"terrific news for people who care about human rights, freedom, and democracy...an enormous moral victory for the American left"

more trenchant pre-war analysis by one of seattle's greatest foreign policy experts:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=12237

While the American left is content to see an Iraqi dictator terrorizing the Iraqi people, the Bushies in D.C. are not.

Hannity?'s post makes little enough sense to actually be from Hannity.

The Bush administration, true to form, is now spreading the message that they're making progress on the insurgency, as a way to distract attention from the fact that the insurgency is now a distant second to sectarian violence. Against that, we're making huge "negative progress".
The old saw that "we always fight the last war" now applies even to the way we fight the different stages of this one war. We're now in a situation where captured bad guys beg to be taken prisoner by the Americans, because they know that if their religious opponents get hold of them, they will be tortured to death for real. We're shutting down Abu Ghraib just as we're starting to see a real need for it.

In knick-knack shops they frequently have little signs that say "you break it, you bought it". We bought it.

hannity? is quoting savage's fucktarded pro-war piece...

As the vying factions devolve into full civil war, grit you teeth. Try to hold back the sweeping feelings of rank horror.

It will not be civil war as we use the term, but a war of religious extinction.
With money, means and fanatical motive. For Westerners of this era, imposible to comprhend.

They cannot kill Jews, but they can kill each other.

The Sadam models of repressive blood baths indicate the deaths will be in the tens of thousands.

Good thing for them - the Kurds are well armed.

International diplomcy has always preached stability - and at times that old clarion call has made me chaffe and snarl.

The US warmongers in power gambit for Iraqi Empire and oil will be paid for dearly in Iraqi blood.

As Ari Berman reports in the latest issue of The Nation, "On the advice
of top party consultants, the Democrats in the run-up to the 2006 midterm
vote are either ignoring Iraq and shifting to domestic issues (the
strategy in the 2002 midterm elections) or supporting the war while
criticizing Bush's handling of it (the strategy in the 2004 presidential
election)."

The political problem with this, as Berman puts it: "Fiddling while Iraq
burns will likely only reinforce Republican stereotypes of Democrats as
calculating, gutless and unable to develop a strong and sensible foreign
policy that will protect Americans in a post-9/11 world."