This upvotes for banishing the media from the remainder of the operation in Iraq, for wrapping it up by May 07' with a new and improved agenda...


Airstrikes on the palace of Kim Il, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, simultaneously, without prior notice, on the same day, ala Israeli air Force Method, June 7, 1981, as a preventative measure to more bullshit television editorializing, and any more souls being stolen, damaged, or otherwise manipulated ny assholes.....

The issue is: Common Sense should dictate which countries get a house-cleaning. Destroy all assholes who infect the human mind with their unilateral bullshit!!

Now, can we talk about what YOUR country is doing about dictators and murderers with power????? Wish the U.S, was doing more to insure peace for the future, but, unfortunately, we have a bunch of assholes running things here, too!!

Your job as a US citizen, is to pick the next asshole in 08'.....a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 etc.....

(upvoted for the upcoming thread I feel this post is going to make)

While it's important to remember that some good has come out of the illegal occupation of Iraq - unfortunately, the bad outweighs the good. Since the illegal invasion it is estimated that between 392,979 and 655,000 Iraqis have been killed (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1892888,00.html).

It's also good to remember that Glenn Beck is a staunch supporter of Bush and one of the most influential conservative talk-radio personalities. He has led a number of pro-war rallies ignoring the terrible attrocities occuring in Iraq - some of them at the hands of American troops. Personally, I think he is a vile individual. For example has called the victims of Hurricane Katrina 'scumbags'. He approves of torturing terrorism suspects. He has referred to the War on Terror as the Third World War - which is highly irresponsible. And I'm stilled pissed off at the way he interviewed Keith Ellison - he asked Ellison ""What I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies'". If he had done that in the UK he would have been fired and his career would have been over. Furthermore, he said that he was surprised that former President Jimmy Carter did not attend Iran's December conference on Holocaust denial - following the publication of Carter's book on Palestine and Israel.

I won't down vote this post - because it is important to see that there have been some positives. But because the negatives completely outweigh the positives, and because I can't stand Glenn Beck - I certainly ain't voting for it!

Glenn Beck is a moron.
And that maudlin piano music in the background is ridiculous.

I swear, I had nothing to do with this.

Nothing I could do about the music, sorry.

LOL @ maudlin

So, Beck's argument is that some cell phone activity is a good trade-off for chaos in the Middle East for generations?
Like I said, the guy's a moron.

Yeah for the real story listen to the people who were actual there.

http://www.videosift.com/video/An-Hour-with-John-Burns

He doesn't mention the death squads using drill bits to kill thousands or the fact that 60% of all Iraq's no longer live in Iraq so out of 12 million people atleast 7 million people have fled the country. Electrical power in the capital is counted in minutes each day not hours. No electricity means no clean water or gas. At the very least the Iraq government has said that 300,000 people have died so in a country with 12 million to start with that 3% dead 60% gone with the remainder hinding for the lives. Yeah what you don't see my ass. Even if they wanted to reinstate the bathist doctors they cant because there gone to Syria and Jordan. Of the people left in Iraq its not enough doctors or engineers so the power will remain in minutes and hospitals open to Iraq's with not enough doctors or supplys.

And as Lara Logan said (see below), everything rests on the security situation in Iraq -- not just how reporters report the news, but if Iraqis can even use this new "quality of life" at all, if they can't get to their schools or jobs safely.

And those jobs Beck crowed about? Way, WAY below what the Bush administration promised.
It's downright comical how the media completely rolled over for the Republicans during the build-up and execution of the war, but now they're complaining that the media isn't telling the real story.

Pathetic.

blehgh

Am surprised Quantummushroom, this is like saying communism was a humanitarian success because Russia became industrialized with Stalin's 5 year plans.

This is so sad. I feel like QM has been put in a water torture device of talk radio.. and now sympathizes with his captors.

That cracks me up, "decades of war a neglect".. Um, Iraq was formerly the most modern, western, and secular of any country in the area. They had the best hospitals, much higher literacy than western countries, etc. Years of bombings and embargos kinda hurt things. Then W comes along and destroys what was left.

So sure, it's easy to claim new schoos built. But there were more before you bombed the country. Wow, 40,000 troops for security and border partol?! You know how many people were formerly doing police or military duty. You know how many are needed?

Do you know how many Iraqis have abandoned their homes. Land their relatives lived on for how many generations... How many millions are refugees are there? How many Iraqis have been killed, murdered, mutilated? How many now live in a sea of depleted uranium?

So, we should be proud because of a happy douchbag voice-over, some piano background music, and 4500 schools???!!! This is the saddest QM offering of "facts" to date. So this justifies 3,000 dead US soldiers, 12,000 permanent wounded soldiers, and who knows how many PTSD victims. Bravo, QM. You are Glen Beck are two chicken hawks of a feather.

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