[Poohbah]

Willie, did you call this person's village to find out if their idiot has gone missing?

[dighton]

Not long from now, I expect to see Cockburn in The Greek Conservative.

[Argus]

Cockburn's many oil portraits of Stalin must be covered with drool from the way he obsessively slobbers over his hero.

[tomahawk]

Cockburn is an America hater.

[RightWhale]

Sky is dark with chickens. WKRP strikes again.

[Burkeman1]

Stalingrad? This guy doesn't have a clue. Baghdad will not be anything like Stalingrad.

[Darksheare]

"It is impossible to know whether U.S. violations of the Conventions led to Iraqi non-compliance," Ratner says"

Umm.. so now Iraq executed our soldiers because we provoked them to do it?
It's our fault Iraq is a murderous rogue nation?

Maybe Ratner needs to go there in person.

[=Intervention=]

This article is shot through with lies and distortion. The most obvious one is the conflagaration over POWs. Al-Quaeda, as a terrorist organization, is NOT, let me repeat NOT, a governmental entity. How could it then be responsible for adhering to the Geneva conventions? The Geneva conventions, it must be remembered, bind the states who signed them. I don't recall Al-Quaeda or the Taliban signing them, do you? Judging by inference, apparently Iraq DID sign the Geneva conventions, thus they CAN be held accountable to them. Stop the lies already.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Saddam Hussein, a devoted admirer of Joseph Stalin,...

Well, isn't that nice? Alex and Saddam have something in common.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Saddam Hussein, a devoted admirer of Joseph Stalin,...

Well, isn't that nice? Alex and Saddam have something in common.

[Keith]

This guy doesn't know his history. The Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators until they started abusing the population. There were Ukrainian units in the SS and a large Ukrainian army fought alongside the Nazis in the WWII.

Lousy analogy.

[Cable225]

For a brief, fleeting moment I thought Alexander Cocklover was going to make sense.

Then I read the first paragraph.

[El Gato]

How many Russians died defending the Soviet Union from German invasion after enduring famine and Stalin's terror?

I don't know, but there were a bunch of Ukranians and I believe Georgians who not only welcomed the Germans (at least at first) but also a goodly number, including some Cossacks, who fought for the Nazis in quasi independent units. If the Germans had treated those Ukranians and Georgians well, as we will treat the Shites and have treated the Kurds, then many more would have fought for the Germans, and likely the Reds would not have been able to hold those nations, even after the Red Army came back through, if it could have done so that is.

[OperationFreedom]

So full of blatant lies I nearly puked. Pathetic to the last word.

So the techniques used by Israal against the Palis was responsible for the attempted suicide of prisoners WE has? Whatever! What an idiot.