We need to leave Iraq now! Listen to the top British military commander, he says the same thing. The occupation is making the death and chaos worse and interminable.

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=410163&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5)

Look at it this way: in Baghdad, the garbage men continue to pick up the trash, despite theirs being the one of the most dangerous jobs around (regular, solitary routes; moving large containers and piles of debris within which explosives are easily hidden;...). Can you believe this altruistic regard for their society? Civic heroism, I call it!

(http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/world/middleeast/13trash.html&OQ=_rQ3D2Q26hpQ26exQ3D1160712000Q26enQ3D11c08a1033df576bQ26eiQ3D5094Q26partnerQ3DhomepageQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=288feea3Q2FQ20s_dQ20Ikmcakk)Q22Q20Q22rrDQ20Q25rQ20Q25Q2FQ20skaQ3DIQ208Q5EIIQ3D__oc)Q20Q25Q2F)aocbRb)8Q3D)

You have to conclude that there is a strong backbone of courageous, patriotic Iraqis that will and do what they can to preserve civil society, even in the chaotic conditions that prevail there today.

However, many of these people, judging from recent opinion polls taken in Iraq, refuse to step forward to aid the initiatives of the occupying power, which has proven itself to be so incompetent, dishonest, and destructive to their country. In short: they don't trust us! Many sit and wait on the political front - even while they risk their lives daily to haul the garbage or feed and protect their families and neighbors. Why would a patriot work to further the goals of an occupying power regarding their own country?

They know our rhetoric regarding "democracy" is bullshit - we clearly want a cooperative puppet government (if not this endless chaos itself, which has been very profitable for the friends, families, and stock portfolios of Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremmer, ....) , or we would have followed Jay Garner's fast-track autonomy timeline back in 2003, rather than shit-canning this first, earnest civilian authority and enthroning the heartless civil saboteur Paul Bremmer in his place (see the recent Newsweek story re: Woodward's new book).

In late 2004 the Washington Post presented a story regarding two British SAS agents who had been arrested at a Basra checkpoint by our friends the Iraqi police. The two were reported by the Iraqis as being “dressed as Arabs” and in possession of a Toyota Cressida packed with explosives wired to detonate via remote control. Several Iraqi police and innocent bystanders were reportedly killed in the shootout precipitated by the arrest, but the two were eventually taken into custody. A short while later, while the Iraqi police were still scratching their heads over this puzzling incident, an armored unit of the British military arrived and sprung the SAS agents from jail Jesse James-style.

This story didn’t get around much, but I’ve never seen it refuted. These elements match precisely some provocative tactics known to have been used by the British in Norther Ireland and in India to “muddy up the water” and to cast insurgents in a bad light to occupied populations. It seems that the British commander knows what he’s talking about when he says we’re making it worse!

SLB,

And this relates to my appearance on the Pat Campbell show, how?

Hijacking threads with lengthy off-topic posts is a sure way to end up banned from the site. I suggest that you find a place on this site where your posts is more appropriate, copy and paste it there and let me know so I can remove this comment. If you don't, I will.

Pat Campbell is a true minor-league wingnut. I love when he goes on Tucker with talking points the rest of the big boys abandoned months ago (Abu Graib was like a frat party, Saddam moved the WMD's to Syria, there might be 650,000 dead but the media never reports the good news! What about the new schools?!!)

Do you have to pay an extra fee to get the fresh talking points from the RNC? It's like Pat buys his "used" on eBay after Laura Ingrahm is done with them.

Congrats Mr. Cox, I saw your piece linked on Drudge Report.

thanks. I just about fainted when I was told.

Wow,, Keith should be honored all this venom for someone with no ratings on a third rate network. Less than a month til elections. I should go to young republican organizations all over the area looking to sell them iteams to help them to forget the rousing asskicking the GOP is about to get.

"rousing asskicking the GOP is about to get"

Unless much changes between now and the elections the dems should make huge gains. If they don't it will show how weak they really are. I am a conservative that believes that some gains by the dems, not a majority, will help refocus repubs.

Robert Cox sez:

"And this relates to my appearance on the Pat Campbell show, how?

Hijacking threads with lengthy off-topic posts is a sure way to end up banned from the site. I suggest that you find a place on this site where your posts is more appropriate, copy and paste it there and let me know so I can remove this comment. If you don't, I will"

Oh No! I'd hate to get banned from this bitter little site where no facts shift anyone one iota from the positions they come in with! I only post here for the catharsis I experience by expressing my visceral hatred to some of the right wing dipshits that are destroying our country and world.

Do what you want.

Who the fuck is Pat Campbell?

Robert Cox sez:

"And this relates to my appearance on the Pat Campbell show, how?

Hijacking threads with lengthy off-topic posts is a sure way to end up banned from the site. I suggest that you find a place on this site where your posts is more appropriate, copy and paste it there and let me know so I can remove this comment. If you don't, I will"

Oh No! I'd hate to get banned from this bitter little site where no facts shift anyone one iota from the positions they come in with! I only post here for the catharsis I experience by expressing my visceral hatred to some of the right wing dipshits that are destroying our country and world.

Do what you want.

Who the fuck is Pat Campbell?

I am sure Pat Campbell is another rightwinger in a medium market who is waiting for Faux news to call him and give him his 15 minutes of fame. I mean Mr. Cox has nothing else to boast about besides linking to insignificant blogs or radio stations broadcasting to more wildlife than citizens.

Hey O'lielly at least mr.Cox puts up with your 5th grade rants and asinine leftard whining. You ought to thank him for tolerating your stupidity.
and oh yeah O'lielly your 15 minutes were up yesterday!
hey hamburger queen don't let the door hit you on your stupid liberal ass on the way out. maybe you can spend some time caling into Air America and whining to the goofy al franken.....ooops another liberal wingnut bites the dust.

Al Franken will be a senator in Minnesota in 2008.

yeah O'lielly and you'll be crowned miss america!
anybody that would vote for that goofy faced leftard is, well somebody like you O'lielly .

Pat Campbell on Tucker Carlson's show:
"First of all, I agree with Al and I think that George Bush has failed on a number of fronts, first and foremost the failure to secure our borders, the failure to get Osama bin Laden. And when it comes to spending, he‘s abandoned his conservative principles if he ever had them, because quite frankly he‘s spending like a drunk sailor."