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April 18, 2008
By: TIDBITS....The commanders of the government offensive in Basra have been recalled to Baghdad. Presumably because the Basra campaign was such a success. In other news, missile defense still doesn't work and its supporters are still lying about it. I know, I know: dog bites man. Still. —Kevin Drum 1:50 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (14)Comments
No doubt to spend more time with their families Posted by: Botecelli on April 18, 2008 at 1:59 PM | PERMALINKand i'm sure they will be given the iraq equivalent to the medal of freedom. Posted by: mudwall jackson on April 18, 2008 at 2:07 PM | PERMALINKHow do you say "Heck of a job" in Arabic? Posted by: Quaker in a Basement on April 18, 2008 at 2:24 PM | PERMALINKIs this like recalling Chinese products because they're mismanufactured, bad for you, and do on one any good? Posted by: Anon on April 18, 2008 at 2:51 PM | PERMALINKIs this like recalling Chinese products because they're mismanufactured, bad for you, and do no one any good? Posted by: Anon on April 18, 2008 at 2:51 PM | PERMALINKGeez, even they engineers who work on it say it hasn't been tested out yet. Why would these guys say different? Posted by: Crissa on April 18, 2008 at 2:51 PM | PERMALINKHey, we shot down one of our own satellites! If we have to, we'll fire nukes at our own cities to prove missile defense works! Posted by: Radio Birdman on April 18, 2008 at 3:20 PM | PERMALINKIf Baghdad and Basra can't get along, we'll bomb both of them. We'll bomb the whole region. We'll bomb our allies. We'll even bomb ourselves to prove we're serious and credible. Posted by: Hillary Clinton on April 18, 2008 at 3:22 PM | PERMALINKBroadening to the cost and debacle of the war as a whole, I repeat: a new report from the Pentagon's premier military educational institute says Iraq war was ruinous and a net loss for US, Rummy most to blame. "I was in Iraq in 1991, when the British and Americans had been bombing one of the highways leading into Baghdad. There were women and children dead and blown into bits, and all of these dogs came out of the desert and started eating them. If you saw what I saw, you would never, ever think of supporting war of any kind against anyone again." "The [Basra]operation was criticised by US commanders as poorly planned and failed to achieve its stated aims." That's mighty rich of us considering that we probably authored a good deal of it. Posted by: Doc at the Radar Station on April 18, 2008 at 5:50 PM | PERMALINKTbrosz doesn't have the time to post here anymore because he is working so hard on the program. Posted by: R.L. on April 18, 2008 at 7:03 PM | PERMALINKI enjoyed hearing about how all the guys who ran away were "fired" from their "jobs." Firing? There's no firing in the military. Courts marshals? Yep. Imprisonment? Yep again. Firing? It just goes to show whatever these Iraqi guys were, they weren't military. More like the local rent-a-cops. Posted by: RAM on April 18, 2008 at 9:49 PM | PERMALINKI am reminded of California's periodic attempt to get Lockheed to replace the DMV's aging computers, for a few hundred million. Each time, Lockheed would generate vugrafs, call the problem solved and pocket the cash, no delivery. It never occurred to anyone in the state government that high school kids were doing the same integration over the Internet for a few dollars. The story is not unique, but it makes one wonder how stupid we are when we say,"Government out to fix this"
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