Things are improving in Iraq!

[RuB]

Its gone from out and out looting to a very serious crime wave.


Believe me I don't watch phoney Faux on a consistant basis, I usually stop on all cable news channels just to see what they're saying and I laughed when I heard the host say, "Iraq is in a serious crime wave right now." But hey lets take our family there right?!

[w13rd0]

1. Well, when you import gangsters and crooks...

...to run things, the establishment of a mafia is one of the first orders of business...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Well Saddam did "export" them from his own prisons

to be fair. :shrug:

[La_Serpiente]

2. The drug problem

has also been seriously increasing there. It is so sad. There could potentially be an entire new generation of hopelessness there

[SlavesandBulldozers]

4. drug problems?

oh don't get sold that line of b.s. Serpiente, "drug problems" would not even be a blip on the radar of social problems were they not exacerbated by draconian drug policy and socially darwinist medical care.

hopelessness? In Iraq? are you suggesting that Iraqis were just brimming with hope under their dictator?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. yeah but notice the Spin

notice the spin here folks, on all the stations. They are attempting to transmutate the "War" into a "Crime Wave", this will happen slowly but surely - they're just testing the viewers right now on it.

Seems our republican friends are not so unkeen to language as we may have thought. Remember the whole "Mission Accomplished" aircraft-carrier thing, then they spun that to mean "the first phase of the ground war" then the shit started to hit the fan. After the shit hit the fan now they're trying to sell this to us as a "crime wave?"

[killbotfactory]

5. Thank the Neocons!

Despite thousands of years of history which shows that invading countries is a messy and unpredictable affair, which usually ends up badly especially in the Middle East, they led us bravely into this cakewalk and are building a shining pearl of democracy in Iraq. Huzzah.

[BurtWorm]

6. Build condos on the Euphrates

and it'll be just like Miami!