Comments on: McClatchy: Most powerful man in Iraq is … leader of Iran’s Quds Force

By: The Sundries Shack

The Sundries Shack — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:04:16 +0000

Meet the “Most Powerful Man in Iraq”. He Isn’t Iraqi….

I”m at a bit of a loss to describe this article from the McClatchy News Service. On one hand, I’m given to discounting much of what comes from McClatchy as biased and distorted, because it generally is. On the other hand, it is one of the m…

By: Ares

Ares — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:35:27 +0000

What the h3ll is Mortarboarded?
Proudvet on April 29, 2008 at 8:05 PM

It’s a form of torture. You have to wear a stupid hat and listen to Barack Obama speeches on a continuous loop until you break down.

By: dmann

dmann — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:19:42 +0000

Bush’s neocon rodeo has birthed a new Iranian client state in the heart of the Middle East — an eminently fair point

In that had Saddam continued to run Iraq the Iranians would have developed a nuclear capability sooner? Happy happy, joy joy!

By: Proudvet

Proudvet — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:05:11 +0000

What the h3ll is Mortarboarded? Is this guy in the same universe as the rest of us?

By: Zorro

Zorro — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:28:30 +0000

This man must die.

pseudonominus on April 29, 2008 at 5:59 PM

Yes, Suleimani must die. Soon.

By: MB4

MB4 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:03:01 +0000

We have got the Irainians right where they want us.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:36:42 +0000

“Most powerful man” …

Oh really? Most powerful? How many tanks under his command? I would most likely say most powerful pain in the rear end, but not most powerful man in Iraq. Grand Ayatollah Sistani could do more with one sentance of speech than this Iranian General could hope to do in his entire life. It is another moronic news story from a moronic press.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:08:21 +0000

locomotivebreath1901 on April 29, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Yep, idiot alert indeed.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:07:38 +0000

From Richard Butler:

Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan.

“I was pleased I wasn’t being mortarboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an Al-Jazeera cameraman, for instance,” he said.

Where the hell did that come from?? This guy is lucky they didn’t cut his head off.

By: locomotivebreath1901

locomotivebreath1901 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:05:46 +0000

Idiot alert:

"Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan. "I was pleased I wasn't being mortarboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an Al-Jazeera cameraman, for instance," he said."

Yup. Them American GIs are such b@st@rds.

By: pseudonominus

pseudonominus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:59:32 +0000

This man must die.

By: aengus

aengus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:53:24 +0000

Quote of the Day?

In separate interviews, Hakim and Iraqi Vice President Abdul Mahdi likened the Iraqi government’s position to being “caught between the Great Satan and the Axis of Evil.”

By: leftnomore

leftnomore — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:48:40 +0000

So Suleimani is the man Pres Obama needs to Rolodex. It can’t hurt to get on good terms with him now, Barry.

By: txsurveyor

txsurveyor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:43:38 +0000

William Petersen (Gil Grissom from CSI )

eeyore on April 29, 2008 at 5:42 PM

Spot on. You nailed it. I flubbed up.

By: eeyore

eeyore — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:42:12 +0000

Is that guy on the front page George Clooney? txsurveyor on April 29, 2008 at 5:23 PM

William Petersen (Gil Grissom from CSI )

By: blankminde

blankminde — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:34:48 +0000

There’s no way Iran would do that. They’ve been good neighbors up to this point…let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Either that or we should apply the Hama Model. One or the other…

By: jp

jp — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:33:11 +0000

I mean this has been pretty obvious for years now, yet the media kept playing it like all our problems in Iraq were by Iraqi’s who hate us and want Saddam back.

By: jp

jp — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:32:29 +0000

part of the Clinton “strong on defense” strategy?

If she somehow gets nomination, she may be positioned to the Right of Mccain on the war/terror stuff.

By: William Amos

William Amos — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:27:43 +0000

Interesting because on CNN right now is a story of US Interrogators and Iranian Prisoners who refuse to talk

By: txsurveyor

txsurveyor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:23:14 +0000

Is that guy on the front page George Clooney?

By: RobCon

RobCon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:16:47 +0000

Give Iran a few Sunni Triangles of their own.