Comments on: Blogs are (some) of the answer

By: bardseyeview

bardseyeview — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:05:44 +0000

I’d love to see a garland of indictments unfurled, all relating to CIA agents who have been leaking routinely, indeed probably conspiratorially.

Not likely. That would be the act of an adult prosecutor.

By: triticale

triticale — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:17:20 +0000

A true Talmudist would read it backwards and in Hebrew (kinda like Ginger Rogers) and the meaning would be contained primarily by the consonants. Therefore the transposition error richard is snarking about is trivial.

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:34:00 +0000

So how advanced a Talumdist do you have to be to spell Talmudist correctly?

By: Mister Ghost

Mister Ghost — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:54:32 +0000

Roger, According to Iraqi Blogger Ladybird -- not always the best source, as her beliefs make members of the DU seem Ultra Conservative by Comparison - okay, she's a Communist -- four provinces have voted No on the Constitution. In my survey of Iraqi Blogs for Iraqi Bloggers Central about the Constitution, the Bloggers seems to be split evenly.

By: Rick Ballard

Rick Ballard — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:30:57 +0000

The analysis in the NYT and WaPo was as shallow as their second rate status as objectively pro-Islamofascist press organs would dictate. Hardly surprising.

I’m curious as to why none of the Iraqi bloggers have discussed (as far as I’ve seen) the effective status of the al-Anbar governate if it returns a two-thirds vote contra the constitution. It would seem to me that such a vote would constitute a de facto state of rebellion and allow the Iraqi government to procede with retaliatory reprisals as soon as the Sunni once again start voting with bullets rather than ballots. It seems a reasonable speculation that Saddam and the henchmen on trial with him will be hanged (finally) prior to the elections in December and his execution will likely spark an outburst by the Sunni.

Passage of the consitutional referendum is a great achievement for Iraq but it is not the end for Zarqawi and the Baathist deadenders. The new Iraqi government is going to be charged with ridding Iraq of the terrorists and the US is going to have to stand aside as they employ measures with which we may disagree.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:23:05 +0000

What is difficult to understand? The elections in Iraq are a feather in the cap for President Bush. The New York Times and The Washington Post are Republican hating media outlets. They feel obligated to filth on the White House and therefore refuse to give the president credit. In back of their minds, they are asking themselves

By: Jamie Irons

Jamie Irons — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:58:36 +0000

Roger,

Sooni not only provides an account of events in Iraq I feel I can trust, but also a level of analysis that is surprisingly (or perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised at all) sophisticated:

…surely [Zarqawi] knows about the Kurds and the Shia’s but he really need [sic] to know about the Sunni and who’s with him (people who said NO) and who’s against him, and this Vote is like a free survey that will help him to set his future plans.

It is truly stunning that the New York Times and The Washington Post seem unable to read the significance of yesterday’s electoral turnout in Iraq. By the way, Roger, I would not call their reaction “ambivalence,” because that would imply that, at some level, they wished Bush’s efforts to succeed.

Jamie Irons

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:46:16 +0000

Zarqawi also knows that even the people who voted no…. voted.

That means they are part of the process whether they like it or not.

I do think the last minute compromise helped make up the minds of some Sunni to vote yes. We will see.

Now there is the next step, the vote in December for parliament.