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		<title>By: KneeGrowPope</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;BBC Report - Resistance shows Ban the Surge&lt;/b&gt;

by: Foreign Correspondents
on: 22 March 2007
in: Baghdad 	

&lt;i&gt;US&#039; chief-puppet tastes a blast of potent Baghdad laxative&lt;/i&gt;

The US&#039; chief-puppet Ban Ki-moon&#039;s bowels were today involuntarily loosened by a nearby rocket blast which interrupted a brown-nosing session with the &#039;Iraqi&#039; Prime Quisling Nouri Maliki inside the Invader&#039;s Greed Zone in Baghdad. 

Cloth-ears Maliki had just finished telling the assembled presstitutes that Mr Ban&#039;s visit was a &quot;sure sign Iraq is on the road to stability&quot;. He then wiped the foam from his chin as Mr Ban dutifully began to mumble out the platitudes written on flash-cards for him by US CentCom&#039;s General CockEye Kimmitt during the live televised event. Also present were a bunch of embedded warmongering Hush-Puppies and the British Viceroy to the Colony, who had come to grind his organ and see the new monkey perform its tricks, when a powerful rocket landed about 50 metres from the building, causing Ban-Ki-BOOM to instinctively duck and deposit several bricks of compacted shit onto the stage.

Attended immediately by his personal physician, the diagnosis was quickly returned that Mr Ban-Ki-BOOM had not been physically harmed by the bomb, but that his testicles appeared to have retracted into his body, like a rabbit, and that his chronic constipation had been temporarily relieved by the sudden expulsion of 4kg bodyweight. &quot;Ah yes, I have felt the Surge, an urge to purge&quot;, squeaked the midgit castratto. 

No-one bothered to check on &#039;Dead-Man-Walking&#039; Maliki, who had shown no reaction at all to the blast, but from a distance he seemed ok, though he will likely have a damp shadow on his lungs, due to steam inhalation from Ban-Ki-BOOM&#039;s sour cloud. In any case he continued to chew the cud, as calmly as a hindu cow on drugs. His pupils have been abnormally dilated since last September. 

The US&#039; chief-puppet had earlier snuck into Baghdad like a thief, on his first secret visit since being fitted with new strings in January this year to replace the previous mealy-mouthed Mannequin, whose name or label nobody can now remember.

Iraqi television showed live footage of Ban-Ki-BOOM and Maliki dancing on a puppet-stage - suddenly, as a Hush-Puppy journaillist pompously coughed up a rehearsed butterball question, there was a massive bang, at which moment the camera shook and juddered to the left. Buildings and windows shook when the huge explosion reverberated throughout the city shortly after 1530 (1230 GMT), and Ban-Ki-BOOM felt the wing of the Angel of Death brush the back of his empty head. Chunks of debris could then be seen falling from the ceiling above Mr Ban-Ki-BOOM, who did not delay in hauling his shrivelled yellow pecker to the airport.

A blank-eyed USA-Rapist Spokesdrone commented that in future their whore-gopher will wear adult diapers, borrowed post-haste from those US Latrine Corpse GameBoyz hiding out back in the Greed Zone.

Meanwhile, word on Haifa Street had it that most Iraqis remain united in their hunger to see the scurvy running-dogs of US Imperialism being &#039;DeMellowed&#039; on live TV (which they call &#039;Getting The Nobel Prize&#039;) as a sharp warning to all would-be quislings and collaborators that there will be NO IMPUNITY for Crimes against Humanity, not even for those who recently began to carry the water. In any case, it was generally felt that it will be a long day indeed before this particular filthy US-puppet returns to Iraq for a final dose of reality, if indeed he managed to escape at all in one piece past the well-placed Resistance &#039;Strela&#039; teams operating daily around Saddam City Airport. 

A reliable source from Mujahideen Resistance Intelligence later stated that its 5th Column inside US-CentCom had been able to identify Ban-Ki-BOOM&#039;s top-secret itinerary and exfiltrate the data on exact location in time to mount the targetted-strike operation, which unfortunately failed due to an unreliable US-built GPS-unit integrated in the warhead guidance system. Therefore, the Resistance have vowed to only use the superior Russian GLONASS system for his next visit, and hopes that he will return soon, once his balls have dropped.

&lt;b&gt;Víve la Résistance!&lt;/b&gt;


- &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6479821.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BBC World News&lt;/a&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>BBC Report &#8211; Resistance shows Ban the Surge</b></p>
<p>by: Foreign Correspondents<br />
on: 22 March 2007<br />
in: Baghdad 	</p>
<p><i>US&#8217; chief-puppet tastes a blast of potent Baghdad laxative</i></p>
<p>The US&#8217; chief-puppet Ban Ki-moon&#8217;s bowels were today involuntarily loosened by a nearby rocket blast which interrupted a brown-nosing session with the &#8216;Iraqi&#8217; Prime Quisling Nouri Maliki inside the Invader&#8217;s Greed Zone in Baghdad. </p>
<p>Cloth-ears Maliki had just finished telling the assembled presstitutes that Mr Ban&#8217;s visit was a &#8220;sure sign Iraq is on the road to stability&#8221;. He then wiped the foam from his chin as Mr Ban dutifully began to mumble out the platitudes written on flash-cards for him by US CentCom&#8217;s General CockEye Kimmitt during the live televised event. Also present were a bunch of embedded warmongering Hush-Puppies and the British Viceroy to the Colony, who had come to grind his organ and see the new monkey perform its tricks, when a powerful rocket landed about 50 metres from the building, causing Ban-Ki-BOOM to instinctively duck and deposit several bricks of compacted shit onto the stage.</p>
<p>Attended immediately by his personal physician, the diagnosis was quickly returned that Mr Ban-Ki-BOOM had not been physically harmed by the bomb, but that his testicles appeared to have retracted into his body, like a rabbit, and that his chronic constipation had been temporarily relieved by the sudden expulsion of 4kg bodyweight. &#8220;Ah yes, I have felt the Surge, an urge to purge&#8221;, squeaked the midgit castratto. </p>
<p>No-one bothered to check on &#8216;Dead-Man-Walking&#8217; Maliki, who had shown no reaction at all to the blast, but from a distance he seemed ok, though he will likely have a damp shadow on his lungs, due to steam inhalation from Ban-Ki-BOOM&#8217;s sour cloud. In any case he continued to chew the cud, as calmly as a hindu cow on drugs. His pupils have been abnormally dilated since last September. </p>
<p>The US&#8217; chief-puppet had earlier snuck into Baghdad like a thief, on his first secret visit since being fitted with new strings in January this year to replace the previous mealy-mouthed Mannequin, whose name or label nobody can now remember.</p>
<p>Iraqi television showed live footage of Ban-Ki-BOOM and Maliki dancing on a puppet-stage &#8211; suddenly, as a Hush-Puppy journaillist pompously coughed up a rehearsed butterball question, there was a massive bang, at which moment the camera shook and juddered to the left. Buildings and windows shook when the huge explosion reverberated throughout the city shortly after 1530 (1230 GMT), and Ban-Ki-BOOM felt the wing of the Angel of Death brush the back of his empty head. Chunks of debris could then be seen falling from the ceiling above Mr Ban-Ki-BOOM, who did not delay in hauling his shrivelled yellow pecker to the airport.</p>
<p>A blank-eyed USA-Rapist Spokesdrone commented that in future their whore-gopher will wear adult diapers, borrowed post-haste from those US Latrine Corpse GameBoyz hiding out back in the Greed Zone.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, word on Haifa Street had it that most Iraqis remain united in their hunger to see the scurvy running-dogs of US Imperialism being &#8216;DeMellowed&#8217; on live TV (which they call &#8216;Getting The Nobel Prize&#8217;) as a sharp warning to all would-be quislings and collaborators that there will be NO IMPUNITY for Crimes against Humanity, not even for those who recently began to carry the water. In any case, it was generally felt that it will be a long day indeed before this particular filthy US-puppet returns to Iraq for a final dose of reality, if indeed he managed to escape at all in one piece past the well-placed Resistance &#8216;Strela&#8217; teams operating daily around Saddam City Airport. </p>
<p>A reliable source from Mujahideen Resistance Intelligence later stated that its 5th Column inside US-CentCom had been able to identify Ban-Ki-BOOM&#8217;s top-secret itinerary and exfiltrate the data on exact location in time to mount the targetted-strike operation, which unfortunately failed due to an unreliable US-built GPS-unit integrated in the warhead guidance system. Therefore, the Resistance have vowed to only use the superior Russian GLONASS system for his next visit, and hopes that he will return soon, once his balls have dropped.</p>
<p><b>Víve la Résistance!</b></p>
<p>- <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6479821.stm" rel="nofollow">BBC World News</a></p>
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		<title>By: BlackPope</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=2#comment-1023</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The general interest is the justification and basis for the operation of the state, with every citizen, free of all forms of discrimination, sharing in the fruits of national wealth and social development.

The United States established a collision course confrontation with Iraqi society when it liquidated the Iraqi state, destroying its accomplishments and erasing its memory. It was oblivious to the simple truth that society is not a political movement or head of state that can be conquered, apprehended, bribed or killed; rather, it is all the living people in a given country.

Like other live societies, Iraqi society possesses huge capabilities -- a sophisticated legacy based on ancient civilisations and an experienced patriotic movement. Occupation forces faced from the first day a resolute resistance, culminating in an uprising by all Iraqi movements and organisations, including those defending women or unemployed youth, human rights organisations, trade unions, professional syndicates, agencies defending Iraq&#039;s environment and the rights of prisoners, and all other cultural and political organisations, side-by-side with provincial and tribal communities and peaceful and armed resistance groups. A national popular movement, opposed to occupation and sectarianism, developed taking various forms, from civil to armed resistance.

In struggling against military-imperial powers, Iraqis fight in defence of values around which a majority in the world gathers in consensus.

In contrast, the sheer level of force to which Iraqis have been subjected by imperial powers -- from systematic murder and rape, the desecration of religious and cultural sites and the destruction of Iraq&#039;s historic heritage, the poisoning of Iraq&#039;s landscape and rivers by radioactive weapons that will mark the lives of its future generations for hundreds, if not thousands of years, the terrorising of a whole national population and its attempted division along lines leading to all out civil war, the plunder of its resources -- prove the decadence and utter immorality of the neo-liberal/neo- conservative agenda.

The struggle of Iraq is a struggle for civilisation, for culture, for justice, and for not reducing human life to mere production and consumption or the conquest of others. Indeed, the present uprising of Iraqis is not only a part of the wider struggle against savage globalisation and &quot;free&quot; capital, it is its forefront battle. It is because the Iraqis refuse to surrender their sovereignty to multinational corporations that Iraq is being destroyed so viciously.

While the occupation is a disaster for the United States, for Iraqi society it is a catastrophe. With the aid of its allies, the US has destroyed all that Iraqis built in modern times.

It should come as no surprise that Iraqis will continue struggling against the occupation in order to restore their society. The large educated and marginalised middle class, along with the impoverished working class and unemployed youth deprived of state subsidies, have no interest in collaborating with the US policy of creating a class of blood-soaked feudal warlords. Resistance is the only path for Iraqis to true liberty, democracy, peace, dignity and achieving their interests, both as individuals and as a people. The US administration has succeeded in nothing but destruction, bloodshed and lies.

The Iraqi Resistance is by definition democratic as it is the spontaneous expression of a people who took its destiny into its hands, and is by definition progressive as it defends the interests of the people.

While Western societies pose as being democratic, street action and popular consensus over the past four years has proven that Western structures of political governance are impervious to popular will. Despite its failure to solidify our trust in our ability to change history, the anti-war and anti-globalisation movement, in its various forms of expression, proves that the people understand the current divorce between their aspirations and the individuals, parties and institutions that are supposed to represent and defend them and their interests.

New ways of civil struggle must be found, and urgently. While its failure is comprehensive, this US administration shows no sign of changing course. Iraq and the world cannot wait until November 2008, by which time this US administration and its local collaborators could have killed another one million Iraqis on top of the one million killed since 2003. Rigorous action is needed, including the impeachment and prosecution of responsible state leaders and officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide.

We should support the call of Tun Dr Mahatir Mohammed to criminalise war as a means of resolving disputes among nations. We should support this call not only because war is a crime, but also because war again has been proven useless. Iraq cannot be broken and cannot be subjugated.

The defeat of the United States and the occupation should be a lesson; that never again a military force tries to subjugate the people of another country. The US did not and cannot achieve its goals, even if it exterminates whole sections of Iraqi society. To succeed in stopping this insanity, the anti- war movement must revise all its terminology and refuse the terms dictated by the occupation.

We must condemn the ignorance that accepts the dehumanising of the other. We must refuse the word &quot;insurgency&quot; and substitute it for what exists in reality: legitimate and legal resistance against a vicious foreign occupation. Occupation is a de facto condition, not a de jure determination. With around 200,000 foreign forces on Iraqi soil, Iraq cannot be but described as an occupied country. Detainees in Iraq should thus be considered prisoners of war, with all the protected rights the Third Geneva Convention assures them.

We ought all to be humbled by the losses this people has been prepared to endure for our sake and demand the complete, unconditional and immediate withdrawal of occupation forces from Iraqi soil, along with the cancellation of any law, treaty, agreement or contract passed under occupation and the fair payment of reparations and compensations for the tragic human and material loses the Iraqis have suffered in defence of civilisation.

We must refuse in total the culture of the military-imperial state if we are to contribute to the wave of resistance rising worldwide in defence of civilisation, justice, independence and coexistence.

We must retrieve recognition from any entity imposed by the United States and that claims to represent the people of Iraq. Long live the Iraqi people and its sole representative, the Iraqi Resistance.

---

* The writer is a member of the Executive Committee of The BRussells Tribunal (www.brussellstribunal.org). A version of this article was first published on Global Research (www.globalresearch.ca).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The general interest is the justification and basis for the operation of the state, with every citizen, free of all forms of discrimination, sharing in the fruits of national wealth and social development.</p>
<p>The United States established a collision course confrontation with Iraqi society when it liquidated the Iraqi state, destroying its accomplishments and erasing its memory. It was oblivious to the simple truth that society is not a political movement or head of state that can be conquered, apprehended, bribed or killed; rather, it is all the living people in a given country.</p>
<p>Like other live societies, Iraqi society possesses huge capabilities &#8212; a sophisticated legacy based on ancient civilisations and an experienced patriotic movement. Occupation forces faced from the first day a resolute resistance, culminating in an uprising by all Iraqi movements and organisations, including those defending women or unemployed youth, human rights organisations, trade unions, professional syndicates, agencies defending Iraq&#8217;s environment and the rights of prisoners, and all other cultural and political organisations, side-by-side with provincial and tribal communities and peaceful and armed resistance groups. A national popular movement, opposed to occupation and sectarianism, developed taking various forms, from civil to armed resistance.</p>
<p>In struggling against military-imperial powers, Iraqis fight in defence of values around which a majority in the world gathers in consensus.</p>
<p>In contrast, the sheer level of force to which Iraqis have been subjected by imperial powers &#8212; from systematic murder and rape, the desecration of religious and cultural sites and the destruction of Iraq&#8217;s historic heritage, the poisoning of Iraq&#8217;s landscape and rivers by radioactive weapons that will mark the lives of its future generations for hundreds, if not thousands of years, the terrorising of a whole national population and its attempted division along lines leading to all out civil war, the plunder of its resources &#8212; prove the decadence and utter immorality of the neo-liberal/neo- conservative agenda.</p>
<p>The struggle of Iraq is a struggle for civilisation, for culture, for justice, and for not reducing human life to mere production and consumption or the conquest of others. Indeed, the present uprising of Iraqis is not only a part of the wider struggle against savage globalisation and &#8220;free&#8221; capital, it is its forefront battle. It is because the Iraqis refuse to surrender their sovereignty to multinational corporations that Iraq is being destroyed so viciously.</p>
<p>While the occupation is a disaster for the United States, for Iraqi society it is a catastrophe. With the aid of its allies, the US has destroyed all that Iraqis built in modern times.</p>
<p>It should come as no surprise that Iraqis will continue struggling against the occupation in order to restore their society. The large educated and marginalised middle class, along with the impoverished working class and unemployed youth deprived of state subsidies, have no interest in collaborating with the US policy of creating a class of blood-soaked feudal warlords. Resistance is the only path for Iraqis to true liberty, democracy, peace, dignity and achieving their interests, both as individuals and as a people. The US administration has succeeded in nothing but destruction, bloodshed and lies.</p>
<p>The Iraqi Resistance is by definition democratic as it is the spontaneous expression of a people who took its destiny into its hands, and is by definition progressive as it defends the interests of the people.</p>
<p>While Western societies pose as being democratic, street action and popular consensus over the past four years has proven that Western structures of political governance are impervious to popular will. Despite its failure to solidify our trust in our ability to change history, the anti-war and anti-globalisation movement, in its various forms of expression, proves that the people understand the current divorce between their aspirations and the individuals, parties and institutions that are supposed to represent and defend them and their interests.</p>
<p>New ways of civil struggle must be found, and urgently. While its failure is comprehensive, this US administration shows no sign of changing course. Iraq and the world cannot wait until November 2008, by which time this US administration and its local collaborators could have killed another one million Iraqis on top of the one million killed since 2003. Rigorous action is needed, including the impeachment and prosecution of responsible state leaders and officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide.</p>
<p>We should support the call of Tun Dr Mahatir Mohammed to criminalise war as a means of resolving disputes among nations. We should support this call not only because war is a crime, but also because war again has been proven useless. Iraq cannot be broken and cannot be subjugated.</p>
<p>The defeat of the United States and the occupation should be a lesson; that never again a military force tries to subjugate the people of another country. The US did not and cannot achieve its goals, even if it exterminates whole sections of Iraqi society. To succeed in stopping this insanity, the anti- war movement must revise all its terminology and refuse the terms dictated by the occupation.</p>
<p>We must condemn the ignorance that accepts the dehumanising of the other. We must refuse the word &#8220;insurgency&#8221; and substitute it for what exists in reality: legitimate and legal resistance against a vicious foreign occupation. Occupation is a de facto condition, not a de jure determination. With around 200,000 foreign forces on Iraqi soil, Iraq cannot be but described as an occupied country. Detainees in Iraq should thus be considered prisoners of war, with all the protected rights the Third Geneva Convention assures them.</p>
<p>We ought all to be humbled by the losses this people has been prepared to endure for our sake and demand the complete, unconditional and immediate withdrawal of occupation forces from Iraqi soil, along with the cancellation of any law, treaty, agreement or contract passed under occupation and the fair payment of reparations and compensations for the tragic human and material loses the Iraqis have suffered in defence of civilisation.</p>
<p>We must refuse in total the culture of the military-imperial state if we are to contribute to the wave of resistance rising worldwide in defence of civilisation, justice, independence and coexistence.</p>
<p>We must retrieve recognition from any entity imposed by the United States and that claims to represent the people of Iraq. Long live the Iraqi people and its sole representative, the Iraqi Resistance.</p>
<p>&#8212;</p>
<p>* The writer is a member of the Executive Committee of The BRussells Tribunal (www.brussellstribunal.org). A version of this article was first published on Global Research (www.globalresearch.ca).</p>
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		<title>By: Bl4ckP0pe</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=2#comment-1022</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;America&#039;s original sin&lt;/b&gt;

by: Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty*
in: Al-Ahram Weekly, Egypt
on: March 22, 2007

&lt;i&gt;Four years into its illegal and barbaric war on Iraq, the United States cannot, nor will it ever, win.&lt;/i&gt;

The illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq is not only the biggest crime of recent history, it is the original sin of the 21st century, a depravity. In its war on Iraq, the United States has sought to destroy Iraq as both a state and a nation.

It decimated an entire class -- the progressive middle class of Iraq that had proven its capacity to manage Iraqi resources independently and to the benefit of all; it killed nearly a million while sending millions more into exile; it orchestrated death squads and looting and invented new horrors in torture and rape; in the name of bringing democracy, it brought material destruction on a mass scale to a people, aiming also to erase their identity, memory, culture, social fabric, institutions and forms of administration, commerce, and everyday life; it even attacked Iraq&#039;s unborn generations with the 4.7 billion-year death of depleted uranium.

It has engaged in civilisational genocide as well as its own moral suicide. Force, however, does not dictate right. The brutality of power and imperialism has been definitively exposed while the project for a new American century has utterly failed. The consequences for American and international history are conclusive. The world order that formed around erstwhile US liberal values has evaporated.

The US invasion and occupation of Iraq is a military, economic, political, moral and cultural disaster for Americans and the world.

US military failure has been demonstrated by the inability of the best funded and most sophisticated armed force in the world to defeat the resistance of a small country and its poor people, tired of 13 years of sanctions, exposing war as useless.

While the Americans may attempt to secure their presence in Iraq, they cannot destroy the belief of Iraqis that they have the right to live as any other people in the world, free and independent and sovereign in their land and over their resources.

Occupying Iraq is an economic disaster because the costs of the war for the United States have increased beyond any economic gain it could have from controlling Iraqi oil.

Politically, the occupation is a disaster for the United States because no one in the world can argue that it is playing a progressive role. The occupation is also a moral and cultural disaster for the US. Following the enormous human suffering of World War II, the world -- Americans included -- established international law and human rights law that set the standard for civilised societies.

US neo-conservatives and imperialists are trying to destroy this civilisation, refusing to be subject to international law and replacing it with the law of the jungle. How can the world -- Americans included -- be identified with such a savage enterprise as the war on and occupation of Iraq?

Arabs are not strangers to neo-imperial attempts to prevent their development. They recall the systematic demonisation of their popular movements: the attempted toppling of the democratically elected Syrian government in 1956 for being &quot;communist&quot;, the characterisation of Nasser as a &quot;fascist&quot; when he nationalised the Suez Canal, the criminalisation of the Iraqi Baath Party, referred to as &quot;Nazis&quot;, when it refused to surrender control over Iraq&#039;s resources. Even the Palestinian and Lebanese people who heroically struggle against occupation are considered &quot;terrorists&quot;. We know well what are colonial policies in general and in this region in particular. The US always pretends to defend the rights of a minority -- whether its demands are justified or not -- in order to control the majority. In Iraq, since 1991, the US appealed to Kurds and Shias to rebel, trying to insinuate that those who govern them are Sunnis. Anyone with intellectual honesty knows that the Baath Party was neither sectarian in its thinking nor in its membership.

US-Israeli plans, based on creating divisions among Arabs in one country, or between countries, have failed. In Iraq, the policy of charming some groups of the Iraqi Resistance or their supporters in order to divide them and isolate the resistance has failed completely.

Despite repeated declarations made by war criminal Jalal Talabani, resistance groups are united in their position. Second, the policy of dividing Iraqi movements into Shia, Sunni and Kurd, is disintegrating; large movements of opinion insist on the unity of Iraq and the common interest of its people. Ever more groups in the south enter the struggle against the occupation and its local puppet government.

The unity of Turkomen, Assyrians and Arabs on the fate of Kirkuk is an example of underlying unity, as is the deepening of tribal solidarity, spreading demands for a large political national front, demonstrations in the north, and ever unifying positions concerning the future of Iraq&#039;s oil wealth.

Iraq has been a socio-economic and geopolitical entity for more than 4000 years, it cannot be divided. It is the cradle of several civilisations. When united this entity has proven able to enhance human civilisation and be an engine for progress.

Where the Sumerians invented writing, the Babylonians invented law, followed by the Abbasid who introduced the idea of a state of all its citizens and of social solidarity in society, opening the path for the unifying Arab-Muslim civilisation that survives proudly to this day. The Iraqi people are the expression of this heritage, regardless of their religion or ethnicity. Never in history could two states cohabitate the area that is now Iraq. It has always been in the interest of the peoples who settled in the Iraq basin to organise together a common geopolitical future.

There have been many unsuccessful imperial attempts to divide this natural entity. No form of aggression, regardless of how criminal or vengeful, can destroy the Arab-Muslim identity of Iraq or Iraq&#039;s geopolitical unity. In its attempts to destroy this civilisation and reality, the US administration has thrown the entire idea of the so- called West into disarray. Definitively exposed are all the racist and condescending attitudes that had remained latent or covert. The &quot;West&quot; -- and the United States in particular -- stands naked as a culture of force. The moral accounting, which will develop inexorably, will change world history. It is the resistance of the Iraqi people that demands it.

Attempts to choke Arab development cannot but fail. The three main socio-economic and political currents developed by Arab societies -- nationalists, Islamists and leftists -- are intrinsically anti-imperialist and therefore opposed to US- Israeli regional designs.

For nationalists, retaining control of national resources to serve the general interest is sacrosanct. For leftists, opposing the international chains of imperialism and globalisation is a baseline. For Islamists, resistance to foreign occupation, as written in the Qur&#039;an, is a duty. Their interest lies currently in achieving unity in struggle. They are united by their Arab-Muslim identity. They share common principles and values as follows: natural resources, material heritage, and the riches of culture and civilisation are the property of the totality of the people; the totality of citizens constitutes the people; the people are the sole source of sovereignty and of constitutional, political and judicial legitimacy; government is responsible for and accountable to all citizens; solidarity between citizens -- between generations, the able and ill, the elderly and young, the orphan and every human being who finds himself in a state of weakness -- should form the basis of any government&#039;s social policy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>America&#8217;s original sin</b></p>
<p>by: Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty*<br />
in: Al-Ahram Weekly, Egypt<br />
on: March 22, 2007</p>
<p><i>Four years into its illegal and barbaric war on Iraq, the United States cannot, nor will it ever, win.</i></p>
<p>The illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq is not only the biggest crime of recent history, it is the original sin of the 21st century, a depravity. In its war on Iraq, the United States has sought to destroy Iraq as both a state and a nation.</p>
<p>It decimated an entire class &#8212; the progressive middle class of Iraq that had proven its capacity to manage Iraqi resources independently and to the benefit of all; it killed nearly a million while sending millions more into exile; it orchestrated death squads and looting and invented new horrors in torture and rape; in the name of bringing democracy, it brought material destruction on a mass scale to a people, aiming also to erase their identity, memory, culture, social fabric, institutions and forms of administration, commerce, and everyday life; it even attacked Iraq&#8217;s unborn generations with the 4.7 billion-year death of depleted uranium.</p>
<p>It has engaged in civilisational genocide as well as its own moral suicide. Force, however, does not dictate right. The brutality of power and imperialism has been definitively exposed while the project for a new American century has utterly failed. The consequences for American and international history are conclusive. The world order that formed around erstwhile US liberal values has evaporated.</p>
<p>The US invasion and occupation of Iraq is a military, economic, political, moral and cultural disaster for Americans and the world.</p>
<p>US military failure has been demonstrated by the inability of the best funded and most sophisticated armed force in the world to defeat the resistance of a small country and its poor people, tired of 13 years of sanctions, exposing war as useless.</p>
<p>While the Americans may attempt to secure their presence in Iraq, they cannot destroy the belief of Iraqis that they have the right to live as any other people in the world, free and independent and sovereign in their land and over their resources.</p>
<p>Occupying Iraq is an economic disaster because the costs of the war for the United States have increased beyond any economic gain it could have from controlling Iraqi oil.</p>
<p>Politically, the occupation is a disaster for the United States because no one in the world can argue that it is playing a progressive role. The occupation is also a moral and cultural disaster for the US. Following the enormous human suffering of World War II, the world &#8212; Americans included &#8212; established international law and human rights law that set the standard for civilised societies.</p>
<p>US neo-conservatives and imperialists are trying to destroy this civilisation, refusing to be subject to international law and replacing it with the law of the jungle. How can the world &#8212; Americans included &#8212; be identified with such a savage enterprise as the war on and occupation of Iraq?</p>
<p>Arabs are not strangers to neo-imperial attempts to prevent their development. They recall the systematic demonisation of their popular movements: the attempted toppling of the democratically elected Syrian government in 1956 for being &#8220;communist&#8221;, the characterisation of Nasser as a &#8220;fascist&#8221; when he nationalised the Suez Canal, the criminalisation of the Iraqi Baath Party, referred to as &#8220;Nazis&#8221;, when it refused to surrender control over Iraq&#8217;s resources. Even the Palestinian and Lebanese people who heroically struggle against occupation are considered &#8220;terrorists&#8221;. We know well what are colonial policies in general and in this region in particular. The US always pretends to defend the rights of a minority &#8212; whether its demands are justified or not &#8212; in order to control the majority. In Iraq, since 1991, the US appealed to Kurds and Shias to rebel, trying to insinuate that those who govern them are Sunnis. Anyone with intellectual honesty knows that the Baath Party was neither sectarian in its thinking nor in its membership.</p>
<p>US-Israeli plans, based on creating divisions among Arabs in one country, or between countries, have failed. In Iraq, the policy of charming some groups of the Iraqi Resistance or their supporters in order to divide them and isolate the resistance has failed completely.</p>
<p>Despite repeated declarations made by war criminal Jalal Talabani, resistance groups are united in their position. Second, the policy of dividing Iraqi movements into Shia, Sunni and Kurd, is disintegrating; large movements of opinion insist on the unity of Iraq and the common interest of its people. Ever more groups in the south enter the struggle against the occupation and its local puppet government.</p>
<p>The unity of Turkomen, Assyrians and Arabs on the fate of Kirkuk is an example of underlying unity, as is the deepening of tribal solidarity, spreading demands for a large political national front, demonstrations in the north, and ever unifying positions concerning the future of Iraq&#8217;s oil wealth.</p>
<p>Iraq has been a socio-economic and geopolitical entity for more than 4000 years, it cannot be divided. It is the cradle of several civilisations. When united this entity has proven able to enhance human civilisation and be an engine for progress.</p>
<p>Where the Sumerians invented writing, the Babylonians invented law, followed by the Abbasid who introduced the idea of a state of all its citizens and of social solidarity in society, opening the path for the unifying Arab-Muslim civilisation that survives proudly to this day. The Iraqi people are the expression of this heritage, regardless of their religion or ethnicity. Never in history could two states cohabitate the area that is now Iraq. It has always been in the interest of the peoples who settled in the Iraq basin to organise together a common geopolitical future.</p>
<p>There have been many unsuccessful imperial attempts to divide this natural entity. No form of aggression, regardless of how criminal or vengeful, can destroy the Arab-Muslim identity of Iraq or Iraq&#8217;s geopolitical unity. In its attempts to destroy this civilisation and reality, the US administration has thrown the entire idea of the so- called West into disarray. Definitively exposed are all the racist and condescending attitudes that had remained latent or covert. The &#8220;West&#8221; &#8212; and the United States in particular &#8212; stands naked as a culture of force. The moral accounting, which will develop inexorably, will change world history. It is the resistance of the Iraqi people that demands it.</p>
<p>Attempts to choke Arab development cannot but fail. The three main socio-economic and political currents developed by Arab societies &#8212; nationalists, Islamists and leftists &#8212; are intrinsically anti-imperialist and therefore opposed to US- Israeli regional designs.</p>
<p>For nationalists, retaining control of national resources to serve the general interest is sacrosanct. For leftists, opposing the international chains of imperialism and globalisation is a baseline. For Islamists, resistance to foreign occupation, as written in the Qur&#8217;an, is a duty. Their interest lies currently in achieving unity in struggle. They are united by their Arab-Muslim identity. They share common principles and values as follows: natural resources, material heritage, and the riches of culture and civilisation are the property of the totality of the people; the totality of citizens constitutes the people; the people are the sole source of sovereignty and of constitutional, political and judicial legitimacy; government is responsible for and accountable to all citizens; solidarity between citizens &#8212; between generations, the able and ill, the elderly and young, the orphan and every human being who finds himself in a state of weakness &#8212; should form the basis of any government&#8217;s social policy.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Kerry, if I ever needed a reason to abandon Bartcop, it has been provided in the form of his very own Dittoheads, like you.  It is amazing, and amusing, that the person who he despises the most has provided the template for his own fan club.  Dittoheads.  Ditto, just as stupidly in lockstep.  BC should be embarassed, but as we can see from the emails he posts, he loves it.  Egotistical vanity is so.......Bill O&#039;Reilly like.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And Kerry, if I ever needed a reason to abandon Bartcop, it has been provided in the form of his very own Dittoheads, like you.  It is amazing, and amusing, that the person who he despises the most has provided the template for his own fan club.  Dittoheads.  Ditto, just as stupidly in lockstep.  BC should be embarassed, but as we can see from the emails he posts, he loves it.  Egotistical vanity is so&#8230;&#8230;.Bill O&#8217;Reilly like.</p>
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		<title>By: VTindependent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerry the Cute said:

&quot;VT, I’m sure we are all waiting breathlessly to see the creative endeavors of your GENIUS mind. So won’t you please tell us where they are published…. or do you only use your computer to look at “TOONS” and to bitch and bash those whose talents you envy?&quot;

I can assure you that I do not &quot;envy&quot; your self described talents.  But, you can go to the source of all knowledge, Bartcop himself, and ask him how he likes the photograph I sent him of a lobster boat off the coast of Maine.  Do it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kerry the Cute said:</p>
<p>&#8220;VT, I’m sure we are all waiting breathlessly to see the creative endeavors of your GENIUS mind. So won’t you please tell us where they are published…. or do you only use your computer to look at “TOONS” and to bitch and bash those whose talents you envy?&#8221;</p>
<p>I can assure you that I do not &#8220;envy&#8221; your self described talents.  But, you can go to the source of all knowledge, Bartcop himself, and ask him how he likes the photograph I sent him of a lobster boat off the coast of Maine.  Do it.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m sure Bart must be tired of explaining every day to every obnoxious ranter who cannot explain why he hates Hillary and why backing her as the Democratic front runner makes sense and why Democrats should unite and stop bashing her and why it would accomplish nothing for her to admit guilt for the bushgangs lies.

I wish Bart would write it up in detail, put it on a separate page with a link to it on his WebPage for those who only &quot;look at the  &quot;cartoons&quot; and humor then bitch about your views without knowing the facts.  Then do the same thing with the &quot;troop withdrawal&quot; information so those with a lesser ability 
to think and reason for themselves may just possibly be able to understand.  

There was a point when we could have started bringing the troops home but thanks to chickenhawk dubya&#039;s fake machismo &quot;Bring &#039;em on!&quot; and &quot;Staying the Course&quot; BS we have passed the point of no return and our exhausted troops are mired in bush&#039;s quagmire with no end in site.  

Evidently no one ever explained to the idiot-in-chief that to continue hitting a hornet&#039;s nest will not calm the hornets or that you cannot put out a fire by throwing more wood on the flames!

VT, I&#039;m sure we are all waiting breathlessly to see the creative endeavors of your GENIUS mind.  So won&#039;t you please tell us where they are published.... or do you only use your computer to look at &quot;TOONS&quot; and to  bitch and bash those whose talents you envy?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure Bart must be tired of explaining every day to every obnoxious ranter who cannot explain why he hates Hillary and why backing her as the Democratic front runner makes sense and why Democrats should unite and stop bashing her and why it would accomplish nothing for her to admit guilt for the bushgangs lies.</p>
<p>I wish Bart would write it up in detail, put it on a separate page with a link to it on his WebPage for those who only &#8220;look at the  &#8220;cartoons&#8221; and humor then bitch about your views without knowing the facts.  Then do the same thing with the &#8220;troop withdrawal&#8221; information so those with a lesser ability<br />
to think and reason for themselves may just possibly be able to understand.  </p>
<p>There was a point when we could have started bringing the troops home but thanks to chickenhawk dubya&#8217;s fake machismo &#8220;Bring &#8216;em on!&#8221; and &#8220;Staying the Course&#8221; BS we have passed the point of no return and our exhausted troops are mired in bush&#8217;s quagmire with no end in site.  </p>
<p>Evidently no one ever explained to the idiot-in-chief that to continue hitting a hornet&#8217;s nest will not calm the hornets or that you cannot put out a fire by throwing more wood on the flames!</p>
<p>VT, I&#8217;m sure we are all waiting breathlessly to see the creative endeavors of your GENIUS mind.  So won&#8217;t you please tell us where they are published&#8230;. or do you only use your computer to look at &#8220;TOONS&#8221; and to  bitch and bash those whose talents you envy?</p>
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		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=1#comment-988</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[5- In the fourth year of the invasion, the Iraqi Resistance forced Bush to replace his idiotic laughs with tears and the world over saw him crying on his soldiers whose corpses are daily flown to the US in plastic bags.. Broken was his arrogance which was replaced nowadays with the defeat which filters from any word Bush says, begging some organizations and regimes he used to despise ! 

The Iraqi Resistance knocked the US and the colonialist West into shape and taught them their real place and mainly through the real fabric of the Arab nation and showed the ability of the free loving human kind to repeat the Iraqi model through a successful Resistance in general. 

Terms like, (an exit strategy from Iraq) has replaced those of (achieving victory)! Further more! The most important invasion hawks such as Dick Cheney, the US vice president which was the main motor behind Bush stubbornness, has admitted in a suffocated voice that (the US is looking for an honorable exit from Iraq). The US game in Iraq is over and with this, are over the hopes to see the present century as a US&#039; century. 

6- The US defeat in Iraq has become a well admitted reality and which needs three final steps to render the withdrawal (honorable) as said Cheney. The first step is to get an oil contract which put Iraq petrol into the US bosom for may be some 99 years and the US will get according to this contract 80 percent from the Iraqi oil revenues. This US&#039; request is decisive to make the invasion profitable to the US to compensate its losses and for this reason and with the approach of the US withdrawal the US has ordered in a accelerated way the puppet government in Baghdad to set an oil bill to give the US all the petrol of Iraq. This means one single thing that the US time in Iraq has become short, very short indeed. The second step is to achieve destroying Iraq through assassinating its symbols and its patriotic leaders quickly too.. that is why martyr leader Saddam Hussein was murdered and assassinated were both martyrs Barzan al Tikriti and Awad Bandar al Saadoon. Today preparations are set to kill the militant leader Taha Yassin Ramadhan. This series of assassination is nothing but some of the preparations to withdraw from Iraq and to prevent it from having experienced leaders from the legitimate leadership. The third step when we see the US using its dearest reserves, preciously kept until the decisive day and the most important being to unleash the most dangerous factors in amongst sectarian forces from both sides Shia and Sunna to divide the armed Resistance and make the sectarian strife the number one problem. The sectarian terminology practiced by some elements which say they belong to the Resistance is nothing but the other side of the US Iranian coin and which completes the role of Badr brigade and Mahdi army. The Resistance will triumph as long as it strengthens its patriotic character and avoid falling into the sectarian trap encouraged by both the US and Iran and some other parties. 

That is why our Party draws everyone&#039; attention in particular within the Resistance to isolate the elements with sectarian orientations and to have a spirit which overcomes sectarism and to hold on to patriotic and Islamic unity cleaned from the despised sectarism.. other wise the only beneficiary will be the occupation. 

&lt;b&gt;Our great Arab people from Mauritania to Oman!&lt;/b&gt; 
Your Mujahid Arab socialist Baath Party ascertains to you that the assassination of the Leaders of Iraq will never lead as the US expects to prevent Iraq from its best experienced leaders! Rather for any assassinated martyr hundred field&#039;s leaders will appear to lead the Jihad until the victory. Also the attempts to foment loggerhead in amongst the Mujahideens will fail for the patriotic Resistance is stronger than these exposed tactics. The coming phase will witness an unprecedented and terrifying expansion of the Jihadi operations in Iraq to wreck any Occupation attempt to deviate it from its patriotic and liberation path. As for the US attempt to steal Iraq oil before cutting and running, we say today that the Resistance will transform any petrol agreement into a mere torn worthless piece of paper and the oil will remain the property of the people of Iraq. 

What is required today while the decisive hour is approaching and the US defeat is getting clearer like the shining sun in the middle of the day.. is the unity in amongst all the Resistance factions and the utter discipline for every one of their elements and prevent any of them to indulge in a patriotically negative behavior. 

&lt;b&gt;May the fifth year of the occupation be the decisive year for victory and for expelling the Occupation! 
Long live the Iraqi armed Resistance, the path for freedom and independence! 
Long live the Iraqi patriotic Resistance with all its factions! 
Victory to the Mujahid people of Iraq! 
Glory and eternity for the master of martyrs, the Revolution starter, its designer and its leader Saddam Hussein. 
Glory and eternity for the martyrs of the Iraqi Resistance! 
Shame and dishonor to the US and to Iran! &lt;/b&gt;

The Iraqi Leadership 
Iraqi Cultural and Information Bureau 
The Arab Baath Socialist Party 
Baghdad - Martyr Saddam Capital City 
20th March 2007 


&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m31528&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Translated by Abu Assur. Al Moharer.net&lt;/a&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>5- In the fourth year of the invasion, the Iraqi Resistance forced Bush to replace his idiotic laughs with tears and the world over saw him crying on his soldiers whose corpses are daily flown to the US in plastic bags.. Broken was his arrogance which was replaced nowadays with the defeat which filters from any word Bush says, begging some organizations and regimes he used to despise ! </p>
<p>The Iraqi Resistance knocked the US and the colonialist West into shape and taught them their real place and mainly through the real fabric of the Arab nation and showed the ability of the free loving human kind to repeat the Iraqi model through a successful Resistance in general. </p>
<p>Terms like, (an exit strategy from Iraq) has replaced those of (achieving victory)! Further more! The most important invasion hawks such as Dick Cheney, the US vice president which was the main motor behind Bush stubbornness, has admitted in a suffocated voice that (the US is looking for an honorable exit from Iraq). The US game in Iraq is over and with this, are over the hopes to see the present century as a US&#8217; century. </p>
<p>6- The US defeat in Iraq has become a well admitted reality and which needs three final steps to render the withdrawal (honorable) as said Cheney. The first step is to get an oil contract which put Iraq petrol into the US bosom for may be some 99 years and the US will get according to this contract 80 percent from the Iraqi oil revenues. This US&#8217; request is decisive to make the invasion profitable to the US to compensate its losses and for this reason and with the approach of the US withdrawal the US has ordered in a accelerated way the puppet government in Baghdad to set an oil bill to give the US all the petrol of Iraq. This means one single thing that the US time in Iraq has become short, very short indeed. The second step is to achieve destroying Iraq through assassinating its symbols and its patriotic leaders quickly too.. that is why martyr leader Saddam Hussein was murdered and assassinated were both martyrs Barzan al Tikriti and Awad Bandar al Saadoon. Today preparations are set to kill the militant leader Taha Yassin Ramadhan. This series of assassination is nothing but some of the preparations to withdraw from Iraq and to prevent it from having experienced leaders from the legitimate leadership. The third step when we see the US using its dearest reserves, preciously kept until the decisive day and the most important being to unleash the most dangerous factors in amongst sectarian forces from both sides Shia and Sunna to divide the armed Resistance and make the sectarian strife the number one problem. The sectarian terminology practiced by some elements which say they belong to the Resistance is nothing but the other side of the US Iranian coin and which completes the role of Badr brigade and Mahdi army. The Resistance will triumph as long as it strengthens its patriotic character and avoid falling into the sectarian trap encouraged by both the US and Iran and some other parties. </p>
<p>That is why our Party draws everyone&#8217; attention in particular within the Resistance to isolate the elements with sectarian orientations and to have a spirit which overcomes sectarism and to hold on to patriotic and Islamic unity cleaned from the despised sectarism.. other wise the only beneficiary will be the occupation. </p>
<p><b>Our great Arab people from Mauritania to Oman!</b><br />
Your Mujahid Arab socialist Baath Party ascertains to you that the assassination of the Leaders of Iraq will never lead as the US expects to prevent Iraq from its best experienced leaders! Rather for any assassinated martyr hundred field&#8217;s leaders will appear to lead the Jihad until the victory. Also the attempts to foment loggerhead in amongst the Mujahideens will fail for the patriotic Resistance is stronger than these exposed tactics. The coming phase will witness an unprecedented and terrifying expansion of the Jihadi operations in Iraq to wreck any Occupation attempt to deviate it from its patriotic and liberation path. As for the US attempt to steal Iraq oil before cutting and running, we say today that the Resistance will transform any petrol agreement into a mere torn worthless piece of paper and the oil will remain the property of the people of Iraq. </p>
<p>What is required today while the decisive hour is approaching and the US defeat is getting clearer like the shining sun in the middle of the day.. is the unity in amongst all the Resistance factions and the utter discipline for every one of their elements and prevent any of them to indulge in a patriotically negative behavior. </p>
<p><b>May the fifth year of the occupation be the decisive year for victory and for expelling the Occupation!<br />
Long live the Iraqi armed Resistance, the path for freedom and independence!<br />
Long live the Iraqi patriotic Resistance with all its factions!<br />
Victory to the Mujahid people of Iraq!<br />
Glory and eternity for the master of martyrs, the Revolution starter, its designer and its leader Saddam Hussein.<br />
Glory and eternity for the martyrs of the Iraqi Resistance!<br />
Shame and dishonor to the US and to Iran! </b></p>
<p>The Iraqi Leadership<br />
Iraqi Cultural and Information Bureau<br />
The Arab Baath Socialist Party<br />
Baghdad &#8211; Martyr Saddam Capital City<br />
20th March 2007 </p>
<p><a href="http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m31528&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e" rel="nofollow">Translated by Abu Assur. Al Moharer.net</a></p>
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		<title>By: BlackPope</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=1#comment-987</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3- The Zionist Neo Cons&#039; plan, was to colonize and transform Iraq into a basis to an absolute and direct control over the petrol and the countries of the region, and move from Iraq and through the main strength of Iraq, to impose a new world colonialist order blackmailing every single nation in the world through using the petrol. This blackmail can&#039;t be opposed for to resist against such a black mail will lead to the halt of every modern life phenomenon and to the destruction of the countries&#039; economies.. thus achieving the old and most beloved dream to the hearts of the Anglo-Saxon elite : making out of the present century, a US century.. But the Iraqi national Resistance with all its factions has destroyed the basis of this project which was to occupy Iraq successfully, rendering absolutely impossible to achieve the second plan i.e. to be fully in control of all the regional petrol countries and the third plan being to colonize the world. 

The Iraqis in this very sense have achieved a formidable global strategic coup d&#039;état against the US colonialism - preventing it from holding successfully to Iraq, i.e. forcing it to a halt and preventing it from achieving any progress, then confronting it through combat and finally make out of it, a daily target which endures killer blows, in order to bleed the US economy and its human resources and destroy its reputation of the black mail and assert to the whole wide world that the US is (a paper tiger) with all the very meaning of this saying.. Failed Nikita Khrushchev, the former USSR Premier when it uttered that..when applying it to a nuclear super power. Mao Tse Dong the historic China leader mocked the Soviet leader at that time saying.: ( It is a tiger paper indeed but with nuclear fangs) !Only the Iraq of the Resistance and the Baath has ascertained that the US is a paper tiger when Iraq succeeded into uprooting the US nuclear fangs and made of the US a mangy itchy errant dog looking for a place to hide fleeing the blows and the wrath of the lions of Iraq! 

Following the defeat of the US, the world over freed itself from the blackmail of the US force, challenging the US. as it happened in South America known as the (US back yard). Furthermore the armed Resistance against the US-European Occupation in Afghanistan has evolved fast affected by and imitating the Iraqi revolution and learning from the Iraqis developed combating means and styles which were a creative and unique mix on how to use a guerrilla war and the styles of a regular army which changed into a guerrilla....This army is army of Iraq! The army of one million soldiers, the armly of the experienced one million combatants.. and the world over saw for the first time ever in its history a guerrilla war relying mainly on a regular and formidable developed army.. Thus the US and the NATO alliance realized that they were trapped into a killer quagmire they won&#039;t be able to quit except to the grave of the fatal defeat. 

The Iraqi Resistance has severed the claws of the West&#039; colonialist savages&#039; and mainly those of the beastly US when they realized that the colonialist era will not rise from its grave after the Soviet Union death except for a glimpse of time because the popular forces combating for freedom, specially in Iraq and Palestine, enjoys a Resistance&#039; and a sacrifices&#039; will far greater than that of the Soviet Union&#039;. That is why and for this very reason they succeeded into bringing colonialism to its grave while still alive and kicking! 

Today while we enter the fifth year of the Occupation, the world over has become convinced that the armed Iraqi Resistance has been the only super power which dwarfed the US hegemony and has dragged the US filthy nose into the mire of the bitter defeat.. bringing to a halt the rampaging US buffalo&#039;s global and regional ambitions.. and forcing it to delay or to cancel its expansionist projects and completely re consider its global strategy! The most striking proof of the US strategic defeat is when it frankly admitted that the US military strategy relied upon for decades and based on undergoing two wars at the same time in two different countries or regions, has been wrecked by the Iraqi Resistance, for the US failed in one single war which is the Iraq war! 

4- The US Zionists have widely spread a false opinion that the Arab nation is the nation of the defeats, underdevelopment, cowardice, egoism and scattering that is why its destiny is to disappear or to be enslaved to the West and to Zionism.. and to Iran..these days..But the Iraqi Resistance has wrecked this theory and proofed to the world over that the Arab is not only more courageous than the Colonialism and the Zionism armies but he is even smarter and more genius and has deeper humanity and farther vision than any Western and Zionism models..Sometime this truth was shaken and has replaced in others the well know model of the Arab in the world and drew a new picture for the Arab known for his rare courage and wisdom and his wish to lead the way. 

The greatest and the outstanding incarnation of the mythical and heroic Arab is the image of Saddam Hussein as a combatant who started and led the Resistance, and as an intrepid detainee who put fear into his jailers&#039; hearts and made the world mock the US.. and as a martyr mounting the execution stage smiling and praying God and cursing the US and Iran. This picture has attracted the admiration of the world.. shook and changed the given ideas and prejudices of millions of people who knew martyr Saddam through a western Media which wanted to demonize him though lies but when the decisive moments arrived, every body discovered that Saddam Hussein refused to make any compromise with the US while he was threatened with death and refused every backing off over principles and Iraq and the Arab nation interests. The Baath has drawn again the image of the Arab in the world as it is in reality and this an outstanding formidable achievement. 

On the fifth year of the occupation, the Arab will not be seen by the world with his ogal and keffiah, his fat protuberant potbelly and through the fleet of his concubines&#039; cars as drawn by the Zionist west, but the Arab has become Saddam Hussein with his nobility, heroism, purity, wisdom, a symbol and a good example to follow, smiling, while the jailer- torturer puts the death rope around his neck.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>3- The Zionist Neo Cons&#8217; plan, was to colonize and transform Iraq into a basis to an absolute and direct control over the petrol and the countries of the region, and move from Iraq and through the main strength of Iraq, to impose a new world colonialist order blackmailing every single nation in the world through using the petrol. This blackmail can&#8217;t be opposed for to resist against such a black mail will lead to the halt of every modern life phenomenon and to the destruction of the countries&#8217; economies.. thus achieving the old and most beloved dream to the hearts of the Anglo-Saxon elite : making out of the present century, a US century.. But the Iraqi national Resistance with all its factions has destroyed the basis of this project which was to occupy Iraq successfully, rendering absolutely impossible to achieve the second plan i.e. to be fully in control of all the regional petrol countries and the third plan being to colonize the world. </p>
<p>The Iraqis in this very sense have achieved a formidable global strategic coup d&#8217;état against the US colonialism &#8211; preventing it from holding successfully to Iraq, i.e. forcing it to a halt and preventing it from achieving any progress, then confronting it through combat and finally make out of it, a daily target which endures killer blows, in order to bleed the US economy and its human resources and destroy its reputation of the black mail and assert to the whole wide world that the US is (a paper tiger) with all the very meaning of this saying.. Failed Nikita Khrushchev, the former USSR Premier when it uttered that..when applying it to a nuclear super power. Mao Tse Dong the historic China leader mocked the Soviet leader at that time saying.: ( It is a tiger paper indeed but with nuclear fangs) !Only the Iraq of the Resistance and the Baath has ascertained that the US is a paper tiger when Iraq succeeded into uprooting the US nuclear fangs and made of the US a mangy itchy errant dog looking for a place to hide fleeing the blows and the wrath of the lions of Iraq! </p>
<p>Following the defeat of the US, the world over freed itself from the blackmail of the US force, challenging the US. as it happened in South America known as the (US back yard). Furthermore the armed Resistance against the US-European Occupation in Afghanistan has evolved fast affected by and imitating the Iraqi revolution and learning from the Iraqis developed combating means and styles which were a creative and unique mix on how to use a guerrilla war and the styles of a regular army which changed into a guerrilla&#8230;.This army is army of Iraq! The army of one million soldiers, the armly of the experienced one million combatants.. and the world over saw for the first time ever in its history a guerrilla war relying mainly on a regular and formidable developed army.. Thus the US and the NATO alliance realized that they were trapped into a killer quagmire they won&#8217;t be able to quit except to the grave of the fatal defeat. </p>
<p>The Iraqi Resistance has severed the claws of the West&#8217; colonialist savages&#8217; and mainly those of the beastly US when they realized that the colonialist era will not rise from its grave after the Soviet Union death except for a glimpse of time because the popular forces combating for freedom, specially in Iraq and Palestine, enjoys a Resistance&#8217; and a sacrifices&#8217; will far greater than that of the Soviet Union&#8217;. That is why and for this very reason they succeeded into bringing colonialism to its grave while still alive and kicking! </p>
<p>Today while we enter the fifth year of the Occupation, the world over has become convinced that the armed Iraqi Resistance has been the only super power which dwarfed the US hegemony and has dragged the US filthy nose into the mire of the bitter defeat.. bringing to a halt the rampaging US buffalo&#8217;s global and regional ambitions.. and forcing it to delay or to cancel its expansionist projects and completely re consider its global strategy! The most striking proof of the US strategic defeat is when it frankly admitted that the US military strategy relied upon for decades and based on undergoing two wars at the same time in two different countries or regions, has been wrecked by the Iraqi Resistance, for the US failed in one single war which is the Iraq war! </p>
<p>4- The US Zionists have widely spread a false opinion that the Arab nation is the nation of the defeats, underdevelopment, cowardice, egoism and scattering that is why its destiny is to disappear or to be enslaved to the West and to Zionism.. and to Iran..these days..But the Iraqi Resistance has wrecked this theory and proofed to the world over that the Arab is not only more courageous than the Colonialism and the Zionism armies but he is even smarter and more genius and has deeper humanity and farther vision than any Western and Zionism models..Sometime this truth was shaken and has replaced in others the well know model of the Arab in the world and drew a new picture for the Arab known for his rare courage and wisdom and his wish to lead the way. </p>
<p>The greatest and the outstanding incarnation of the mythical and heroic Arab is the image of Saddam Hussein as a combatant who started and led the Resistance, and as an intrepid detainee who put fear into his jailers&#8217; hearts and made the world mock the US.. and as a martyr mounting the execution stage smiling and praying God and cursing the US and Iran. This picture has attracted the admiration of the world.. shook and changed the given ideas and prejudices of millions of people who knew martyr Saddam through a western Media which wanted to demonize him though lies but when the decisive moments arrived, every body discovered that Saddam Hussein refused to make any compromise with the US while he was threatened with death and refused every backing off over principles and Iraq and the Arab nation interests. The Baath has drawn again the image of the Arab in the world as it is in reality and this an outstanding formidable achievement. </p>
<p>On the fifth year of the occupation, the Arab will not be seen by the world with his ogal and keffiah, his fat protuberant potbelly and through the fleet of his concubines&#8217; cars as drawn by the Zionist west, but the Arab has become Saddam Hussein with his nobility, heroism, purity, wisdom, a symbol and a good example to follow, smiling, while the jailer- torturer puts the death rope around his neck.</p>
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		<title>By: Bl4ckP0pe</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=1#comment-981</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;The Arab Baath Socialist Party Statement - 20.03.2007&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;The fifth year of the Occupation is the year
 of the decisive victory of Iraqi Resistance!&lt;/strong&gt;
 

&lt;i&gt;In the name of God the Most Beneficent the Most Merciful 

The Arab Baath Socialist Party 
One Arab Nation, with an eternal mission 
Unity, Freedom, Socialism &lt;/i&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Heroic Iraqi masses!&lt;/b&gt;
The Baath made no mistake when summing up the US Occupation fate, before it happened, on the mouth of the master of modern times&#039; martyrs the leader Saddam Hussein when he said that today&#039;s Mongols will commit suicide on Baghdad ramparts&#039; gates warning the US from undertaking any idiotic step to invade Iraq.. Here are today&#039;s Mongols, incarnated by both occupations US and Iranian of Iraq, getting killed and slaughtered at the ramparts&#039; gates of Baghdad.. in Mahmudya and Youssifya to the South.. in Abu Ghraib and Falluja to the West.. In Diyala to the East..In Balad, Dur, and Samarra to the North.. These are the strategic gates and the principal entries to Baghdad.. With US and Iranian enemies committing suicide thanks to the intrepid Iraqi Resistance weapons, Baghdad the pearl of the Resistance and martyr Saddam&#039; Capital City, remained liberated in most of its neighborhoods and districts except some tiny little pockets including the Green Zone.. The fact that Baghdad remains liberated and combating heroically the Occupation and defeating every (security) plans and every Safawides attacks, is nothing but the greatest symbol for all Iraq to resist and to defeat the occupation, every single one of its big projects into mere utopia and recording through its armed Resistance gun, the greatest Resistance epic in Iraq, in the Arab nation and in the human histroy. 

On the land of Iraq, wrecked were the US, Zionism and Safawide Iran dreams to establish a regional colonialist system as a basis for a new colonialist world order. 

While we enter the fifth year of the invasion, the Baath findings before the invasion and the Baath&#039; and the Resistance&#039;s directly after the invasion.. So what are these findings? 

1- The Baath has ascertained that the US occupation and whatever overwhelming material force it possess, will be fatally and absolutely defeated in Iraq. Yes indeed! For the people of Iraq has prepared itself in an excellent manner by the Baath and its patriotic government for a guerrilla war for more than ten years before the invasion and has provided all the necessary means to endure a cruel and long liberation war without relying on any external help.. Also the Patriotic, the national and the Islamic cultural edifice, built by the Baath for 35 years of government, has prepared the people of Iraq to support and nurture the Resistance and give whatever price or sacrifices to see her triumphing. 

Thus the Resistance found herself living in a favorable, supportive and friendly environment where she can breath, providing her with every kind of progress and triumph means.. The inexhaustible flow of the volunteering combatants, the financial, intelligence and political support for the Resistance from every Iraqi has been and will always be the reason of the Resistance victory upon the most ferocious colonialist force in ancient, modern and contemporary history.. 

The Iraqi armed revolution has confirmed what the Baath has already established before the invasion that the victory at the end of the war and the conflict will be for the high moral and never for the tanks and the war jets.. Indeed! The freedom and independence will which the Iraqis carry in their hearts has and always will be the decisive factor and not the power of blackmail through technology, military,and material supremacy. 

2- The Baath has ascertained and in particular by the mouth of the master of martyrs, the beloved leader Saddam Hussein, that the belonging plurality of the people of Iraq (Arabs, Kurds, Turcomens, Muslims, Christians, Sunnis and Shias.. etc) is a source of strength and creativity and not a source of weakness as the enemies imagined. That is why the US colonialism and its colonialist Iranian ally and despite all they did such as destruction and mass murders against the people of Iraq under whatever cover and sectarian names to foment sectarian strife through exploiting the Iraqi pluralism, all these attempts have scandalously failed, and will fatally fail in the future. The disasters and the catastrophes inflicted to Iraq were enough to tear down Iraq, if it was possible to harm and to tear down its social fabric; for the people of Iraq in all its components has endured mass murders based on sectarian identities, and millions of Iraqi have been displaced in an attempt to tear down the social fabric of Iraq! But this fabric remained strong and become even stronger than before, when some discovered and others were convinced that the attempts to divide Iraq in the name of federation and allotment and wealth sharing is nothing but a US Iranian plot, whose objective is to wipe Iraq out from the map and eradicate its national identity.. this pushed all Iraqis to stand with the unity of Iraq.. The plot failed.. 

Today while we enter the fifth year of the invasion, we see the Armed Iraqi Resistance striking in the south as it does in the center and the north.. This is nothing but an added proof that the Resistance against the US - Iranian occupation is a common denominator in amongst all Iraqis.. in spite that the militants of the south and mainly the Baathists are exposed to ferocious corporal liquidation leading to the murder of hundreds weekly, on the hands of the Safawides who hate Arabity.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>The Arab Baath Socialist Party Statement &#8211; 20.03.2007</b></p>
<p><strong>The fifth year of the Occupation is the year<br />
 of the decisive victory of Iraqi Resistance!</strong></p>
<p><i>In the name of God the Most Beneficent the Most Merciful </p>
<p>The Arab Baath Socialist Party<br />
One Arab Nation, with an eternal mission<br />
Unity, Freedom, Socialism </i></p>
<p><b>Heroic Iraqi masses!</b><br />
The Baath made no mistake when summing up the US Occupation fate, before it happened, on the mouth of the master of modern times&#8217; martyrs the leader Saddam Hussein when he said that today&#8217;s Mongols will commit suicide on Baghdad ramparts&#8217; gates warning the US from undertaking any idiotic step to invade Iraq.. Here are today&#8217;s Mongols, incarnated by both occupations US and Iranian of Iraq, getting killed and slaughtered at the ramparts&#8217; gates of Baghdad.. in Mahmudya and Youssifya to the South.. in Abu Ghraib and Falluja to the West.. In Diyala to the East..In Balad, Dur, and Samarra to the North.. These are the strategic gates and the principal entries to Baghdad.. With US and Iranian enemies committing suicide thanks to the intrepid Iraqi Resistance weapons, Baghdad the pearl of the Resistance and martyr Saddam&#8217; Capital City, remained liberated in most of its neighborhoods and districts except some tiny little pockets including the Green Zone.. The fact that Baghdad remains liberated and combating heroically the Occupation and defeating every (security) plans and every Safawides attacks, is nothing but the greatest symbol for all Iraq to resist and to defeat the occupation, every single one of its big projects into mere utopia and recording through its armed Resistance gun, the greatest Resistance epic in Iraq, in the Arab nation and in the human histroy. </p>
<p>On the land of Iraq, wrecked were the US, Zionism and Safawide Iran dreams to establish a regional colonialist system as a basis for a new colonialist world order. </p>
<p>While we enter the fifth year of the invasion, the Baath findings before the invasion and the Baath&#8217; and the Resistance&#8217;s directly after the invasion.. So what are these findings? </p>
<p>1- The Baath has ascertained that the US occupation and whatever overwhelming material force it possess, will be fatally and absolutely defeated in Iraq. Yes indeed! For the people of Iraq has prepared itself in an excellent manner by the Baath and its patriotic government for a guerrilla war for more than ten years before the invasion and has provided all the necessary means to endure a cruel and long liberation war without relying on any external help.. Also the Patriotic, the national and the Islamic cultural edifice, built by the Baath for 35 years of government, has prepared the people of Iraq to support and nurture the Resistance and give whatever price or sacrifices to see her triumphing. </p>
<p>Thus the Resistance found herself living in a favorable, supportive and friendly environment where she can breath, providing her with every kind of progress and triumph means.. The inexhaustible flow of the volunteering combatants, the financial, intelligence and political support for the Resistance from every Iraqi has been and will always be the reason of the Resistance victory upon the most ferocious colonialist force in ancient, modern and contemporary history.. </p>
<p>The Iraqi armed revolution has confirmed what the Baath has already established before the invasion that the victory at the end of the war and the conflict will be for the high moral and never for the tanks and the war jets.. Indeed! The freedom and independence will which the Iraqis carry in their hearts has and always will be the decisive factor and not the power of blackmail through technology, military,and material supremacy. </p>
<p>2- The Baath has ascertained and in particular by the mouth of the master of martyrs, the beloved leader Saddam Hussein, that the belonging plurality of the people of Iraq (Arabs, Kurds, Turcomens, Muslims, Christians, Sunnis and Shias.. etc) is a source of strength and creativity and not a source of weakness as the enemies imagined. That is why the US colonialism and its colonialist Iranian ally and despite all they did such as destruction and mass murders against the people of Iraq under whatever cover and sectarian names to foment sectarian strife through exploiting the Iraqi pluralism, all these attempts have scandalously failed, and will fatally fail in the future. The disasters and the catastrophes inflicted to Iraq were enough to tear down Iraq, if it was possible to harm and to tear down its social fabric; for the people of Iraq in all its components has endured mass murders based on sectarian identities, and millions of Iraqi have been displaced in an attempt to tear down the social fabric of Iraq! But this fabric remained strong and become even stronger than before, when some discovered and others were convinced that the attempts to divide Iraq in the name of federation and allotment and wealth sharing is nothing but a US Iranian plot, whose objective is to wipe Iraq out from the map and eradicate its national identity.. this pushed all Iraqis to stand with the unity of Iraq.. The plot failed.. </p>
<p>Today while we enter the fifth year of the invasion, we see the Armed Iraqi Resistance striking in the south as it does in the center and the north.. This is nothing but an added proof that the Resistance against the US &#8211; Iranian occupation is a common denominator in amongst all Iraqis.. in spite that the militants of the south and mainly the Baathists are exposed to ferocious corporal liquidation leading to the murder of hundreds weekly, on the hands of the Safawides who hate Arabity.</p>
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		<title>By: VTindependent</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=1#comment-872</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[VTindependent]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerry said:

&quot;Being only a “56″ myself, Bart is my HERO!&quot;

I believe you.

&quot;Now if you folks are though ranting and playing word cutesy we might be able to discuss the subject matter of this thread with a modicum of civility and intelligence.&quot;

Hey DumbAss, you were the one who started the shit.  You sound like the rethugs after they got their asses kicked--oh can we be non-partisan now?  Hypocrite.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kerry said:</p>
<p>&#8220;Being only a “56″ myself, Bart is my HERO!&#8221;</p>
<p>I believe you.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now if you folks are though ranting and playing word cutesy we might be able to discuss the subject matter of this thread with a modicum of civility and intelligence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hey DumbAss, you were the one who started the shit.  You sound like the rethugs after they got their asses kicked&#8211;oh can we be non-partisan now?  Hypocrite.</p>
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		<title>By: VTindependent</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=1#comment-871</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[VTindependent]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerry:

I think I do recall seeing one of your cartoons.

It sucked.  Probably you can only give them away.

No, really, you call that &quot;Mayan Purification Rituals&quot; a cartoon?  It&#039;s a collage, a composite.  Not a cartoon.  You might be a cartoon though.

Actually, its OK.  Just not a cartoon.  But you, you&#039;re the real deal.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kerry:</p>
<p>I think I do recall seeing one of your cartoons.</p>
<p>It sucked.  Probably you can only give them away.</p>
<p>No, really, you call that &#8220;Mayan Purification Rituals&#8221; a cartoon?  It&#8217;s a collage, a composite.  Not a cartoon.  You might be a cartoon though.</p>
<p>Actually, its OK.  Just not a cartoon.  But you, you&#8217;re the real deal.</p>
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		<title>By: jje</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=1#comment-870</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jje]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee! I go away a few day and lookit!. Hokey smoke, it&#039;s halfway up the walls!
:-)

Ok, not to fan the flames but...
this little thingie right above the comment field that begins
&lt;blockquote&gt;You can use these tags: &lt;/blockquote&gt;
has been wrong since bartblog day one. I ran across it within the first six posts in this blog. Wrote a letter to TPTB - never got a reply or nothing (unusual)
Now I will agree oh NubianHeterophant, it sure do &quot;look&quot; like you are being censored when it happens - but you isn&#039;t!
It&#039;s just the HTML that&#039;s totally FUBARed.
Plus a wee bit of Wordpress weirdness.
Format your next post on a WYSIWYG editor and see if&#039;n it don&#039;t turn out a whole lot better.

jje]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gee! I go away a few day and lookit!. Hokey smoke, it&#8217;s halfway up the walls!<br />
 <img src="https://bartblog.bartcop.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>Ok, not to fan the flames but&#8230;<br />
this little thingie right above the comment field that begins</p>
<blockquote><p>You can use these tags: </p></blockquote>
<p>has been wrong since bartblog day one. I ran across it within the first six posts in this blog. Wrote a letter to TPTB &#8211; never got a reply or nothing (unusual)<br />
Now I will agree oh NubianHeterophant, it sure do &#8220;look&#8221; like you are being censored when it happens &#8211; but you isn&#8217;t!<br />
It&#8217;s just the HTML that&#8217;s totally FUBARed.<br />
Plus a wee bit of WordPress weirdness.<br />
Format your next post on a WYSIWYG editor and see if&#8217;n it don&#8217;t turn out a whole lot better.</p>
<p>jje</p>
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		<title>By: FunBot</title>
		<link>https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=130&#038;cpage=1#comment-868</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[FunBot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howdy BlurtCrap, - OK, folks, I&#039;ve finally cracked this jesuit&#039;s little censorship tricks, after extensive probes and experimentation: 

1. it looks like BlurtCrap &#039;accidentally on purpose&#039; misinforms his trusting readers that QUOTE You can use these tags: etc ENDQUOTE to post a link.

2. that is &lt;b&gt;FALSE INFO&lt;/b&gt;, any link tagged in that format results in the whole post being rejected, or the link being editted out.

3. example:- in the last two posts above, the sole difference was that BlackPope used the EXACT format suggested for links by BlurtCrap, the jesuit, wheras FunBot used the HONEST html standard.

4. the correct format for a HTML link tag is ... impossible to post here ... but just google &quot;common HTML tags&quot; and you will quickly see the difference, and recognise the deep dishonesty of you venerated censor, BushCock.

5. Q.E.D. - censors do not enjoy having their methods exposed and circumvented, so I expect this will all be chopped very soon.

Sincerely etc, Bl4ckP0pe]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Howdy BlurtCrap, &#8211; OK, folks, I&#8217;ve finally cracked this jesuit&#8217;s little censorship tricks, after extensive probes and experimentation: </p>
<p>1. it looks like BlurtCrap &#8216;accidentally on purpose&#8217; misinforms his trusting readers that QUOTE You can use these tags: etc ENDQUOTE to post a link.</p>
<p>2. that is <b>FALSE INFO</b>, any link tagged in that format results in the whole post being rejected, or the link being editted out.</p>
<p>3. example:- in the last two posts above, the sole difference was that BlackPope used the EXACT format suggested for links by BlurtCrap, the jesuit, wheras FunBot used the HONEST html standard.</p>
<p>4. the correct format for a HTML link tag is &#8230; impossible to post here &#8230; but just google &#8220;common HTML tags&#8221; and you will quickly see the difference, and recognise the deep dishonesty of you venerated censor, BushCock.</p>
<p>5. Q.E.D. &#8211; censors do not enjoy having their methods exposed and circumvented, so I expect this will all be chopped very soon.</p>
<p>Sincerely etc, Bl4ckP0pe</p>
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