Spinning Iraq - (lack of) results

[RedSkunk]

"Last year, on April 5, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 1815, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006, and George W. Bush signed it into law. It contained a provision, in Section 1059, authorizing special immigrant status for a maximum of 50 Iraqi translators per year."

And how many translators have received amnesty and been allowed into the US? 0. I know this because I worked with the women who wrote this story, and who filed the very first paperwork for the translator in this article. This is the story you won't find in the mass media. The U.S. government and its military, after the grand announcement, has dragged its feet and stonewalled every step of the way.

Among some of the more flagrant attempts at making HR1815 irrelevant:
* Sending mail to Andy in Iraq (where there is no mail service), instead of to the person filling the paperwork on his behalf.
* Requiring his signature in the presence of a notary public - an American institution nonexistent in Iraq.
* Requiring an embossed version of the seal Andy finally procured.
* Insisting on a letter from a general, despite the fact that no general ever worked on the ground with these units, and that all four of Andy's commanding officers had already submitting glowing letters of recommendation.

In fact, no general in the US army is able to write such a letter, none working closely enough with Iraqi translators on the ground. It took a special request from a lower-ranking officer to finally obtain a letter. Andy was finally approved - for consideration, which he was ultimately denied.

Read the article for the full story - for the typical ass-fuckery that goes on day in and day out. To do something go to Education for Peace in Iraq Center.

How can anyone make an informed judgement with such inempt media outlets?

[StCyril]

Yeah the media sucks, did you hear about the time on "To Catch a Predator" when the guy shot himself after being caught?

[Cuppa-LettuceNog]

Noooooooooooooooooooooo, the same Media that published all that "Proof" that Clinton's a mass murder is, **gulp* inept?

I'd never have guessed it, man.

[troubles1]

At 8/1/07 02:53 AM, StCyril wrote: Yeah the media sucks, did you hear about the time on "To Catch a Predator" when the guy shot himself after being caught?

and you have a problem with a sexual predator not being able to molest little kids anymore? seems to me like you are defending your kind. any person who molests children should receive the death penalty, there is no rehabilitation, so he just did the world a favor.

[StCyril]

At 8/1/07 03:12 AM, troubles1 wrote:

At 8/1/07 02:53 AM, StCyril wrote: Yeah the media sucks, did you hear about the time on "To Catch a Predator" when the guy shot himself after being caught?

and you have a problem with a sexual predator not being able to molest little kids anymore? seems to me like you are defending your kind. any person who molests children should receive the death penalty, there is no rehabilitation, so he just did the world a favor.

agreed, but still, OTHER people nearby were needlessly put at risk. guy shoots himself, what if the bullet ricoched?

[Cuppa-LettuceNog]

At 8/1/07 03:12 AM, troubles1 wrote:

and you have a problem with a sexual predator not being able to molest little kids anymore? seems to me like you are defending your kind. any person who molests children should receive the death penalty, there is no rehabilitation, so he just did the world a favor.

Except that just because your on TCAP doesn't make you a pedo. TCAP has a long record of misconduct, in which a man sued them because he alleges that, after failing to meet up with the supposed child and cutting all contact, they used an adult to sexually proposition him, draw him to the house, and film him. Funny enough, they never aired the footage, in which he calmly explains that an adult called him to the house.

[troubles1]

At 8/1/07 03:17 AM, Cuppa-LettuceNog wrote:

At 8/1/07 03:12 AM, troubles1 wrote:

and you have a problem with a sexual predator not being able to molest little kids anymore? seems to me like you are defending your kind. any person who molests children should receive the death penalty, there is no rehabilitation, so he just did the world a favor.

Except that just because your on TCAP doesn't make you a pedo. TCAP has a long record of misconduct, in which a man sued them because he alleges that, after failing to meet up with the supposed child and cutting all contact, they used an adult to sexually proposition him, draw him to the house, and film him. Funny enough, they never aired the footage, in which he calmly explains that an adult called him to the house.

IF you are having a inappropriate conversation, with a person knowing they are underage, then go to meet them in the hops of having some sexual relationship with that person, YOU ARE A PREDITOR. and deserve to be executed. there is no cure. there is no rehabilitation.

Most Pedophiles liken themselves to homosexuals in that they are born that way and therefor not responsible for there actions. If that is true then a bullet is a perfect remedy.

[Cuppa-LettuceNog]

At 8/3/07 02:00 AM, troubles1 wrote:

IF you are having a inappropriate conversation, with a person knowing they are underage, then go to meet them in the hops of having some sexual relationship with that person, YOU ARE A PREDITOR. and deserve to be executed. there is no cure. there is no rehabilitation.

Except that if you had bothered to actually read what I wrote before going on that poorly spelled rant, you would see that he didn't show up to the meeting, at which point they sexually propositioned him with an adult.

Most Pedophiles liken themselves to homosexuals in that they are born that way and therefor not responsible for there actions. If that is true then a bullet is a perfect remedy.

Ah, so kill the gays. Gotcha.

[7ive5even]

agreed, but still, OTHER people nearby were needlessly put at risk. guy shoots himself, what if the bullet ricoched?

lol, his head would have slowed it down too much to be fatal to any one else AND it may not have even left his head!

[troubles1]

At 8/3/07 03:59 AM, Cuppa-LettuceNog wrote:ect remedy.

Ah, so kill the gays. Gotcha.

You Get Dumber by the Day, I said nothing about killing gays, I Did However say that it is ILLEGAL TO CHAT ON LINE with a minor and proposition them with ANYTHING SEXUAL.

So from now on YOU SHOULD STOP MESSING WITH LITTLE KIDS . Cuppa.
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That is why the guy was arrested he thought it was a minor. he was a Pedophile. AND YOU ARE DEFENDING HIM.

I Guess You NAMBLA guys stick together.

[JerkClock]

At 8/1/07 03:02 AM, Cuppa-LettuceNog wrote: Noooooooooooooooooooooo, the same Media that published all that "Proof" that Clinton's a mass murder is, **gulp* inept?

I'd never have guessed it, man.

Can't blame the media, if they aren't allowed to publish certain info, they aren't. Sometimes the governement fucks up, and marks certain info classified so the media can't report it. Not the media's fault.