[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Say-Ya-Nara!

[glorgau]

Even the soldiers here bluntly say they take their orders from their general, not from Bremer.

Shocking!
This guy is an idiot.

[Ronin]

People cannot understand why a superpower that can amass all that military might can't get the electricity back on. Iraqis are now contrasting Saddam's ability to bring back power after the war in 1991 to the apparent inability of the US to do so now.

Hmmm.... let me see if I can explain this.

In Saddam's time, the general or minister would be told, get the power back on in 3 days or I will shoot you. The minister would then turn to the Department Heads and say get the power back on in 48 hours or I will shoot you. The Department heads would say to the Engineers, get the power back on in 24 hours or I will shoot you....

The bottom line being, fear of a bullet in your gourd has a marvelously stimulating effect.

Unfortunately, we can't do that. And the Iraqis know it, and the hidden Ba'athists know it too. So it is taking a bit longer.

Typical that this sleaseball ran straight to the Guardian. He wants his candy and he wants it right now.

[dandelion]

Isam Al Khafaji, University of Amsterdam Political Science Lecturer, and enemy of Chalabi. It is quite telling that in this earlier article, he calls on the U.S. to drop the embargoes against Iraq and chose a symbolic path. He also praises Clinton and blames the U.S., in part, for September 11 in another article he wrote entitled, "The Road to Hell". It is also indicitive of his true nature that the article is carried on such liberal websites as Media Monitors Network" and The Global Site UK. To quote Mr. Al-Khafaji from "the Road to Hell":

"And even today, and despite the overwhelming sympathy and support for the US in this latest tragedy, isn't it curious that the US did not even ask the UN Security Council to convene in order to authorize the use of force, which it would most probably do- against the perpetrators of the heinous attack? And despite all the American discourse on globalization, nothing but ultranationalism smells out of ex-Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright labeling of the United States as "the indispensable nation". But why are other nations dispensable?? Albright's answer is a literary piece on arrogance: "we stand tall and hence see further than other nations." And it is all the more frightening to think that the quasi- unanimous sympathy with the US today could intensify such a chauvinistic attitude, rather than a profound reassessment of the basic principles of US foreign policy."

Isam Al-Khafaji's presentation of himself as a solid supporter of the new Iraqi government, surprised by U.S. "arrogance", is a blatant misrepresentation...

[xm177e2]

Crybaby. Go run to someone who cares (like al-Ghardiyan).

[skeeter]

Out of 140 Iraqi council members, one (an academic from Europe) resigns. All must be lost.