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 Dinner With AhmedPosted on Mar 17, 2008
By Scott Ritter (Page 5) Butler’s report to the Security Council, delivered in late June of 1998, was dramatically revamped in order to take into account the need to discuss the VX findings. The “major breakthrough” in disarmament work with the Iraqis was, as a matter of course, pushed to the sidelines. The Clinton administration, caught off guard, had to come out with public statements proclaiming its support for the work of UNSCOM at a time when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger were lobbying hard behind closed doors for the U.S. to pull back from blanket support of the inspection process. The Republicans, led by Lott, had a new cause around which to rally in their effort to confront the Democrats: the failure of disarmament and the need to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Randy Scheunemann used the impetus created by the VX nerve agent scandal to draft legislation, the so-called Iraq Liberation Act, which was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate in October 1998. This legislation solidified regime change in Iraq as the official policy of the United States, and certified Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress as the American choice for replacing Saddam. The Chalabi machine was on a roll, and was not to be stopped until the overthrow of Saddam in April 2003. Ahmed Chalabi remains a controversial figure today. The U.S. case for war with Iraq was built around the notion of Iraq retaining stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Much of the case was built around so-called intelligence provided by Chalabi’s INC. All of this intelligence proved flawed. Chalabi and the INC have been singled out as the scapegoats for this failure, accused of deliberately misrepresenting data and even fabricating intelligence reports to shore up the U.S. government claim that Iraq did indeed possess proscribed weapons. As for the Aberdeen VX lab report, the Iraqi government in the end had been telling the truth. It had not succeeded in stabilizing VX nerve agent, and it had never filled any weapons with the agent. Far from representing “incontrovertible evidence” of Iraqi duplicity, the Aberdeen lab results were flawed. Even under ideal circumstances, laboratory analysis conducted at approved facilities operating under strict protocols established in accordance with the Chemical Weapons Convention had an incredibly high rate of misidentification, and this occurred in known test samples. Detection of a specific chemical agent simply wasn’t a slam-dunk proposition. The Aberdeen samples were taken from metal fragments that had been subjected to explosive demolition and buried in the ground for many years. Subsequent retesting done by French and Swiss labs proved inconclusive. In the end, I was wrong to have pushed so hard to have the lab results made public. Chalabi’s bid for the leadership of post-Saddam Iraq has stalled, but not stopped. In the aftermath of the Jan. 30, 2005, elections in Iraq, a new Iraqi government was formed, and Chalabi emerged as deputy prime minister responsible for energy policy. In this role, he was given interim responsibility for overseeing the Iraqi Ministry of Oil in April-May 2005 and December 2005-January 2006, which meant he had control over Iraq’s vast economic resources. Chalabi had told me that this had always been his goal. He also told me that he would use his access to Iraq’s riches to “take care” of those of his friends who had supported his rise to power. Exploiting Iraq’s oil resources for his own benefit has always been a Chalabi goal. Prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Chalabi took a leading role in planning how the Iraqi oil sector would be managed in post-Saddam Iraq. He chaired a meeting of oil executives at London’s prestigious Royal Institute of International Affairs, the title of which was “Invading Iraq: Dangers and Opportunities for the Energy Sector.” Chalabi also took a leading role in advising the State Department’s Oil and Energy Working Group; in a conference of the group held in December 2002 he pushed for using a revitalized Iraqi oil industry to pay for the cost of the U.S. invasion (former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz relied heavily on Chalabi’s input when he testified to the U.S. Congress that Iraqi oil would more than offset the cost of invading Iraq). Chalabi argued that the best way forward for Iraq’s oil industry was to privatize as quickly as possible, and seek to free it of OPEC-imposed production quotas. Many of Chalabi’s policy positions are reflected in the stalled National Oil Law of Iraq, still pending ratification by the Iraqi parliament. Chalabi no longer sits as Iraq’s oil czar. In the twists of fortune that mark the instability inherent in the disastrous American occupation of Iraq, Chalabi was compelled to step aside from the Oil Ministry in January 2006, replaced by former nuclear weapons scientist Hussein al-Shahristani. Chalabi’s political aspirations had fallen short in Iraq’s national elections, with his party failing to win even one seat in the Iraqi parliament. Down but not out, Chalabi continues to this day to operate on the fringes of Iraqi politics. In the fall of 2007 he was appointed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to be the chair of a so-called services committee, helping coordinate the provision of health care, electricity, education and other governmental services to Baghdad neighborhoods in coordination with the American military “surge.” Chalabi’s link to the ongoing “surge” is no accident, since it maintains the connection between him and those in the neoconservative establishment in American politics who have consistently advocated for him in any post-Saddam Iraq. One of the most visible, and vocal, of these advocates was Randy Scheunemann, the former national security adviser to Trent Lott, who left his job as a Senate staffer. In 2000 he served as the foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain’s unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination. In 2001 he served a short stint as a consultant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In November 2002, Scheunemann helped form a political advocacy group known as the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, whose membership included McCain, who was an honorary co-chair. With Scheunemann guiding him, McCain said in 2003 that Ahmed Chalabi was “a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart.” Scheunemann is a key figure behind McCain’s unabashed support for staying the course in Iraq, and helped shape the “surge” strategy currently being pursued in Iraq. Today, once again, he serves as a senior foreign policy adviser to a McCain presidential campaign. Danielle Pletka left her job with the Senate to take a position as vice president of the neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, where she continues to be a vocal and unapologetic advocate of Ahmed Chalabi. In 2006, Pletka helped form AEI’s Iraq Planning Group, which authored a report released in January 2007 that advocated surging 50,000 troops into Iraq as a remedy to the ongoing impasse. This report took precedence over the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group findings, which articulated a more nuanced approach inclusive of diplomacy and reduction of forces in Iraq. She is an avid supporter of Sen. McCain’s presidential aspirations. Pletka’s husband, Stephen Rademaker, served in the Bush administration as an assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation and disarmament issues before leaving in 2006 to join the high-profile Washington, D.C., lobbying firm Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, where he actively operates in support of undermining the current Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki and advocating for Iraqi Kurdish oil autonomy. Another Pletka associate, former CIA Director James Woolsey, has been the pro bono counsel for Chalabi over the years. Woolsey, who openly advocated for the invasion of Iraq prior to March 2003, today is an adviser to McCain’s election campaign, with a primary focus on oil security policy. Ahmed Chalabi no longer directly controls Iraq’s oil. But at one time he did, and it will be interesting to see how he chose to distribute this largess to his friends and allies. Even more interesting will be how Chalabi leveraged his control of Iraq’s economic wealth to support his continuing claim to the ultimate position of power in Iraq. With the Shiite fundamentalists in Baghdad stumbling in their effort to form a stable government, and with the U.S. balking at Maliki’s theocratic tendencies, rest assured there are many in Washington who continue to look upon Chalabi as the go-to guy to bring secular stability to Iraq. Whether he can accomplish this task is questionable. But, in the meantime, Chalabi is in a position to write many checks, a factor that today makes him so attractive to so many, especially those in the neoconservative establishment with whom he has maintained a relationship over time. Just how attractive will be determined once there is a better understanding of when, and to whom, Chalabi writes his checks, or, more important, who is writing the checks on his behalf. Scott Ritter is a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq (1991-1998). Author of “Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein,” published by Nation Books in 2005, and “Target Iran: The Truth About the White House Plans for Regime Change,” published by Nation Books in 2006.
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By keller, March 28 at 11:23 am #
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Sheynonomous
If you are such a person to call to action, why do you sit on your computer to the call of 721 comments?????? Go and freaking do something with your life. Call to action?? what the hell does that mean?? You are an instigator of crap. Oh sorry () ()( s ) and you can’t spell or use proper diction in your ‘call to action’ prose whilst you sit at your computer wishing for a different world.
Reply to this | Hide 1 reply | Report thisBy Shenonymous, March 29 at 5:02 pm #
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Such a crank!
Actually I do much with my life! But it isn’t any of your fucking business what that is! Why don’t you go stick your freaking head in a bucket of shit! Obviously you haven’t the foggiest idea what the word action means. Buy a freaking dictionary and get outta my freaking face! You bet I am an instigator of crap, uh, shit! You make about as much sense as a freaking pimple.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, March 19 at 3:46 pm #
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Greetings Cyrena!
Thank you for your confidence in me to suggest that I should be involved in writing about Chalabi. I’d rather spend my precious time and energy writing about a noble personality, not a crooked one like this guy.
As to your point about the importance of knowing the language and the culture, this is indeed a very important aspect of bringing understanding and perspective to the international village we live in. In fact, despite a late surge in American college students who are interested in learning Arabic and other critical foreign languages, the field will continue to have great deficiency in the number of enlightened Americans who can make a difference in the long run.
As to Scott’s knowledge of Arabic or Persian, I cannot comment on that since I do not know. But, I assume that he knows the language to have been selected to work as a weapon’s inspector, which must have involved some deciphering of Arabic documents.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Joe, March 19 at 11:26 am #
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Shenonymous, Re your thoughts, “There is an implication for action in the original intent of the article. What exactly does anyone think it is?”
and “an American construction of an incorruptible Iraqi government?,” over the course of several Ritter articles, I think the intent is to express the Japanese notion of shimata (sp?), the admission that we have made a mistake. We meaning all of us and, here, Ritter places himself near the top of the list. The implication runs counter to your idea of the US constructing a different Iraqi government. From page 5 of this article, “<cut>the twists of fortune that mark the instability inherent in the disastrous American occupation of Iraq..”
The message is stop what you’re doing. Leave them alone.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Shenonymous, March 19 at 7:22 am #
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What is(are) the implication(s) for action?
In what way can the details (scant as they are) of the dinner party help those who can AND WILL do anything about an American construction of an incorruptible Iraqi government? Or is it just another case of additional rhetoric. I am a person who always calls for action and especially not ultimately empty and bombastic words and descriptions. There is an implication for action in the original intent of the article. What exactly does anyone think it is?
Reply to this | Report thisBy prosefights, March 19 at 6:50 am #
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Iran revolution, Iraq/Iran war, and the Iraq wars
http://www.prosefights.org/thecanadian/thecanadian. htm#gotstarted
Reply to this | Report thisBy Blackspeare, March 18 at 4:57 pm #
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Like the Phoenix, Chalabi will rise to head an Iraqi government----that is if he’s not assassinated first by the Sunnis!
Reply to this | Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, March 18 at 4:16 pm #
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Mike-Mid-City, greetings my friend!
In few words, Chalibi is a classic example of what one might call scum of the earth, evil opportunist with a corrupt soul. He worships money and power in place of the One Mighty God.
Even in Jordan, where corruption is a way of life, he was sought by the authorities for banking fraud and money laundering. He must have done terrible things there for the authorities to seek him. Given that the Jordanian political establishment is a close ally and friend of the U.S. political establishment, I am still wondering why the American authorities did not extradite him to Jordan to stand trial when he was living in the U.S. for many years.
I was initially shocked when I learned that he was embraced and financed by the CIA, the State Department, and particularly by the neocons in Congress for many years, and that he was a major player in pushing for a destructive war against his mother land. But my initial shock was removed when the full picture about this unholy alliance with Chelabi started to emerge.
This is the extent of what I know about this miserable soul. I believe everything Scott Ritter wrote about him, but I further believe his full story needs to be researched and written in a book-length account, for it will make an interesting, though sad chapter, in the war on Iraq. I hope Scott Ritter will write a book-length account about this devil.
Reply to this | Hide 3 replies | Report thisBy cyrena, March 19 at 7:07 am #
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Re: PS
How about Scott’s Arabic? That’s another major key to getting the record down correctly. Not an easy language for Americans to learn, especially as we get older. (well, from my standpoint at least).
This was one of the first major strategic blunders of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. We sent in all of those troops and other people to descend on Iraq, and none of them knew the language or the culture.
How stupid was that?
I’m guessing that Scott Ritter probably DOES know something of the language and culture, (though is work on Iran is equally good, so do you think he knows Persian as well?)
See what I mean? We still need to read this stuff as written by someone who DOES know the language and the culture from being one with the culture. Scott might be a smart guy, but he still can only tell us the story from his interpretation as an American.
Reply to this | Report thisBy cyrena, March 19 at 6:58 am #
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Greetings Fadel!
I think you should write the book on Chalabi. You can of course get info from Scott Ritter, and I’d be more than willing to do some interviews for you. I’m sure Scott would be willing to help.
I know that Scott knows the operation from his perspective, (as we’ve seen here) but it needs an additional historical perspective that could best be done by someone who knows the area as a native to the region.
So, what do you think?
Reply to this | Report thisBy nils cognizant, March 18 at 2:14 pm #
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john, after carefully reading the article, I too was struck by the frankly announced sequence of actions in which Mr. Ritter took part. I’d like to give my more charitable take on this, though. This article must have been a struggle for Ritter to work through. The fact that he is man enough to detail these events is a tribute to him; a man I believe to have grown tremendously since the Chalabi days. I’ve been loosely following Iraq’s travails since the Clinton years and the awful suffering inflicted on the Iraqi population by that President, with needed medical and water filtration supplies stopped before they could be delivered and the careless, frequent use of depleted-uranium anti-armor missiles launched at Iraqi targets (in the South, I think)as we used the Iraqis for target practice.
My observation of Mr. Ritter is that he underwent a spiritual change in the late 90’s, overcoming his Marine Corps aggressive training and finding the Iraqi people to be worthy of rescue rather than rough handling and invasion. He is becoming a model for military men here and abroad; those with an expanding world-view and a systematic, solutions-based approach to foreign policy.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Shenonymous, March 18 at 12:53 pm #
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React but think critically first
Since I think the George W. Bush War in Iraq is the one crucial factor in the upcoming election and is what is driving our sick economy and other pernicious ailments of our country, I read every article about this topic as I can. But evidence or so called evidence of anything to do with this subject must be looked at critically to determine the veracity of it. We are duped too easily as recent history has shown.
Following Ritter’s account of his travels from one office to another he made mention that he stopped at the CIA on the way to the State Dept. meeting about “ongoing intelligence support programs.” Now since the VX report is such a hot item, you would think it would be topic of interest to the CIA and discussed at that particular meeting. Interesting that the report on VX is 10 years old and the meetings Ritter had with Chalabi for the second time in 1998 even though it looks like Ritter is reminiscing over the last five years, when the reality is that his reminiscing is a decade old. Much water has passed through the Ganges since then. The insight about the tests proving 100% evidence of VX on the fragments show the information is specious at best. A dead rat is being smelled. Conventional wisdom says judgment is best held in reserve in view of ambiguous and “fuzzy facts,” as well as a readiness to vociferously agree or disagree with such vague information and to do so would appears rash for either side. At the end of the day nothing has been substantiated and nothing will change the plan that is in place already for the crooked and nefarious Chalabi who continues to have magical powers of stamina in the offices of our government. Hindsight is one way to exculpate one’s historic blindsight to truths that were so obvious. One wonders what is really at bottom here?
Reply to this | Report thisBy Lefty, March 18 at 11:20 am #
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Dinner with Ahmed!
“No thanks, I had bugs for lunch!” BAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . .
Reply to this | Report thisBy Hammo, March 18 at 8:20 am #
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The many deceptions and destructive outcomes of the invasion and occupation of Iraq are obvious. The current challenge is deciding what to do now.
What is best for the Iraqi people, the region and the other stakeholders … including Americans?
If we can go forward with effective “peace operations” – real peace efforts, not the lies of the Bush-Cheney administration – we might be able to make significant progress in Iraq and around the world.
More on this in the article ...
“U.S. global peace officer or corrupt cop? Peace operations explored”
AmericanChronicle.com
December 20, 2007
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/46707
Reply to this | Report thisBy Purple Girl, March 18 at 2:34 am #
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An Example Worth following
Thank You for substantiating information many of US have known all along.
Reply to this | Hide 1 reply | Report thisSuch Courage needs to be commended and acknowledged.
The Iraq war has been a charade (control of Oil), and has led to far more Treasonous acts since th einvasion in’03, War Crimes and the seizing of many of our Constitutional Rights in the name of ‘national Security’. I can only hope others realize the need to step forward and reveal what they know (Military, telecoms...). WE realize the web is complicated and expanisve, but through the admissions of Patriots we will be able to Unspin it’s intricacies to get to the heart of the Conspirators.
You have done the right thing- admitting what you know, I can only hope others hear the call and provide US with the concrete evidence we need to hold those responisble fro not only the Iraq fiasco, but the aftermath it has inflicted on OUR GREAT COUNTRY.WE are not after the minor characters in this ‘play’ but the leads. Let more follow your example before the Curtain drops on US.
Thank You Again
By Lefty, March 18 at 11:28 am #
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Re: An Example Worth following
Yes Bush & Cheney’s war in Iraq is about stealing Iraq’s oil, but it’s more than that. The Bush family modus operandi is to obtain positions of public trust for personal gain. They do it over and over again! How much money did the Carlyle Group make as arms dealer/brokers in the Iran/Congra treason? How much in the way of kickbacks has Jeb Bush taken from insurance companies in Florida?
Bush and Cheney didn’t award “no bid” contracts to just anyone for free! You can bet your ass that they got kick backs for them. It really is that simple and vulgar. The Bush crime family has made America the most despicable banana republic in the Western Hemisphere!
Reply to this | Report thisBy Outraged, March 18 at 12:20 am #
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Re: Scott
Excellent article, and while I’d love to say something seriously intelligent here, I’m afraid that your article says it all. Thanks.
Re: Mike Mid-City
Reply to this | Report thisVery moving post, great analysis. Thanks
By Fadel Abdallah, March 17 at 8:13 pm #
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Cheers my brother and friend Mike-Mid-City! Great post in support of a great American patriot, Scott Ritter. I, too, wish he can run for high office! I once expressed this idea and I am pleased to see it circulating.
Reply to this | Hide 1 reply | Report thisBy Joe, March 17 at 4:40 pm #
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Heavyrunner--check the last page of this article. Ritter makes the same points you have made in criticizing the lab findings. Of course, since he is not a chemist, Ritter had no reason to suspect the original report.
Reply to this | Report thisBy heavyrunner, March 17 at 2:47 pm #
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Science does not speak of 100%
Something does not sound right in Mr. Ritter’s description of his early information regarding the scientific reports of stabilized VX. Either he was being set up, or he does not remember the reports correctly, because it was a red flag to me immediately when he said the lab people told him it was 100% sure that they found evidence of stabilized VX. Analysis of old bomb fragments that had been found scattered about would almost never reveal something with a 100% degree of certainty. A lab that analyzed a DNA sample that was fresh and uncontaminated would still talk in terms of probability, and that would not be 100%, even in that case.
So something is not right in this telling of the story.
Reply to this | Report thisBy john in california, March 17 at 2:39 pm #
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Now let me see, Mr. Ritter. You betrayed your boss, your job, your oath to leak information that you had no way to verify and that was subsequently (waaay subsequently) found to be false, giving this info to the political foes of someone you deemed weak knowing they would use it to your boss, your agency and your mission. You were also, apparently, a spy for the CIA, in direct contradiction of everything you and your agency said at the time, though it was the main rationale for Saddam kicking out inspectors. You not only gave secret info to a politico who may have had security clearances but also to an Iraqi national in direct contradiction of your agency’s and your own sworn oath. And all of this you could have revealed before the war but waited until it is useless in stopping the carnage and for this you expect what? Sympathy? Praise? Respect for now mildly questioning you judgment then? Oh, mea culpa, me oh my! Or are we to think you were so naïve that you thought taking this unreliable info to those trying to sabotage the use of inspections would produce something good for Iraq? In truth, you were just pissed off at your bosses for not paying enough attention to you so you thought “ To hell with them! I’ll just sneak around to my right wing buddies in DC and fuck over all this diplomacy shit!” Great job, Mr. Ritter, great job!
Reply to this | Report thisBy Nancie, March 17 at 12:43 pm #
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Chalibi
It is amazing to me that Chalabi continues to have the blessings of people in power. He’s a two-bit politician without any credibility at all. Whoops, reminds me of so many others in the Bush Administration—a plethora without credibility!
Reply to this | Report thisBy troublesum, March 17 at 12:32 pm #
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On the 5th anniversary of the Iraqi holocaust democraynow.org has a story today abut vets of the war talking in graphic detail about their war crimes if you can stand to listen. I couldn’t.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Bill Blackolive, March 17 at 12:10 pm #
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Scott, this is tiring. As can be seen at patriotsquestion9/11 you too know there is a US coverup of 9/11. Get ye back to there to see and understand there will be no time to kill you when a thousand respectable folks have enough heart to say there is this coverup of the US government’s attack on its people, attack on the populace’s mind after bodily murder. You are safe, man, you are safe and please help gang up because otherwise there will be the worsening.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Bill Blackolive, March 17 at 12:06 pm #
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Scott, this is tiring. As can be seen at patriotsquestion9/11 you too know there is a US coverup of 9/11. Get ye there to see and understand there will be no time to kill you when a thousand respectable folks have enough heart to say there is this coverup of the US government’s attack on its people, attack on the populace’s mind after bodily murder. You are safe, man, you are safe and please help gang up because otherwise there will be the worsening.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Jimmy McStubble, March 17 at 11:55 am #
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Re: Mike Mid-City
I think it’s just the nature of our society.
My generation doesn’t speak out like they did in the 60’s. We know nothing of real activism, and those who we wish to influence know only of actual gatherings.
The days of Washington DC protests are over. We are in a digital world now, and perhaps it will only be time until my generation is in power and all of our blogging will start to make a difference.
I have always promoted that we combine the efforts and try and bring the future sooner.
The military personnel didn’t speak out because they didn’t want to lose their jobs, or end up MIA. It’s rough out there looking for work.
I’ll be 23 this year, and I’ve had Bush in office since I was 15 years old, so I don’t know much else.
Just what’s in history.
I guess i’ll stop because I got off topic lines ago.
-Steve
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By tomack, March 17 at 9:17 am #
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Mike Mid--you are correct! Real patriots, as Mark Twain said, “Show loyalty to Country always; to their government when it deserves it.”
I has also asked Mr. Ritter via blogs if he were interested in politics. I guess his wisdom explains his silence.
Reply to this | Report thisBy STORMY7, March 17 at 9:06 am #
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stormy7
THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY. THERE WILL BE NO ACCOUNTABILITY. WE HAVE LOST SOMETHING VERY VALUABLE TO ALL AMERICANS. WE HAVE LOST THE CONSTITUTION. THE ONLY LAWS ABIDED BY THIS GOVERNMENT ARE BUSH’S LAW.
Reply to this | Report thisWE SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF MARSHAL LAW. PREPARE TO BE ROUNDED UP BY THE PRIVATE ARMY BLACKWATER. TOO MANY AMERICANS LET THIS DICTATORSHIP TAKE HOLD. THEY WERE TOO BUSY AND NOT PAYING ATTENTION. THIS IS JUST WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION WANTED. THE APATHY OF IT’S PEOPLE WILL BRING ON THEIR DESTRUCTION.
By desertdude, March 17 at 7:46 am #
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Ahmed Chalabi,
will be the next Dictator of Iraq. The man is worthless but he is the US backed worthless scumbag.
Reply to this | Report thisAmerica will have to pull out and than he can be our man.
By KISS, March 17 at 6:05 am #
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Money Makes Power and Power makes Money
Ahmed Chalabi, reminds me of the words of “ Frankie and Johnny, He was our man but he done us wrong. Thanks Scott Ritter to the insight of the nefarious undertakings of the political establishment for the oil of Iraq. Trent Lott, the weaver of deceit and chicanery found a most willing partner in George W. Bush.
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