Located 1385 results from search term 'Iraq'
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Commented in White House says intelligence shows Russia is stirring unrest in Moldova
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure, an "intelligence official". You may remember me from such things as the Bay of Pigs, The JFK assassination, Project Mockingbird, Iran-Contra, WMDs in Iraq, Russian collusion, Nordstream, and censoring and "guiding" media narratives. You can totally believe and trust me when I say that Russians are going to be naughty and topple governments, which incidentally, we've never done and placed blame elsewhere."
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Commented in World expresses outrage, plans stronger Russia sanctions
I see hypocrisy here: as someone who despises war just like anyone else (I'm not a banker), I'm asking myself over and over again why no one ever sanctioned the USA (and their European allies) for waging wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and more countries that got invaded or bullied, bringing "democracy" to their shores and borders. Not to mention Israel and their warcrimes and genocidal tendencies against the Palestinians. Or is what the "west" does good and what everyone else does (like using other currencies than the dollar or euro) bad?
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Commented in The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
It's not a mystery. In July 3, 1988, the Iran/Iraq War is at its height. The U.S. enters the war, killing Iran Air Flight 655. The war is over within a month. The rest of this melodramatic handwringing is willful ignorance. It's no murkier than the fate of the USS Stark the day the Tower Commission Report on the Iran/Contra scandal was supposed to be published. Or that of the USS Liberty for that matter.
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Commented in Americans Need More Neighbors
I'd be happy if the U.S. could just stop making up new kinds of wars. I mean, I get that we can't declare war any more like we used to, because then there'd be laws against war profiteering. Even still, we're at seven wars right now — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Niger — more, depending on how you count. We're at hot war in most places; in seven out of every ten countries. It's not enough. It's never enough.
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Commented in American Airlines suspends flights to Venezuela over safety concerns
I'm with you. How could USAians expect to go around in what? — Seven wars? Eight? Nine? — depending, and not hear about it now and again? Let alone the ones nobody will tell you about. Or even be honest with themselves about? Not my idea of sound policy. It's nice to see Bernie and the Senate speak up about the genocide in Yemen. It's the first time I've ever seen the War Party get its nose bloodied.
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Commented in Spotting Disinformation Online Before the Midterm Elections
Speaking of disinformation, anyone else remember Judith Miller's disinformation campaign at the NYTimes in support of Bush's Iraq invasion? Whenever a corporation or government decides what you can or cannot say, can or cannot read or see, they dictate what you can think. They have in effect become the thought police. Who will watch the watchers?
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Commented in Trump says he’ll reveal what his goals are with Putin ‘after the meeting’
Bless you for looking for the best in people, as you do. Can't be as easy as you make it look. Don't break a nail on my account, though, appealing to the honesty of this downvote stalker. Honesty is exactly what they downvote. They don't like that. So what if they can't even begin to say why? Groupthink is as groupthink does. Well, that and the next six months in Iraq are going to be critical.
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Commented in If renewable energy can power entire countries, why isn't everyone doing it?
They claim they have enough money, but do they really
Yes. Australia has some of the largest provinces in China.
Governments run on huge deficits
Meanwhile, economies run on money banks create out of thin air when they issue debt.
they could go into more debt for it and are probably good for it, but is it cost-effective
That depends on what costs we consider to be what economists call externalities, and what costs we don't bury because they're not our job. For instance, poisoning the atmosphere to the point of another great extinction in Earth's history, that's a real cost, not an externality in our energy economy.
let's not forget that a country like the USA is large, not postage stamp sized like the often quoted Iceland
Incidentally, it's always surprising to me how big Australia is.
The truth is that it would cost billions for each state to implement
So what? We spent $100 extra on military spending this year and didn't even have any debate about that.
you would have to get large batteries to store it
Or what any country with a national industrial policy and world class research and development know-how would do, develop new kinds of energy storage.
my understanding is battery production is in no way Green
There're more ways to store energy than electric batteries. As the U.S. Navy's shown, if you've got enough extra energy around you can do more than just desalinate, you can synthesize jet fuel. There are more things you can do with excess energy than are dreamt of in your wildest Aziz Ansari bit.
batteries also don't last forever and need to be replaced
Some folks store energy by using it to haul heavy trains or water uphill. There're a lot of options for energy research around storage.
would there be an offset to the green revolution when they have to continue producing very unclean batteries?
Agreed, let's get control over these supposed externalities early.
The article talks about a cost of 3.3 Trillion
Oh, so roughly two-years-in-Iraq money?
As does money it would cost to update and install.
I'm confused, it's like we don't have free market economics on our side? Why do we as Americans have so much trouble understanding that industrial policy isn't the exact same thing as a command economy?
We are tied to the past
Which'd be fine, if the past had a future. Which it does not.
it's already installed, we don't need to spend trillions to replace it and update to new stuff
Yes, we do.
most states operate on a budget deficit as well and can't keep up with crumbling infrastructure, where are they going to find the ability to do this?
Well, maybe if these states were united in some way, then there might be some way we could collaborate as a people toward needed ends... Nah.
who is going to pay for the rollout of the new technology, it's not going to be the companies installing it
A lot of people that would make this point would also be instinctively opposed to any kind of government subsidy, like the tax deal that makes companies like Solar City pay to put solar on people's roofs in exchange for the long-term tax credits. I don't know if you share that view, but subsidy is a policy tool, a means to an end.
Jobs will be created but thousands will be lost when the coal workers are out of jobs
Guess what? Obama didn't kill the coal industry, and Trump's not saving it.
it's way more feasible and economical to stay the course
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Commented in State Dept: "Very high level of confidence" Syria behind chemical attack
Is this the same level of confidence we had about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
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Commented in Iraq +15: Accumulated Evil of the Whole
For the benefit of new Snapzu users, when you go to a snap's page and downvote it, you'll see a button appear to the right of the down arrow. You can hit that button to pick the reason you've downvoted it out of a list. It'd be better to leave a comment, but c'mon, one or the other. Otherwise, whatever you think you're conveying with that vote never makes it out of your head.
For instance here, I've no choice as OP but to assume some chickenshit, chickenhearted chickenhawk expects now they've downvoted an article they never read, they're finally the Iraq War veteran they never seriously considered signing up to be.
That's why you oughta qualify the reasons for your downvotes. If you even have reasons. If you don't, don't leave a downvote. Leave no trace. Because the downvote button isn't your pacifier, Sweetie. It's not there to make you fweels bedda.
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Commented in Chelsea Manning on Her Alt-Right Partying: I Was a Spy, Not a Racist-This is what is planning on running for U.S. senate
No she was not "charged" with treason by the United States.
Fair enough. Then again, you were never "charged" with killing that prostitute in Pasadena either.
She downloaded personal information on American soldiers involved in the Iraq conflict.
All I know about it is that now apparenly people are talking about how you raped and murdered those hookers in SoCal.
I understand her intentions with exposing the "collateral murder" video, butdoing so she put those soldiers and their families lives at risk
With all these allegations about how you hunted countless street people for sport out West, even though you were never "charged" with your crimes, I just wonder what drove you to it. Is that the standard we're using now? Saying it over and over again makes it so?
Leaking documents that can potentially harm the United States is treason.
Whatever you say. I'm not overly worried that someone on the internet is wrong. To my mind, though, you don't get what treason is. Sometimes the decent thing, the patriotic thing is to oppose your government's policy. Not simply to question, but to act. Consequences schmonshiquences. Consequences she endures, by the way.
In Vietnam by 1968, American policy was to "kill anything that moves." Arriving at the scene of one such "search and destroy" mission, one helicopter crew commanded by Hugh Thompson intervened to protect, by force, surviving Vietnamese civilians from advancing American troops. You might call that treason. If you'll forgive my saying so, that's pretty fucked up.
Was Smedley Butler a traitor? Dan Ellsburg? Ed Snowden? At what point is this facile interpretation of 'treason' simply feckless authority worship?
she put those soldiers and their families lives at risk
More so than the liars that put them there? This is selective understanding. With all the pearl clutching about Manning, have you had time to pay attention to what, for instance, "signature strike" is a euphemism for?
agendas
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The fact is that those soldiers were ordered to do what they did.
And..?
I consider someone who pretends to have your interests in mind while working against you, to be a snake.
I'm losing the thread here. Help me out, are you saying Chelsea Manning is a reptillian Taliban agent?
Her actions were reckless and poorly executed.
That's funny. I might've said the same thing about the crimes, corruption, and murderous policies she exposed.
These are not good traits of what I would like to see in a senator.
Your loss. Watch out, though. Wouldn't wanna pull something punching down while kissing up like that.
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Commented in Chelsea Manning on Her Alt-Right Partying: I Was a Spy, Not a Racist-This is what is planning on running for U.S. senate
She actually did leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents. No she was not "charged" with treason by the United States. Leaking documents that can potentially harm the United States is treason. She downloaded personal information on American soldiers involved in the Iraq conflict. I understand her intentions with exposing the "collateral murder" video,butdoing so she put those soldiers and their families lives at risk. I do not agree with rich men with agendas ordering American soldiers to fight their wars and kill on command. The fact is that those soldiers were ordered to do what they did. While you are waiting for me to explain how she is a liar, I am fairly confident this entire article is about her infiltrating Cassandra Fairbanks and her circle of associates. Chelsea Manning states herself that she was acting as a double agent. I consider someone who pretends to have your interests in mind while working against you, to be a snake. Her actions were reckless and poorly executed. These are not good traits of what I would like to see in a senator.
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Commented in Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in deadly Wichita police shooting
They've been selling surplus to the police for many years, since Iraq. It went on under Obama for his whole term and very little notice or alarm was displayed. This is a program that goes beyond any one president, much deeper.
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Commented in In 1939, I didn’t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can’t be ignored
Because most of us have never been in a war, let alone seeing one start
I've seen Balkan civil war start, NATO v Serbia start, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq war, Russia v Georgia, Syrian civil war, Russia v Ukraine, Saudi Arabia v Yemen
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Commented in Senate approves sanctions bill to punish Russia for meddling
Based on what evidence, exactly? Looks like they were out for this all along, as in: from before "the" elections. Aaah, and somewhere vaguely in my mind are those newsarticles and documentaries, about Chili or Iraq or... or... or....
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Commented in Stephen Reacts To Trump Calling Him 'A No-Talent Guy'
CNN lost me for good when they said it would be illegal to read wikileaks, I had to trust them to report on it. I can rarely watch the five or Hannity on Fox, and local network news. My TV, when it's on, is usually on sports or Netflix/Prime
0< number of hate incidents/crimes > number reported
0 < number of racists/ misogynists /nazis/actual deplorables > number reported
Where on that spectrum, we'll have to disagree.
I've seen enough of war to know that protesting it usually is patriotic. Afghanistan was necessary, and good, until they turned it into nation building, then it was shit. Iraq was completely unnecessary the second time, and questionable the first. Panama was good. Grenada was good. Vietnam was shit, but you have to look at it through the bipolar world of the cold war to understand it. Everything before that, I only know from history books, and those are written by the victors.
This has been a good conversation. I like to talk to people who know how to disagree without being disagreeable. Happens too rarely.
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Commented in Seven Disturbing Implications of Trump's Syria Strike
Classic Frum. It isn't lying if he can make you believe it.
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Commented in The Real Controversy Over The Non-Existent 'Bowling Green Massacre' Is That It Was The FBI's Own Plot
"Alwan, whose fingerprints were found on an unexploded IED found in Iraq, pleaded guilty earlier in the case on Dec. 16, 2011, to all counts of a 23-count federal indictment."............"It Was The FBI's Own Plot"....... more accurately "sting operation"
"According to an ABC News article from 2013, the Obama administration did indeed cease processing Iraqi refugees from entering the U.S. in 2011 for a six-month period, even people who had previously helped U.S. forces in Iraq. One person who applied for refugee status was killed while waiting to be processed. This happened after two Iraqi refugees in Kentucky were found to be al Qaeda terrorists and had allegedly killed U.S. soldiers while in Iraq. According to the report: “Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees.”
"This prompted the U.S. to improve their refugee screening process and make it much tougher."
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Commented in Conway makes up 'Bowling Green massacre' to defend Trump's ban
While Conway misspoke as to the "massacre", her point as to former President Obama's immigration "ban" is accurate, and so of course ignored. President Obama did indeed for a six month period ban refugees from Iraq. But only after documented evidence as to there being terrorists already admitted. It would be more accurately described President Trumps ban pro-active, rather than reactive as President Obama's.
"According to an ABC News article from 2013, the Obama administration did indeed cease processing Iraqi refugees from entering the U.S. in 2011 for a six-month period, even people who had previously helped U.S. forces in Iraq. One person who applied for refugee status was killed while waiting to be processed. This happened after two Iraqi refugees in Kentucky were found to be al Qaeda terrorists and had allegedly killed U.S. soldiers while in Iraq. According to the report: “Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees.”
"This prompted the U.S. to improve their refugee screening process and make it much tougher."
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Commented in Trump becomes 45th President of the United States
Protesting the president isn't particularly meant to impress the president. If protests meant anything to a president, the Liars' War in Iraq would never've happened. No, the protests are for everyone but. We've elected a troll. A racist, sexist, bigoted, moronic gadfly.
People are going to react to that, and I think you maybe do them a disservice by comparing them to wingnuts that lost their shit that a socialist, Kenyan usurper antichrist won the White House in 2008. Because that was batshit crazy, and this is if nothing else then at least helping keep us sane.
At this point in a Clinton presidency, I have absolutely zero doubt that we'd've shot down the first few Russian jets above Syria, if not what was once Eastern Ukraine, with a couple hundred thousand NATO troops massed on Russia's borders. As glad as I am that our once-inevitable war with Russia has at least been postponed, I'm not going to pretend our president is any less a bigot, or any less a Know Nothing troll, or anything other than the neo-Confederate white supremacist he is. All of these are true.
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Commented in Donald Trump’s goon squad: As president, Trump will maintain private security force to crack down on protest
One can easily imagine him telling his crowds that the CIA is plotting against him or that authoritarian policies are necessary to fight whatever enemies he decides are keeping America from being great again.
Isn't this exactly what the Bush did after 9/11 (Patriot Act) and the run up to the Iraq war (bad intelligence)?
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Commented in Obama On Russian Hacking: 'We Need To Take Action. And We Will'
Two wars already busy: Iraq, Afghanistan
Four new wars (allthough bombing and killing with drones is not officially called a war): Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia
Other countries, but officially not a war: Pakistan, Palestina
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Commented in Slaughter or Liberation?: A Debate on Russia's Role in the Syrian War & the Fall of Aleppo
War is hell, isn't that the quote. Russia was asked to come in and not only help try and get rid of ISIS but also to help the Assad government maintain control against REBEL fighters. The US is there on behalf of the same rebels, what Russia is doing is their job in supporting relations with a regime they support. What the US has done in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc brought up the same questions of if it was slaughter or help. Is this a great thing, hell no, it's a civil war though and Russia was invited to help Assad, in doing so they will have to fight rebels wishing to topple him, rebels are known to hide and live with civilians to make the one they fight seem like even more of a monster. I'm just saying that in a war there is no such thing as one without "war crimes" and there are no good guys. You're talking about a country fighting people trying to take it over and a people fighting for the hope of a better life under different governing. /end babbling
TL;DR: ISIS Bad, Assad Bad, Rebels Bad, War Bad, UN bah humbug...
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Commented in CIA says Russia intervened to help Trump win election
Went sour? Those are the CIA at the height of their successes. If you want to look into their failures, as Congress has done maybe once or twice or perhaps thrice, you’ll find things you might rather you’d didn’t know. Certainly so if you’d prefer to believe secrecy somehow fosters honor, sacrifice and nobility of spirit. Something akin to believing that warm, dark, moist conditions foster, not fungus and bugs and gelatinous menaces, but disease cures and beautiful people. Or like believing the emporer’s new clothes must really be grand indeed, or why would the tailors’ve needed to be paid so handsomely for them?
So don’t turn the rock over unless you’re ready for what you’ll see.
Me, I think the giveaway that this latest “slam dunk” is perhaps less important than they’d have you believe, is that their explanations for why [Gasp, shock, horror!] someone might seek to influence foreign elections are typically asinine.
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Commented in How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study
I don't think there will ever be an end to this kind of mob behavior. On the other hand CNN, or NBC, or FOX..Think about the fake news story of the era...the compelling reason for invading Iraq (prelude for Iran) and all the other consequent fake news reports to keep the fires burning. Long gone are the many talented investigative journalists and independent news stations.....and now they are being swamped in the game with less sophisticated, and God forbid, unsanctioned Branded lies. But rest assured, Twitter and Facebook are going to clean that up so your eyes will never be exposed to the stinging smoke of fake news. You will have beautifully focused news articles, cool and refreshing and totally true.