Month: January 2006

Categories
Grave

You’ll see that an acknowledgment of failures in our policy was implicit in my statement, sir.

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Via today’s AP: “Bodies lie in the street after suicide bomb attack in Karbala Iraq in this image taken from TV Thursday Jan. 5, 2006”
From “U.S. Has End in Sight on Iraq Rebuilding”, the Washington Post, January 2, 2006:

U.S. officials say comparatively minor sabotage to distribution systems is keeping Iraqis from seeing the gains from scores of projects to increase electricity generation and oil production. To showcase a rebuilt school or government building, meanwhile, is to invite insurgents to bomb it.
If 2006 brings political stability and an easing of the insurgency, Americans say, the distribution systems can be fairly easily repaired.
“The good news is this investment is not in any way lost; they’re there,” said Dan Speckhard, the director of the U.S. reconstruction management office in Iraq. “They will pay off, they will be felt, if not this month, then six months down the road.”

Your concerns will be addressed, people…a mere six months down the potholed, blood-spattered, bomb-shellacked road.

Categories
Shallow

I’m more interested in buying a tree, some rope, and some sheets…and throw in the In Living Color boxed set, too, can you?

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What classic American value! 14 episodes of the under-appreciated “Planet of the Apes” television series, finally available on DVD for a mere $43. I can put it on my shelf right next to other similar items, such as…
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Ummm. OK, then. The “Similar Items” list also includes, for what it’s worth, “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson” and “What’s Love Got To Do With It (Full Frame)”.
(Thanks to jfajitas.)
UPDATED: Apparently this was already caught by a blogger named SanDiegoJohnny back in October of last year, which somehow makes this even worse, in that it has remained unchanged for months, now, and an entire season of holiday shoppers was exposed to such post-Katrina Kommodity Kommentary.