Comments on: Iraq: mission accomplished, and home in six months? http://brokentelegraph.com/2008/05/01/only-six-more-months-in-iraq/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Beth http://brokentelegraph.com/2008/05/01/only-six-more-months-in-iraq/#comment-30 Beth Mon, 05 May 2008 05:35:39 +0000 http://brokentelegraph.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-30 Not only an embarrassment but it is sickening. It is powerful to see them lined up that way. Not only an embarrassment but it is sickening. It is powerful to see them lined up that way.

]]> By: Ian http://brokentelegraph.com/2008/05/01/only-six-more-months-in-iraq/#comment-29 Ian Fri, 02 May 2008 19:16:12 +0000 http://brokentelegraph.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-29 Brian- perfectly said. The hardest thing about watching the John Adams miniseries has been seeing how much those guys cared about the idea of a restrained government, individual liberty and the rule of law. Not perfect men, but they had an intensity to serve the people. To read their words is one thing but viewing that story adds some perspective. Imagine what the founders would write if they were alive to see our country now... Sam- I think you're right about Friedman. That string of quotes is an embarrassment. In the age of keyword searches, you'd think he'd put a little camouflauge on that message. Thanks for the link too- looks like a great resource. Brian- perfectly said. The hardest thing about watching the John Adams miniseries has been seeing how much those guys cared about the idea of a restrained government, individual liberty and the rule of law. Not perfect men, but they had an intensity to serve the people. To read their words is one thing but viewing that story adds some perspective. Imagine what the founders would write if they were alive to see our country now…

Sam- I think you’re right about Friedman. That string of quotes is an embarrassment. In the age of keyword searches, you’d think he’d put a little camouflauge on that message.

Thanks for the link too- looks like a great resource.

]]> By: heim corn http://brokentelegraph.com/2008/05/01/only-six-more-months-in-iraq/#comment-28 heim corn Fri, 02 May 2008 19:06:41 +0000 http://brokentelegraph.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-28 war IS terrorism. war IS terrorism.

]]> By: Sam http://brokentelegraph.com/2008/05/01/only-six-more-months-in-iraq/#comment-27 Sam Fri, 02 May 2008 17:40:35 +0000 http://brokentelegraph.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-27 No, but I came across this: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2884 What a kick-ass technique to keep people focused on the immediate present. The guy's not stupid--he obviously knows what he is saying/doing. I do love the image of Bush with the Mission Accomplished sign behind him. That was the biggest PR bit in the whole war. What a choad. No, but I came across this: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2884

What a kick-ass technique to keep people focused on the immediate present. The guy’s not stupid–he obviously knows what he is saying/doing.

I do love the image of Bush with the Mission Accomplished sign behind him. That was the biggest PR bit in the whole war. What a choad.

]]> By: Ian http://brokentelegraph.com/2008/05/01/only-six-more-months-in-iraq/#comment-26 Ian Fri, 02 May 2008 16:42:04 +0000 http://brokentelegraph.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-26 Sam- have you heard about The Friedman/a Friedman Unit? I just found out while writing this blog. You're savvy so this is probably old news, but Justin Case: Wiki what?: "The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a unit of time equal to six months in the future...journalist Thomas Friedman's repeated use of "the next six months" as the period in which, according to Friedman, "we're going to find out...whether a decent outcome is possible" in the Iraq War...Friedman had been making such six-month predictions for a period of two and a half years, on at least fourteen different occasions, starting with a column in the November 30, 2003 edition of The New York Times." Sam- have you heard about The Friedman/a Friedman Unit? I just found out while writing this blog. You’re savvy so this is probably old news, but Justin Case:

Wiki what?:
“The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a unit of time equal to six months in the future…journalist Thomas Friedman’s repeated use of “the next six months” as the period in which, according to Friedman, “we’re going to find out…whether a decent outcome is possible” in the Iraq War…Friedman had been making such six-month predictions for a period of two and a half years, on at least fourteen different occasions, starting with a column in the November 30, 2003 edition of The New York Times.”

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