Comments on: The Great Maliki Gang Bang

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By: Sarcastic Saib

Sarcastic Saib — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:55:48 +0000

After reading this blog, I was wondering whose opinions should I believe about the war in Iraq armchair bloggers (Woody) or retired generals?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMPIi03wSfY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPxZLLLb3RY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwA-46bnenY

By: reg

reg — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:22:29 +0000

Also Woody, don’t quote me on your website if I can’t respond. And don’t say “the response has been quiet” to your question. I’m not “quiet”. Your “rant” on this is just more drivel… Zero substance on the issues raise. What a sorry little man !

By: reg

reg — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:12:44 +0000

That should have read “but not so hyperbolic in terms of ‘Day One’ of the war itself.” It was certainly apparent with in the first weeks that Baghdad fell Rumsfeld had screwed up royally in terms of ignoring those who had counseled providing forces that could secure the country. Maybe that was a fool’s errand, but they didn’t even try…

By: reg

reg — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:09:06 +0000

My use of “Day One” was hyperbolic, but so hyperbolic in terms of “Day One” of the war itself. I’ll stand by what Randy quoted as stuff I knew early on in these debates, and certainly in terms of the hyped rationales for the war. I’ve put fairly precise chronological correlations on much of it, like “when Rice was denying an insurgency”, “after the elections”, etc. And I’ll stand by all of it. Woody doesn’t want to discuss the ridiculous TOTALLY ILL-INFORMED AND BRAINWASHED SHIT that he was spewing at those points in the war. And of course, that’s still his mode.

Pathetic….

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:15:24 +0000

You’re a little boy, Woody. A lying little boy.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:48:30 +0000

Projecting?

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:38:40 +0000

You’re a liar, Woody a serial liar. The above is more proof of the same.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:32:33 +0000

I’m sorry, Randy. The buzzer had already gone off and the game is over. Take it up with the commissioner.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:06:30 +0000

reg, Iâ€™m not the one who said that he knew â€œeverything from day one.â€

Neither is he. here’s what he wrote:

I understood from Day One that this debate started that the â€œWMD threatâ€ was being hyped for purely political reasons. I knew from Day One that there was no strategic national security reason to invade Iraq and that we were being suckered by the neoConsâ€™ crackpot agenda. I believed from Day One that Rumsfeld was going in with too few troops to successfully secure the country. I knew within weeks of the invasion that security was unraveling disastrously and there appeared to be no coherent plan for stabilizing the country, if that was even possible. I knew when Rice was fiercely denying it that there was an insurgency afoot very much worth worrying about. I knew this episode would be an extraordinary opportunity for al Qaeda recruitment. I knew after the election results that sectarian divisions had been embedded in the political process and wouldnâ€™t go away. Iâ€™ve long predicted that Iran was the big winner and were natural allies of the Shia majority. Iâ€™ve long predicted that al Qaedaâ€™s worst nightmare would be the Sunni warlords themselves, once we gave them reason to turn their attention away from us (although bribing them with arms is an insane way of achieving this objective.)

For someone who claims to be “taking up for logic and truth,” you’re very good at fabricating and misrepresenting the opinions of others.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:52:21 +0000

reg, I’m not the one who said that he knew “everything from day one.” I long ago admitted that I didn’t have classified information “from day one” and that I would rely on our representative form of government, which includes people with more information and brain power than I’ve read here.

If you’re going to criticize and boast, be able to back it up. You couldn’t.

By: Marc Cooper

Marc Cooper — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:47:45 +0000

RLC: Michael Parenti is one of the Great Frauds of our time. Back in the 80′s I was teaching at CSUN and he somehow had been named a visiting professor. So I invited him in to give a talk to me class. It was an idiotic rant that accused Hollywood of purprosefully using red-white-and-blue color schemes to brainwash Americans. My students had him for lunch.

And as you know, I adamantly opposed the war in Kosovo; probably mistakenly as it turned out.

By: reg

reg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:27:48 +0000

Copy this shit down Woody….

By: reg

reg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:26:55 +0000

Incidentally, Iran is in many ways a dysfunctional democracy and a repressive country, but it’s the closest thing to a representative democracy with a balance of governing institutions of all Muslim states in the Middle East. It’s not even close to being a dictatorship like Iraq was under Saddam, and there’s at least as much political ferment and “civil society” in Iran as there is in a country like Egypt. Ahmadinejad is much more beholden to an electorate than Mubarak is. For us to simply decide that we’ll take them out would be as disastrous, counterproductive and indefensible as the invasion of Iraq and would yield equally negative “unintended consequences”. It would unite the Iranian people against the U.S. – absolutely and unequivocally. Anyone who equates an attack on Iran with promoting “freedom and democracy” belongs in an Orwell novel.

By: reg

reg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:04:03 +0000

Tell me your big fucking idea to resolve this or go watch some TV …

If it’s “Bomb Iran” it’s proof you’re a psycho. Afghanistan is running away from us because of the shift of all resources to Iraq, Iraq is in total chaos, the military is near the breaking point – and you want to start another war !

I’ll tell you one damned thing – if we bomb Iran you can bet your sick ass that they’ll “follow us home” and there’ll be hell to pay down the line.

So I’ve told you that it’s got to be diplomacy – an attempt to draw down nuclear weapons rather than attempting to impose our will by strongarming – strongarming that we’re not capable of even doing effectively over the long run. I’ll fucking stand by that – 2 years! 5 years!

What the fuck is YOUR plan ? Other than “anything Bush and Cheney say !”

Christ, you’re a cretin !

By: reg

reg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:57:44 +0000

Also, it’s total crap to cry for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons when we ignore the fact that Israel is nuclear-armed to the teeth.

What’s your plan Woody. Standing next to Bush and yammering, “What he said!”

Also your notion that the biggest problem Bush has is communicating is the biggest pile of horseshit I’ve ever heard. His biggest problem is utter incompetence and arrogance when it come to defining policy and, of course, letting Cheney – a total crackpot – run rampant.

I’m so sick of recycled idiots like you…

You’re dishonest, you’re ignorant and in your particular case, you use a tack of changing the subject rather than addressing criticism. It’s cowardly and frankly an insult to the intelligence of everyone who reads this blog – with the possible exception of Samuel Stott!

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:54:54 +0000

That sounds just like what the U.N. said with Hussein. Press for diplomacy, which he ignored for twelve years. I’ll write this down so that we can remember this great wisdom that you passed on to us “from day one.” It sure is a lot harder to make decisions than to criticize, isn’t it? I expected something meaningful with all the bragging that you’ve done.

BTW, Iran has pursued nuclear weapons without having to consider Iraq. Oh, for the good ol’ days of Jimmy Carter diplomacy.

By: reg

reg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:46:39 +0000

As Sarkazy said, keep pressing diplomachy and do everything possible to find a negotiated settlement. The problem with your question is that after the Iraq invasion, Iran has every reason to pursue nuclear weapons. And if we bomb Iran it strenghthens the Crackpots in Tehran. This is pretty much the “conventional wisdom” among Iranians and folks who have seriously studied the issue (NOT Dick Cheney.) Also, we’ve got fucktards running the show, so in two years who the hell knows what kind of crap has gone down. Bush is obviously ginning up an attack with this arrest.

If you want a fucking war, say so. And if you do, too bad you won’t be the first to die…

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:54:30 +0000

Dear SS, ask me again when the game is over. However, it’s absolutely stupid to think that mistakes don’t occur, even for situations well planned. I will list one mistake. Bush’s communication skills are absolutely terrible, and that has not helped public support.

War and the ensuing peace is an ebb and flow situation, but the final outcome will determine if the win is big enough to justify the costs.

I’m still waiting on the brilliant people who know everything from day one to say how we should address Iran’s nuclear program now. I’ll mark this place for two years from today for when these same scholars start talking about what they all knew from day one and what they would have done. Apparently nothing.

By: Sarcastic Saib

Sarcastic Saib — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:41:55 +0000

Woody,

I am curious do you feel Bush and his administration made any mistakes in planning the war in Iraq?

If you think Bush and his administration made any mistakes planning the war could you please list them for me.

Or just say Bush and his administration were perfect if that is your opinion.

I would really like to read your answer.

Thanks,
Saib