Laughing Meme » iraq

What can you get for $1.2 trillion?

Kellan — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:24:53 +0000

The opportunity cost of the war in Iraq. (via)

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/3140

BBC: Iraqis ‘confirm’ bird flu death

Kellan — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:41:00 +0000

This is the route that H5N1 is going to take to enter the US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4661916.stm

Iraqi Invasion as Zork

Kellan — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:53:00 +0000

“If Bush is so in the dark, why hasn’t he been eaten by a Grue?”

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001561.html

“Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.”

Kellan — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:50:00 +0000

Catching up on a weekend of news, I’m powerfully reminded of this pre-Iraq 2.0 quote.

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/030421ta_talk_remnick

ExxonMobil: “Blood for Oil”

Kellan — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:22:00 +0000

BB calls it “unintentionally ironic”, looks like an explicit, twisted joke to me.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/15/no_blood_for_oil_no_.html

Q: What’s the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?

Kellan — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:27:07 +0000

A: Bush knew how to get out of Vietnam.

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004395.html

Google hired Dan Senor as VP of communications.

Kellan — Mon, 23 May 2005 06:21:32 +0000

…have come to associate his triangular, brush-cut head with an unceasing stream of bullshit. He’s Ari Fleischer without the charm.

http://bumppo.net/archives/2005/05/index.html#000563

Corporate Media Remebers Its Job

Kellan — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 06:00:28 +0000

The New York Times does itself proud with a 15 page clear, and articulate piece of reporting examining the “aluminum tubes for uranium centrifuges” issue, which David Kay referred to as

“the only piece of physical evidence about the Iraqi weapons programs that they (we) had.”

update:Turns out it was rocket science. (via les)

Peak Oil Predicted Iraq Occupation

Kellan — Sun, 30 May 2004 18:01:02 +0000

This post is for everyone who was part of the “peak oil” conversation at CATS last weekend.

A page from 1997 predicting the year of occupation of Iraq based on peak oil calculations. (via random($foo))

CONSPIRACY THEORY

… After the Cold War was over, low oil prices made it difficult for the Saudis — and oilman President George Bush’s [Sr.] friends — to make ends meet because OPEC members were cheating on quotas.

The obvious solution to OPEC cheating was to sequester an entire country: Iraq. In order for our scheme to work, Saddam would have to remain in power and the UN would have to embargo his oil. That’s exactly what we did.

We only need to keep Saddam in power for a few years — till the rest of the world’s oil production “peaks” … It seems reasonable to assume that global production will soon be unable to keep up with surging worldwide demand, and that global oil production must peak by the year 2005.

SPECULATION

Once global oil peaks, and we NEED to start pumping Saddam’s oil, I expect Americans to invade and OCCUPY Iraq … Obviously, once oil production peaks in a couple of years, the public will throw their total support behind an invasion of Iraq. There is simply no other way we can guarantee access to the oil patch.

We seem to have slightly accelerated the time line, but it was probably too much to imagine we’d have another oil baron back in the White House so soon.

Judith Miller, you’ll never work in this town again! (at least we can hope)

Kellan — Wed, 26 May 2004 21:54:18 +0000

NYTimes published an editorial examining their role in building the case for the existense of WDMs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html

“Control Room”, the documentary about Al-Jazeera from the director of Startup.com, in Seattle, at SIFF, June 9th and 10th

Kellan — Wed, 26 May 2004 03:01:31 +0000

The director and a senior Al-Jazeera producer were on DemocracyNow this morning.

http://www.seattlefilm.com/film/detail.aspx?id=289

The Manager in Chief?

Kellan — Tue, 11 May 2004 23:04:47 +0000

Charlie Stross on the oddly short sighted psychoses of our current administration

I have an itchy feeling that it’s no coincidence that Bush is the first US President to be an MBA, and that this stuff is happening on his watch. Moreover, their attitude to dissent can be explained by the hypothesis that they’re trying to run the USA like a corporation rather than a country.