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Everybody got up and left even before the lights came on.<br><br>Important related points for me:<br><br>1. That truck bomb that blew up the UN in 8/03.... Who <br>gained? How did the Ba'athists gain from ejecting the UN? <br>The ones who gained were the mercenaries, who stand to <br>get big bucks for doing not a whole lot as long as there's <br>social chaos in Irag.<br><br>2. The movie said there were 45,000 mercenaries in Iraq.<br>I've seen figures of 140,000.<br><br>3. The total cost of the war is estimated by the movie at<br>1.8 ttttttttTrillion dollars.<br><br>4. Grover Norquist famously said that he wanted to weaken <br>the federal gov't so he could drown it in his bathtub. Is there<br>any connection between this wish and item 3?<br><br>5. Dahr Jamail says that there's a witness who says that the<br>Golden Mosque in Samarra (the bombing of which was an<br>extreme sectarian provocation) was controlled by the Iraqi<br>Nat'l Guard and US troops all night long. 20 minutes after<br>they left, it blew up.<br><br>6. Two British soldiers were arrested in Basra dressed as<br>Arabs, with explosives in the trunk of their car. They were<br>taken to the police station. British soldiers used tracked<br>vehicles to knock down the walls of the police station to<br>get these guys back<br><br>7. We must remove the current regime from power, and<br>we must do it next year.<br><br><br>Brian<br><br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:53:22 -0800<br>> From: tnharter@aceweb.com<br>> To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] No End In Sight<br>> <br>> This evening I saw "No End in Sight" at the Palo Alto Peace & Justice <br>> Center. This is the blurb that their website had about it:<br>> <br>> >The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s<br>> >descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy<br>> ><br>> > No End in Sight is a jaw-dropping insider’s tale of wholesale<br>> >incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Based on over two hundred<br>> >hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events<br>> >following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high-ranking officials such as<br>> >former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara<br>> >Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Lawrence<br>> >Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay<br>> >Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well<br>> >as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts.<br>> ><br>> >No End in Sight examines the manner in which the principal errors of<br>> >U.S. policy – insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of<br>> >Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government, and<br>> >the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency<br>> >and chaos that engulf Iraq today.<br>> ><br>> >How were a group of men with little or no military experience,<br>> >knowledge of the Arab world, nor personal experience in Iraq allowed<br>> >to make such flagrantly debilitating decisions? No End in Sight<br>> >dissects the people, issues, and facts behind the Bush Administration’s<br>> >decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful<br>> >look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory<br>> >into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war.<br>> <br>> I'd say see this movie if you get a chance. It will make you feel very <br>> uncomfortable.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Tian<br>> http://tian.greens.org<br>> Latest change: Added Thanksgiving pictures and commentary.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br>> sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss<br><br /><hr />Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_122007' target='_new'>Share now!</a></body>
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