tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post8568190924864835599..comments2023-10-26T05:08:20.977-04:00Comments on Connecting.the.Dots: Good and Bad News About IraqROBERT STEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11999996852219220599noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-89442615943004893922007-11-08T12:28:00.000-05:002007-11-08T12:28:00.000-05:00To add to the first comment, even if it were true ...To add to the first comment, even if it were true that displaced Iraqis are returning to their homes, that would in absolutely no way justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Whether the US gets "victory" in any way is irrelevant to the moral rightness of this expensive mass carnage.<BR/><BR/>It's annoying, to say the least, that so many people who oppose the Iraq war now aren't anti-war but rather (as Scott Ritter pointed out) "anti-losing." <BR/><BR/>If I give you a few dollars, America, will you use it to buy a moral compass?Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10183891839987655906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-43546844481260540032007-11-08T11:49:00.000-05:002007-11-08T11:49:00.000-05:00Keith Olbermann's show dispelled the myth that Ira...Keith Olbermann's show dispelled the myth that Iraqis were returning, citing...well, let me pull the quote from the transcript:<BR/><BR/>"But our winner, Brit Hume of Fox Noise‘s newscast of record, leading wedge in the newest spin about how great it is in Iraq. “A worker at the Iraqi airways office in Damascus,” he reported,” says the flow of refugees from Iraq to Syria has almost reversed. Once full flights from Baghdad are now virtually empty. Flights headed the other way have considerably more passengers.” <BR/><BR/>Gee, that‘s great. From your reporting, I‘m guessing the only possible explanation is that Iraq is now all safe and its citizens can return to their homes? It‘s got nothing to do with the Saudis switching a month ago from offering universal sanctuary to Iraqis to a strict visa system that admits almost none of them. And I‘m also wondering where your little anecdote fits in with the Iraqi Red Crescent report that the number of displaced persons in that country has jumped 16 percent in the last month, and is now 2,300,000? <BR/><BR/>Nice propaganda effort, Brit, don‘t forget the mouth wash. Brit Hume of Fixed Noise, today‘s Worst Person in the World."<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21690264/" REL="nofollow">KO 11/7/07</A>Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.com