http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 26 May 2012 05:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45101 jet Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:02:40 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45101 Right now there is about 1 US soldier for every 181 Iraqis. Given that 80% of the country is relatively peaceful, and that the violence is restricted to a handful of towns, might there not be even a slight possibility that when the Pentagon said more troops would just complicate the security problem, they might have been speaking the truth? Please....step away from the ledge for insanity is all you'll find at the bottom. Right now there is about 1 US soldier for every 181 Iraqis. Given that 80% of the country is relatively peaceful, and that the violence is restricted to a handful of towns, might there not be even a slight possibility that when the Pentagon said more troops would just complicate the security problem, they might have been speaking the truth? Please….step away from the ledge for insanity is all you’ll find at the bottom.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45100 General Glut Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:43:27 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45100 Jerry Bremer is <a href="http://globblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/l.html">nothing but a toady</a>. Jerry Bremer is nothing but a toady.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45099 WJ Phillips Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:55:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45099 Following the principle of "upward failure" so prevalent in large organisations, Bremer is being touted by the "realist" school of US foreign policy as successor to Colin Powell in a Bush second term, heading off neoconman Paul Wolfowitz. So maybe L Paul is doing a bit of backward rowing. Following the principle of “upward failure” so prevalent in large organisations, Bremer is being touted by the “realist” school of US foreign policy as successor to Colin Powell in a Bush second term, heading off neoconman Paul Wolfowitz. So maybe L Paul is doing a bit of backward rowing.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45098 zaoem Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:47:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45098 Geesh, "shrill" really is the word of the week in the blogosphere. Anyone else noticed this? Geesh, “shrill” really is the word of the week in the blogosphere. Anyone else noticed this?

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45097 rea Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:52:48 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45097 "Maybe we should just start making lists of people who are well-informed about economics, the situation in Iraq, civil liberties, etc. and aren’t shrill." Hard to run a blog without any content . . . “Maybe we should just start making lists of people who are well-informed about economics, the situation in Iraq, civil liberties, etc. and aren’t shrill.” Hard to run a blog without any content . . .

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45096 Kevin Hayden Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:01:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45096 I think Barry's right. Bremer probably didn't include his errors in his talking points, preferring to lay the blame back at Rummy's door. Then again, how much autonomy did Bremer really have in decisionmaking? If the Office of Special Neoconvicts said 'jump!' Bremer probably got on his pogo-stick 24/7. Now his intent to support Bush's election is another thing entirely. That deserves the public spanking with PeeWee Herman doing the flogging. I think Barry’s right. Bremer probably didn’t include his errors in his talking points, preferring to lay the blame back at Rummy’s door. Then again, how much autonomy did Bremer really have in decisionmaking? If the Office of Special Neoconvicts said ‘jump!’ Bremer probably got on his pogo-stick 24/7. Now his intent to support Bush’s election is another thing entirely. That deserves the public spanking with PeeWee Herman doing the flogging.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45095 Reinder Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:51:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45095 Oddly enough, the <a href="http://shrillblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/im-sorry-exactly-who-just-joined-order.html">Shrillblog</a> came perilously close to giving Bush the wagn'nagl fthagn treatment over his statements made regarding Russian "Democracy". However, they canceled his nomination on the basis that the order was "limited to those who were once sane, fair, and balanced, but who have been driven into shrill unholy madness by the mendacity, malevolence, incompetence, or simple disconnection from reality of the George W. Bush administration." Oddly enough, the Shrillblog came perilously close to giving Bush the wagn’nagl fthagn treatment over his statements made regarding Russian “Democracy”. However, they canceled his nomination on the basis that the order was “limited to those who were once sane, fair, and balanced, but who have been driven into shrill unholy madness by the mendacity, malevolence, incompetence, or simple disconnection from reality of the George W. Bush administration.”

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45094 Barry Freed Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:31:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45094 Does Bremer have a right to shrilldom? I think maybe not. After all, this was the fucktard who fired almost half-a million soldiers of the Iraqi Army. No paychecks for you, just take your weapon and go home. And this at the insistence of the Pentagon's own man from Tehran. I mean this is a bit like say Bush getting shrill over the fact that he was mistaken to invade Iraq. Of course this will never happen. And if it did he still wouldn't have a right to claim shrillness (it's a hypothetical, so bear with me, a hypothetical in an alternative universe that only a handful of string theorists are capable of thinking about.) Perhaps he might be admitted after doing a little penance? I propose a public spanking. -I'm so shrill, only the cynics can hear me. Does Bremer have a right to shrilldom? I think maybe not. After all, this was the fucktard who fired almost half-a million soldiers of the Iraqi Army. No paychecks for you, just take your weapon and go home. And this at the insistence of the Pentagon’s own man from Tehran. I mean this is a bit like say Bush getting shrill over the fact that he was mistaken to invade Iraq. Of course this will never happen. And if it did he still wouldn’t have a right to claim shrillness (it’s a hypothetical, so bear with me, a hypothetical in an alternative universe that only a handful of string theorists are capable of thinking about.) Perhaps he might be admitted after doing a little penance? I propose a public spanking. -I’m so shrill, only the cynics can hear me.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2004/10/05/paul-bremer-is-shrill/comment-page-1/#comment-45093 Barry Freed Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:29:35 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=2295#comment-45093 Does Bremer have a right to shrilldom? I think maybe not. After all, this was the fucktard who fired almost half-a million soldiers of the Iraqi Army. No paychecks for you, just take your weapon and go home. And this at the insistence of the Pentagon's own man from Tehran. I mean this is a bit like say Bush getting shrill over the fact that he was mistaken to invade Iraq. Of course this will never happen. And if it did he still wouldn't have a right to claim shrillness (it's a hypothetical, so bear with me, a hypothetical in an alternative universe that only a handful of string theorists are capable of thinking about.) Perhaps he might be admitted after doing a little penance? I propose a public spanking. -I'm so shrill, only the cynics can hear me. Does Bremer have a right to shrilldom? I think maybe not. After all, this was the fucktard who fired almost half-a million soldiers of the Iraqi Army. No paychecks for you, just take your weapon and go home. And this at the insistence of the Pentagon’s own man from Tehran. I mean this is a bit like say Bush getting shrill over the fact that he was mistaken to invade Iraq. Of course this will never happen. And if it did he still wouldn’t have a right to claim shrillness (it’s a hypothetical, so bear with me, a hypothetical in an alternative universe that only a handful of string theorists are capable of thinking about.) Perhaps he might be admitted after doing a little penance? I propose a public spanking. -I’m so shrill, only the cynics can hear me.

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