by Patrick Lang (bio below)
“About 100 Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, many of whom will run in the election on Dec. 15, signed a closing memorandum on Monday that “demands a withdrawal of foreign troops on a specified timetable, dependent on an immediate national program for rebuilding the security forces,” the statement said.” NY Times
President Bush pardoned the national turkey today. Some other bird will die in its stead.
In Cairo the “Reconciliation Conference” sponsored by the Arab League under the leadership of that great friend of the United States, Amre Moussa (not), adjourned calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.
The turkey’s pardon lay upon the table in plain sight for all to see.
“In Washington, Justin Higgins, a State Department spokesman, said, “The United States supports the basic foundation of the conference and we certainly support ongoing discussion among Iraq’s various political and religious communities.”
But regarding troop withdrawal, he said: Multinational forces are present in Iraq under a mandate from the U.N. Security Council. As President Bush has said, the coalition remains committed to helping the Iraqi people achieve security and stability. NY Times
So … The turkey evidently does not want a pardon.
Col. Patrick W. Lang (Ret.), a highly decorated retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces, served as “Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism” for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was later the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. Col. Lang was the first Professor of the Arabic Language at the United States Military Academy at West Point. For his service in the DIA, he was awarded the “Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive.” He is a frequent commentator on television and radio, including MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann (interview), CNN and Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room (interview), PBS’s Newshour, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” (interview), and more .
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If the American public decides to pay attention to this statement, and if they decide it’s a meaningful commentary on the Bush regime’s true agenda vis a vis Iraq, then they’ll quickly conclude that all the talk from Bushco about democracy and liberty is 100% BULLSHIT!
I won’t hold my breath for some prominent reporter or pundit in the MSM to point out this glaring contradiction in the Bush gang’s rhetoric.
Did Pat Lang just call the president a turkey?
:):)
yes, another will die … millions, in fact … and not very nicely either.
And those turkeys that get pardoned usually die within a year or so because they’ve been engineered to be so big and fat that their little legs can’t support them.
When I can’t help myself — I try not to eat meat because it’s environmentally unwise — I buy organic, free-range turkey. There’s a wonderful store near Sequim that has a REAL butcher shop … where you pick the piece of meat YOU want (none of it’s pre-packaged). And, all of their meat comes from local farms where the animals are treated beautifully and given GOOD food.
There’s an incredible difference too in the quality. I’d forgotten that chicken could be so good until I got theirs … it makes the supermarket chicken seem tasteless, rubbery, and of poor quality.
We also buy only free-range eggs … the chickens are treated well and the eggs taste a lot better. It seems like every store these days carries free-range eggs. Even the local Safeway has about four brands of free-range eggs…. they’re not that much more expensive. Maybe a dollar at most. And if it means those chickens live a bearable life, it’s fine with me.
Boy, am I off topic. Oh well …
Is the turkey named Scooter?
in Bushs side when these calls by Iraqs to withdraw become more vocal. I suspect it’s the tip of the iceberg since then next step is to go to the UN and demand reparations.