11 thoughts on “Rumsfeld on Iraq”

  2. ps Didn’t you get the memo? It’s all the fault of the Iraqis, anyway. They are simply incapable of taking advantage of the wonderful opportunity provided them by the American people, at great expense to themselves. Hey, they spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the bombs, tanks, and bullets that brought Iraqis their shot at freedom and democracy, and Iraqis are just not ready for it all.
    Oh – and let’s not forget that the make-believe government is not “stepping up to the plate”.
    Come on, Rumsfeld et al did the best they could and sacrificed much to bring progress, democracy, and freedom to Iraq, and the failure is not theirs, it is the Iraqis who failed.

  3. PPS progress, democracy, and freedom – oh yes, and peace. Let’s not forget peace. Oh wait – maybe we shouldn’t mention that just now.

  6. BTW, What Rumsfeld did not tell us about the first year in Iraq when Bremer were in Iraq for ONE year what he did?
    Nothing, he demolished Iraq state, loots $US9.0Billion from Iraq Revenue, made hand picked divisive committee headed by him, brought Al-Qaeda fighters to Iraq, let the Iranians flooding to Iraq.
    What a democracy did this Smart US Guy like his Friend Rumsfeld?
    I don’t know how these stupid characters still speak disastrously there are some who still listen to what they saying

  7. Said the masochist to the sadist: “Hurt me!
    Replied the sadist: “No.”
    On the other hand, one can hardly refuse to accommodate the abusive:
    The Irishman said to the pig:
    “Why do I see you here?
    This gutter where I lay face down
    Has no place for the queer.”
    The pig replied in English which
    The Mick found too unclear:
    “I’d wash you with the stuff you drank
    But that would spoil bad beer.”

  8. Sometime early in 2005, I think, I found myself composing verse for an epic rip-off of Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” which I called “Fernando Po, U.S.A.” The extensive poem (in many episodes) deals with the Boobies, a primitive people living on the backward, isolated island of Fernando Po who could only communicate by making noises at each other accompanied by physical posturing that required a nearby fire to illuminate.
    By the end of the twentieth century, though, ethnologists began to discover other, post-linguistic Boobies living on the North Amerian continent who had once possessed an understandable written language but who had somehow become unable to decipher any communications that did not come accompanied by animated physical posturing transmitted and illuminated by a nearby glowing cathode ray tube.
    Needless to say, scientifically comparing and contrasting the two widely separated tribes of Boobies led anthropologists and poets to startling conclusions about the thin veneer of progressive culture — made possible by the written language and an awareness of its different functions — that only occasionally separates civilization from barbarism.
    Anyway, during one typical interlude of Boobie barbarism that began in 1991 and continued into 2005 (and which shows no sign of ending even now in 2007) I took note of certain events and certain Boobie personages along with some historic and metaphorical references for context. I thought specifically of that time when the British Army surrendered to the American colonists at Yorktown while a British band played the famous song: “The World Turned Upside Down.” At the same time there occured to me a Chinese metaphor about such unusual times which the Chinese call to mind by saying “The Hen Crows in the Morning.” Finally, I additionally had some thoughts about that funny little tale called “The Mouse That Roared,” which involved a poor, tiny country declaring war on a major world power hoping to receive lavish foreign aid to rebuild and modernize after it lost. Unexpectedly, though, the little country won and …
    Putting all these things together and mixing them up a bit for poetic effect, I came up with something that looks even more germane and appropriate two years later:
    “The Hens Roared Upside Down.”
    http://themisfortuneteller.blogspot.com/2006/12/hens-roared-upside-down.html
    As for the Baker-Hamilton “ISG” report, I did a little essay on that this morning — which includes a hat-tip to Frank Rich — called “The Mice That Squeaked”:
    http://themisfortuneteller.blogspot.com/2006/12/mice-that-squeaked.html

  9. Thanks Salah
    Am I right in my translation: The vulture complains from the head of the ox like a fortune teller?

  10. “We have not failed in Iraq,”
    Stephen Hadley said as he made the talk show rounds. “We will fail in Iraq if we pull out our troops before we’re in a position to help the Iraqis succeed.”
    But he added: “The president understands that we need to have a way forward in Iraq that is more successful.”
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_93
    Another freak start singing with other freaks from US

  11. “and Iraqis are just not ready for it all.”
    And I have sometimes wondered how American society would turn out if someone did to us what we did to Iraq –
    I think we would be a thousand times more bloody.

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