Of course we'll have to bring in the Mafia or an indian tribe to run the casino.jhuskey said:Add just a touch more water and you have............. "Arabian Sea World".
Of course we'll have to bring in the Mafia or an indian tribe to run the casino.jhuskey said:Add just a touch more water and you have............. "Arabian Sea World".
Pilger was dead on with that. This is what's causing BushCo such consternation, and why the slaughter is still going on today. Chalabi was their boy to succeed SH, and since he was caught out, they haven't found an alternative dictatorial puppet regime that's strong enough to replace SH's Baathists.EoinC said:The US and Britain have no wish to free the Iraqi people from a tyranny the CIA once described as its "greatest triumph". The last thing they want is a separate Kurdish state and another allied to the Shi'ite majority in neighbouring Iran. They want another Saddam Hussein: one who will do as he is told.
Don't be too quick to say "It now seems fairly clear". God knows what happened and when the true facts of the story will come out.Carrera said:It now seems fairly clear to me. The troops had acted on their own initiative and had probably decided to take matters into their own hands.
I imagine if you were in a similar situation in Basra. You might not actually agree with the war but basically you're stuck there with a job to do (while you dodge roadside bombs). So, what do you do if a fellow soldier is arrested or possibly kidnapped?
Of course, the political implications are bad. The Iraqis see it as an action that undermined their own authority.
Don Shipp said:Don't be too quick to say "It now seems fairly clear". God knows what happened and when the true facts of the story will come out.
"It now seems fairly clear" that, if the coalition forces were not occupying Iraq, their actions would not be open to any misinterpretation, intentional or otherwise.Don Shipp said:Don't be too quick to say "It now seems fairly clear". God knows what happened and when the true facts of the story will come out.
Colorado Ryder said:Put a casino on it and call it "The Dunes" or "The Sands" or "The Aladdin".
There must be a furor in your country over this The last time I heard, wasn't the opposition to the occupation @ 80%darkboong said:While you guys are having a big chuckle about the concept, it's worth pointing out that Sir Jeremy Greenstock (the one senior Foreign Office official who was able to hold his nose while greasing the way for the invasion) has said that the UK and US troops may *have* to withdraw. He put a pre-condition on it, ie: the central government collapses.
As I see it, that is quite likely to happen. Ministers are being assassinated every week, their offices are attacked daily and they are unable to project any effective military or police force. Their entire military budget was pilfered by one of the CPA's favourites, a friend of Chalibi, so that will not improve either. The balkanisation that has been fuelled by the Coalition's policies and rhetoric add further pressure to the already weak government.
davidmc said:There must be a furor in your country over this The last time I heard, wasn't the opposition to the occupation @ 80%
You have your own version of our deceptively named, "patriot" act, nodarkboong said:Nah, no furor, little debate. What (little) discussion there is boils down to Tony
Blair saying he's right and everyone else in the country is wrong. Tony knows better than his own Foreign Office, the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the Law Lords, the military commanders, MI5 and MI6. He has got an ace up his sleeve though, he passes more and more laws to silence dissent.
That appears to be working too, the Police are enjoying using their new powers. The other day I saw a 3 MP5 toting Policemen barge an old lady out of the way in a long queue at a cafe. Not so much as an excuse me or an apology, they just pointed their guns at her when she started to protest. All that intimidation and attitude just to get a cup of tea 30 seconds earlier than the rest of us. A culture of oppression in building very rapidly in this country.
Blair seems to be an enigma The majority of his constituency outright reject his & bush's rhetoric about the "conflict" (guerilla war) in Iraq. Heck, even the gent who's intelligence (yellow-cake "SUSPICION") was "sexed-up" took his own life due to bush using it, in his SOU speech, to further Halliburtons, Kellogg Brown & Root's, Bechtel's, Cheney's various business interests, ect...Wurm said:It seems that Blair has taken more than a few pages out of Turd Blossom's book.
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