One-fingered victory salute

Way to go 'W'...

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Egan

Iraqi Government

According to Sy Hirsch, in his book Chain of Command, Allawi has a shady background. It seems he is quite a thug. He has been reported to have been a former Baath party member, prior to Sadam's coming to power in 1979, and lost favor (for murky reasons)--actually he had a price put on his head when he was a European Baath party liaison. In Europe he had "blood on his hands"--apparently his job was to manage the getting rid of Baath party members who had fallen out of favor. Leave it to our amateur "nation builders" in the CIA, Executive Branch and Pentagon to pick another scumbag....And Chalabi was "their man in Baghdad" until then...ha ha ha ha...

Egan

War Prisoner Fiasco

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6590721

McCain (http://mccain.senate.gov/)
Biden (http://biden.senate.gov/)

Good senators. Bad problem: looks like we secretly transferred out some Iraqi prisoners in the past 6 months. At least this is according to Dana Priest from the Washington Post who got her hands on a confidential memo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57363-2004Oct23.html). Turns out it violates international treaties. Can't we do anything right?

Sen. McCain has it right: "The thing that separates us from the enemy is our respect for human rights."

Sen. Biden does too: "I think we should also need new leadership at the Justice Department too..."

Expect more of the same, I say. The situation in Iraq is deteriorating by the day. That means the stakes are high within the military machine to get results. This leads to "stretching" of the rules that create, govern and carry out protocol. With asses on the line all over the place it is no surprise that all levels will have individuals that venture into the land of the illegal.

WwWpWt (Wrong War at the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time)
Egan