I'm beginning to believe that picking any random person off

[hangloose]

the street and placing them in charge of our foreign policy would be preferable to the fucking idiots we have currently running our state department.

Flushing the Koran down the toilet was really a stupid move by our nincompoops in that torture cell in Cuba

[MissWaverly]

1. No it was brilliant

What they want to do is to flame this into 1 big all out war in the M.E. so they will have control forever, no more elections, no more
congress, just total rule by the vested interests, ABC now says it will no longer cover Iraq.

[lostnfound]

2. Yep, is it Chomsky who says...

(paraphrasing) if it seems like the policy is inept and accomplished nothing, it's because we aren't understanding /accepting what the goal of the policy is.

[welshTerrier2]

6. oh, that's really very good ...

think about that in terms of how poorly the US appears to be doing in Iraq ... Democrats keep going along and going along because they want to make things better there ...

the problem is, that's exactly the opposite of what bush is doing with all the money Democrats keep giving him ... bush is intentionally prolonging the "war" in Iraq ... ... why don't elected Democrats understand this ???????????????

or do they ??

[lostnfound]

10. Some D's are corrupt; some don't want to kill chances for reelection

(for not supporting troops) and even if some think that what you say is true, they realize that resistance by a small number of congressmen is futile, on such an issue as this which could never be conveyed to the public in sound bytes.

[brindis_desala]

3. This is exactly what Orwell predicted. All War All the Time

until the enemy is irrelevant and freedom is the right to do what you're told or die.

[wiggs]

5. Right. Looking back, it is evident

It is evident that they have done nothing to quell outrage in the middle east. Didn't control looting, didn't reconstruct Iraq, didn't control weapons, using kurds as soldiers in Fallujia, didn't control borders, Boykin announcing this is a holy war, Bush using the word crusade, leveling Fallujia, Abu Ghraib, Allawi is a CIA operative, no contracts to Iraq companies, privatizing oil, building bases...on and on.

There are so many examples that it is hard to believe they are mistakes. We are fomenting hate and violence for a multitude of reasons, one of which is Iran. We are going to push Iran's hot buttons until action escalates...

Chaos, disruption, despair and part of the goal.

[MissWaverly]

7. we really need to reassess this

we're headed over the abyss on this.

[Gyre]

4. The Koran flushing

was genuinely reflective of how much thought has gone into uncurious george's play to render the ME, the playground of America's corporations. Their MO is to achieve one, or two goals per adventure at the most), w/o consideration of adverse consequences. Either they're content to leave the cleanup of their messes to their successors, or don't really believe there will be any 'cause they're the tool of god in hastening Armageddon. The last may be a rationale to justify their part in the despoiling of our political/environmental universe. Some of them may actually believe it, for other's it's just a convenient position to take and pretty much eliminates the need for any rational analysis.

Gyre

[MissWaverly]

8. let's hope the world intercedes

We need an umpire right now.

[Mz Pip]

9. Terrific sign I saw at an anti-war

march back in 2003 before we went to Iraq: This guy was walking against the flow of the march with a sign that said, "You could do a better job." He was telling everyone he bumped into that.''

"You could do a better job, " he said to me. I think he was right.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[kenny blankenship]

11. How hard could it be?

Bush foreign policy=

Bush energy policy=

Bush employment policy=


Really, how hard could it be for a randomly selected idiot to duplicate this set of Bush policies? After all, the originals were created by a monkey.