Comments on: IraqRidge http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:47:47 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: makeitstop http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-992 makeitstop Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:31:06 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-992 <p>It really is the ultimate in legal weaseling; by subcontracting the war, you can do anything with no risk of legal repercussions. Just ask this poor woman who was gang-raped by her co-workers, and then Halliburton very conveniently lost the rape kit. No evidence, no crime.</p> It really is the ultimate in legal weaseling; by subcontracting the war, you can do anything with no risk of legal repercussions. Just ask this poor woman who was gang-raped by her co-workers, and then Halliburton very conveniently lost the rape kit. No evidence, no crime.

]]> By: Otter http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-988 Otter Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:53:03 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-988 <p>I followed some of those links, but “well-connected American corporations covering up even more rape and assault on their own employees” (the ABC news 20/20 story) really made me sick. A young woman joins KBR, goes to Iraq, she’s ON THEIR SIDE, she gets gang-raped by her co-workers, and the company tries to cover it up.</p> <p>It’s not just the brown people they’re after, they’ll do anything to anybody. The subcontracting of war has to stop.</p> I followed some of those links, but “well-connected American corporations covering up even more rape and assault on their own employees” (the ABC news 20/20 story) really made me sick. A young woman joins KBR, goes to Iraq, she’s ON THEIR SIDE, she gets gang-raped by her co-workers, and the company tries to cover it up.

It’s not just the brown people they’re after, they’ll do anything to anybody. The subcontracting of war has to stop.

]]> By: Michael http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-987 Michael Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:47:09 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-987 <p>You get the feeling that every CPAC conference starts with ACU Chair David Keene getting his collected wingnuts to give the Conservative Pledge of Allegiance:</p> <p>“I…state your name…”</p> <p><em>“I…state your name…”</em></p> You get the feeling that every CPAC conference starts with ACU Chair David Keene getting his collected wingnuts to give the Conservative Pledge of Allegiance:

“I…state your name…”

“I…state your name…”

]]> By: JayBrida http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-986 JayBrida Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:29:48 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-986 <p>well at least the humming housing sector will keep our economy afloat.</p> well at least the humming housing sector will keep our economy afloat.

]]> By: captphealy http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-984 captphealy Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:16:51 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-984 <p>I am in complete agreement with this post. It’s hard to be witty in the face of overwhelming evidence that we are all being dragged to hell by our “Leaders”. </p> <p>To paraphrase from a different moment in <em>Blazing Saddles</em>:<br /> There’s no escaping this conclusion: Our country is turning into shit.</p> <p>(P.S. to Nancy Pelosi - fuck off, bitch.)</p> I am in complete agreement with this post. It’s hard to be witty in the face of overwhelming evidence that we are all being dragged to hell by our “Leaders”.

To paraphrase from a different moment in Blazing Saddles:
There’s no escaping this conclusion: Our country is turning into shit.

(P.S. to Nancy Pelosi – fuck off, bitch.)

]]> By: annagranfors http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-981 annagranfors Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:29:35 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-981 <p>dang, TBogg. I don’t know as I’ve ever seen that tone in one of your posts…I mean, I *know* that tone because it’s pretty close to my 24/7 own, but…well, just never seen it at TBogg before. I think it’s entirely apropos and wish every parent would read it.</p> dang, TBogg. I don’t know as I’ve ever seen that tone in one of your posts…I mean, I *know* that tone because it’s pretty close to my 24/7 own, but…well, just never seen it at TBogg before. I think it’s entirely apropos and wish every parent would read it.

]]> By: danps http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-976 danps Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:08:33 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-976 <p><a href="http://pruningshears.squarespace.com/pruning-shears/2007/12/10/this-week-in-tyranny.html" rel="nofollow">Nothing happens</a> to us that we do not create, promote or allow.</p> Nothing happens to us that we do not create, promote or allow.

]]> By: bobwan http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-974 bobwan Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:23:05 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-974 <p>I say we use classic American values. Stocks. Reflecting pool. Vegetables. Eggs. Paaaaaaaaaaaarty.</p> I say we use classic American values. Stocks. Reflecting pool. Vegetables. Eggs. Paaaaaaaaaaaarty.

]]> By: MBouffant http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-971 MBouffant Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:28:01 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-971 <p>Why are they “too old to hang?” Hanging’s too good for them. A few hours of waterboarding just to start. The removal of Cheney’s heart defibrillator (no free gov’t. services for the bastard). And so on.</p> Why are they “too old to hang?” Hanging’s too good for them. A few hours of waterboarding just to start. The removal of Cheney’s heart defibrillator (no free gov’t. services for the bastard). And so on.

]]> By: paulbeard http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-967 paulbeard Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:19:54 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2007/12/10/iraqridge/#comment-967 <p>Here’s <a href="http://www.custermen.com/ItalyWW2/ILDUCE/Mussolini.htm" rel="nofollow">some details on what happens when things get ugly</a>. </p> <p>And I agree, a motivated legislature could both withdraw the troops and discipline the rascals here at home. Know where we can find one?</p> Here’s some details on what happens when things get ugly.

And I agree, a motivated legislature could both withdraw the troops and discipline the rascals here at home. Know where we can find one?

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