How Shock and Awe was supposed to work
Lawmakers from two major blocs in Iraq’s parliament ended boycotts and returned to work this week, just two weeks before all the politicians go home for a controversial monthlong summer break.
This is followed by 6 paragraphs detailing just some of the factions – coming and going – because you can’t tell the players without a scorecard.
As for the summer break, Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish lawmaker, said that the Iraqi parliament would take a month long recess in August.
U.S. lawmakers, government officials and others have criticized the planned hiatus.
Just before Congress takes their own summer break.
“We decided to take the vacation, and we insisted on taking a vacation because the U.S. administration has put high pressure on us, interfering with our business and treating us as servants, not as parliament members,” said Othman.
Old-line Republican warns ‘something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state
http://tinyurl.com/392eff
“Americans think their danger is terrorists,” said Roberts. “They don’t understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. … The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren’t able to perceive that.”
My wake-up call: Watch for another 9/11-WMD experience
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2214.shtml
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S&B – – -what are you raling on about:
#1–That bushCo is going to stage a coup? We should be more concerned about the actual damage he is doing before he leaves office and our cholesterol levels.
#2–Please state what at all the American People can do to protect against another 911?–You seem to think GOUSA is in “control” of everything including the free will of religious fanatics?
FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders
There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States.
Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility can hold approximately 2 million people.
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#3 what at all the American People can do
It’s very simple, BE AWARE! The more people that know, the more difficult it will be to hide their actions and the less likely they will carry out their plans.
Stars & Bars, you’re either off your meds, or drunk. You’re out of control, dude.
>>That bushCo is going to stage a coup?
Bobbo, that would assume that there’s a government to stage a coup against. Who would he overthrow, if everybody’s on holiday? And you’d think that would be pretty simple (to take power in a vaccum), but given Dumbya’s record of being able to fuck up just about ANYTHING, it’s far from a sure bet.
#5 given Dumbya’s record of being able to &*#@% just about ANYTHING
On the contrary, everything is going according to plan. Your passivity is my proof.
Consider this: Working for the Clampdown
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/JulAug2007/bovard.html
Section 1076 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 changed the name of the key provision in the statute book from Insurrection Act to Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order Act. The Insurrection Act of 1807 stated that the president could deploy troops within the United States only “to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.” The new law expands the list to include “natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition”—and such “condition” is not defined or limited.
Even the New York Times recently condemned the new law for “making martial law easier.” It took a few paragraphs in a $500 billion, 591-page bill to destroy one of the most important limits on federal power.
I’ve missed the kooks. You haven’t ruined a thread around here in a while. Welcome back.
#6,
But we have already seen that this president doesnt give a damn what the american people do… He has done nothing to defend the border… He did nothing when Katrina Destoyed the gulf coast. And he ran and hid on 9/11, after doing nothing for some amount of time.
I know a lot of people in law enforcement and in the National guard, and some type of Palistinian style curfew in the US simply wouldn’t work… And I am uncertain what the point would be.
I think your paranoia is being driven by the guilt from downright seditious conduct of Republicans and Conservative (and you) over the last 30 year. The movement that has quite literally brought the US to its knees. Which was the movements intents from the very beginnings…
So there is is. The US federal government is effectively dead, or at least impotent. It no longer offers any sort of national security or consumer protection. The trains (planes)don’t even run on time (and it is getting worse). Every thing good our government did has been eliminated and we are left only with the corruption.
/slow clap
Bravo, you got what you wanted. Stop complaining that you now have what you have been asking for, since the early 80’s.
I see the tap water has been tampered with in Greg A and S&B’s hometowns again.
Never failes to amaze me how a group of people can rant on and on about the incompentcy of this administration and in the next breath accuse them of planning a coup. Talk about Manic-Depressive’s.
As for the topic of this post…..can you tell us Eideard how we will know the difference between a Parliment IN session and a Parliment ON vacation in Iraq?
#10, joshua,
I echo your question.
And who left the door open so these loonbats can escape?
My bet is that more civilian people is dead after Saddam in Iraq than in all of the “Bloody regime” time.
Not that I would prefer Saddam, but the way this affair was handled might become a textbook example…of how not to do things.
>>On the contrary, everything is going according to plan.
Well, if the rapidly degenerating bloodbath in Iraq is the “plan”, I’d hate to see what would happen if Dumbya fucked up. Global destruction? Nuclear holocaust? The end of the world as we know it?
Hey, he’s still got more than year left. Still time to ACCOMPLISH that MISSION as well.
Either get back on the meds, Stars and Bars, or get into rehab. If you think “everything is going according to plan” in Iraq, you need one of those strategies.
Bush has declared imperial like powers, Says he is beyond the law.
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Legal scholars say he is now in “inherent contempt” and the impeachment proceedings can start Monday morning.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
>>In politics, nothing happens by accident.
That’s usually the case, unless you’re dealing with a dim-witted bumblefuck like Dumbya.
Like a reverse King Midas, everything he touches turns to shit. From ball teams to oil companies to the job of POTUS.
This guy is going into the Guiness Book.
So, S&B. Was the Iraqui bloodbath/ civil war planned, or is it just the latest in the record-breaking string of Dumbya’s fuckups?
Didn’t they mean Schlock and Flaw?
#15 Actually, lots of things in politics happen by accident. I love the mindset of the conspiracy theorist, who thinks that men exercise such mastery of events that nothing important could have just slipped by.
If there ever was an in-your-face demonstration of the fact that the people in charge DON’T know what they were doing, it is the Bush Administration. 9/11, Katrina, the Iraq fiasco. Then lets not forget the lesser screw-ups like nominating Harriet Myers for the Supreme Court, the Dubai Ports World deal, trying to privatize Social Security and reform immigration.
face it – far from being sinister geniuses pulling all the strings in the world, these people can’t find their own asses with their own hands.
right now, their greatest accomplishment is that they have duped 29% of Americans into thinking they are doing a good job.
PULL OUT NOW
And let the region disolve into chaos!!! it cant be any worse than the semi-chaos thats exists now…
#21
I quit saying “It can’t get any worse” just about 6 years ago.
#21
What an irresponsible thing to say. It’s a fuck-up I know. But do you really want to leave Iraq at the mercy of the region’s power, Iran???
And next in line would be Afghanistan, and that would foster a preemptive strike from Pakistan.
Are you really prepared for the kind of chaos buildup ensuing such an irresponsible retreat???
Not to speak of Syria and Saudi Arabia’s response…
And by the way.
If it’s not too time consuming for your lordships…
go to youtube and search for History of Oil from Robert Newman.
there’s 5 ten minute episodes. It’s amusing and educational.
Also you can go to Google Video and search for the same, but this time is on a single file.
A Democratic Congressman states, “Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are right”
As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure “bubbleroom” in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED.
Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: “We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive.”
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