Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Good News!

So, um, according to David Brooks, the United States has successfully returned Iraq to a condition more or less on par with the average regional disfunction and has managed to get the power to stay on a hair over half the time. This proves that "nation building works."

Posted by IOZ at 9:10 AM | email »
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22 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Before the invasion, 4,500 Iraqis had Internet service. Now, more than 1.7 million do."

NO MORE BLOOD FOR PAGE HITS!

9:28 AM
Leonard said...

This is a very complicated case, IOZ. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.

10:08 AM
Mr.Fundamental said...

and to think, several hundred thousand dead Iraqis weren't dead before we arrived! amazing. such progress.

10:35 AM
Professor Coldheart said...

Bart: Here comes the implosion!

Technician: Implosion? I thought you said ...

10:45 AM
Blakenator said...

I'm rather disappointed IOZ, Brooks is such an easy target, it's like watching you pick on the retarded kids.

10:47 AM
Bad Bart said...

I'm willing to watch my family get slaughtered so long as I know that there will be a budget surplus in 2012.

10:55 AM
Hail Stan! said...

Do you think David Brooks was ever punched in the head? He literally has the type of face that I would like to punch. I think we could make some progress here.

10:59 AM
Hail Stan! said...

+can - could

11:00 AM
Anonymous said...

Once someone pointed out a building where David Brooks lived when he was an undergrad at U Chicago to me. I pissed on it on the way home from the bar a couple of nights later.

11:50 AM
Bad Bart said...

I'm against any further nation building if the nations we help build are going to be as ungrateful as Iraq has been.

12:17 PM
Charles F. Oxtrot said...

David Brooks definitely wore "Kick Me!" signs in jr high and high school. Doubtless he had his books pushed out from under his arm at the top of many stairwells.

He's just getting back at everyone with his superior BoBoNess.

12:25 PM
Anonymous said...

Oxtrot's interior landscape hasn't moved beyond jr. high or high school.

2:06 PM
Gridlock said...

Why do you hate the troops?

Well, to be fair, I guess you like the Corps.

2:09 PM
davidly said...

The old man told me to take any rug in the house.

2:42 PM
Charles F. Oxtrot said...

Ahhh. Anonymous again peers into the opaque "crystal" orb and divines another fabrication. Betcha had a brain-cramp working out that clever put-down!

4:18 PM
cemmcs said...

WOW! What else can you say?

5:52 PM
Anonymous said...

they came after ioz, but he SLAUGHTERED the special olympics.

6:28 PM
NutellaonToast said...

"Before the invasion, 4,500 Iraqis had Internet service. Now, more than 1.7 million do."

Um, in 2001 I didn't even have internet services....

I guess my life is improving as quickly with the Iraqis, although I likely know fewer people that have been exploded.

9:04 PM
Ashley said...

Happy birthday, don’t say I never gave you nothing, et cetera: NSFW et cetera and so on and it’s not my fault anyway… IOZ made me!

1:12 AM
davidly said...

Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left.

9:14 AM
Anonymous said...

"Oil production is back around prewar levels..."
So oil production was at X. We invaded, it went to X -. Many years later it's made its way back to X.
Progress!

9:30 AM
Anonymous said...

Ox at 12:25: “…Brooks definitely wore “Kick Me!” signs in jr. high….”
Anonymous at 2:06: “Oxtrot’s interior landscape….beyond jr. high….”
Ox at 4:18: “Anonymous again peers into the opaque “crystal” orb and divines another fabrication.”
Ox, do I need to spell it out for you?

9:31 AM

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