Comments on: Darth in 1994: going into Baghdad is a bad idea http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:23:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Maronan http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441645 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:04:10 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441645 Hm, if Cheney knew the war was a bad idea from the start, we can convict him of treason, right? Since the war in Iraq is illegal, we can recover the money by defaulting on all Iraq war contracts and demanding that the companies involved pay back everything they received, or face charges for fighting an illegal war, right? No? Can we at <em>least</em> ship Bush and Cheney to the Hague for war crimes trials? Damn! Hm, if Cheney knew the war was a bad idea from the start, we can convict him of treason, right?

Since the war in Iraq is illegal, we can recover the money by defaulting on all Iraq war contracts and demanding that the companies involved pay back everything they received, or face charges for fighting an illegal war, right?

No?

Can we at least ship Bush and Cheney to the Hague for war crimes trials?

Damn!

]]> by: w http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441371 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:59:20 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441371 Why does 1994 Cheney hate America? Why does 1994 Cheney hate America?

]]> by: hbsweet, empress of ice cream http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441308 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:16:09 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441308 First Karl Rove, and now this--and it's not even my birthday! Somebody get the popcorn: watching The Big Dick try to weasel out of this ("That was before we found out they were linked with, uh, Al Qaeda, yeah, that's it, that's why...") will be such a FUN show. First Karl Rove, and now this–and it’s not even my birthday! Somebody get the popcorn: watching The Big Dick try to weasel out of this (”That was before we found out they were linked with, uh, Al Qaeda, yeah, that’s it, that’s why…”) will be such a FUN show.

]]> by: Hawker Hurricane http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441249 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:46:53 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441249 "Cassandra Liberals" is a good phrase. Remember, the original Cassandra (of Troy) was cursed to be 100% accurate in her predictions, none of which would be believed. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to say "I told you so!" “Cassandra Liberals” is a good phrase.

Remember, the original Cassandra (of Troy) was cursed to be 100% accurate in her predictions, none of which would be believed.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to say “I told you so!”

]]> by: thingumbobestq http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441242 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:31:24 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441242 Please compare this statement by Cheney: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/19/cheney-violence-iraq/ Please compare this statement by Cheney:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/19/cheney-violence-iraq/

]]> by: thingumbobesq http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441231 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:38:25 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441231 Wouldn't there perhaps be another video that could be juxtaposed a la the Daily Show of Cheney recently stating "no one could have seen this sectarian violence coming, etc." ? Wouldn’t there perhaps be another video that could be juxtaposed a la the Daily Show of Cheney recently stating “no one could have seen this sectarian violence coming, etc.” ?

]]> by: epistemology http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441223 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:46:06 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441223 Now he tells us. Now he tells us.

]]> by: ace http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441212 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:58:44 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441212 By the way, Karl Rove is gone now. Unbelievable. My guess is he might just remain an "outside consultant," but he's stepping down to prevent a bigger scandal. By the way, Karl Rove is gone now.

Unbelievable.

My guess is he might just remain an “outside consultant,” but he’s stepping down to prevent a bigger scandal.

]]> by: THeDRiFTeR http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441203 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:23:30 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441203 How can he have been so right then, and so wrong now? Staggering! Do you think that after 10 years of a crippling embargo and the destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure and army, Cheney really did believe that a starving Iraqi population would perceive the invasion as liberation and that not many Americans would be lost? My guess is that he thought he saw an opportunity to invade a defenseless nation in order to supplement his retirement. Staggering! How can he have been so right then, and so wrong now?

Staggering!

Do you think that after 10 years of a crippling embargo and the destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure and army, Cheney really did believe that a starving Iraqi population would perceive the invasion as liberation and that not many Americans would be lost?

My guess is that he thought he saw an opportunity to invade a defenseless nation in order to supplement his retirement.

Staggering!

]]> by: Jesurgislac http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441201 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:36:48 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/08/12/darth-in-1994-going-into-baghdad-is-a-bad-idea/#comment-441201 Of course it would have been bad if the US had done it in 1994. Why, with Clinton in charge, some of the reconstruction money might have gone to Iraqis to reconstruct in Iraq, rather than (as under Bush) to Halliburton to help pay Cheney's pension. Of course it would have been bad if the US had done it in 1994. Why, with Clinton in charge, some of the reconstruction money might have gone to Iraqis to reconstruct in Iraq, rather than (as under Bush) to Halliburton to help pay Cheney’s pension.

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