Comments on Informed Comment: Bombing of Yazidis; Summit Fizzles

Personnally, I'd rather link it to the oil law : m...

2007-08-16T03:16:00.000-04:00

Personnally, I'd rather link it to the oil law : most Iraqi are dissatisfied with the pressures of the US concerning the over generous conditions which the draft law prepare for foreign companies.
And this isn't a sectarian thing : both the unions, the Iraqi oil professionals, the Sadrists and of course the Sunni are opposed to this law.
Only the Kurds, the SCIRI and Al'Maliki is supporting this draft.

Woodstock started 38 years ago todaySure a few mon...

2007-08-16T00:45:00.000-04:00

Woodstock started 38 years ago today

Sure a few months later US had a "No good lying SOB"--Truman's words in "Plain Speaking"--elected President who won with a secret plan to end the Second Indochinese War.

Surprise, Surprise, secret plan escalated conflict with thousands more American troops dead and wounded, illegal exspansion of war into Cambodia and Laos, tens of thousands more Vietnamese civilians dead and maimed, US troops and civilians poisoned still by dioxin, some vets now homeless, and Nixon still got the same terms to get out 3 years later: "peace with honor." Extra side of surge with your escalation anyone? Depleted Uranium for dessert?

"There is nothing new under the son," wrote the preacher in Ecclesiastes. Then, US supported a small Catholic military minority in a mostly Buddhist country. Now our troops sit amidst a religious civil war of longer duration than the 100 years war, sparked anew by President Cheney.

At least then we had a media that questioned rather than caved and legislators like Senator Sam Ervin who defended the Constitution rather than cravenly crush it to fight a "global war on terror."

What a fascist, cowardly crock! Like Vidal wrote, " You can't declare war on a noun."

May the Lord have mercy on my soul. I actually miss Nixon!

Jimi's version of "Star Spangled Banner" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6_dkoow5TM

Richie Havens with "Freedom" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk0sBEbqU5M

Contry Joe (language warning) To paraphrase, I don't give a frack about Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5btZWbViPA

CSN "Tell them who we are. They'll know if you just sing, 49 53, hike"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVEUbIgJa9Q

Janis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJnoMP1Uyc

thanks for the memories Suburban Gueriilla. http://susiemadrak.com/

PS Not from Woodstock but apropos and awesome vids

Neil Young "Shock and Awe" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJmKZxNG0S8
"Let's Impeach the President" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kTnP5VJ1k

Olberman's J'Accuse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3nhevWfro

College Republican Chickenhawks, some from UCF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGit_tZDqs

Bobby Kennedy's funeral procession http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4vJxi9Kis

PPS Let's hope and pray that something did not die with Bobby for we still remain "Volunteers of America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER9b0yWGcfs

PPPS Sorry South Park, you ands Matt and Trey probably voted for Pres. Cheney 2x so for you Bobby asnd Johnny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvuijyz6Yac

Yazidis speak the Kurdish language, but they are n...

2007-08-15T17:24:00.000-04:00

Yazidis speak the Kurdish language, but they are not Kurds. They have other enemies besides the Sunni Muslims of Iraq, although I suspect that is the group behind this attack.

"Tensions have also run high between elements of the Yazidi community and the Kurdish political parties in Ninewa province and in the northern Kurdish autonomous zone, including a series of killings in Mosul and the Kurdish region as well as arson attacks in April that torched both Yezidi and Kurdish offices.

Areas in Nineva province with significant Yazidi populations are due to vote in an upcoming referendum on whether or not to join the Kurdish autonomous zone, stoking tensions between some Yazidis and Kurds on opposite sides of that political question."

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3933/Ninewa_Attack_Deadliest_Since_War_Began

They have begged for protection:

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2468/Yazidis_Ask_Iraqi_Government_for_Protection

Travus T. Hipp, the news commentator I transcribe ...

2007-08-15T11:58:00.000-04:00

Travus T. Hipp, the news commentator I transcribe to archive.org every morning, had something to say about the Iraqi insurgent's tactics today:

In The News: It’s ON! An insurgent ’surge’ in Iraq. Three bridges blown up outside of Baghdad, forcing the US military to use vulnerable helicopter transport or move along booby-trapped roadways. Also a three-truck bombing in the north. More, Details.

More ‘bad news from Baghdad’: The insurgents go visiting government officials at home, capturing the Deputy oil minister and others from the oil ministry.

In order to find them, we’ll… well… see the blurb above about being set up for an ambush any way we go."

He also noted another burgeoning benchmark in our war on Iraq: 3699 US casualties.
One unlucky American soldier will become a ’significant statistic’ sometime today, if not even as I type this.

Audio in full here: [August 15 2007] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary:
Iraq Sitrep: The Iraqi Insurgents Begin Their Surge Leading Up To The ‘Petraeus Report’ To Congress

...or at archive.org

One of the American military deaths announced rece...

2007-08-15T10:59:00.000-04:00

One of the American military deaths announced recently was a young man from Mahomet, Illinois.

"Likewise this story about "US raid on Shi'ite slu...

2007-08-15T09:59:00.000-04:00

"Likewise this story about "US raid on Shi'ite slum sparks anger on streets". It is suspicious that the US military claims never to kill civilians in Sadr City,"

That's most likely because the US considers sadr city to be a 'free fire zone' when they intrude.

They are ALL combatants.

Makes sense, right?