4,000 US dead in Iraq is a complete lie (try 70,000)

Wait.

FUA, did you just delete his argument? What the hell is THAT?

 

It's been difficult getting objective accounts with the way the press is controlled in Iraq. This photographer was just released after being in prison for two years without charges.

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AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago

The U.S. military released Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein on Wednesday after holding him for more than two years without filing formal charges.

Hussein, 36, was handed over to AP colleagues at a checkpoint in Baghdad. He was taken to the site aboard a prisoner bus and left U.S. custody wearing a traditional Iraqi robe. He was smiling and appeared in good health.

"I want to thank all the people working in AP ... I have spent two years in prison even though I was innocent. I thank everybody," Hussein said after being freed.

The U.S. military had accused Hussein of links to insurgents, but did not file specific charges. In December, military authorities brought Hussein's case into the Iraqi court system for possible trial.

But an Iraqi judicial panel this month dismissed all proceedings against Hussein and ordered his release. A U.S. military statement on Monday said Hussein is no longer considered a threat.

Hussein and the AP denied any improper contacts, saying Hussein was doing the normal work of a photographer in a war zone. He was detained by U.S. Marines on April 12, 2006 in Ramadi, about 70 miles west of Baghdad.

Hussein was a member of the AP team that won a Pulitzer Prize for photography in 2005, and his detention drew protests from rights groups and press freedom advocates.

The photographer was embraced by family members, including his brother and mother, and received flowers. Hussein called other well-wishers by phone as relatives prepared a feast in his honor.
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It's too bad the American People elected him.

 

He's hardly alone in that.

 

American democracy is founded on the idea that the common people know what's good for them, and deserve to get it good and hard.

"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
- H.L. Mencken (Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920)

 

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/mencken.asp

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"Status: True."


Your point?

 

I posted mortality statistics!

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Nothing really, other than the background of the quote and how it has truly come to pass many decades later.

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we didnt the supreme court put him in office!

 

I thought that the President was supposed to appoint Supreme Court members, not the other way around.

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This is true. The American people never elected President Bush. Yet somehow, they managed to re-elect him.

I'm impressed.