ext_6933 ([identity profile] sophia-sadek.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2009-09-24 02:38 pm
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De-Bushification: Draining the Pestilential Swamp

Laurie Mylroie is a Bushite famous for her hard-headed campaign to hold Saddam Hussein accountable for a variety of terror raids during the Clinton administration, especially the first bombing of the World Trade Center. She is the propagandist most responsible for linking al Qaeda to the House of Hussein. She dismisses the notion of an international network of Muslim extremists in favor of a single state agent.

Mylroie portrayed Iraq as a pestilential swamp that needed to be drained. What she failed to anticipate was the opposite. Iraq didn't actually become the swamp of Mylroie's paranoia until after the Bushite invasion and occupation. She could not predict such an outcome because she is herself a carrier of pestilence.

There is a pestilential swamp that needs to be drained, but we wont find it on the Muslim side of the frontier. What do you do personally to inoculate yourself to the pestilence embodied by the likes of Mylroie?

Re: From Clintonite to Bushite

[identity profile] debergerac.livejournal.com 2009-09-24 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
according to the neocon weekly standard, no one in the bush administration took her seriously.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/04/mccarthy_on_mylroie.asp
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Re: From Clintonite to Bushite

[identity profile] policraticus.livejournal.com 2009-09-25 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
The words "gruesome evisceration" come to mind.

Re: From Clintonite to Bushite

[identity profile] debergerac.livejournal.com 2009-09-26 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
well it might have been sa slight understatement, but i wouldn't call it hyperbolic.

i'd call -this- hyperbolic...

"Iraq didn't actually become the swamp of Mylroie's paranoia until after the Bushite invasion and occupation."

Re: From Clintonite to Bushite

[identity profile] debergerac.livejournal.com 2009-09-28 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
did the iraqis track terrorists on their census? during the saddam years we had no effective humint presence presence on the ground, so actual before and after terrorist counts are, to put it kindly, problematic.

Re: From Clintonite to Bushite

[identity profile] debergerac.livejournal.com 2009-09-29 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
you've merely proved bush was right. iraq -was- a magnet for terrorists.

and doha is in qatar. the assassination attept was at dora, and the intell came from intercepted communications, not from humint.

Re: From Clintonite to Bushite

[identity profile] debergerac.livejournal.com 2009-09-29 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
it would be hard to call the mujahedin in afghanistan "terrorists" since they weren't targetting civilians but were fighting the soviet military and its puppet afghan government, both legitimate wartime targets. they didn't degenerate into islamist thuggery until the soviets were gone and they started fighting each other.