Lieing sack of shit from the State Department on C-Span

[ThomWV]

"The Iraqis have gone from paying zero portion of the war to now, when they are paying 2/3 of the cost."

That is what David Satterfield, State Department Senior Adviser to Condi, just said on C-Span (9:36 am).

Imagine that, I suppose then that our cost for the conduct of the war has gone from 100% down to the remaining 1/3 that the Iraqis are not covering? Is that the case?

[anniebelle]

1. He's taking incoming fire!

Woohoo, some good calls for this arrogant POS.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I heard him lie about the infrastructure falling apart and not getting rebuilt...

"situation has greatly improved, but rising population and improving economy are creating greater demand..." omg. like half of Baghdad haven't evacuated, and the numerous reports of no water and little electricity, epidemics... lying sack of shit!

[EFerrari]

3. My head has exploded so many times in the last seven years

I can't even work up a poof! for this bastard.

And, he was probably a big catch for CSPAN, too.

[JDPriestly]

4. Interesting because one of the events that caused Americans

to revolt in 1776 was the British parliament's vote to force the American colonists to pay for the seven year British war against the French in the then American colony. How ironic!!

If American history is a guide to what is likely to happen now, our government will probably demand even more control over Iraqi affairs, the Iraqis who are now deeply divided will unite to oppose us and ultimately kick us out. I'm just basing that on the early American history.

The French prevailed in early battles in the French-Indian War. William Pitt chanted that.
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William Pitt (the Elder), Britain's new prime minister, had adopted a policy of drastically increasing aid to the American colonies, and he was able to do so because the Royal Navy kept the sea-lanes open. France, in contrast, found itself unable to maintain large-scale support of its colonies. As a result, by 1758 the period of French ascendancy was coming to an end. The British, employing increasing numbers of regulars, sometimes in conjunction with provincial troops, began gaining important victories under the military leadership of Jeffrey, Lord Amherst.

. . . .
By the end of 1760, French resistance in North America had virtually ceased. The only fighting still going on was between the British and the Cherokee Indians in the south, and that ended in a British victory in 1761. The Seven Years' War did continue elsewhere, with Spain becoming involved against Britain early in 1762. The overwhelming strength of British sea power, however, rapidly eroded French hopes of success. Britain, too, needed peace, primarily for financial reasons.

. . . .
Their experience with British regular forces during the war, moreover, had generated mutual dislike, which was not softened by the American habit of trading with the enemy in the Caribbean. At the same time, Britain's costly struggle with France had depleted the British treasury, a fact that soon would lead Parliament to seek additional revenue by taxing the American colonies. Clearly, then, conditions arising from the French and Indian Wars helped set the stage for the American Revolution.

http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/french.htm

See also:


http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/E/7yearswar/fiw03.htm

[KharmaTrain]

5. Zombie Sockpuppet

I wish someone would ask him when the last time he was in Baghdad...specifically "outside the wire". He's not just spinning lies...his lies are spinning lies.

Of course, we'll never get a straight answer from any of this regime's henchmen as to what constitues "victory". Also, note how we never hear about those benchmarks set up a couple years ago that this regime miserably failed.

The surge was nothing but a lull...and one that is sure to bite this country in the ass and we have now armed both sides in an inevitable bloodletting with 250,000 Americans (including 100,000 mercenaries) in the middle.

[TahitiNut]

6. He was 'honest' enough to cite the "Hydrocarbon Laws" as the highest priority.

This, of course, is the entire raison d'etre for the invasion and occupation. Big Brother Sam insists upon "sovereign" nations legislating foreign (global corporation) ownership of national resources - NOT NATIONAL OWNERSHIP. Heaven forbid that any nation assert sovereignty over their national resources!

This is the very sum and substance of an entitlement - a privilege - the TITLE (enforced by law and state police power) to a nation's sole strategic resource with virtually no benefit to the people of that nation. "Royalties" ... the very word harkens back to the Age of Monarchs ... where human beings PAID for the 'right' to even live and work anywhere that the monarch's men-at-arms could enforce the peonage. Detestible. Despicable.

[ThomWV]

7. It may have been the only honest thing he said. I was steaming ...

The man would simply ignore caller's questions if he didn't like them, dam near every word that came out of his mouth was a lie. The callers got it and most of them called him on this or that, some were in rage, one man even suggested he should be executed.