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- RamanujanRedux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Halliburton is doing quite well in Iraq aren't they? I'm pretty sure that was what he meant.
- mobfunk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28Cheney can tell that to the troops as well as the Iraqi citizens the next time he crawls out of his bunker and heads to Iraq...
oops forgot...Republicans dont hold fundraisers in Iraq (why is that?????) - Revadarth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25Maybe he should use his hunting skills in Iraq then. *****, if he can shoot a lawyer he can shoot a terrorist.
- tripletmot, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25True, six months may not be enough... but where was the necessary stability in the YEARS following the fall of Sadam? We dropped the ball when we "liberated" Iraq and allowed looting, failed to secure weapons caches and told the Iraqi military, 'You're fired! and take your guns with you.'
Bottom line: Cheney was an architect of the post-war Iraq policy. Comments like his only prove he STILL doesn't get it. - Kleisthenes, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26You have to be a *****' idiot to listen to and take Rush seriously.
You also have to be a *****' idiot not to see how evil the Bush puppetmaster, Darth Cheney, is. - deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+226 months...wasn't the "mission accomplished" in 2003???
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Rush and Cheney in a little cafe for lunch outside of the green zone would be nice. They can enjoy a nice cup of bullsh*t.
- deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19He probably meant it was going well for Halliburton.
- sdarive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23So, why doesn't he get on a commercial flight and file a field report from Anbar province for Fox News while meeting some Iraqi commoners who might just greet him as the "liberator"?
- SpudgeBoy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25Then Rush and Cheney should move to South Central Los Angeles. I hear it is nice too this time of year.
- dravensbe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Luckily we have brad's cultivated intellect to keep us in line. With any luck, Iraq will soon be a nation of happy fishermen.
- KingMob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18"General overall situation going remarkably well" ... unless you're an Iraqi.
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19I used to live in South Central (they changed it to "South LA"). It's not that bad.
Cheney is the reason this country hates rich old white men. - flernk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@p0s3r
Hmmmm... last time I checked, we're sending more money to Iraq than to any state in the Union. So how exactly is Iraq not a part of the United States?
Oh, that's right, because it's a smoking crater in a civil war and an embarrassment for the Administration. Yay freedom! - berzerk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15... and good ol' GW is doing one heck of a job
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Beat me to it. The Digg headline seemed to cut off the last words:
"General Overall Situation in Iraq Going Remarkably Well for Halliburton." - youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Who is the idiot? The people that post comments that add to the discussion or the guy that comments on comments and adds nothing to the discussion (yes I realize the irony).
Unfortunately you are too busy enjoying the smell of your own stink that you fail to realize that the policy in Iraq is a failed one and one that needs to change (more evidence of this to come after November). You like the rest of the people that seem to only see things in black in white (stay or cut and run) fail realize that the world doesn't work like that.
Continuing to think that this administration can do no wrong and it is doing a good job does not make it so. So while Rush's audience may be more book smart, intelligence isn't just a measure of ones educational achievements and those that are book smart can also be street stupid (as in easily fooled/conned).
But hey, what do I know? I'm an idiot. - d1ricks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Rush, Dick, George, Condi, and all the rest of them should move to Baghdad for the duration of the WAR ON TERROR. If it's going so great.
- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14"General Overall Situation" -- that reminds me of this statistics joke: keep a foot in hot water and the other in a block of ice -- in general (in average) the temperature will be very pleasant.
- patience, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13EIB Network. Ditto Rush. EIB Network. Ditto Rush:
Pill Popper is a snooze to listen to. Hey rush, I have some Zanax to spice things up. - tycho, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@bradbaxter
you make an excellent point, and i think you emphasize the exact problem with conservatives like yourself. it's natural to grow up and begin to question your teachers and those who are older than you. in fact, thats a great exercise to perform all the time. unfortunately, i think that you've now you're listening to rush limbaugh and not treating him with the same critical ear that you learned to treat the rest of the world with. the right-wing seems to think they own the "truth", however, the truth is almost always somewhere in between what both the liberals and conservatives are saying. rush limbaugh is a conservative who is paid to entertain and sway public opinion. he has a vested interest in influencing your opion to agree with his. stewart and colbert are doing the same thing but for the other side. i think we should all be smart enough to understand how this works and DIGG what we choose with appropriate conservative and liberal filters on... we're not idiots. - rtini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Was he referring to the thousands of US troops who have died, or the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have died as a result of our occupation?
Wait, maybe he meant the hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes we've spent?
Did he mean that we've successfully recovered the WMD?
Or could he have meant the way that Iraq is, according to the CIA and FBI, more of a terrorist breeding ground now than it was before the war?
OH I KNOW - he must have meant that our new "lean and mean" civil liberties are looking really good.
Help me out here. - chiste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"One of the hardest parts of my job is connecting Iraq to the war on terror." GWB
How can anyone still support this war? - gareth805, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Its always good to know that when they drag Cheney out of his lair you find out he drinks his own Kool-Aid. Ah is that the smell of massive electoral change in the air?
- enki25, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yes, god bless people whose actions result in half a million civilian deaths.
- jambox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yep, 650,000 down, only 29,350,000 to go!
But at least the Halliburton board is lining it's pockets.
Go Cheney. - dBLiSS, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Are they allowed to give each other reach-arounds like that on the radio? Sick...
- enki25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also note how the age groups are distributed. 51% of Rush's audience is over 50 years old. This fact isn't clear from the table, but for every 20 year old that listens to Rush, there's a 100 year old that listens to him.
Rush's audience extreme age might explain their knowledge, what's more impressive is the fact that the Daily Show's younger audience is of comparable knowledge and education. - enki25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh, you mean your friends in the military don't say, "Oh god it's so horrible over here, we're just making things worse and all I want to do is come home, wah wah wah."
Even if they thought those things, they wouldn't say them. They want to feel like they're risking and giving their lives for a good cause.
That's why it's up to us to call the civilian military leadership on its failures. Those who are already enlisted are obviously not able to do that, they are honor bound and legally obligated not to, not to mention what it would do for their morale. Does that mean we have the same obligation? Of course not. - zeiben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No, I think I see where Cheney is coming from. I mean, if you look at it in terms of the oil, very little has been badly affected. Most is still intact, and there's a good prospect for harvesting it to suit our needs. Yeah, sure if you focus on minutia, like people, infrastructure, etc., then you can make it look bleak, but that would be ignoring the big picture.
- hawkeye17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Darth Cheney speaks! This evil moron is living in a dream world.
- skytimelapse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5p0s3r wrote:
"Look at how all these moron diggerals spell...."
Ummm look at your own name... - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yeah, the Romans probably thought the Jews were in their last throes around AD 70.
- tonkatoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5why are republicans so goddamn ***** stupid? 51% of the nation voted for these two inept neo-nazis! Hey repuGlicans: if you love cheney and his little dumbass (Great book by the way) stupid inbred ***** so much, why not go to iraq? after all it IS a noble cause. Right?
- tomarocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Rush was sharing some of his oxycontin with Cheney before the show.
- aforonda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2sounds like rush is back on drugs, so much for rehab, hmm a conservative drug addict, I expect to get alot of knowledge from that, not.
- adexsi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Until I see Bush and Cheney picking up landmines, I don't believe a thing the administration says.
- FlightGear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd like to have whatever Dick Chaney is smoking. Good Times, Good Times!!
- lbdwag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The morons that we have in office will lead the world to WWIII....
- Socolco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, if you define this unparalleled tragedy as "remarkably well" you can be happy with anything. I guess it's a "creative visualization" technique.
Why doesn't he let us in on what he sees as success (making money for big oil and the defense industry), I guess he can't because the true isn't acceptable to anyone with a conscience. - Lazlow23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3For those of you who have been wondering where Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf - the former Iraqi Information Minister, a.k.a. "Comical Ali" and "Bagdhad Bob" - has been, he's alive and well and writing speeches and talking points for Cheney, Bush, and the Republican Party.
- jambox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3oh well THEY'RE doing ok, we're mostly worried about the civillians getting shot, blown up, run over by tanks, etc.
- jambox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think he means he's STILL getting away with manufacturing the whole thing for his own benefit.
- m00dc0ntr0l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wouldn't you know it, but the actual facts -- those that don't go away when you stop believing in them, prove you're full of it:
The U.S. considers all of Iraq a combat zone,” says the 2005 Pentagon report, which was wrapped up at the end of April, three months after the elections that were supposed to have turned the tide in this conflict. “From July 2004 to late March 2005,” says the document, “there were 15,527 attacks against Coalition Forces throughout Iraq.” Then comes one of several paragraphs marked S//NF (secret, not for distribution to foreign nationals): “From 1 November 2004 to 12 March 2005 there were 3306 attacks in the Baghdad area. Of these, 2400 were directed against Coalition Forces."
That was in April of 2005. And, as we have all seen, the violence has only gotten worse. So, whatever anecdotal "friend" evidence you're going with, isn't reflected by what the prosecutors of this war are saying about it (that is the leadership of our troops).
I have to say, this government has managed to politicize information in such a way that is terribly harmful to democracy. - tehbishop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@Urusai
well, until Israel was given to them, they hadn't stepped up to the plate on their own after their temple was destroyed ... so mayhaps the Romans were spot on? - cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1tehbishop
There were well over 6 million of them in and around Europe in the early parts of the last century, before the establishment of modern Israel. Long after the Romans were
a going concern. - swiftone2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These people(the bush administration) need to get their collective heads out of their unlighted spaces.
- Mikesfedup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
Well yes Cheney..wow..how stupid do you think We are? 70+ more of the pawns(Our troops) have died this month and no end in sight, more billions of dollars being spent in this fiscal blackhole of a so-called " War on terror". Civil War breaking loose all over the place; Iraq is a very dangerous place to live. Yep! Things are going well Cheney! Perhaps as well as you hoped? What a snake! - RedState, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I did a little more "digging" and I found it:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=1068
It is a big study so look about 3/4ths of the page down.
Helpful Chart: http://people-press.org/reports/images/282-56.gif
Rush: 37% Grad : High Knowledge 48%
Daily Show: 37% : High Knowledge 38%
This is the 2006 PEW Study. - greylion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He is starting to remind me of the Iraqi Information Minister:
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/ -
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