Wolfowitz says Iraqis not overly concerned with abuse issue

[Robbien]

Capitol Hill-AP -- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the prisoner abuse issue isn't a big concern for Iraqis.
He says that during his trip to Iraq last week, he was struck by how little the issue came up.

He told the House Armed Services Committee that Iraqis are "focused far, far more" on how to defeat the insurgents. Wolfowitz says with assassinations occurring "every day," the Iraqis "know where their priorities are."

His comments came as the White House released a thick file of papers documenting its internal deliberations on rules for interrogating prisoners.

http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=1960978

what are the odds Wolfowitz left the GreenZone and actually went out on the streets and talked to everyday Iraqis

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

How can they listen to themselves spout such crap?

[pinniped]

2. Jerkoffs must be talking with their 2% core supporters in Iraq.

n/t

[billybob537]

3. When did the terrorist start decapitating

prisoners? Right after torture was exposed.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Thanks for pointing this out. It would have taken some of us

and I include myself to make this connection. Once it's illuminated, it's UNDENIABLE!

[geek tragedy]

4. What fucking planet was he on?

Did they also greet him as a liberator?

[sam sarrha]

22. He is obviously on Planet Reagan.

[TankLV]

29. He said that as he was picking up all the flowers left for us!

Who ya gonna believe - your lying eyes, ears, and brain or what THEY tell you.

What truly amazes me about the STUPID American SHEEPLE is that they STILL refuse to listen to what they say compared to what is happening AND THE STUPID AMERICAN SHEEPLE STILL SUPPORT THESE IDIOTS!

Now remind me again, all you apologists on this board, why we shouldn't call a spade a spade and identify the idiot citizenry of the USA as STUPID SHEEPLE!

[mom cat]

32. He is getting all of his "news" from inside the Green Zone. Notice

he said "the people I talk to" : American appointed stooges who have seen how this administration deals with critics. So much for objectivity.

[Bridget Burke]

5. I'm sure he went out on the street & talked to average Iraqis!

Of course, we all know he was under heavy guard, sequestered in the most secure areas over there.

[salin]

6. NewsFlash: Wolfowitz's secret mushroom recipe

soon to be released... claims are that they can make even the most despondant person see a rosy scenario, based on no facts, in which all is wonderful in his/her future... trepidation mounts on the eve of the announcement, as fears of mass population side effects when the irrational behavior emerges based on the mushroom induced euphoric delusions.

Some believe that this is Wolfowitz's cynical way of making sure that he can make money after he is booted from office...

{/sarcasm}


(my new standard Wolfie story on LBN - as each thing he says seems to be more evidence of some sort of happy hallucenations where only HE can see this perfect scenario where things are going well..., or at the least aren't as bad as some mean press people imple...)

[patdem]

7. As long as 'we' can keep them 'overly' concerned with being alive

how much time can they have being 'overly' concerned with ANYTHING ELSE????

[saigon68]

8. I'd love to see someone stick a flashlight up HIS ASS

And hear the Cowardly Draft Dodger scream in pain like the kids he has maimed and whose parents he has killed.

[Sabriel]

11. Pick me, pick me!

Oh, sorry saigon68, I thought you were asking for volunteers.

[burythehatchet]

12. Sure wouldn't be any room in his rectum what with

Mr. Sharon's forearm up there.

[daleo]

9. Like they would tell one of the head torturers

"Um, I am a little ticked at all the torturing your government has been doing to my people..." as he gets dragged off to the Wolfowitz Gulag.

[napi21]

10. I watched some of this jerk on c-span this morning.

Wolfie is one slippery dude when questioned. He's good at NOT answering the qustions asked, and the one time I saw he was stopped and reminded "That isn't what I asked" he said "I'm answering you, this is all part of the answer". BTW, he never did answer.

[Judi Lynn]

14. Defensive posturing. He's so slimey.

He's undoubtedly so completely involved in this he's up in it to his mansiérre.

[Career Prole]

15. Wolfowitz says

with assassinations occurring "every day," the Iraqis "know where their priorities are."
Correction, Wolfy...that's the priority of your hand-picked interim government. The commonplace Iraqi-in-the-street need not fear assassination. He fears being dragged in for no cause and being tortured.
What's that?
You've never even met a "commonplace Iraqi-in-the-street"?

:wtf:

I suggest you get out more then. You have much to learn, chickenhawk.

[library_max]

16. Well, as an Iraqi himself, and as a victim of that "abuse,"

it's very kind of Wolfowitz to say so.

Oh, wait . . .

[Triana]

17. how the hell would HE know

what Iraqis think?

HA!

He needs to watch About Baghdad if he wants to know what Iraqis think...

http://www.aboutbaghdad.com

[Shopaholic]

19. So that makes it all okay?

The U.S. can torture Iraqi's because the Iraqi's don't "seem to care"?

[Shopaholic]

20. So that makes it all okay?

The U.S. can torture Iraqi's because the Iraqi's don't "seem to care"?

[Shopaholic]

21. So that makes it all okay?

The U.S. can torture Iraqi's because the Iraqi's don't "seem to care"?

[Miss Authoritiva]

18. Mordant commentary from DefenseLINK News

"The division is working to balance the dueling goals of combat operations and rebuilding infrastructure while promoting Iraq's legitimate national government, a senior division officer said."

I just wanted to check out what Wolfowitz's schedule was for his last visit to Iraq (and, no, he didn't go walkabout in Baghdad) and stumbled across this quote.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2004/n06162004_200406162.html

[lostnfound]

23. 54% think 'all Americans are like the Abu Ghraib guards'..

Wolfowitz seems to be quite the inhumanitarian.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

24. There goes another monkey flying outta my ass. EOM

[Cocoa]

25. the Iraqis have a new spokesman

I'm sure they're glad to have Paul speaking for them.

[Raster]

26. I guarantee you that wolfshitz NEVER left the Green Zone...

...slobbery comb boy has absolutely NO CREDIBILITY!

[dand]

27. Wolfowitz, Pearl, Adleman, Crystal,

are all forward elements of the Sharon Brigade, making the world safe for Israel.

[PSU84]

28. Wolfowitz is a war criminal.

He's also a lying, treasonous son of a bitch.

[truthisfreedom]

30. that's really not any kind of issue. wolfie is making himself out to be

the ass he is.

[Disturbed]

31. The Iraqi people.

Anytime anyone associated with BushCo speaks about the "Iraqi people", what they mean is the puppets on the US payroll.

If their was any justice in this world Fullofshitz would be on trial at this time, then found guilty of War Crimes and sentenced to 20 years in Leavenworth with no parole, as would the rest of the BushCo War Criminals.

[otravez]

34. Don't be so harsh on Wolf, he just forgot to add that this was his

wishful thinking, as he did during his testimony when he played down the number of troops slain... he must be under a lot of stress ,,all this mess..

[riverwalker]

33. His itinerary was on DoD website

and he never MET with any Iraqi civilians. He went from one military BRIEFING to another and was told whatever they thought he wanted to hear. He didn't tour Abu Ghraib this trip, unlike his other visits to Iraq, during the time of the tortures were happening. Why doesn't any media ever ask him about that?

[Laughing Mirror]

35. Paul Wolfofwitz, official spokesman for the "Iraqi people"

Who might be surprised, if not alarmed and revolted, to learn that he knows what their priorities are.

His wavering in front of the House Armed Services Committee received scant coverage, just a few lines in this story. Does anybody really even listen to him anymore?

[LibDemAlways]

36. Wolfoshitz looks like some

reptilian B-movie monster. His latest trip to Iraq sure didn't get any advance publicity. No way in hell he'd ever go out among the citizenry. He'd return missing some vital body parts and he knows it.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

37. Now,Now... he is telling the truth... the people "he spoke" to

were not upset.
Nah, the people he spoke to were the ones who endorsed the idea to stir everything up.

this is the same thing as asking a US Senator what homeless people think.

Idiotic.

[Tight_rope]

38. What a total "NINCOMPOOP!

That's what my dad would call people who would say the dumbest things.

Are we to assume that Wolfowitz did an internet or phone poll in Iraq. If so, how in the hell did he do it, considering that most Iraqis don't have the basic things like food, water, clothes and shelter, much less to talk about owning a phone or a computer. :spank:

And I know damn well Wolfowitz didn't go door to door.

I wonder where in the hell he gets his information from. :shrug:

[Jack Rabbit]

39. With which Iraqis was he speaking?

Allawi?

[drdtroit]

40. Yeah, the subject never came up

The Iraqis were all too busy spending their big tax cut that Bremmer gave them (his greatest achievement). Too busy partying to think about torture. :hangover:

[Carolab]

41. DISINFORMATION

For the uninformed American citizenry.

[drb]

42. Yeah. They're all far too busy trying to pull...

...the lightsticks out of their asses!

[struggle4progress]

43. kick for wolfowitz's big and ignorant mouth

:kick: