Thursday, December 15, 2011

"In a fortified concrete courtyard at the airport in Baghdad"

I think the title of this post, selected from all the hilarious phrases in the Times' encomium-epitaph for our late mission impossible, says it all.  Meanwhile, we leave behind a massive fortified city-state garrisoned by mercenaries smack in the middle of the capital with another army massed on the southern border.

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40 comments:

mistah charley, ph.d. said...
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10:05 AM
mistah charley, ph.d. said...

This is funny in a mass-murder kind of way:

Even handing bases over to the Iraqi government over recent months proved vexing for the military. In the spring, commanders halted large formal ceremonies with Iraqi officials for base closings because insurgents were using the events as opportunities to attack troops. “We were having ceremonies and announcing it publicly and having a little formal process but a couple of days before the base was to close we would start to receive significant indirect fire attacks on the location,” said Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for the military in Iraq. “We were suffering attacks so we stopped.”
Across the country, the closing of bases has been marked by a quiet closed-door meeting where American and Iraqi military officials signed documents that legally gave the Iraqis control of the bases, exchanged handshakes and turned over keys.

10:05 AM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant

10:12 AM
Anonymous said...

The war will return after this brief message from our sponsors.

10:13 AM
Joseph Dietrich said...

It's just like Germany after WWII! Freedom bouquets for everyone!

10:45 AM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Joseph - no it's not.

They REALLY "de-Nazified" this time ... that's why they've got so many fucking problems ....

10:58 AM
Professor Coldheart said...

The tank traps are lovely in my fortified concrete courtyard in the spring. And the steel anti-IED mesh glistens with morning dew.

11:08 AM
Inkberrow said...

In Babylon did Uncle Sam a stately treasure dome decree....

11:53 AM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...

@Inky -

OK - I'll go with you on this one, just this once ...

... where Alf re-RUNS played endlessly, on new HDTV's ...

12:00 PM
demize! said...

Good morning guys. We have transitioned from de jure to de facto police state and edging towards WWIII. OBAMA2012! Discuss.

2:20 PM
Cüneyt said...

All my points are donated to Inkberrow.

2:30 PM
anne said...

i can't get the cap off this gin ..damn phu''., help . .. .seasonal greetings to all.. .

2:33 PM
Beth E. said...

http://www.clowncrack.com/2011/12/15/a-no-good-peace-of-crap/

2:56 PM
Sorry said...

After a hard day at the end of days, ain't nothing beats the milk of paradise. good luck ., anne.

3:53 PM
anne said...

sorry, .. i did get it open ..the gin .. . milk (to all misunderstood, and misunderstanding .. ) ,goats ..with that would be nice .. .i mustered up all of my miffed strength to open that .. ,oh ..more seasonal ..i added a photo of my swan hand in bedding to my blogger short ..have a lokk look ..

4:04 PM
Gridlock said...

OT but I love it

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sCElaxtklOv79CuuCukyCgg/view.m?id=15&gid=commentisfree/2011/dec/15/english-butlers-status-symbol&cat=commentisfree

4:18 PM
anne said...

grid' .. . a lock ..oh , i haven't had a chance to read the link ..in the mid' of something here .. but ..i was thinking about stephen fry ..just last night.. .odd,very ..

4:25 PM
Anonymous said...

hey anne, do you ever shoot gin? i do and all my friends (except for one) think that when i do it it is repulsive. but i just tell them it's like drinking hairspray except way better.

6:15 PM
anne said...

don't know what this .. shooting ..of gin ..is for you .. . ? (does make me think of ashley (a boy ) reminding me that william b. shot his wife ,with a gin glass on her head .. , ) ... i don't go to bars,etc. ..and what's in that spray.. for hair .. .?

6:47 PM
Anonymous said...

what bout william tell, lol???

but like shots of gin, from a shot glass (or, the way i do it, drink it straight from the bottle)

and fuck hairspray

7:17 PM
anne said...

no.. i have my gin watery .. like ..bach's not flower.. but to air .. /can't imagine why your friends are bothered by your liking to just drink from the bottle .. . if the same young nony .. .

7:48 PM
rob payne said...

Obama is just worried about the welfare of the Iraqi people. That's the kind of guy he is, a diamond in the rough. I like my gin rummy.

8:56 AM
Happy Jack said...

Sloe gin is the "gin and juice" of the bourgeois.

11:51 AM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...

So, M'sieur -

When are you going to drag the body around the walls of Pittsburgh?

Metaphorically speaking, of course.

12:14 PM
Enron said...

In other news, "atheist intellectual" Christopher Hitchens has passed. Coincidence?

2:22 PM
demize! said...

Yes I killed him.

2:51 PM
Anonymous said...

@demizel

I didnt want to say anything but since you brought it up, thank you!You should be recieving that check in 1-3 days.

5:20 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Enron - to what do you think I was referring in my query to M'sieur 9the one directly above your post)?

9:29 PM
Anonymous said...

Funnily enough, neither A nor B, not everyone contemplates your every articulated thought here.

11:31 PM
anne said...
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2:04 PM
anne said...

bom.. . builder's old measurements ..

2:11 PM
Anonymous said...

dubai - paradise and/or hell hole?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

2:23 PM
anne said...
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2:29 PM
anne said...

of the 2:23 .. . dubai .. ,the neptune suite , and yes on a not yet finished read ..that is very dark .. said the girl that .. never .. . believed in santa ,or much of anything .. .

4:39 PM
Anonymous said...

'Funnily enough, neither A nor B, not everyone contemplates your every articulated thought here.'

But you do, dear.

I can always count on you ....

8:12 PM
anne said...

what does the anonymous just past eight mean here ..now .. ,sounds like eer' .. ? .. . ,she asked as she sat .. . still making her seasonal gifting gifts, and viewing a sweet film on some elderly ladies trapped for a bit in the woods and fields when their bus breaks down , ..and i've been writing a tale called .. a bag dad ,of a santa different .. for the last few hours ..

9:47 PM
mark r. said...

a sweet film on some elderly ladies trapped for a bit in the woods and fields when their bus breaks down


Strangers in Good Company

My public library system has it on videotape. I've requested it.

6:58 AM
anne said...

next day .. . middle of,yes that was it .. . i'm having the thought that mark r. is the person that wrote of something on tvont before .. but didn't look back ,so not sure .. and i don't remember were it was .. . that had many here ,including myself disagreeing on ..feeling that violence only changes .. if it was you ...you didn't say anything to all of that after leaving that link .. /anyways the film was on tvont last night .. .my father brought an old b and w .. small,back from up north for me ..and one of my brothers did the new rewiring needed now .. so i can see tvo for a few things .. .one is the films that they have with interviews with those involved on sat. night .. .that was one of the films .. . ,when you watch ,note the facial expressing .. .

12:33 PM
anne said...

.. . i should sign that ..doe a deer in that wooded ..and of fields , of how intensely i note their facial expressing and the way their elderly bodies move .. .such beauty..

12:43 PM
replacement car key said...

Hello there!

It is nice that somehow the society is at peace nowadays. However, I heard so many terrible stories what happened beforehand, and it pains me knowing that people are killing people before and nobody just care.

2:30 AM

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