BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 02:23 AM

Now, if Rush gets the job, it will be the SECOND job he's ever been able to hold down in his whole very limited career----

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: DougR
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 02:03 AM

I was surfing today and found a report reported to be from the Republican National Committee. Jay Leno is being mentioned as the new Dirctor of Information in Iraq. Powell and Company are holding out for Phil Donohue (who needs a job) but Bush favors Rush Limbaugh. I don't know if the memo is correct or not, but I found it on the Internet, so ...

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: DougR
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 01:26 AM

"Free Iraq polet bureau?" The war is not even over and Mudcatters (in addition to France and Russia) are scrambling to take over the government! Larry, you and McGrath had best stick to music, methinks. :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: GUEST,Guest Rat Watcher
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 11:46 PM

Rumsfeld setting up a Democracy in Iraq is like Hitler setting up a Jewish Homeland.

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 11:29 PM

So now we're dividing Iraq into 3 zones (North, Central & South) & will be governed be 3 Americans with, what were their backrounds & qualifications? Take a wild guess. President Bush ("look Ma I'm sitting on top of the world") the first & future leader of the new Iraq. If he does to them what he's done to us, they've left the frying pan & are headed straight for the fire. Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: InOBU
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 07:44 AM

Hey Guys... check out the new Victory Song for the USA... McGrath and I will use it for our Election Song when we are elected to the Free Iraq Polet bureau... CHeers Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 05:52 AM

They have democratic elections in Iran, but that doesn't stop it being fingered as an "axis of evil" state. No doubt if the Iraqis dare to elect the same kind of government as their neighbours, the same will apply to them.

Do I know that Chalabi isn't telling the truth when he says he's innocent? Of course not. But the presumption of innocence only applies till you've been found guilty. The burden of proof lies with him now. Anyway here is a link to a piece from the Washimngton Times which tells both sides of it. I don't think I'd buy a used car from the man...

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: DougR
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 02:29 AM

McGrath: and you have proof that he wasn't right? :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 02:21 AM

Look what they did to Allende, and he wasn't even hostile.

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 02:14 AM

Troll, the whole world is watching, has been watching AND opposed to this war, yet that didn't stop the UK/US from waging it; it won't stop them if they don't like the outcome of a democratic election there, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 01:51 AM

Er---ONE of the PURPORTED reasons------

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: Troll
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 12:54 AM

I suppose that Washington would have to abide by their choice. That is, after all, the purported reason that the Coalition Forces are in Iraq and, with the whole world watching, the US/UK would be hard pressed to do anything.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 10:21 PM

I heard radio satirist Harry Shearer ask this one a few weeks ago:

Okay, let's suppose Saddam is defeated and, at some point in the future Iraq does, in fact, become a democracy. So what is Washington going to do if the people of Iraq hold free, open elections and democratically elect an Islamic fundamentalist president who hates the U.S. as much as Saddam did?

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: InOBU
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 07:28 PM

Look, as long as there is a nation up for grabs, I think we mudcatters should go and run for office, after all, the US says there should be free elections! We'd have a blast... bad word, no pun intended but there you are... maybe I'd get a house with a roof... likely not... but we could help make a constitution that forbids pel laws, armies, sobriety, jails, sand, encourages everything decides to sell fava beans in stead of oil, names the airport after Spaw, exports folk music, finds new and wonderful uses for camel dung, opens a nightclub run by Sadam Husaine (I bet he is still alive...) with Chemical Ali as the cook... (I bet he is alive as well...) instead of a president we could have a panel of mimes and instead of judges we could have clowns, it would be REALLY FUN! lets go for it.
Cheers
Lary
PS... Rick Fielding could be minister of culture and Steve Sudbery minister of everything else...

Subject: RE: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 06:44 PM

Well, you can see why the people in tye current White House might feel that Chalabi really is their kind of guy.

In 1992, Chalabi was found guilty of 31 charges of embezzlement, theft, misuse of depositor funds, and so forth. This followed the collapse of the Petra Bank in Jordan which he had founded and headed. $300 million deposits in the bank just vanished.

He was sentenced to 31 years hard labour. However he'd skipped the country by that time, across the border into Syria. He said he was framed. Naturally.

Subject: BS: Rumsfeld to Pick New Iraqi Government?
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Apr 03 - 06:27 PM

Well, it's looking more and more like the Rumsfelf/Wolfowitz/Perle Plan is taking shape just the way they drew it up on paper, with the right wing Iraqi National Congress's leader Ahmed Chalabi been flown into Northern Iraq and protected by the Department of Defense. Hmmmmm? Like what's this all about? How about that democracy thing? Looks very much like the State Department is being nudged out of the deal.

When one considers that there a no less than six opposition groups of Iraqi's in exile who bitterly oppose the INC, this is starting to look like another Halliburton.

Where does the blatent favoritism, corruption, arrogance and misuse of our tax dollars end.

I'm seeing a pattern here with theses same few dangerous folks running way too much of the US foriegn policy.

If it keeps going like this, Bush himself will get bumped out of the mix, if he hasn't all ready...

Bobert