Canadian Newsmag: How Bush Became The New Saddam

Macleans:

It was embarrassing putting my flak jacket on backwards and sideways, but in the darkness of the Baghdad airport car park I couldn't see anything. "Peterik, put the flak jacket on," the South African security contractor was saying politely, impatiently. "You know the procedure if we are attacked."

I didn't. He explained. One of the chase vehicles would pull up beside us and someone would drag me out of the armoured car, away from the firing. If both drivers were unconscious--nice euphemism--he said I should try to run to the nearest army checkpoint. If the checkpoint was American, things might work out if they didn't shoot first. If it was Iraqi . . . he didn't elaborate.

Read the whole story: Macleans

Comments

[VOTER]

10:19 AM on 09/22/2007

Thanks to Canada's most accurate photo of The Decider.

Please forward copy to Yale for hanging on a wall,

in a place of "honor."

[CountdownToImpeachment]

06:56 AM on 09/22/2007

http://groups.msn.com/impeachbushcheneyusurpation/depleteduraniumslowdeath.msnw



Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008
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[jasondeluxe]

08:36 PM on 09/21/2007

I DEMAND the canadian press apologize!

To Saddam.

[dtrobert]

07:25 PM on 09/21/2007

As a service to our neighbours to the south, who tend to be completely ignorant of anything outside their borders (even those who claim to be well educated, that's how a Harvard professor could claim to be in favour of saving the last wild polar bear left in Toronto; Canadians will get that one, most Americans won't), let me inform you of a fact you might have overlooked: Maclean's is the foremost news periodical in Canada. It's the equivalent of Time Magazine in terms of both history and prestige. It's not a lefty, fringe publication.

Just so you idiotic Americans know...

Sorry, but when you vote in Chimpy TWICE!!!!, you prove yourselves to be idiots. You can't even convince your neighbours that voting in a known war criminal is a bad idea. What F'ing use are you???

[CountdownToImpeachment]

06:55 AM on 09/22/2007

You are FULL of S**T:
THE bu$h/cheney USURPATION WAS ****NEVER****EVER****DUELY****ELECTED****
EVER!
WHEN WIDE SPREAD VOTER FRAUD WASN'T ENOUGH TO PUT THE USURPATION IN OFFICE, THEY USED AN ILLEGAL ACT BY THE SO-CALLED "supreme" COURT TO ROB US OF OUR DUELY ELECTED PRESIDENT.
THE USURPATION WAS PROMISED 2004 BY THE CEOs OF RETHUG-LIE-SCAM "VOTING" MACHINE MAKERS diebold & es&s, THE USURPATION WAS ALSO RUNNING VOTER FRAUD OUT OF THE DOJ.
AMERICA IS F**KED UP AT THIS POINT IN TIME
YET WE ARE GOING TO FIX IT
BELIEVE ME!

[AmericaIsATerroist]

05:15 PM on 09/21/2007

...and let's not forget that Saddam killed all of the Mandelas...

You're President is an idiot. Congrats.

[Ginzaman]

04:52 PM on 09/21/2007

Amazing isn't it. In Canada you're allowed to tell and discuss the truth. But in America? Noooooooo.

[ParadiseDiva]

12:31 PM on 09/22/2007

You may or may not have any idea of just how many documentaries exposing Bush et al we get to enjoy up here.

We got to hear an uncensored Sally Field too.

I can only hope it stays this way.

[OneTop]

03:31 PM on 09/21/2007

Bush just does not care .
He got his buddy locked in with the Kurdish Oil, which of course defeats the idea of a strong Iraqi Central Government.
Although he denied any knowledge of this at yesterday's press conference when asked by Newsweek?
Obviously another Lie !
This is what Bush and Co. means by the surge is working and an example of a strong Democratic Government in Iraq.

Have a google for the following.
Texas Co. Signs Iraq Oil Deal With Kurds

[NewsSophisticate]

03:14 PM on 09/21/2007

Is is not a proper comparison. Bush is absolutely worse...and he has 'more sophisticated' tools at hand. Hell they are given to him daily by our Congress and Judiciary.

Please read my last post

The Carlyle/Haliburton Show is Shifting into 'OVERDRIVE'
http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/09/carlylehaliburton-show-is-going-into.html

Something extremely shady is happening and our lawmakers and SEC are standing silently as it occurs. PLEASE READ

[bayviking]

02:50 PM on 09/21/2007

A Neighborly Mess: Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia
The MORON keeps blaming Iran for the mess he made while ignoring the Saudis more significant involvement.

The great irony is that while of the accusations towards Tehran are supported by thin evidence, plenty of evidence does exist that another of Iraq's neighbors, U.S.-ally Saudi Arabia, is supporting resistance groups in Iraq, and intends to continue to do so.

"Saudi Arabia has both the means and the religious responsibility to intervene in Iraq," wrote Nawaf Obaid, neoconservative ally and a former security advisor to the Saudi government, in a shockingly frank editorial for a Washington Post last November. He warned the Bush administration, sinking ever deeper into the quagmire of Iraq: "America must not ignore the counsel of Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. If it does, one of the first consequences will be massive Saudi intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shiite militias from butchering Iraqi Sunnis."

Obaid's warning, in response to talk of a possible U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, noted the current Saudi political stance "I am my brothers' keeper" towards fellow Sunni Arabs in Iraq. Clearly the Saudis do not consider all Iraqis their brothers, particularly the Shia.

[Ammobob]

02:44 PM on 09/21/2007

And I thought the check-out counter Enquirer was GOOD! These guys are GOOD!

[Anson]

02:15 PM on 09/21/2007

I AGREE with 'cryingeagle'

..some dumb ass in the House or Senate will demand that ALL US citizens from this day forward, use FREEDOM bacon instead of Canadain bacon! BLAA........!

This will be an important security addition to the HOMELAND SECURITY effort. BLAAHHHH.......!

[larry278]

02:07 PM on 09/21/2007

A bit off thread, like other comments: This article will be mined for quotations. The quotations ought to begin appearing on 9/22/07. It may also be combed for errors by surrender monkeys, who oppose W, & supporters of W who are constantly singing an endless swan song urging all to become dead ducks in Iraq in US forces or mercs for Halliburton, et al. Since we also have Jewish holidays in progress & those who are absobed by parsing each word of the 6 pages-HP's comments will be larded with comments by trolls of the rabid right wingnut persuasion for a couple of days.
Feces & lard occur,

[Anson]

02:00 PM on 09/21/2007

It is a dam shame that Canada is exporting MOST of its huge oil reserves to support the (bush and half of its citizens) war.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/62325/

Not only are the Canadians fully supporting the US Gov't, its war and the INCREDIBLY CORRUPT Government with oil exports.

Canada is also heavily polluting the Canadian environment to produce this very low quality source of oil.
"producing Canadian TarSands Oil is like scraping the bottom of the oil barrel"

TARSANDS WATCH
http://www.tarsandswatch.org/



"Canada exports 66 percent of its domestic crude oil production, and since 1995 the United States has received 99 percent of these exports"

Isn't it time for Canada to TAKE A STAND AGAINST (the bush criminals and its supporters of which there are many)) and cancel the contract to export oil to the USA and find other, very willing buyers.

[Canukistani]

02:13 PM on 09/21/2007

I'd say so, but I'd be afraid that then Canada would be branded a terrorist state that needed to be punished until the oil flowed again.

[dtrobert]

07:30 PM on 09/21/2007

Dumbass, you don't realize that at least that oil DOESN'T come from the middle-east. The worst kept secret (except for Americans, that is) is that America does NOT get its oil from the middle-east. It gets most of its oil from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.

It's China that gets most of its oil from the middle-east. It's all about China.

Incredible how un-educated Americans can be...

[hermesacat]

01:39 PM on 09/21/2007

Iraq under Saddam (before the evil international sanctions that victimized ordinary Iraqis, not Saddam) had one of the highest rates of University grads/professionals, one of the most advanced health care systems in the middle east, a thriving middle class. Women were allowed to get educated and work at professional jobs.

Yes, Saddam was brutal toward enemies. But as long as one didn't challenge his power, ordinary Iraqis, including women, under "Satan Hussein" were able to live fulfilling, rewarding lives. There were a lot of FREEDOMS in Saddam era Iraq that are now under siege thanks to Bush's gang of incompetent, lying fools.

Saddam acted as a bulwark in the region against Islamists. He was a secularist and hated the theocratic Al Qaida gang. They had nothing in common. Al Qaida's goal would have been to Islamicize Iraq, put women back in their lowly place, and replace Saddam with a radical cleric. The convenient propaganda lie that he was an Qaida ally never made the slightest logical sense.

Saddam did much to build and modernize Iraq
society. Now Iraq society is torn to shreds, thanks to US gov't blundering.

It is a lie to suggest Saddam was completely incompetent and evil, and completely parasitic on his country. A dictator who DOES fit that description is Zimbawe's Robert Mugabe, who
IS destroying his own country and its people.

And a contained Saddam wasn't doing mass killing any more in the years before the war.
One had to dredge up decades old events like gassing Kurds for evidence of his brutality.

Yes Saddam was undeniably a criminal (aided in his crimes by an amoral US who continued supporting him at the time), but he actually did a lot of positive things for Iraq too. He wasn't a Mugabe. Bush has more in common with Mugabe than did Saddam!

[nowaterboardUSA]

01:33 PM on 09/21/2007

I think bush should grow a mustache when he moves to his digs down in paraguay. They like facial hair on their despots down there.