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2006/7/10

Liberation- U.S. Style

@ 09:05 PM (83 months, 16 days ago)

So the Bush Crime Team told us we were going into Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator.  And gee, it's worked so well!

Here's a glimpse of life for many Iraqis, post-"liberation."

Selling fake IDs in Iraq has become big business, as many Iraqis seek fake IDs in order to try to stay alive.

As the sectarian violence (read: civil war) between the Sunnis and Shiites continues, and one can be killed for simply having the wrong name, many Iraqis are trying to hide their true identity.

This liberation thing is really working out so well for them. 

As violence increases, Iraqis turn to fake IDs

Sectarian brutality has many carrying documents hiding their names

Briber-in-Chief

@ 07:56 PM (83 months, 16 days ago)

Just call him the Briber-in-Chief.  George Bush's foreign policy stinks so bad, that he's been reduced to bribing the Russians into supporting it.

The United States is expected to make some major consessions to the Russians over the storage of nuclear fuel.  In exchange, the U.S. wants Russia's backing in its foreign folicy, specifically regarding Iran and North Korea.

And as the Wall Street Journal put it, the United States "needs Russia more than Russia needs the U.S."

But perhaps insteading of being reduced to bribing nation's into supporting it's foreign policy, perhaps BushCo. should try a less arrogant, more common sense approach to foreign policy.  In other words, no more "either with us or against us."