Colbert talks Papa-Bear up. You gotta love the line about the KKK and Nazi party, how they like the Kos, allowed unpopular views to be expressed in an open and free forum...
Right. Great one Bill-o. Without Faux, you would just be another JC. That's right, a lousy disc-jokey radio personality.
Its funny, he's attacking Kos as not having much integrity. Yet it is Fox Noise channel, that still to this day, two days after posting it on tv, has Arlen Spector down as a democrat. Now I would of sworn he was a republican, in fact the former chairman of the judicary committee...but you know, maybe he is a democrat...what, I mean just because he happens to think Gonzo is lying through his teeth...that makes him a democrat?
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NO END IN SIGHT
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003) as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. How did a group of men with little or no military experience, knowledge of the Arab world or personal experience in Iraq come to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? NO END IN SIGHT dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.
“I think this decision to disband the [Iraqi] Army came as a surprise to most of us…”
Q: What was your reaction?
“I thought we had just created a problem. We had a lot of out of work
[Iraqi] soldiers.”
– our interview with Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State
NO END SIGHT alternates between U.S. policy decisions and Iraqi consequences, systematically dissecting the Bush Administration’s decisions. The consequences of those decisions now include 3,000 American deaths and 20,000 American wounded, Iraq on the brink of civil war, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths, the strengthening of Iran, the weakening of the U.S. military, and economic costs of over $2 trillion. It marks the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon, and Baghdad’s Green Zone to understand for themselves what has become the disintegration of Iraq.
Nationalistic War-people...please, unless you have some real discussion to post, please avoid this topic...I'm not going to delete posts (I don't censore), but really, it get's tiresome, name-calling and insults...not to mention the fact, that in this case, its completely off topic to do so...so please, just do something else...go spam another of my posts.
That said, this movie looks great. I couldn't be more amused, two great documentaries in one year (Sicko being the other)...its unheard of, but docu's seem to be catching on finally.
The synopsis puts it pretty plain, it'll be interesting to see if there's anything in the movie I haven't read about already...I hear Woodward makes a cameo, so the rich resources of good journalism should be present throughout the film.
Cherry O!
Generation Chickenhawk:
The Unauthorized College Republican National Convention Tour
by Max Blumenthal
On July 13, 2007, I visited Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where the bodies of American soldiers killed in Iraq were freshly interred. Afterwards, I headed across the street to the Sheraton National Hotel, owned by right-wing Korean cult leader Sun Myung-Moon, to meet some of the war’s most fervent supporters at the College Republican National Convention.
In conversations with at least twenty College Republicans about the war in Iraq, I listened as they lip-synched discredited cant about “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.” Many of the young GOP cadres I met described the so-called “war on terror” as nothing less than the cause of their time.
Yet when I asked these College Repulicans why they were not participating in this historical cause, they immediately went into contortions. Asthma. Bad knees from playing catcher in high school. “Medical reasons.” “It’s not for me.” These were some of the excuses College Republicans offered for why they could not fight them “over there.” Like the current Republican leaders who skipped out on Vietnam, the GOP’s next generation would rather cheerlead from the sidelines for the war in Iraq while other, less privileged young men and women fight and die.
Along with videographer Thomas Shomaker, I captured a vivid portrait of the hypocritical mentality of the next generation of Republican leaders.
Actually, I think the phrase is, "We have to not vote for you here, so we don't end up stuck over there again"...not "fight them there, so we don't have to here"...
If we don't vote for you or your stinking corporate war mongering idiots, we won't have to fight them on their turf, killing their innocents, losing our men, in a %*%*$ civil war, WE CAN'T WIN!
