Things are going so well that they can leave wrecked trains lying around for four years or more. That’s even better than here in America, where wrecked trains are usually disposed of in less than half that time.

Hey, kids, come on! Forget Disney World, we’re going to Anbarland! There hasn’t been gunfire for one day in a row, the people are friendly and wave hello all day, and there’s a train! What are we waiting for?

There hasn’t been one gunshot where Yon was. Holy shite that’s a low threshold for success. But maybe Yon can bring his special no gunshot hearing magic to Diyala province.

If the Ninth Ward of New Orleans looked like the Upper East Side of Manhattan, we could pronounce the Katrina cleanup a rousing success- so there!!!

Yes, but were the schools painted?

Anbar is pretty big.

Where in Anbar is prolly a big secret huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Anbar

But 9/11 changed everything, or something.

Leave it to Glenn Harlan to point out that there’s a grain of rice in a giant turd we call Iraq.

Sophistry ain’t easy, homies. Ole Perfesser’s kinda the OG of wingnut apologists, after all. After four years of endless warfare, hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars wasted, and untold thousands of lost lives–and no end in clear sight for this madness–Glenn Harlan ain’t ready to cry uncle over this failure of a war he wanted so badly. He’s still puttin’ on a happy face for his batshit insane audience.

What a colossal fucking idiot. Of course, vulgar pejoratives are so uncouth to wingnuts like Reynolds, Malkin, et al., but let’s face it, vulgar pejoratives do not do proper justice to describe the abject stupidity and insanity of these wingnuts; vulgar pejoratives are far, far too weak.

The writer kinda says that “*If* the rest of Iraq” was so quaint they could go home = mission actually accomplished with intended results. Why not cut up some of that slack?

Of course, not saying that the results have justified the means or even the actual concept of the Afgh/Iraq invasions. Just pointing out that he only described his exceptional area.

It’s like reading Lolita. The narrator wants us to think it’s great there, but still mentions things that contridict that.

When every part of Iraq is ethnically cleansed I guess things’ll be great.

Hysterical woman can’t spell, so it ‘s no surprise she can’t understand what the narrator wants anyone to think.

If she read the narrators full body of work, hell if anyone here read the narrators full body of work, ( altho its doubtful most here would understand truth when confronted with it ) she’d know that he has been the most honest voice about the reality in Iraq – delivering the good bad and ugly truth….
truth — now that’s something that the fools that hang out here have no concept of.

While the military conspires to silence dissenting views within their own ranks, and block or spin negative or pessimistic reports from traveling up the chain of command, the narrator has spent two years in Iraq under threat of being thrown out, killed, & kidnapped delivering the entire truth about the complicated situation that exists in Iraq – and has done so even while the military has tried to silence & censor some of his dispatches.

But carry on with your feeble attempts at thinking, and your even sadder attempt at being ” funny, humorous, witty, and pithy”.

Hey can anybody break this nickel? I really wanna throw more pennies!!

You know, Harley, if you’re going to get nitpicky over someone’s typos, it might be useful to learn about the humble apostrophe.

Hysterical woman can’t spell, so it ’s no surprise she can’t understand what the narrator wants anyone to think.

Wow Harley, that’s a great point, showing how someone’s misspelling of a single word renders them obviously incompetent to comment on a particular subject and incapable of understanding such ephemeral concepts as Truth, etc….“altho”, I could totally be wrong there.

Fuckass.

Observe! How the simple addition of two bold tags shows how HarleyQuinn’s own post disproves her own claims about the validity of the original article!

“Hysterical woman can’t spell, so it ’s no surprise she can’t understand what the narrator wants anyone to think.

If she read the narrators full body of work, hell if anyone here read the narrators full body of work, ( altho its doubtful most here would understand truth when confronted with it ) she’d know that he has been the most honest voice about the reality in Iraq – delivering the good bad and ugly truth….
truth — now that’s something that the fools that hang out here have no concept of.

While the military conspires to silence dissenting views within their own ranks, and block or spin negative or pessimistic reports from traveling up the chain of command, [b]the narrator has spent two years in Iraq under threat of being thrown out, killed, & kidnapped delivering the entire truth about the complicated situation that exists in Iraq[/b] – and has done so even while the military has tried to silence & censor some of his dispatches.

But carry on with your feeble attempts at thinking, and your even sadder attempt at being � funny, humorous, witty, and pithy�.

Sorry… It’s just we’ve read all those reports about [b]the threat of being thrown out, killed, & kidnapped[/b] and think that someone like Glenn Reynolds pointing to a story about a little while spent in a place where no bullets were supposedly fired, but devestation from 4 years ago still isn’t fixed is… well… it’s ignoring the entire story, isn’t it?

You cretin.

Of course, it would also help if I’d used the right bold tags for this board… which must mean Iraq is now a functioning democracy, because I made a mistake on an internet board! Woo hoo!

Damn it all to Hell, Kev…our entire body of thought on the subject revealed to be utter piffle by your HTML. It must have all been part of Harley’s insidious plans from the get-go…Teh Left has been defeated by a second-tier Batman villain.

Oh well, opens up more time for us to kill babies, destroy the moral fiber of a great Christian nation, control the media, consolidate a one-world government under the auspices of the U.N., do mind-bending drugs, and photoshop giant sammiches.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

HarleyQuinn,

If you want to take the high moral ground vis-a-vis spelling and grammar and whatnot, you first might want to edit and proofread your own gobbledygook.

Secondly, I don’t care how “truthful” you think Mr. Yon’s work might be, in the context Glenn Harlan used Yon’s work in this particular post, it is clearly evident Glenn’s trying, once again for the millionth fucking time since “Mission Accomplished” was declared four years ago by Wingnuttia, Inc., to prove that things are getting better in Iraq when clearly they are not.

Please put down that packet of Kool-Aid mix, pull off the tinfoil hat, and try as best you can not to be a high-minded snottybutt about “bad” spelling and grammar in a blog comments section as proof of the other side’s weak arguments.

It’s so tedious these days to take seriously someone so laughably sanctimonious, at any level, from the highbrow intellectual down to the slapstick comedic. You just want to laugh and cry and wonder how did so many get so wacko so completely? Where did we go wrong?

Mmmm. Pie.

Let’s try it again.

It’s like reading Lolita. The narrator wants us to think it’s great there, but still mentions things that contradict that.

Ha! Now my point is correct!

How does harley the spelling monitor know how accurate the information provided by this “yon” fellow is? I mean, what is the basis for his statement? Does he have corroberating information from an unbiased, onsite source? Can he provide any data other than his firm, manly statements of protest and cries of support for this “narator”?

I’m especially concerned because he (harley) makes a number of inaccurate statements about this site and the people who populate the S, N commentariat. If the only verifiable information he provides in his oddly pompous rant is clearly innacurate, how is one supposed to take his unverifiable claims as anything other uninformed opinion?

Oh, and harley? I’m pretty sure I misspelled some words up there. Wanna check it for me? That’s a good fella…

mikey

But carry on with your feeble attempts at thinking

Sorry, dude, but I don’t think at all. I just contact V. I. Lenin on the astral plane and carry out his evil instructions.

being thrown out, killed, & kidnapped

In that order?

Is harley new? I thought I detected a whiff of Kevin at first, but this one seems a tad less literate. Also no reference to hippie friends.

How does harley the spelling monitor know how accurate the information provided by this “yon� fellow is? I mean, what is the basis for his statement?

Spellcheck.

Incidentally, why is kids not asking for candy a good thing? Because after we’ve destroyed their country and gotten all their relatives killed, it’s nice they’re *polite* around armed strangers? Aside from the fact that after tearing apart their country and their future we may at the very least owe them a few lemon sour balls, is it possible the kids are shit-scared and shell-shocked and sunk deep enough in despair that they don’t expect to be given anything and don’t even bother to ask?

I’m sorry, but if these errors in grammar and spelling continue, I’m just going to have to declare Mr. Bush ‘dictator for life.’

[Freakin’ hippies]

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The Scooter Libby Case

4 years later and no one has cleared out a derailed train.

And this is the “good” province!

Holy crap.

D. Sidhe, Buzzkiller Extraordinaire.

I mean, they’re kids! Why would they want candy?

>I enjoy the Iraqi food more than the food at the dining facilities.

Probably because at the dining facility all they serve is dirty water and rotten food a la Halliburton.

It is a well-known fact that Arab/muslim/Islamic children prefer high explosives to candy. [See Malkin, M. and Batshitcrazy, Pam.]

Actually, most adolescent boys prefer explosives to candy. But candy’s what’s available.

Actually, in many parts of Iraq, I suspect a starving orphan could come up with a pound of explosives more quickly and easily than he could a pound of bread…

mikey

I still don’t know how you wrote that post title and didn’t immediately change it to “Hello Mullah, Hello Fatah”.