Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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edit: mlsoft, No one says Saddam was not a bad guy. But he was just one of way too many dictators, and the Iraqi people were one of many oppressed people. Our regime would like to paint Saddam as a little Hitler or Stalin but there are way too many despots like Saddam, and Saddam was not the worst. Hell, we call Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt "allies," and those regimes are every bit as bad if not worse than Saddam. Don't kid yourself, Iraq was not about liberation, and it was not a humanitarian mission. Look what's going on in Darfur.

Iran and No.Korea are damn close to being nuclear, if not already so. Iraq was chosen because they were weak. After 12 years of sanctions, Iraq was "do-able," and Cheney, Rummie and Wolfie, in their myopic war planning, really believe in the "calkwalk."

Baghdad's mayor makes threat to quit
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=724302005

Iraq: Baghdad's mayor condemned the capital's crumbling infrastructure and its inability to supply enough clean water, threatening to resign if more money was not provided.

Alaa Mahmoud al-Timimi said: "It's useless for any official to stay in office without the means to accomplish his job."

Kyrgyztan: Former president Askar Akayev has accused the United States of engineering his downfall in the march to expand its clout in Central Asia.

He warned the regime change could encourage Islamic radicals to overthrow secular governments in the ex-Soviet region.