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hj

How sprawl killed Brisbane: A report from inside the flood
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-13-how-sprawl-killed-brisbane-a-report-from-inside-the-flood
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January 18, 2011 6:12pm
bereal

Oh ho ho ho

what would be the biggest yolk of all

The puke philu sprouts, or, when some effing moron such as hj regurgatases it ?

this is getting from the sublime to the effing pitifull.

Thanks hj, you have excelled even yourself.

hj, what are you trying to say ?
Have one more go
try to make some sence.
TRY
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January 18, 2011 6:18pm
AlphaKiwi

@nickb I tried that as well. It’s still not working. Obviously I’m doing something wrong still.
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January 18, 2011 6:21pm
nickb

Someone round here knows it well… Ryan I think. hopefully he pops up
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January 18, 2011 6:31pm
bereal

i cant help myself
Would that be the best joke of all time ?
What could top it ?
hj quoting Dalrymple ?
.Who can find a better joke ?
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January 18, 2011 6:38pm
adze

Thanks for the RIP suggestion. After some tinkering I managed to get it to work. Handy resource. 🙂
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January 18, 2011 7:18pm
transmogrifier

It’s a shame to see philu back, I have to say. Comments section is much, much better without him.
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January 18, 2011 7:29pm
AlphaKiwi

@adze
//li[cite[a[contains(.,’ABC’)]]] Is this right for a username with a link in it? That’s the structure I’ve been using.
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January 18, 2011 7:45pm
Steve

Many posters asking about the RIP. Why bother? The stupid prick only responds to those who bite. It is your own fault that he continues to post. RIP is just like the fucking socialists do, ban ban ban.
Just ignore the prick and do not comment on him.
btw, eat shit phool
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January 18, 2011 7:49pm
nickb

Thanks for the RIP suggestion. After some tinkering I managed to get it to work. Handy resource.

Especially for those days where it seems like 99% of kiwiblog commentators give the other 1% a bad name 🙂
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January 18, 2011 7:54pm
Put it away

Something wrong with you steve if you think choosing not to read something is “banning” it. No one’s preventing anyone else from reading the clown if they wish.
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January 18, 2011 7:57pm
Steve

I am saying that if you do not need to ‘RIP’ a poster, just ignore.
I’m not a clown
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January 18, 2011 8:07pm
Steve

“How many gins before you start feeling dizzy?”
3 and don’t call me dizzy
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January 18, 2011 8:08pm
bhudson

Three and then you start feeling dizzy?!?! Surely you’re joking.
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January 18, 2011 8:24pm
reid

New topic:

Jewish Oxford Professor, also Israeli citizen, slams neocon thugs.

Gee maybe he’s a Progressive and that explains everything, doesn’t it.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chilcot-to-grill-blair-on-how-he-misled-iraq-war-inquiry-2185725.html
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January 18, 2011 8:29pm
reid

And for those interested in quantum stuff, how about a little quantum biology?

(Sorry, I just didn’t see the point in spending most comments discussing a commenter who’s just returned from a long hiatus. Was there a point? Must have missed it.)
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January 18, 2011 8:37pm
Manolo

Gin??? That’s an abominable spirit. 🙂
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January 18, 2011 8:39pm
Pete George

That’s potentially very embarrassing for Blair, not just for misleading the inquiry but if found to have done that also misleading the country into war. But not a big surprise.
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January 18, 2011 8:47pm
reid

But not a big surprise.

No not a big surprise at all Pete. Another unsurprising thing is that all the useful idiots both here and all over the world who were munting on about how Iraq DEFINITELY had WMD back then and DEFINITELY supported Al-Qaida, will either continue their cognitive dissonance and continue to allege such or just not say anything at all.

Meanwhile the human beings in Iraq continue their suffering and breed more terrorists every day as a direct result of the west’s intervention.

Luckily they’re just a bunch of fucking ragheads so some don’t care indeed seem to think the ragheads deserve it and continue to, which is strange, since some of those also decry the holocaust, which was bred from their self-same uncaring disinterested attitude, not that they’d admit that, cause of the cognitive dissonance you see…

Aren’t useful idiots wonderful to have if you’re a warmongering evil motherfucker like some politicians we’ve recently been exposed to in the last several decades?
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January 18, 2011 8:55pm
Put it away

Who cares if they had WMD. They definitely had Saddam Hussein.
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January 18, 2011 8:59pm
reid

They definitely had Saddam Hussein.

So why didn’t years ago they do the same thing to Zimbabwe, or is Mugabe less ruthless than Saddam? And the list of other similar discrepancies – ruthless dictators they refuse to depose – is long – why look at Burma, is very very long. Why was it only Iraq they PAINTED as viable for invasion?
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January 18, 2011 9:08pm
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reid there are 192 or so countries in the world, at least 100 of which could be vastly improved by regime change. You think the US has the resources to deal with all of them? If they had invaded Zimbabwe not Iraq you would be making the same complaint with the names reversed.
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January 18, 2011 9:13pm
reid

I ask again, PIA. Why was it ONLY IRAQ they PAINTED as being viable for invasion. Why Iraq? Why? Out of all the execrable dictatorships in the world, why Iraq and only Iraq? (Oh, and Israel’s public enemy No#1, Iran, as well, of course.) Silly me. Mustn’t forget about Iran, must we.

If they had invaded Zimbabwe not Iraq you would be making the same complaint with the names reversed.

No I wouldn’t PIA and to allege that I would demonstrates fundamental misunderstanding of my position on Iraq which hasn’t “evolved” BTW, it’s been the same since before the invasion.

Iraq was done over because (a) she is a threat to Israel and Israel held utter and absolute sway in that WH and (b) side-benefit, she has heaps and heaps of stuff that buys votes, once the donations come in.
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January 18, 2011 9:17pm
Redbaiter

Oh there’s far left reid doing far left propaganda again. If you read something beside those worthless far left sites you love so much, you’d know the answer. Ranting on like a damn idiot. Why don’t you just take your worthless crap to the Standard.
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January 18, 2011 9:22pm
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reid are you familiar with the concept of diplomacy? “We should invade country X” is not something that a government bandies around in idle conversation. And yes Iran would be the logical next step, well done. First sensible thing you’ve said in years.
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January 18, 2011 9:24pm
reid

Why don’t you just take your worthless crap to the Standard.

I thought you had your own blog, RB. Why don’t you reply to me, over there?

BTW, what was your point? I couldn’t see one, you see.

reid are you familiar with the concept of diplomacy?

Yep. What’s that got to with my point? Diplomacy is a vehicle PIA just like the military is. I’m asking, in case you missed it, why was Iraq chosen out of the panapoly of execrable regimes. Why just Iraq? Why? I’m not asking, what role diplomacy played, for that’s irrelevent.
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January 18, 2011 9:25pm
Pete George

Ranting on like a damn idiot.

If Mr. Farrar wanted to clean the site up he could start by demeriting those who do little else but post spiteful attacks upon other posters.
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January 18, 2011 9:25pm
MyNameIsJack

Redbaiter (12,811) Says:

January 18th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Oh there’s far left reid doing far left propaganda again. If you read something beside those worthless far left sites you love so much, you’d know the answer. Ranting on like a damn idiot. Why don’t you just take your worthless crap to the Standard

Probably for the same reason you can’t keep your useless crap away from here – hubris.

Got a job yet, reddy, or still sponging off the state?
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January 18, 2011 9:28pm
Put it away

“No I wouldn’t PIA and to allege that I would demonstrates fundamental misunderstanding of my position on Iraq which hasn’t “evolved” BTW, it’s been the same since before the invasion.”

Bullshit, you’re a leftie who automatically hates whatever the US is doing. If they were invading Zimbabwe you’d find an excuse to disagree with it. If they were invading Burma you would be shrieking that it’s Vietnam all over again.
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January 18, 2011 9:29pm
big bruv

reid

Why do you Yankee haters never mention the great work that Clinton and the USA did in ending the Balkans slaughter?

Had it not been for the Yanks telling the fucking hopeless UN to piss off that would probably still be going on.

I guess it does not suit you to remember the good things the Yanks do.
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January 18, 2011 9:29pm
Redbaiter

Oh go away you pathetic whining idiot George, as if you would ever have the ability to comprehend the true meaning of anything ever said here. Fucking total waste of time.
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January 18, 2011 9:30pm
thedavincimode

3:29 pm

“If Mr. Farrar wanted to clean the site up he could start by demeriting those who do little else but post spiteful attacks upon other posters.”

9:22 pm

“Ranting on like a damn idiot. Why don’t you just take your worthless crap to the Standard”

9:30 pm

“Oh go away you pathetic whining idiot, as if you would ever have the ability to comprehend the true meaning of anything ever said here. Fucking total waste of time.”

Chortle. The herpes of the interweb – the gift that keeps on giving.
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January 18, 2011 9:30pm
Pete George

PIA – so you love everything the US does? Great leadership , trying some swanky bank bailouts and sorting out their healthcare nicely?
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January 18, 2011 9:31pm
Put it away

What are you talking about Pete? How the fuck do you assume carte blanche support for their internal policies from the fact that they’ve picked a couple of deserving places to invade? What’s wrong with your brain? Can you try to make some attempt to make logic flow from A to B without diverting to Z ?
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January 18, 2011 9:35pm
Redbaiter

“Chortle. The herpes of the interweb – the gift that keeps on giving.”

Oh heck, just what the party needed, another smug drooling homosexual fruitcake.
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January 18, 2011 9:35pm
Redbaiter

Reid has been ranting on like a damn idiot. There is not one thing he has said in his Anti-American rants that has a vestige of truth or rationale to it. He’s just like a fucking endless cassette.
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January 18, 2011 9:37pm
reid

Bullshit, you’re a leftie who automatically hates whatever the US is doing.

No PIA I’m actually a conservative hawk who isn’t blinded by ideology. Seriously. My political grounding is firmly in the large military spending, socially conservative camp and if you look at all my posts collectively you’ll see that theme coming through loud and clear.

What I do recognise however, (unlike some here), is that conservatives can be just as disingenuous, sly, underhand and evil as lefties and sometimes, they also have agenda which needs to be exposed and crushed just like progressive agenda usually needs to be. The only difference between conservatives and progressives is the frequency. Conservatives sometimes do it, progressives almost always do it.

I guess it does not suit you to remember the good things the Yanks do.

If we both had a chance to sit a closed-book US Patriot exam BB, I’d almost guarantee I’d get a higher mark than you. I love the US. As I’ve said many many times, its leadership doesn’t serve it well. Same sentiment and thought goes to Israel. But it’s hard to see that, if you’re a fanatic.
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January 18, 2011 9:38pm
Put it away

And reid spent days last week trying to argue in circles that islamic terrorism is caused by everything imaginable except islam. And he calls someone else a “useful idiot”? LOL.
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January 18, 2011 9:39pm
Redbaiter

“No PIA I’m actually a conservative hawk who isn’t blinded by ideology.”

Bullshit. Every time you post here, there’s a legion of far leftists come out to support you. You’re just another cultural Marxist infected with Critical theory disease.

“What I do recognise however, (unlike some here), is that conservatives can be just as disingenuous, sly, underhand and evil as lefties”

Yeah sure, and there’s people here who object to me calling you an idiot. You’re actually far worse than that. You’re a brain damaged attention seeking nut job.
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January 18, 2011 9:40pm
Pete George

Those who criticise US government the most (anti-US) seem to be most affronted when something the US government does is criticised.

Attention seeking nut job.

Someone is mirror writing again.
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January 18, 2011 9:42pm
thedavincimode

Oh ‘baiter. Is it that you can’t afford the slippers?
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January 18, 2011 9:45pm
Put it away

Pete are you trying to compete with yourself for the most nonsensical saying on Kiwiblog? I think you’ll win.
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January 18, 2011 9:45pm
big bruv

Reid

“If we both had a chance to sit a closed-book US Patriot exam BB, I’d almost guarantee I’d get a higher mark than you. ”

That is a bet I would take 🙂
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January 18, 2011 9:46pm
Redbaiter

“Pete are you trying to compete with yourself for the most nonsensical saying on Kiwiblog?”

He never ever gets what is being talked about. He’s like a little lid tugging at your trouser leg.
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January 18, 2011 9:47pm
reid

And reid spent days last week trying to argue in circles that islamic terrorism is caused by everything imaginable except islam.

Clearly you weren’t reading what I said PIA. In a few words: if you have a volatile, mercurial population, who strongly believe in a religion, what’s the best way to approach them, if you don’t want to make them even more volatile, mercurial, etc? I’m not and never have, suggested appeasement, BTW, so don’t try to pretend I ever have.

Bullshit. Every time you post here, there’s a legion of far leftists come out to support you. You’re just another cultural Marxist infected with Critical theory disease.

(a) so what and (b) what’s “Critical theory disease?” Is it anything like cognitive dissonance? e.g. you can’t admit Sarah is a bimbo despite overwhelming video evidence, cause that makes you look mental?

P.S. Isn’t it good we’re all back to normal after that unfortunate philu interlude.
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January 18, 2011 9:47pm
bhudson

reid,

Why Iraq?

You might have noticed that the US intervenes in matters of it’s own interest. No problem there, that is the same for any other country around the world.

Iraq threatened US interests in 1990 when they invaded Kuwait, creating unacceptable instability in the Gulf. It also threatened stability (and, at a stretch, the sovereignty) of Saudi Arabia – while not an ally of the US, a nation that was more friendly (on the face of it at least) than most others in the region. And, more importantly, one that could be relied upon to help maintain stability across the region.

In the second George W instance, Iraq had aligned itself too closely with interests that had made a direct attack on US citizens, on US soil – and what a spectacular attack it was!

Prople can argue, oil, vendettas and all manner of motivations, but dear old Saddy got a bit too close to the wrong people at the wrong time. While some within Saudi might have supporter /
Al Qaeda, the Saudi govt did not.

Those links, and others like them, are a primary reason why relations with Iran remain tense to day the least.

Irrespective of your personal views on (particularly the 2nd) Iraq war, dear old Adolf Mugabe has not yet made the mistake of a direct offensive on US citizens (which is not a passive acceptance that they shouldn’t have take. Accept, merely an illustration of why, perhaps, they haven’t.)
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January 18, 2011 9:48pm
Pete George

PIA, if someone criticises something the US does it doesn’t mean they “automatically hate whatever the US is doing.” Can you understand that?

I don’t expect Redbaiter to understand the 99.9999% to the left of him, and it’s more fun that way anyway.
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January 18, 2011 9:48pm
noskire

Interesting rumour going around that the RAN is going to gift a Collins to the RNZN, proviso the Govt commits to buying into the Collins II.
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January 18, 2011 9:51pm
Redbaiter

what’s “Critical theory disease?

Naaah, they wouldn’t tell you about that on the Huffington Post would they? Look it up you moron. If you don’t know what it is you’ve got no right to be smearing the US and Bush like you do.
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January 18, 2011 9:51pm
Pete George

Slogan of the weak?
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January 18, 2011 9:53pm
Pete George

Noskire, some claim New Zealand is going under, I didn’t think of that way.
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January 18, 2011 9:55pm
Put it away

“No PIA I’m actually a conservative hawk who isn’t blinded by ideology.”

Ok that’s enough comedy for me tonight. Tune in tomorrow when we learn that phool is an ardent support of good English and readable layout.
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January 18, 2011 10:04pm
noskire

No surprise, as Australia has struggled to man its subs.
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January 18, 2011 10:05pm
reid

Interesting rumour going around that the RAN is going to gift a Collins to the RNZN, proviso the Govt commits to buying into the Collins II.

So long as the Collins II isn’t the piece of submarination crap the Collins I has proven to be.

From a purely hardware but not geopolitical perspective I think I’d prefer it if we bought a Song class.

Look it up you moron. If you don’t know what it is you’ve got no right to be smearing the US and Bush like you do.

RB the amount of times you practice floccinauccinihilipilification you’ve got no right to be here at all, ever.

Iraq had aligned itself too closely with interests that had made a direct attack on US citizens, on US soil – and what a spectacular attack it was! Prople can argue, oil, vendettas and all manner of motivations, but dear old Saddy got a bit too close to the wrong people at the wrong time. While some within Saudi might have supporter /Al Qaeda, the Saudi govt did not.

bhudson the connections between Saddam and Al-Qaida were extremely weak. It was the one real justification for the war, if any existed, but it didn’t exist, try as they might, to manufacture it. Have a look at both sides of the argument objectively, and look at the history between Iraq and Al-Qaida and the Taliban, pre-911. By comparison there was a much stronger case, if any case ever existed at all, to invade Saudi Arabia, but that wasn’t even mentioned in the press build-up, at all, ever. Why do you imagine that may have been?
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January 18, 2011 10:06pm
bhudson

reid,

As I recall, the Saudi links were more related to the particular flavor (sect?) of Islam popular within Saudi and which The Taliban, Osama and Al Qaeda generally were held to be either a part o, or aligned to.

Given your recent posts about specific adherents of Islam who perform terrible acts not neon representative of the religion generally, then surely you would not equate that sect with terrorism?

As to Iraqs links, unlike the ‘smoking gun’ evidence of WMD, the links to Al Qaeda became very evident through that little tete-a-tete and aftermath.

The first, and overriding point, holds true in any event – the US will act to protect it’s interests as it sees them. Any other country is exactly the same. To expect them, or any other country, to do otherwise is beyond naive
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January 18, 2011 10:17pm
adze

@Alphakiwi

Case is important:

//li[cite[a[contains(.,’SillyPerson’)]]]

also if SillyPerson has a link in their handle, their link URL eg. http://sillyperson.co.nz/ goes in the XPath Comment field.

I also changed the Kiwiblog URL under the title section to http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/* (I think the default URL included only 2009 pages).

Hope this helps!
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January 18, 2011 10:18pm
Redbaiter

Quote=

the Left causes the great divide by their reckless slander, hatred and lies, and when those slandered react, they say, “Oh, this is kinda what we mean.”
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January 18, 2011 10:21pm
noskire

It will probably be the very first Collins, which is a piece of crap. Still, for a diesel-powered sub, the Collins has given the Yanks a number of headaches in wargames, albeit against Los Angeles class boats (and a carrier “kill”). Still, 75 Squadron RNZAF took a lot more “kills” for their buck.
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January 18, 2011 10:22pm
adze

Where did you hear that rumour noskire?
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January 18, 2011 10:31pm
noskire

adze, loose lips sink ships and all that.
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January 18, 2011 10:34pm
AlphaKiwi

@adze
Thanks for trying to help. I tried all that and it’s still not working. I will see what I can do tomorrow.
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January 18, 2011 10:36pm
reid

The first, and overriding point, holds true in any event – the US will act to protect it’s interests as it sees them. Any other country is exactly the same. To expect them, or any other country, to do otherwise is beyond naive

bhudson happy to discuss details of alleged Iraqi-Al-Qaida connections however it’s a big topic, but happy to do so in rolling posts over days if you wish.

But just right now, to respond to your above point, well duh. As a geopolitical analyst who spends 90% of my time looking at overseas and 10% looking at domestic politics, of course nations act in their best interests. I’ve never said they don’t. And of course the best interests of the US were to get the 911 culprits. However, they resided, as they always did, in Af-Pak and Saudi, not in Iraq. The fact the US went into Iraq, does not make Iraq, de facto, the culprit.

The entire US govt and military command structure would not have launched into war if they all thought it was bullshit, of course they didn’t. However, just because a lot of people in the command structure thought it was true at that time, doesn’t make it true. Nor does it make if false. But you can’t allege it’s true, just cause they went ahead and did it.

…surely you would not equate that sect with terrorism?

Whyever not? If you read what I’ve said, I’ve never denied or minimised the extremist elements exist. All I’ve ever said was: what are the best tactics for dealing with them. Just because I don’t advocate the current tactics, doesn’t mean I don’t recognise there’s a real threat, it means merely that I don’t think the current tactics are the best ones to adopt.
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January 18, 2011 10:40pm
adze

“adze, loose lips sink ships and all that.”

You mean like this?
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January 18, 2011 10:48pm
noskire

Gotta love the MK 48 Mod 7.
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January 18, 2011 10:58pm
bhudson

reid,

Actually whether the US interests were to pursue the 9/11 culprits or ‘big oil’ has always been debatable. My point on US interests is that it is not for us to dictate to them on what it is that is sufficient for gem to decide to act [my personal opinion is that it was not about control of oil, however if that was the extent of their interests then that was their political decision to take.]

I think there has always been a great deal of circumstantial evidence of links between he Iraqi regime and terrorists – including Al Qaeda. As events transpired, it certainly played out that those links were real (unless one chooses to believe that AQ rode to the defence of Iraq like white knights on their chargers after the event.)

The Saudi links are religious – Wahhabi. While it is held they Wahhabi is somewhat extreme and preaches death to the west/infidels, the ‘small group of adherents does not make all complicit’ argument you have used recently with respect to Islam generally must also hold true here – there is no evidence to show that all Wahhabi adherents work to kill westerners (directly or through support) and therefore your previous argument must surely hold true here too.

Having said that, as you note in reference to you role/interest in geopolitics, ultimately all of world diplomacy is nothing more than the dance of geopolitics. And that links back to my point of US interests – ultimately they held it was in their interests to ‘address’ this matter with Iraq (in the first instance at least) and not Syria, Iran, Sudan, or even Saudi (not that the last was ever likely.)

As I am sure you would acknowledge, this is a regional play, not a US vs Iraq thing. Perhaps the one element which doesn’t make a great deal of sense to me is that Iraq is. Shi’ite majority which was ruled by a Sunni minority. Saudi is (at least held to be) a Sunni majority. Iraq is a Shi’ite majority. Toppling Saddy’s Sunni govt has resulted in a strongly Shi’ite nation on Saudi’s border – one that is more religiously aligned to Iran than Saudi.

That part doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense that Saudi has been silent about it. And it doesn’t make sense that the US would act to create that political-religious tension.

And no, I don’t think Tom Clancy is a seer
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January 18, 2011 11:09pm
WebWrat

Leftard crooks of the USA.

http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/never-trust-snopes-leftie-nazi-collaborator-and-obama-puppeteer-george-soros-finances-it/#comments
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January 19, 2011 12:17am
Viking2

This mornings fun reading.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/4555055/Top-police-manager-could-pay-the-price

Top police manager could pay the price
KATE CHAPMAN
Last updated 05:00 19/01/2011
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Rampant nepotism, discrimination against women and poor performance among senior staff are revealed in a damning report into police culture.

It looks likely to result in the departure of Deputy Commissioner Rob Pope.

It is understood Mr Pope has told senior management he will not seek reappointment when his five-year term ends in April. Police Minister Judith Collins said she would not comment on Mr Pope’s future until he did.

The report, by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and published yesterday, is the third since the commission of inquiry led by Dame Margaret Bazley reported back in April 2007. The Bazley inquiry was sparked by Dominion Post investigations into police conduct.

Since the inquiry, police have been criticised for taking too long to implement the cultural changes identified. The latest report says that, although there had been significant cultural change, it has reached a plateau.

Ms Collins said yesterday that outgoing Commissioner Howard Broad had implemented a lot of changes, but “pockets of resistance” still needed to be tackled.

“Those are areas where the incoming commissioner [Peter Marshall] will be wanting to address.”

Mr Marshall starts in April.

The report said management had tolerated the continuation and appointment of the wrong people to high places, had failed to act decisively where needed, and management styles were inconsistent.

“We must never forget – we promoted the hell out of Clint Rickards. Almost to the very top. It must never happen again,” one officer said in the report.

Mr Rickards was acquitted of rape in 2006 after being charged as a result of Dominion Post investigations into the Louise Nicholas case.

Other officers told PricewaterhouseCoopers that appointments were based on who you knew rather than merit, and management had forgotten what it was like on the beat.

“The commissioner and all his inspector mates in bullshit castle at headquarters should get back on the street and get a reality check,” one said. Ms Collins said there were a few police staff left who were unco-operative.

“That really goes to the heart of the issue about why those people shouldn’t be in New Zealand police any more … ”

The report said that, although many of the Bazley commission’s recommendations had been implemented, compliance had been technically achieved without culture change.

Another problem area was rostering, with a graph of staff on duty in 2007 showing heavy staffing early in the week and fewer over the weekend when crime and demand were at their highest.
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“It is appalling to think that, back in 2007 … there were more police officers on duty on a Monday night than … on a Saturday night,” Ms Collins said.

Deputy Police Commissioner Viv Rickard said: “We accept that ticking off the technical implementation of the recommendations of the commission of inquiry has only taken us part of the way.

“We need to fully engage on a range of mechanisms to bring about change and improvement.”

Among the report’s findings were:

No action over poor-performing senior staff at police headquarters.

Police files revealed “highly inappropriate behaviour” by staff which was worthy of dismissal but received only a warning.

Rosters based on staff needs, not risk and demand.

Many staff felt the wrong people were sometimes given senior roles.

Wide inconsistency in the abilities of area commanders.

Little confidence in the detection of any concerning staff behaviour.

The commission of inquiry lacked impact as a driver of change.

Police need to implement “basic management concepts”.
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January 19, 2011 6:41am
RRM

Wow, still a lot of Redbaiter link-whoring on here, this is surprising considering he purports to “hardly use this place any more”.

Originally posted by Redbaiter:
I don’t really use the place [Kiwiblog] anymore… its too full of left wing hate mongers that the owner seems to prefer over anyone slightly right.

When you think of it, a left wing blog like [Kiwiblog] posturing as right wing is no great help to our cause. Just makes it easier for the left to smear us as extreme.

Kiwiblog is just a sewer now, dripping with hate for any Conservative.

Sick really.

http://truebluenz.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/update-state-sponsored-hate-and-genocide/#comments
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January 19, 2011 7:39am
jaba

so has John Hatfield finally gone too far and will get his skanky racist arse kicked out at last?
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January 19, 2011 8:03am
Pete George

RRM, he’s either still asleep or decided free speech was better than censorship.

Redbaiter is proud to have as anachronistic and hypocritical a website as could exist?
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January 19, 2011 8:14am
Pete George

Interesting that Te Ururoa Flavell has initiated it Jaba.
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January 19, 2011 8:16am
CrazyIvan

bhudson
In 2008 the Pentagon published a study after reviewing available Iraqi intelligence and defence documents (over 600000 of them) and concluded that there was no evidence of any specific, direction connection between Saddam’s government and al-Qaeda. It identifed that Saddam had supported pan-Arab nationalist and Islamist groups in the region and internationally, but primarily to further its own interests and target Iraqi dissidents. It had specific objectives and fostered ties with some groups, such as those in Egypt, but not it seems with al-Qaeda.

http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report_V1.pdf

My thoughts are that while al-Qaeda appeared in Iraq after the invasion, it was more capitialising on the power vaccuum in the country (no local security forces, disbanded military, inadequate coalition forces to maintain security). And it needs to be remembered that al-Qaeda were only one of a number of groups operating in the 2003- period, from Shiite militias to the fedayen to Sunni groups, to disaffected former army. The secular violence that occurred fed of itself as each group responded to attacks by the others.

Al-Qaeda were definitely one of the worst, and seem to have deliberately targeted particulalry Shiite targets to encourage reprisals, but to say they were supported by Saddam’s regime seems to be incorrect.
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January 19, 2011 9:00am
Offshore_Kiwi

RRM

The main reason Red still posts here is because you and your fellow fucktards spend all of your time attacking him and goading him to do so. You don’t expect to be able to attack someone the way you circle-jerkers do, and not have it responded to, do you?

And Petey George. 8756 comments and not a sensible one among them.
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January 19, 2011 9:48am
Pete George

You’re as confused as he is Offshore. If he didn’t post here in the first place he wouldn’t get attacked.

More often than not he attacks first. He doesn’t initiate or join discussions. It’s obvious he comes here just to disrupt and to try and promote his own blog.

He keeps saying he hates it here and won’t waste his time here, and then spits shit as he keeps spending his time here. Duh.

When you try criticising someone as “not sensible” in a post that makes no sense it highlights your own nonsense. Duh.
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