OMFG. Exxon/Mobile’s raping of Iraq for oil is going to bring about reconciliation?

On second thought, it just might. Sunni, Shia, & Kurds might just come to hate the US so much that they set aside their differences to kick our ass all the way back to North America.

The treatment of the oil law in the US press is one of the most disgraceful acts of propaganda I’ve ever witnessed. The oil law is not about “revenue sharing”. It is about using the debt accumulated by Saddam as a club to force the Iraqis to allow US oil companies to suck the oil, the profits from the oil, and even the jobs at the oil wells out of the hands of the Iraqis. This is imperialist rapine at it’s very worst, and still the US press portrays this steaming turd of an oil law as frankincense and myrrh. One can only hope that the Iraqis are able to appreciate who is propagandizing the looting of Iraq and direct their response appropriately.

Ensure the near-term continuation of democracy in Iraq. That means supporting top-down reconciliation through a new oil law

top down…democracy…top down…democracy…top down…democracy.

i think mr. ignatius doesn’t really know what that word means. but really, the whole game is given away at the end of his piece. you see, mr. ignatius has no particular opinion on the ultimate rightness or wrongness of fighting pre-emptive wars of imperial aggrandizement, even though this is probably the central conundrum of modern democracy (and by modern i mean of the past 250 years, just ask jefferson about imperial adventures) and even though he has some of the most valuable op space in the world, he has no point of view on this subject at all. rather, he has the point of view that every story has two sides, there is no wrong now is no right*, it’s all just how you look at things. and that’s why bi-partisanship is just total utter steaming ordeur. because, mr. ignatius, there is a solution to the problem–it’s called get the fuck out and do it now. and guess what–it’s “right”, as opposed to staying, which is “wrong”. so, douchebag, your every word is fucking wasted to get to your magical fairy-dust “bipartisan” IOMEFWIONFofasnanfwepnaef

sorry, i can’t take it anymore. i hate this nihilist post-modernists so much, all the more because they don’t even know that’s what they are. they turn everything they touch to shit.

I loved America at the moments when the tits of Lady Liberty were perky and we endeavored to partner for glorious tomorrows. I loved America when they sagged and got all wrinkly with the flaws of an aging democracy. I even loved America after corporate induced cancer robbed the Lady’s breasts but her torch remained lit for others who suffered.

But when she started putting out for the bastard sons of Sam Houston and pawned liberty’s torch for the inbred cockroaches of Krawford and Kennebunkport, my heart wandered and became enamored with more than the ephemeral physical beauties that had provoked my adolescent ardor.

It’s not America or the Lady that I reject. It’s the 17% of its total citizenry who sold their souls to elevate Shit to greater power than Shinola that made me cranky and sent me running to Old Betsy to get the little fuggers offa my lawn.

Them Americans is what makes America so flaccid that it couldn’t get a stiffy with a splint in their presence. They’re accomplices to murderers and all manner of lowlife.

And I’ll save my willy for the sane 16 percent, and for greater percentages around the globe, the borderless libertines who refuse aid and comfort to royalists bearing Shit theologies.

Actually, I heard a case made (by someone other than Cheney/Bush and their idolators) that Iran might (also) be helping the Sunnis. Theory being: Iran wants to be the dominant player in the Middle East. By supporting the Sunnis, albeit quietly, they prevent a Shiite “government” from being established, followed by some period of stability, etc., during which they might rival Iran’s influence in the region. [Of course, the "stability" would have come after the Sunnis are no longer a serious voice in the government, i.e. lots more dead Sunnis.]

Part of this scenario seems plausible, but I have a tough time believing Tehran would aid and abet the killing of Shiites in Iraq.

I should probably read Juan Cole more often, it might give me more of a clue.

Remember the quality of the campaigns run against them.

In case you might be inclined to think that the Democrats have learned from the experience, note the bold way in which, since taking Congress, they have chosen to work to make the Bush administration look bad (though they’re perfectly capable of doing this on their own), rather actually changing things by, say, putting impeachment and defunding on the table.

Everything changed after Nine 1/2 Weeks.

That’s the problem with the Bush administration, they aren’t leaders, they are marketers. They are masters of putting the same shit in a different box, releasing it to the press in a big blitz, and fools like Ignatius lap it up (“Oh I just love how this label read ‘bipartisan’.”)

The tortured logic you correctly diagram is Ignatius trying to justify his foolish purchase to himself. One would think he would have the good sense to do this in private, but this is David Ignatius we are talking about.

That the current Iraqi regime survive through November 2008.

“Who cares if in the mid or long term, it all crashes down.
That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun.

Well of course Bush can and should share the controls, as it were. He simply refuses to do so, being the petulant child and boy king that he is. Thus, our looming constitutional crisis, which will be deftly averted by the Democrats courageously caving in to his temper tantrum.

Oh. That extremely reconciling oil law. The “get the US bastards out, fergodssakes” clause. Sorry, wasn’t paying attention for a minute there.