Inside Iraq - The cost of war - 16 May 08 - Part 2

[axs5278]

A simple question for the people in the US administration, who are beating the drums of improvements in Iraq.

"Is that what you are going to tell the millions of Iraqis and thousands of Americans who have lost their husbands, wives, children and other loved ones- that their lives will be eventually better?"

Bush and Cheney should be sent to international courts just like the Nazis. That is the only way American credibility can return.

[pathanzamir]

United Nations should be closed down immediately. it has lossed credibility and just working for Israel and American and creating hetrate among the world community

[jklasdfjdfksl]

there is a movement in the US, among democrats and republicans, to push for a new global system where the US controls the third world and only allows them to participate through the "free market", look to latin america to see how that works out. clinton assaulted international law, and attempted to assert global US rule, with his so called "humanitarian interverntion" in yugoslavia.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

now bush is attempting to assault international law futher with US "might makes right" mentality in which the US superpower should govern the third world as it pleases, with only the "free market" left to help safeguard the third world from foreign military and economic threats to the survival of their people.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

i certainly agree that the UN needs reforms, like getting rid of veto power and making enforcement neutral, but scrapping the system in the face of the US superpower's violations would have some devestating consequences that threaten human survival. the US is quickly becoming the world's punching bag and what scares me is that the democrats and republicans are talking as aggressvie as ever and seem willing to take this one to nuclear holocaust.

[endeavor8000]

Clawson works for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which was set up by the Israel Lobby group AIPAC in 1985. He is merely reproducing Zionist talking points here. This was a war for Israel, and it certainly won't do them any good if the US taxpayer turned wise to the bill in blood and gold it has been saddled with.

[philistine37]

Patrick Clausen, good man!

If there were no person like you, how could American know how foolish they are?

Thank You so much Patrick, live that way.

[theufwik]

yes indeed Patrick Clausen is one good example of contradictions...

[lastnymleft]

This whole, "Pottery Barn" you-broke-it-you-fix-it policy of the US is just a sham. If you have a bull in a china shop, running amok, do you expect the bull to fix the plates? No, the owner of the shop gets someone that CAN fix it, to fix it, and then bills the owner for the repair job.

US out of Iraq NOW!

[ehunter2]

Question to YouTubers..

Why would Hamas set up calling centers and computer rooms to monitor America and make appeals for Obama? Hmmm? Why would a terrorist organization impersonate Americans on the Internet (youtube) asking for tolerance, peace and love?

[1kroc1]

The blind support this guys shows for the war, and the disgusting disregard he seem to have for the truth are just unbelievable to me. I find myself think that he just has to be fully aware that he is talking shit.

[damianpaonejazz]

I can't believe no one touched the fact that Patrick Clausen proclaimed the US as THE SUPERPOWER.

[themengsk176]

That Patrick guy is a genuine weasel.

[swankrecords]

Patrick Clausen is just like his brethren Josh Bolton - they both have a high degree of hubris.

[erikurn]

Hi Patrick, ask your own people if they are content with what Bush administration have been doing in Iraq so far? ask the global community if what your action is justifiable? finally ask your conscience, are you doing for democracy? prosperity? or oil resources mastery?

[mengwise36]

The scary thing is people like him has the ears of our politicians.

[1kroc1]

Id like to ask him how he can sleep at night!

[lastnymleft]

Some people count sheep, I guess he'd count dollars.

[lastnymleft]

erikurn - "Hi Patrick, ask your own people if they are content with what Bush administration have been doing in Iraq so far?"

Well, oil has gone from $27 to ~$120, meaning huge inflated war-profits for them and their buddies, and the USD is STILL afloat, meaning they get to keep it. Seems to me like they'd be pretty damn content with what the Bush administration has been doing in Iraq!

[ratonnewmex]

excellent commentator....wish you could interview Bush and tear that piece of fkn white trash to pieces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ratonnewmex]

the U.S. the great deceptive WHORE.....down with the U.S.!

[wildfictiion]

down with assholes ur right

[chinoazido]

The UN was against the invasion from the beguining.

[uchoob00]

There is no comparison to the cold war and what is going on right now. That Patrick guy seems like a professional spinster