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Is that a gbaji joke?

I came across this site, Iraq Index Archive by the left-slanting Brookings Institution (for the sake of disclosure), last night which gives a fairly dispassionate report on how Iraq is coming along in terms of violence, government action, citizen polling, infrastructure, number of doctors, etc etc. In a sense it's more of the same because most people know how fucked up it is over there but it has lots of charts and graphs and data to back itself up and isn't biased solely towards "The war sucks!"

Edited, May 15th 2007 7:34am by Jophiel

Yea, cause that would work.

You do know they have more Opium then you can shake a stick at next door, right?

Edited, May 15th 2007 9:43am by Kaelesh

But I'm told by some of my old buddies from the Marines that Iraqi hash is fantastic.

Silly Bhodi, it's all the Democrats' fault.

What is that saying? "The definition of insanity is to continue repeating the same action, expecting different results"? Something like that.

The whole country (Iraq) is being run by warlords. Legitimately. That's wrong. If you had decent people in the government things would shape up pretty quick, but noooo, you have to put the people with the power in the government seats.

What they need to do is get in there, build a billion homes, a million modern hospitals, water treatment plants etc. Feed everyone and get them all jobs, once everyone is happy with their lives they'll start to calm down. You don't fight terrorism by terrorizing people. I don't know about you but if I saw big *** tanks driving down my street everyday while I try to figure out where I'm going to get some clean water now that my house has been blown up I'd be pretty pissed off too. That's where your terrorist organizations come from.

Get rid of the combat fatigues and give the soldiers decent looking suits with pretty gold name tags, and have them drive in trucks full of cool stuff. That's how you're going to win this war, and a case of water costs about as much as a bullet. Win the people over and you'll have noone left to fight.

Um, Nobby? Hendrix is dead, dude.

Like, way dead.

I think you'll find his playing ain't what it used to be.

I didn't start this thread either.

But I gotta ask why, oh why, do you believe that bush is doing a 'good job' in Iraq, (and the **** in general) when it is patently obvious that he's not?

I can't even explain the blind loyalty to him, by his being a 'Republican,' and therefore, a conservative. He's failed dismally at pretty much everyting he's been in charge of since he was a kid. from college to his handling of every business he's had any input.

As far as being a 'consevative' goes....

Bigger government, with more centralised power. The president can send the whole country to war on a personal whim.

Any citizen can be arrested and held indefinately, without charge, without due process or trial by jury, on the merest suspicion of 'terrorist sympathies'.

The president can order warrantless search and seizures And ***** the fourth ammendment....

The president can and does ignore any law that he feels like, 'cos he's the commander in chief, and 'the Decider'.

With all the rampant spending going on and the state of the budget, why anyone still believes that Bush is a conservative republican is beyond me.

On the other hand, as I said before, if anyone still believes that Bush is doing a 'good job' in Iraq (and the ME in general) then they are so blinded by their 'hatred' of the 'other side' (be they democrat, liberal or 'foreign'), that they gave up their abilities of rational thought and objectivity long ago.....

And I would see Varus' blind loyalty to this criminal failure of a President, as proof of my theory.