10 al Qaeda bosses ….
Post-invasion iraq - - Posted on April, 26 at 11:32 pm by Ken L
…. sitting on the wall
And if one al Qaeda boss
Should accidentally fall
There’ll be just as many al Qaeda bosses
Sitting on the wall.
(I make that 84,459 they’ve taken out now, but I might have missed a few. It’s become like the way the Germans announced they’d sunk the Ark Royal about 54 times in WW2 … or the number of times the Iemma Government has announced a new public transport plan.)
Posted in Post-invasion iraq |
April 27th, 2008 at 1:43 am
“Those also killed were a Saudi man…”
And al-Zarqawi was Jordanian.
Curse those fiendish Iranians! They’re everywhere, or not.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Now Ken, the corner has been turned, dontcha see. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, victory is within our grasp (and all that other McNamarist Vietnam stuff).
As Gen Westmoreland might say: “Just send over a few hundred thousand more troops Mr President, and we’ll have ‘em likced by Christmas.”
Riiiiight. That sure worked well the last time.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:14 am
STAND TO ATTENTION
SPIRITS FLY….
Ken…& Evan…i saw you on Blogocracy, as i flew across….observing…& EMPATHISED…
BUT
Jane made so much sense…in the memory of my grandfathers, who drank, grinned for the first time in yonks, played cards down near the sea…& bellowed occasionally…or whispered…about how much better THEY could’ve done…than the RULING CLASS & their cheap memories.
AND MY GRANDMA
and David
who rode a bike like Lawrence
the man who lost his balls in the explosion
and a romance that ended nowhere
and the millions of “hurrah!”
and so abortion,
time after time
did more than the “constructed” enemy
and we hit those balls into the stands
and knew
no better.
GENTLEMEN…START YOUR ENGINES!!!!!
April 27th, 2008 at 6:30 am
I was thinkin’ Ken about how to stop this madness.
then i read:
“The following 16 nations have taken part (or will take part) in the baseball competition one or more times. The numbers in the table refer to the final rank of each team in each tournament. Eight teams have qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics.”
“Nation 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 Years
Australia 7 6 2 3
Canada 4 Q 2
China Q 1
Chinese Taipei 2 5 Q 3
Cuba 1 1 2 1 Q 5
Dominican Republic 6 1
Greece 7 1
Italy 7 6 7 8 4
Japan 3 2 4 3 Q 5
Korea 8 3 Q 3
Netherlands 5 5 6 Q 4
Nicaragua 4 1
Puerto Rico 5 1
South Africa 8 1
Spain 8 1
United States 4 3 1 Q 4
Total Nations 8 8 8 8 8″
and i thought
where’s Iran?
i’d luv to see it…no joke…no BS…what about an EXHIBITION GAME VS. America?
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3786753&page=1
let’s sort it out on the field…i coached a multi-cultural high school team many years ago…and that GAME…& the taste of…well…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGH_mtib9fo
no matter how much this seems hyped, believe it or not i’ve seen, witnessed similar excitement…heart stopping. Twice in professional games…once an amateur.
i’m not the overly sporty type…
but seeing the problems of the Middle East and other regions worked out on that field…crikey, i can’t think of any better way to show the kids…RESPECT, DIFFERENT STYLES & IDEOLOGY…CHARACTERS…UNIQUENESS…and TALENT…years of it.
Apart from cricket & ice hockey…:)
N’
April 27th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Not to mention the number of times they’ve blown old Uncle Osama back to the stone age.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:44 am
So pleased that our ABC News chose to keep it simple and just echo the “official” line.
No need to mention that AQI never operated in Saddam’s Iraq or that it is responsible for only a small part of the post-invasion violence.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
At#4 Total Nations better pick up their game, although their consistent.
I just wonder if I,and maybe like a lot others are getting AQI fatigue, as we got with Rodent, Bush and etc;and the whole thing now passes over as yesterdays news. As noticed with the death toll in the NeoCons big adventure, seems to be part of every day life(death)now and quickly flees from you mind.
As for the Iemma transport plan, what transport, it’s a 100klm trip for me to buy the papers,having said that,bet Iemma could still stuff it up,maybe call it the Iemma ‘what,transport’.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
t’s less than “yesterday’s news”. As far as most of our fellow citizens (and ALL our corporate meeja) are concerned… it’s not news at all.
Never mind that Zarqawi never operated in Saddam’s Iraq. Never mind that AQI started as a sub-group of KURDISH Islamist Ansar al-Islam organisation. Never mind that Zarqawi renamed his group “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” (after the US invasion) simply as a useful rebranding exercise to get more followers.
Just never mind.
The important thing is that a statue of a New Zealand soldier was erected on Sydney’s Anzac Bridge yesterday. and that’s just great.
Zarqawi never operated in Saddam’s Iraq.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Well said Mars.
You’re right about the death toll LM…it’s like watching a washing machine in a not so beautiful laundrette…swish, swosh, creak…just what the Busheviks hoped for…soldiers dying gradually, seemingly in slo-mo…whilst the dollar value of the War just keeps ticking upwards…mongrels.
An alternative POV:
Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that “Al Qaeda” is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military intelligence.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUN20051120&articleId=1291
The name seems to be used as a badge of honor by any crazed Sunni fundy these days who thinks they can bring down a military & fast food empire by acting like lethal popcorn in a heated pot…& in turn taking out too many people who deserve better. Quite handy for “false flaggers” & sh*t stirrers as well…not to mention those polies who like to take the easy way out by pointing to an abstract enemy and stamping them w/ an easily identifiable label. And of course, the corporate media & their LEGION of war-mongering bloggers intoxicated by “sexing up things” & suckin’ from the oil-slimed pool of incestuous advertisers.
Gawd I hope the Dems bring on some SANITY…& clear vision when they get into power. The World is drowning in BS & we’re running out of oxygen…& the MASKS aren’t the life giving type…just the SCARY ones…SCREAM!!!!
“If you go out in the woods today,
You’d better not go alone.
It’s lovely out in the woods today,
But safer to stay at home.”
And once you’ve worked yourself to the bone & opened up a new credit card account…& sent the kids to boarding school…flip out that PLASTIC…watch US cable news, order in pizza or Chinese, crack open a soda…and let the American military do the talkin’ for you.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:23 am
The light at the end of the tunnel is most lkely an oncoming train full of IEDs. I think Gen Wast-more-land’s akshal promise was that with the extra troops they could concrete over the cou8ntry and have parking strips painted on it by Christmas.
What bithers me most is the way we are being eased out of Iraq because the ‘good’ war is in Afghanistan. We know this coz Krudd has told us this evening to expect more troops killed there in the future.
T’rific. Just shows to go ya, whoever you vote for the government still gets in.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Odd thing about the Afghan campaign, amphibious…
Apparently their faux-president isn’t too keen about annoying the Taliban. Seems he thinks NEGOTIATION might be the best route for peace in his country. Silly boy clearly doesn’t understand the price the rest of the world is supposed to pay for American security (economic and otherwise). Never mind, it’s not like Karzai has any real say in the matter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/27/afghanistan.usa
Of course you won’t hear a whisper about this in the brave Aussie MSM. They’re too busy reporting on the the launch of this season’s Big Brother and other such thrilling stuff.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Odd thing about the glorious Afghan campaign, amphibious…
Apparently their faux-president isn’t too keen about annoying the Taliban. Seems he thinks NEGOTIATION might be the best route for peace in his country. Silly boy clearly doesn’t understand the price the rest of the world is supposed to pay for American security (economic and otherwise). Never mind, it’s not like Karzai has any real say in the matter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/27/afghanistan.usa
Of course you won’t hear a whisper about this in the brave Aussie MSM. They’re far too busy reporting on the the launch of this season’s Big Brother and other such thrilling stuff.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I may have dozed off in the last six years but has anyone, anywhere,anytime,ever specified what the foreign occupation is meant to achieve? More so than Iraq (’you broke it you fix it’ is dumb but at least it’s an aim.)how will we (NATO/CoW + assorted Berzerkistans earning brownie points instead of condemnation for domestic repression)know when it’s time to go home to the seven corners of the world, leaving Afghanistan a New Eden where the Lion lies down with the Lamb in its belly…er..um..
April 29th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
As far as I’m concerned, one thing is certain. If the foreign military action achieves anything that benefits the Afghan people, it will have just been a fortunate coincidence. A useful by-product.
When the The Carter administration (according to Zbigniew Brzezinski and formed CIA boss Robert Gates) began backing the mujahideen BEFORE the Soviet invasion, you can bet the welfare of the Afghan people was not part of the equation. The same applies today.