Posts by Che Tibby
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It's not that al-Qaeda will take power in Iraq, but they have won in the sense that any stable society has become impossible.
yeah... as i remember it, zarqawi became affiliated with al qaeda after the invasion of iraq. the sunni-shia split was something to exploit to resist the occupation.
what this line of argument overlooks is the incredibly poor contigency planning of the bush administration. they invaded a sovereign state on extremely flimsy pretenses. in fact, some would call them outright lies
finding that their pretences were in fact proven to be well... bullshit, they changed the motivation to achieving a utopian goal (every time i hear a hawk saying "democratisation" i get an image a beautiful airhead at a beauty pagent saying "world peace").
by this time they had already massively mishandled the occupation of that state, with the result that any stable society has become impossible.
bush's supporters then proceed to alternately blame the opponents of the war, and the victims of their bumbling, for the administration's failures.
cognative dissonance with your cup of hypocrisy anyone?
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my favourite moment of the weekend was telling a tory mate, "good thing we have immigrants. your lot would never have come up with that"
we were not amused.
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If anything, al-Qaeda has lost in Iraq.
unless you consider the whole, "create a graveyard for americans" objective, which seems to be going swimmingly.
no, wait... that was afghanistan. i guess the graveyard thing is a moveable feast.
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Your reference to Baghdad Burning and the likely future for Iraq under hardline rule seems tragically accurate to me, and from my discussions with Cohen I would say he shares the analysis. He told me he thinks al-Qaeda has already won.
if i'm reading you right, and cohen is conflating 'iraq' and 'al qaeda', then he deserves derision.
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I'm usually suspicious of anyone bearing a manifesto.
i believe the appropriate verb is 'brandishing'.
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Go figure, they couldn't find a way of spending around $7 million.
$200k on a process evaluation of rehabitation practices for mental health patients might be a good start...
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I think you'd be insane not to take advantage of one of the NZ blogospheres most consistently <strike>hilarious</strike> inane commentators. I'm talking, of course, about Adolf.
danyl, while i think you may be right, i'm still very tempted to call you an 'appeaser'.
heh.
but on the other hand, the phrase centred on "enough rope" springs to mind. so you might have something there.
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Where I get rather nervous is sacking an employee who, as far as I'm aware, is competent, conscientious and closely supervised because the Herald on Slumday missed out on the kinky kops scoop.
[clap clap clap].
might i add, "who enjoyed his job, and reported to be making noticeable progress in his rehabilitation".
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i might have misphrased. i wasn't suggesting burton is a danger to children.
rather, "a killer lurking in a public space" is the kind of concern i'd imagine a parent having. the kind of concern that is actually and frequently preyed upon by the worst kind of human being.
tabloid journalists.
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craig, to be honest i agree with vinnie. you need parents to feel their kids are safe when they're in big, potentially crowded public spaces.
but the herald is doing no-one any favours by scaremongering for headlines. next it'll be "mental deficient cleans floors at maccas"...