Comments on: Possible Good News

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:32:37 +0000

I can’t imagine the pain of sitting through it sober, Jill. Since I don’t drink anymore, I don’t listen.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:11:48 +0000

As a party the Baath were secular, normally because their membership represented a minority religious view [Sunni in Iraq and Alawites in Syria], and nationalistic. They talk a lot about republic but generally govern as hereditary dictatorships through clan and tribal ties.

The Sunnis would view this as another insult because of their ties to the Baath Party, an extension of de-Baathification if you will.

As for our problem, it will be quite similar. Attempting to remove the Republican diehards from the government will be used as another excuse to blame the Democrats for something. There is no way to avoid it. The claim will probably be on religious grounds, rather than political, just like Iraq, i.e. we not are ridding the incompetent Republican appointees from the Justice Department because they are unqualified for their positions, but because they are Christians.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:59:47 +0000

State of the Onion speech = good drinking game opportunities.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:36:16 +0000

I don’t say this to justify how things are being done at all, but to say we need to figure out from this example how not to create similar problems when we must clean house.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:35:42 +0000

Or rather, the Ba’ath…

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:35:13 +0000

In all due respect, weren’t Iraq’s Republicans the Sunnis?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:39:33 +0000

Well, DC, the Iraqi parliament, in deference to the sensitivities of the Kurds, did manage to design and approve a new Iraqi flag, which the Sunnis hate, oh, yes, the also passed a bill that allows Baath party members to reapply for their jobs – after they turn themselves in and are thoroughly investigated by an interior ministry that hates them.

All kinds of progress, if you are a flag manufacturer.

By: distributorcap

distributorcap — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:45:21 +0000

it will be about Iraq and how brilliant we were in starting the surge one year ago……

george yes you are brilliant, now go away

By: ellroon

ellroon — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:24:30 +0000

Oh for the accidental battery discharge ….

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:06:25 +0000

ellroon, it takes a few seconds each time they activate the device in the back of his suit before the preznit can engage in even semicoherent speech.