US 'close' to finalising Iraq military deal - 27 May 08

[jabber22]

The camera should be on the woman at all times

[jabber22]

lkjkl

[WilliBond0007]

Yous guys shouldn't disrespect her, she's an eloquent and competent reporter. Yeah, she is without any doubt drop, dead stone, cold out, of this world and off the mothership gorgeous, buthat's no reason to disrespect her. If you \'ve ever dated someone extremely attractive who's like an overgrown child or has the depth of a piece of sandpaper you'd understand. Now she may be a complete and total _______too. I haven't met her or talked to her friends, but it seemed like a great interview.

[AbuHattat]

ghida ghida<3

[FUZZYisBIG]

This woman is so damn stunning.

[mysty0]

@FUZZYisBIG I was thinking the same thing

[BringBack500s]

@FUZZYisBIG Reminds me of Monica Belluci with more focus and sharper features.

The most amazing looking woman I've yet seen.

[AbahZabah]

Ghida is out of her league here. Trying so hard to find an answer to Al Jazeera's questions of lies and propaganda. Get it in your head... America does not want to take over Iraq... America does not want to take over Iraqi oil.... America does not want to stay in Iraq any minute longer than it has too. Why not try being a part of the solution for a better Iraq rather than add to the problem? My God. Do they miss Saddam and his henchmen sons that much? Iraq can have a bright future. Help them!

[dadecountyhustler305]

We invaded Iraq because we sent a message to the Muslims. You blow up 2 of our towers and we'll blow up 2 of your countries.

Brutal force and unforgivening occupation IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE THESE ARABS WILL UNDERSTAND.

God(the real god) Bless America and may he smite her enemies to the ground...

[stephluvsmac]

another dumb fuck

[Adnowwwwn]

LOL, so they killed 3,000 of your people and after you blew up their two countries they killed 5,000 more of yours. Now they're much stronger and have inflicted a wound into your economy that will eventually lead to death as you chase them through Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, and the list goes on.

[Adnowwwwn]

The people that you killed and the destruction you caused worked in their favor because today they are far stronger and have a much wider support base in the Muslim world. All it takes is for one group to station itself in Latin America and launch a nuclear armed ballistic missile to take out one of your cities and plunge the country into complete chaos.

[cloverfield3345]

God is not real.

[4aaaaa4]

The Nazi American-style

You invade a civilization that never harmed you. To Deliberately destroy infrastructure. KIll the taxi drivers, construction engineers, utillity, road, doctors, teachers, scientists, farmers, firemen, policemen, journalsits, ect

Exterminate millions. Make remaning survivors beg to you for survival. Then you BRAG about 'giving' them help Set up and protect your own corporate profiting via your Armed Force + 200,000 hired mercenaries

War Crime Of Economic Colonization

[oct1984]

Arab ambassador in some point may be correct ,we as American spent over trillion of dollars and American lives to have a least agreement for 100years that's not a prominent base ,its similar to that of Cuba and gulf state like Kuwait's ,Qatar ets... we're educating Arabs how to move intellectually and technologically to 21century and we're protecting Arabs from genocides.

[4aaaaa4]

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The Iraqi people nationalized their oil reserves in 1972.

It took 37 years for the West (EXXON MOBIL , BRITISH PETROLIUM, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL, et al) to re-steal the oil resources of the country. They finally succeded. All the death was for that. The push into Iran is essentially based upon the same motives. WMDs are a red herring.

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[4aaaaa4]

How silly of me! Iraq has 218 billion barrels of oil beneath its sands. China and UK got the Ramaili oil contract. U.S. got zip! Hmmm- Wonder if this has anything to do with the trillions of dollars which the U.S owes China? Was it worth it? I want all our troops to come home now. Every service member who served in Iraq needs to be paid reparations. The US pays 22% to the United Nations (as dues annually) for it's peacekeeping roles. Our troops died while the UN is paid to do nothing? What oil?

[4aaaaa4]

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There are no Iraqi terrorists. only national resistance groups. US brings terrorists to Iraq to kill Iraqis and keep it unstable so they can stay there longer.

AQI nefer existed before USAggression.

Neither was there even the slightest undercurrent of a civil war.

It is only common sense that there was unity among Iraqis, because they had a common enemy : The USAggression.

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[kmalone06]

You're an idiot. no more commenting.

[4aaaaa4]

v

FACE OF GENOCIDE

2 Million killed human victims of the USAggression. The lost offspring per victim = estimate of 3 children each AVERAGE

1st generation, 2 Million ppl slaughtered x 3 kids, would have had 6 Million kids

2nd gen. 6 Million kids x their 3 kids each, becomes 18 Million kids

3rd gen. 18 Million kids x their 3 kids each, bcomes 54 Million kids

4th gen. 54 Million kids x their 3 kids each =162 Million kids

A lot of children ~meant to be, but robbed of their lives

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[fulconer]

Dream on blind one.

The overwhelming number of deaths in Iraq were due to muslims killing muslims(foreign terrorists, suicide bombers, insurgents, ex bath/military).

Just check all the doom and gloom news reports that were coming out of Iraq over the years....bombings galore but majority suicide, terrorist or IEDs NOT air strikes by yanks.

Open your eyes to the truth.

[MustacheVerra]

I don't believe thats true but lets assume it is true, these people would be alive today if you didn't invade. Iraq is a country in ruins. What happened in Iraq is like a holocaust. So sad!

[alhandawi]

the Iraqi oil has not been belonged to Iraqi people since it had been found in the earth. If you are Iraqi should do comparsion between the past luxury and now, you should see how much salaries the Iraqi empolyers have taken, they are so much awesome, they can now survive and buy what ever they want although that there is occupation, but the Iraqi employers couldnt survive for 15 days although we had all the oil. so be pragmatic and you should wake up , you have closed mind totally.

[sig4833]

she makes me so horny,I would love for her to speak to me like that and say eat my p@#$y that would be awesome.

[citrinuska]

wow some cute guys in here!! lol. im SO horny!! 3

[mileyandselenafreak]

eh eh eh eh perpetual. lol politicss..

[DVDderanged]

It's obvious to me that this woman was trying to paint America badly, and to make Iraq look as though it was a traitor for entering into this agreement.

[lifeovdeath]

i agree with you about iraq being a "traiter?" (kind of ironic because the aljazeera arabi studio is 2km away from the US base in qatar). but iraq refused most of the points in the agreement.

[allgoo19]

polymath7:

I think you were smelling your own and didn't even know it. This happens to many people.

Go see a doctor.

[Warpath2198]

Stealing their oil? If that were so then why has oil prices doubled in the US in 3 years idiots? That region has been unstable since the Ottoman Empire fell apart. Iraq has attacked its neighbors twice Iran for 9 years and then Kuwait. A heavy oil producing region cannot be unstable period. To take over a country and setup shop is better than having some aggressive dictator around attacking his neighbors. Only countries who lose a war pay reparations people wake up. Stop watching tv.

[idricool]

Americans can't fix their own country and yet they are trying to fix another.

[BIGMEL1981]

first remove then reform ... lol !

[cradle2light]

i m Sure with there is this strong URGENCY TO SIGN A AGREEMENT by the PRESENT US leaders partly to Escape LIABILITY and INDICTMENT for War Crimes in Iraq should there is CHANGES in the new ADMINISTRATION!!!!

[ATPADPenergy]

She's a nice-looking piece of meat, even though I'm a long-time vegetarian.

[lastnymleft]

The first 45 seconds is instructive: it doesn't matter who's in power in the US, the policy will remain the same.

~2:20 - "bases aren't permanent" - BULLSHIT ALERT!

[freedomanddemocracy]

What a joke! Now even the puppet government of Iraq start thinking smarter than the Bush administration. America: you broke it, you own it and now ... get out of there just show some dignity after all the lies!!!!

[jklasdfjdfksl]

the iraqi government only exists becuase of the US military presence,why would they vote for US forces to leave? plans of bribery and division by US forces have torn iraq apart; leaving it prime for the picking of the capitalist vultures to get their contracts and pump the oil out. the combined interest is between the iraqi politicians and US interests. the iraqi people will suffer permanent US presence and lose their resources, there interests are not being advocated in any meaningful sense.

[bahrana]

this is the New Iraq identification where clowns in the virtual government speak out for their mafias to extend the corruption, fraud and the demolishing of a Nation, and its upon the people of New Iraq broadly to regain and retain the Nation the held the Mesopotamia and the first constitution in the mankind's history

[pepperscones]

HAHAHAHA. everywhere to be honest

[OgoTomO]

Hopefully, McCain won't be the president. He wants to continue the war for 100 years!!

[Tereeb11]

Many Americans do NOT know that there is huge deficit on US government.

[bbproductionsLA]

Iraq and the people need to start putting education first. stop letting the U.S.A. steal with no justice.

some nuremberg crimes are happening, justice is necessary.

[quickpua]

What's the US stealing?

[pepperscones]

are you kidding! america is staling their freedoms. they bust into homes and create roadblocks and search innocent people. its marshal law in a foreign country and its an invasion. america steals all freedoms and all rights and once they leave if ever, they leave behind a bunch of military bases

[quickpua]

No, I am not kidding. You must be one of those lefties who think when they are stoned. America didn't set up roadblocks and bust into homes and search people just to steal people's freedoms. There seems to be terrorists who want to kill not only the Americans stationed in Iraq, but also anyone else who opposes them. I think that's what the road blocks are for.

[pepperscones]

i think we screw around there alot of the time. we made a bigger mess than before we went in.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

the US is stealing oil control over the bodies of millions of iraqis..... i thought that was obvious. the word "terrorist" has no real meaning in US culture, it has become a meaningless talking point, like "communist", to identify any groups that stands in the way of US imperialist interest. "terrorist" can only have a real meaning when it applies to all actors participating in terrorism, including the US military.

[quickpua]

What's obvious to you, is not obvious to billions. Provide proof that the US is stealing oil and we'll talk. Until then, you have no case and no ground to stand on.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

the oil privatization deals made/proposed by US companies, pushed by the US as the only option, and the contracts to halliburton, etc.; have you heard of any of this? this is taking iraqi national resources out of iraqi hands and putting it into the hands of corrupt iraqi politicians and US companies. this story should sound familiar....pinochet, suharto, shah, uribe, etc. lets put it this way, its "free market" globalization at work, by gunpoint.

[quickpua]

Privatization of the oil industry in Iraq = stealing Iraqi oil? That's not proof of anything other than "Iraqi oil privatization". Iran, France, China, and I am sure many other countries have privatized certain industries within their countries throughout history and now that Iraq is trying to embrace democracy and a free market economy, they may decide to do the same thing. For you to prove that we are stealing their oil, you would need something a lot more concrete than that.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

precisely, privatization of iraqs oil is theft of iraqs oil: it is taking iraqi oil and putting it into productive use for the benefit of US companies, while iraqis will get virtually no benefit and see their national wealth drained for the profit of foreign investors. looking at it in this sense, saadam was less of an economic tyrant than US/multinational companies and spent more on social services (iraqi people's needs) than privtization companies ever will.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

iraq will never be able to embrace democracy when it imposed by war aggressors who are upholding a regime that would not last without the protection of the foreign occupying US forces, that are interfering in iraqs matters and oppressing iraqis; the "free market" is another way to oppress, pushing iraqis out of their own economic future, while capitalist vultures pick at their corpses.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

china france, US, britain etc. only grew by using state capitalism and protection, not the wild-west "free market" capitalism that is being unleashed on iraq. iraq will never develop with foreign investors owning what they need to survive. there is no real association between "free markets" and democracy because "free markets" allow capital holders (wealth elites) the "freedom to oppress" and exclude citizens from the economy. iraq is being subjected to US profit and control, not liberated.

[danboyd12]

Well I read somewhere that the Iraq oil industry has not been updated or modernized since the 70's. If foreign country's do not invest the 100s of billions its going to take to improve the country the situation in Iraq will not improve. Iraq has the ability to produce just as much oil if not more then Saudi Arabia yet currently Norway produces more oil then Iraq. This presents a problem the Iraqis cannot fix them self.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

there are ways to develop that will benefit the iraqi people and ways that will not. "globalization", with US companies coming in to own iraqs resources, will do nothing for iraqis. "free trade" globalization is a capital mafia ruining people's lives for profit, like in sweatshops. in the end, any development plan that takes the oil out of iraqi's hands cannot be justified. this type of development is useless for iraqis, they would be better off leaving the oil underground.

[danboyd12]

Better off leaving it in the ground? Are you crazy? Look up the percentage of how much oil accounts for the Iraqi government budget.

Lets say your right and free trade is the spawn of satan. That leaves what options? We simply ignore Iraq and it will rebuild itself? These people are incapable of pulling themselves out of the rut they are in.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

and oil can continue to account for that percentage until development projects that do not rob the iraqis of their oil are introduced; this certainly is not one of them. its very simple, give the iraqis a fair deal that will not put their resources in the hands of capitalist vulture. another option: the US can start paying massive war reparations for the destruction and death they have caused by paying for (and giving interest free loans) for IRAQIS to develop the oil.

[quickpua]

Iraqi oil was and still is in the hands of the government. The Iraqi people have to pay for their oil and they will have to pay for the oil when it is privatized. You are all just a bunch of propaganda and cliches without any substance (proof).

[jklasdfjdfksl]

i think your right bbproductionsLA, the UN has exposed some major defects by not enforcing the basic prohibition on war aggression that is cornerstone of international law. the appeasement of US war aggression can only embolden this global tyrant to think they can get away with future crimes. UN should have no security council veto power and neutral enforcement.

[quickpua]

Go ahead, try it.

[quickpua]

It seems like the lady was not listening to what he was saying and was hell bent on getting her own idea across.