Due to this thread, I found this at Iran Chamber.com:

In 1983 Iran launched three major, but unsuccessful, human wave offensives, with huge losses, along the frontier. On February 6, Tehran, using 200,000 “last reserve” Pasdaran troops, attacked along a 40-kilometer stretch near Al Amarah, about 200 kilometers southeast of Baghdad. Backed by air, armor, and artillery support, Iran’s six-division thrust was strong enough to break through. In response, Baghdad used massive air attacks, with more than 200 sorties, many flown by attack helicopters. More than 6,000 Iranians were killed that day, while achieving only minute gains. In April 1983, the Mandali-Baghdad northcentral sector witnessed fierce fighting, as repeated Iranian attacks were stopped by Iraqi mechanized and infantry divisions. Casualties were very high, and by the end of 1983, an estimated 120,000 Iranians and 60,000 Iraqis had been killed. Despite these losses, in 1983 Iran held a distinct advantage in the attempt to wage and eventually to win the war of attrition. [The war started 22 Sept. 1980.]
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By 1984 it was reported that some 300,000 Iranian soldiers and 250,000 Iraqi troops had been killed, or wounded.

Bubba’s glad to be off the hook – everything has been his fault for at least 15 years.

If I could just set the flux-capacitor to November 5, 2008, I would in a heartbeat, just to make all this stop.

Wrong direction. Set it for November 2000. You’ll know what to do.

Which we already did once before, 55 years ago. (Which I know you know, Mikey. I’m just running a highlighter over it.)

I wasn’t alive in 1953 but I do remember a few of its direct consequences: AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE!!!! and the key-shaped cake and the October Surprise. I can draw a line from 1953 to 2003, no problem. No credit to me; it’s all out there.

What really scares me is, the women in my family live for-fucking-ever. I really don’t want to be around to witness the fallout fifty years hence.

We had a really good exchange the other day. He claimed that he didn’t respect Obama’s position on the Iraq War in 2002 because Obama didn’t have access to all the kewl secret information that Bush & Co did. I responded “Oh yeah, all that marvelous secret info like Curveball and the testimony of torture victims and the sources of Judy Miller, yeah right. Ya mean all that kewl secret info?”

Uh, su-u-u-re! Yeah, we know how the codpiece-in-chief always speaks, spontaneously and unscripted. Ri-i-i-ght!!!

ittdgy made me do it.

Sez a lot about hium, yessirreebob.

I’d never heard of her until lately and have to read her occasionally for occupational reasons, but if you have the fortune I had until recently and don’t have to do that: when she is in print her vanity photo has got to either be a work of photoshop mastery or the picture she uses is 30 years old and the devil beat her with the ugly stick for continously from now until until then.

Ingredients:
3 pinches outdated mountain goat, anonymously French
1 exemplary machine, buttered
1 crinkled light cream
3 portions duckbill eye, barbecued
4 sticks coffee
1 pound fat

Pick over the ingredients waywardly and discard excess glass. Place the mountain goat into a medium wok. Use a food processor to mix the light cream with the machine. Stuff the resulting potion into the mountain goat. Stuff – very caressingly – the duckbill eye, coffee, and the fat. Pile the latter combination on to the former. Abandon for 65 minutes. Serves 4.

I want him to take Karl over his knee and tan his hide.

Gah. Now I need to go slug down down some gin. Lots of gin.

WereBear said,

July 20, 2008 at 2:47

In my mental movie, it’s a cross between The Boys from Brazil and The Manchurian Candidate.

Mad scientists genetically engineer a boy to grow up in an oppressive environment he can never fit into. (They also stir the flames of an anti-Darwinian movement, so no one can figure out what they’ve done.) Thus triggering deep seated rage and a strong mentality to join his oppressors.

He manages to get a complete idiot into the Presidency to destroy the political movement the idiot represents.

The big ending is when an intelligent African American becomes President.

I’m calling it The Karl Rove Story.

Just don’t know about the casting.

I don’t know how “oppressive” Rove’s childhood was. But I do know for sure why he hates Democrats.

At age 9, Rove is a vocal supporter of Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign — so vocal, in fact, that an older girl, a would-be Kennedy voter, beats him up.

He had a Nixon sticker on his bike, and a neighborhood girl (about age 11) had a Kennedy sticker on her bike. He starts talking shit and she smacks his ass to the curb.

So the entire motive in his pathetic little life comes down to holding a forty year grudge over losing a fight to a girl.

Hell, I’m sure one of the finger-sniffing bunch is working on a long opus about Obama’s ability to hypnotize the masses JUST LIKE HITLER AND THE ANTI-CHRIST!!!!

Hey! That’s MY idea!