Right. Good luck in your mission.
There are a lot of decisions to be made about becoming an expatriot. My wife of 21 years and I have had serious discussions about leaving because we hate what our country has become. Neither of us expect the trend to change and the primary reason we haven't left already is because of our elderly parents. And, no, I don't really give an amoeba's ass whether you believe that or not.
Given America's long trend down the increasingly steep slope of fascism, Mrs. Hill and I have no intention of dying on American soil should we be fortunate enough to enjoy a long life. We've narrowed it down to Canada or New Zealand, but there are a myriad of countries my wife and I would emigrate to.
America is so "free" now that if I was to use my real name on my blog, I would be placing my family's health and safety at risk -- solely because I dare to disagree with my neighbors and fellow American citizens. I don't even know if I have the freedom to board a plane, for God's sake. As you and your ilk frequently remind everyone: We're free to speak whatever we want... "but that speech has consequences." Which paradoxically means it's not free speech, as Bertrand Russell once noted.
The odds of my being abducted in the middle of the night and decapitated may be remote, but it's also perfectly legal should some Bush Flunky arbitrarily decide I represent a threat. That ain't freedom.
That, sir, is the essence of fascism and it is typical of the climate created by the NeoCon-Fundie Alliance you call The Republican Party.
So, by all means, Jim, while you're telling me all about myself and assessing my sincerity, go ahead and start the fundraiser now. I'll be more than happy to leave you and the rest of the mob to your Utopian paradise. Just make sure to raise enough to for five people. It's a lot of money, but I've learned to never underestimate the power of the Fascist Right. Good luck in your mission.
Arvin,
If you and your wife hate this country as much as you say you do, I fail to see what is holding you back. I would think that the pain of living in this "fascist state" would out-weigh any other considerations (esp. financial ones). Besides, I am sure your elderly parents will understand if you moved to Canada. They know full well how much you hate this country and what pleasure it will bring you to escape the persecution of your daily existence in the US.
So it's down to between Canda and NZ? Heck you don't even need much money to head off to Canada. What's the cost of a Greyhound Ticket these days? If you can't swing the full fare, I have no doubt your neighbors would gladly offer to make up the difference. Canada with its socialist-leaning govt. would seem a perfect fit for you and Mrs. Hill As an added bonus, you could live is a country that is home to Dr. Khadduri and other brave Iraqi freedom fighters with bombastic websites.
But before you head off to your new-found utopia, you need to understand one thing, Arvy: Speech has consequences no matter where you go, be it Canada or New Zealand or Timbuktu. Words have meaning in all languages and when people of principle make statements like "I have no intention of dying on American soil" they have an obligation to make sure that happens. If you had half a backbone, you would sell all your possessions and be out the door tomorrow. If you had the courage of your conviction, this would be the last time I am writing you.
I bid you farewell Arvin and give Imad a hug for me when you see him. You are going to love it up there. I hear Canada regularly grants Political Asylum to the self-loathing Americans like yourself. That being the case, you can look forward to congregating with your expatriot buddies under the Maple Leaf.
Adios, muchacho.
If you and your wife hate this country as much as you say you do, I fail to see what is holding you back. I would think that the pain of living in this "fascist state" would out-weigh any other considerations (esp. financial ones). Besides, I am sure your elderly parents will understand if you moved to Canada. They know full well how much you hate this country and what pleasure it will bring you to escape the persecution of your daily existence in the US.
So it's down to between Canda and NZ? Heck you don't even need much money to head off to Canada. What's the cost of a Greyhound Ticket these days? If you can't swing the full fare, I have no doubt your neighbors would gladly offer to make up the difference. Canada with its socialist-leaning govt. would seem a perfect fit for you and Mrs. Hill As an added bonus, you could live is a country that is home to Dr. Khadduri and other brave Iraqi freedom fighters with bombastic websites.
But before you head off to your new-found utopia, you need to understand one thing, Arvy: Speech has consequences no matter where you go, be it Canada or New Zealand or Timbuktu. Words have meaning in all languages and when people of principle make statements like "I have no intention of dying on American soil" they have an obligation to make sure that happens. If you had half a backbone, you would sell all your possessions and be out the door tomorrow. If you had the courage of your conviction, this would be the last time I am writing you.
I bid you farewell Arvin and give Imad a hug for me when you see him. You are going to love it up there. I hear Canada regularly grants Political Asylum to the self-loathing Americans like yourself. That being the case, you can look forward to congregating with your expatriot buddies under the Maple Leaf.
Adios, muchacho.
No, I won't abandon my parents, nor my wife's, because some fascist dirtbag - or a nation half-populated by RNC cultists - wants me gone.
If and when I leave, it will be on my own volition to pursue a better life; and it won't be on yours or anyone else's schedule. In my world, family means something. In yours, where every man, woman and child is simply an animal left to their own devices, or lack thereof, I can understand how family means nothing.
Self-loathing? Hardly. Ashamed? Only that people like you have completely taken over my country.
Get this through your fat, gristly head: As long as I do stay here, I will fight feral scavengers like you, the cowardly keyboard commandos who cheer death from the warm safety of your well worn Barc-O-Lounger, reveling in the complete and utter corruption of your nation's highest ideals. But, then, you and your bootlicking brothers and sisters never cared for much for them anyway - nor for anything or anyone else but yourselves.
One more drink from the Kool-Aid and life will be just swell. One more foreign adventure. One more dead Iraqi man, woman or child. One more neighbor kid coming home in a casket because of your revolting idea of "freedom."
Like all on the right, you're motivated by two things and two things only: Fear and Greed.
Found any weapons of mass destruction, Jim? No? But still your mouth is agape, hungry for The Next Big Lie. Insatiable! Admit it: You do a little Snoopy dance atop every casket of every man or woman who comes home beneath a draped flag because it feeds the ecstasy of your righteous bloodlust.
Were it up to you and yours, there never would have been a civil rights movement, would there? Would you not have been happy to condemn Martin Luther King's life and work to a tree and rope while you sipped on a cold one and laughed through a sheet, basking in your fake version Christianity? Sure you would.
You pulled the trigger on those murdered nuns in El Salvador, Jim. You did all that illegal spying on American citizens, Jim. You and your good friend McVeigh indiscriminately slaughtered and maimed your own fellow citizens. You made it legal to be abducted, tortured and murdered by your own government, Jim. You made the civilized world replace wonder and awe and respect toward The United States with outright fear spawned from the madness of your diseased brain.
You're the one wallowing in self-pity -- always the victim of some imagined "liberal" injustice, Jim -- isn't that right?
Hate this country? I love *my* country; there's just not much left of it anymore. *Your* country? You bet your sorry ass I hate it. I couldn't look myself in the mirror each day if I didn't.
You're the reason I can't put an innocuous (look it up) bumpersticker on my car without getting the windshield smashed in. You're the exact type of dirtbag - the chickenshittiest of the chickenshit variety - who would poison my dog because you can't tolerate the thought of letting *anyone* different from you live in peace.
You're the brownshirt scum who would see that was I never allowed to earn a livelihood solely because I don't buy into your perverted version of what America is supposed to be.
You're a hollow, sad, pathetic joke of a man, Jim, but I'm really glad you wrote because you so perfectly exemplify all that is rotten about contemporary American society and the very banality (look it up) of evil.
You worry about your obligations -- licking your master's boots and watching repeats of COPS while the nation goes to hell in a handbasket -- and I'll take care of mine.
And with that, Johnny Lastword, knock yourself out. Because you and yours may well control the present and a good deal of the future, but you're still the refuse of the past... and of no further use to me.
I'm done with ya.
If and when I leave, it will be on my own volition to pursue a better life; and it won't be on yours or anyone else's schedule. In my world, family means something. In yours, where every man, woman and child is simply an animal left to their own devices, or lack thereof, I can understand how family means nothing.
Self-loathing? Hardly. Ashamed? Only that people like you have completely taken over my country.
Get this through your fat, gristly head: As long as I do stay here, I will fight feral scavengers like you, the cowardly keyboard commandos who cheer death from the warm safety of your well worn Barc-O-Lounger, reveling in the complete and utter corruption of your nation's highest ideals. But, then, you and your bootlicking brothers and sisters never cared for much for them anyway - nor for anything or anyone else but yourselves.
One more drink from the Kool-Aid and life will be just swell. One more foreign adventure. One more dead Iraqi man, woman or child. One more neighbor kid coming home in a casket because of your revolting idea of "freedom."
Like all on the right, you're motivated by two things and two things only: Fear and Greed.
Found any weapons of mass destruction, Jim? No? But still your mouth is agape, hungry for The Next Big Lie. Insatiable! Admit it: You do a little Snoopy dance atop every casket of every man or woman who comes home beneath a draped flag because it feeds the ecstasy of your righteous bloodlust.
Were it up to you and yours, there never would have been a civil rights movement, would there? Would you not have been happy to condemn Martin Luther King's life and work to a tree and rope while you sipped on a cold one and laughed through a sheet, basking in your fake version Christianity? Sure you would.
You pulled the trigger on those murdered nuns in El Salvador, Jim. You did all that illegal spying on American citizens, Jim. You and your good friend McVeigh indiscriminately slaughtered and maimed your own fellow citizens. You made it legal to be abducted, tortured and murdered by your own government, Jim. You made the civilized world replace wonder and awe and respect toward The United States with outright fear spawned from the madness of your diseased brain.
You're the one wallowing in self-pity -- always the victim of some imagined "liberal" injustice, Jim -- isn't that right?
Hate this country? I love *my* country; there's just not much left of it anymore. *Your* country? You bet your sorry ass I hate it. I couldn't look myself in the mirror each day if I didn't.
You're the reason I can't put an innocuous (look it up) bumpersticker on my car without getting the windshield smashed in. You're the exact type of dirtbag - the chickenshittiest of the chickenshit variety - who would poison my dog because you can't tolerate the thought of letting *anyone* different from you live in peace.
You're the brownshirt scum who would see that was I never allowed to earn a livelihood solely because I don't buy into your perverted version of what America is supposed to be.
You're a hollow, sad, pathetic joke of a man, Jim, but I'm really glad you wrote because you so perfectly exemplify all that is rotten about contemporary American society and the very banality (look it up) of evil.
You worry about your obligations -- licking your master's boots and watching repeats of COPS while the nation goes to hell in a handbasket -- and I'll take care of mine.
And with that, Johnny Lastword, knock yourself out. Because you and yours may well control the present and a good deal of the future, but you're still the refuse of the past... and of no further use to me.
I'm done with ya.
Arvy,
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I only offered those words to boost your confidence, in the genuine hope that you would do what you know is right: leave the dreaded US. Little did I know that my words of encouragement would inspire such twisted vitriol. Killing nuns? Blowing up Government buildings? Lynching blacks? You are really a sick pup with an overactive imagination.
I am not a doctor but it's pretty clear you need to get some help. That you suffer from paranoia is more than obvious. Neighbors smashing you car windows? Poisoning your dog? Blacklisting you from jobs??? You haven't seen any black helicopters lately, have you? Do voices speak to you inside your head??
Sorry to hear about about your elderly parents complicating your exit strategy. Like I said, I am sure they would understand if you and the Mrs. need to bolt. Being a dynamic individual, I am somewhat surprised you couldn't persuade them to join you in fleeing the zany neo-cons running this country. Maybe they are concerned about spending their remaining days with a hateful, paranoid, twisted pup like yourself.
Something you might want to think about.
Please know that I am here to help with your exodus in any way possible. Just one call and I can be there for you. You and the Mrs. need help getting your bags to the station? Heck, me and few good old boys will be there in a heartbeat.
We'll be the ones in the pick-up truck with the Stars and Bars painted on the hood. All I need is your home address. Please post at your earliest convenience.
In the meantime, please get some psychiatric help. that should be a help to you no matter where you are domiciled.
Best wishes,
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I only offered those words to boost your confidence, in the genuine hope that you would do what you know is right: leave the dreaded US. Little did I know that my words of encouragement would inspire such twisted vitriol. Killing nuns? Blowing up Government buildings? Lynching blacks? You are really a sick pup with an overactive imagination.
I am not a doctor but it's pretty clear you need to get some help. That you suffer from paranoia is more than obvious. Neighbors smashing you car windows? Poisoning your dog? Blacklisting you from jobs??? You haven't seen any black helicopters lately, have you? Do voices speak to you inside your head??
Sorry to hear about about your elderly parents complicating your exit strategy. Like I said, I am sure they would understand if you and the Mrs. need to bolt. Being a dynamic individual, I am somewhat surprised you couldn't persuade them to join you in fleeing the zany neo-cons running this country. Maybe they are concerned about spending their remaining days with a hateful, paranoid, twisted pup like yourself.
Something you might want to think about.
Please know that I am here to help with your exodus in any way possible. Just one call and I can be there for you. You and the Mrs. need help getting your bags to the station? Heck, me and few good old boys will be there in a heartbeat.
We'll be the ones in the pick-up truck with the Stars and Bars painted on the hood. All I need is your home address. Please post at your earliest convenience.
In the meantime, please get some psychiatric help. that should be a help to you no matter where you are domiciled.
Best wishes,
"One of the reasons I did not refuse the war from the beginning was that I was afraid of losing my freedom. Today, as I sit behind bars I realize that there are many types of freedom, and that in spite of my confinement I remain free in many important ways. What good is freedom if we are afraid to follow our conscience? What good is freedom if we are not able to live with our own actions? I am confined to a prison but I feel, today more than ever, connected to all humanity. Behind these bars I sit a free man because I listened to a higher power, the voice of my conscience."
Regaining My Humanity
By Camilo Mejia
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_Camilo.shtml
Regaining My Humanity
By Camilo Mejia
http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_Camilo.shtml
Am i the only one who finds this strange that he is behind bars yet surfing the net!!??..OH COME ON!!
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