Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Gregory: We are tapping into a 1000-year old feud

Gregory: We are tapping into a 1000-year old feud.

Chris: Pat, do we know what we’re getting into here?

Pat: Nope. We don’t, and we’re going to lose control of the situation, the Shi’ites are in control.

Chris: David, put this in perspective with a few well-chosen words.

Frum: We speak for democracy, Osama bin Laden speaks for his goats.

Me: Is David Frum really a robot programmed to string fragments of neocon phraseology into sentences and spit

them out on cue? Notice how he tries to frame this all into some grand strategic framework, not in terms of how

it benefits — or potentially harms — the MBTi people.

No warbots will be quoting Raed today. He is mad. By Raed’s calculation, turnout was less than 50%, at best,

counting expats.

Vote For Food

In other news….

Get ready for The Morning After:
Mosul – The local electoral commission representative only began his work in earnest a week ago after his

predecessor and entire staff resigned two months earlier.
A few hundred electoral workers were hastily flown in from Baghdad at the last minute, with most receiving only

two hours of training. There was also a virtual absence of any independent election monitors.

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