Emerging Market For Water...Hotter Than Oil

According to a new NASA study, the Mid-East is losing fresh water reserves at an alarming rate. Countries like Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran are losing groundwater due to mismanagement and a 2007 drought. I think we need to start shipping water by the barrel over there and I think it should be going for about a $100 per barrel, give or take. Of course, if there are tensions anywhere in the world, it will negatively affect the price of water, and of course at the change of every season we'll have to increase the price due to the cost of switching over from the winter blend to the summer blend and things like that. I mean, you have to take into account the logistics of this sort of thing, supply and demand can be a tricky thing!

Let's challenge the news media!

Iraqi PM says America "leave when you want to..."

I say "Fantastic!" If the legal Iraqi leader that "we" put in power says American forces can leave Iraq anytime we want to, then I say we leave! We're obviously not wanted there, I don't want us to be there, and most Americans don't want to be there.

What more is there for Bush to get the hint that it's time to abandon the ship, a ship that never really had a Captain at the wheel and never really had a course set for it.

Read the whole STORY at CNN

It makes you wonder....

It makes you wonder what good we could possibly be doing in Iraq, when you hear things like this. After a particularly deadly weekend in Iraq, this statement was made to the people of Iraq by their government:

...Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives...

Yes, but who are they to defend themselves against with those weapons? Fellow Iraqi's who are fighting to get America out of Iraq? Fellow Iraqi's who are killing each other based on their religious affiliation? Or Americans?

And how are American soldiers to know which Iraqi's walking around with AK-47's are on our side...if any Iraqi's are on our side at all any more. U.S. servicemen already are finding it next to impossible to know who is fighting on whose side anymore.

It's high time we got our butt's out of Iraq and Afghanistan as well. We've created enough devestation and new enemies to last our children's children through their lifetimes. The death-toll for Americans in Iraq has now reached 3600+. Do any more young men and women need to die so a select few people can get filthy rich off this war?

I say NO concessions

Well, Bush vetoed the bill that would have set a mandated withdrawal date from Iraq, and the House challenge to that veto failed.

I say NO concessions...if we don't pass legislation appointing money to fund the war...then we get what we want...U.S. forces have to come home. Bush can't keep troops in Iraq if they have no money to pay for it.

Does my opinion on this sound brutal? Yes it does...but then hard-working Americans dying in Iraq for no damn good reason is brutal as well!

3,346...

The U.S. military has announced the deaths of 9 more American soldiers in Iraq, bringing the total of Americans killed since the beginning of the Iraq war to 3,346.

Story here

U.S. building walls, instead of tearing them down!

With very little fanfare, and no input from the people being "boxed in", the United States military have begun boxing in a sunni neighborhood "for their safety".

Story here at CNN

How would you like it if the military suddenly began building a wall around your neighborhood, complete with gates and security check-points. Would you feel safe, or would you feel like you're being locked up in a make-shift prison?

I for one would feel like a prisoner in my own home. Segregated from the rest of my supposedly "democratic" country because of my religious affiliation. Singled out because my faith was different than that of others who are more in favor with the ruling party...Gee! Wasn't that what we went into Iraq to stop in the first place?! Looks like things in Iraq have come full circle and are now right back where they started, it's just someone else in charge now, and someone new being supressed.

Green zone not so green....

Although the green zone in Baghdad is only 4 square miles, and the most heavily defended area in Iraq...terrorists have managed to smuggle in a suicide bomber into the cafeteria of the Iraqi parliment. Story here

How can we ( the U.S. ) be making forward strides in Iraq when we can't even deter attacks inside the most heavily guarded and fortified area of the country?

Alzheimer's ??

It would seem that our vice-president must be suffering from alzheimer's...or perhaps he's just suffering from "repeated propaganda syndrome"!

LINK

Yes, he has the gall...

Remember a few months ago when President Bush announced that he would be sending an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq? Remember what a big stink the Democrats made about it and promised that they'd do something to stop it.

Well, President Bush is not only in the process of still sending out those 21,500 troops to Iraq with nothing more than a token resistance by Democrats, now he's announced that he's sending an additional 4,700 troops to Iraq to "support" the other troops!

I figure in a couple more months he'll announce that he'll be sending a few thousand more troops to "support" the "supporting" troops! I don't know if I'm more pissed with Bush for what he's doing, or the Democrats for what they're NOT doing.

The complete story here.

President Bush's "new strategy", AGAIN!

Tonight, President Bush will address the nation on his "new strategy" for the war in Iraq. Of course the gist of what he's going to say has already been know for quite some time. 20,000 more boys and girls from the U.S. being put on the line to die.

Of course, our brave Democrats that we put into office late last year are putting together a "non-binding resolution" saying that they oppose a surge in U.S. troops in Iraq. What they're actually saying is, "We don't like what you're doing, but we're not going to stop you." What cowards...step up to the plate and tell the President "NO, no more troops going into Iraq!" If 140,000 troops, with the most advanced weapons available to wage war with can't stop the violence in Iraq, what good are 20,000 more troops going to do? None!

The problem is, it's OUR presence in Iraq that's causing 90% of the violence that's going on. Because we've put the minority religious sect in charge of the country. Watch over the next few months as the violence in Iraq continues to increase, and our casualties continue to increase as well.

President Bush says that, "leaving Iraq in defeat is not an option." What he's actually saying is, "leaving Iraq in defeat under MY administration is not an option." Here's what's going to happen. Bush is going to drag this war on throughout the rest of his tenure as President, leaving a huge mess for whoever follows him to clean up. When THAT President pulls U.S. troops out of Iraq, Bush will point his finger at THAT administration and say "look, they've bungled the war in Iraq, and humiliated the U.S.!" Don't think we're all blind Mr. President! You just think if we're still embroiled in Iraq when you leave office, that no one can say YOU lost the war! Well, we see you for what you are, and we are ashamed!

Anyone can start a war...It takes a man of character and courage to end a war.

Mr. Bush, that is not you...