September 29, 2003


Oh Auntie Donnie...read this

Two Words: Fareed Zakaria. Interesting. These numbers are amazing and his premise is on the money...literally.

By Rumsfeld’s logic, America’s light hand and quick exit from Haiti should have created a vibrant democracy. The opposite happened.
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As proof of this, Rumsfeld points out that “four years after the war, the United Nations still runs Kosovo by executive fiat, issues postage stamps, passports and driver’s licenses.” This is shockingly ill-informed. ...
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It is not U.N. bureaucracy that has kept Kosovo in limbo, but a political dilemma that Washington has not resolved.
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Rumsfeld should get out more. ...
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Rumsfeld’s problem, it would seem, is not with international organizations, but with global capitalism.
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One can see this phenomenon vividly in one country these days—Iraq. A senior international administrator—that is, a high-ranking civilian in the Coalition Provisional Authority or a one-star American general—makes around $10,000 a month, including housing allowances. The Pentagon estimates that doctors in Iraq made $20 a month last year. To be fair, local wages have risen now, but a university professor in Baghdad today makes at most $200 to $300 a month. In other words, a Coalition official is probably earning 50 times the salary of a local professor.
And VP Angina makes more than all of them, just from his annual CheneyBurton checks.

Is it any wonder that every president since Reagan tossed the Neocon proposals for invading Iraq into the shit-can until George the Weak-minded showed up? Don't you just picture him like the dog in that cat-centric comic...tongue hanging out, stupid smile on his face, always getting out-smarted by a lasagna-eating feline and everyone else? Wait...that's reality.

posted by Jo Fish on 09.29.03 at 12:13 AM





Comments:

Now, now, there Jo. We all have no idea of the complex actual motives for the Iraq fiasco; the only thing we know for certain is that not a single one of the STATED motives (or anything told to Congress, the UN, the American people, or anyone else) bears or bore any relation to any known fact.

Who knows? Maybe one of Saddam's starships was going to wipe out the Vulcans unless we acted decisively. Only the President knows for sure... Perhaps, in a few generations time, Federation residents will thank him... assuming they are done paying for this adventure...

posted by: the talking dog on 09.30.03 at 05:44 PM [permalink]






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