Taking A Baath in Chalabi Lite

Kanan Makiya, the Iraqi who ran out on his country to take a teaching gig at Brandeis, and told W(orst) that "American troops 'will be greeted with sweets and flowers'" (What a colossal asshole.) also managed to steal "the Baath Party archives from the country -- 7 million pages that undoubtedly document atrocities of the Saddam Hussein regime" & turn them over to the fucking Hoover Institution @ Stanford U. What exactly is Hoover doing w/ them? Taking notes on how to run the United Snakes after Sen. McCain becomes Pres. McCain by another Stupreme Court appointment? Further indication of the "privatization" of virtually everything. Odd that this "privatization" always seems to favor those in favor w/ those in power, isn't it? We'll let the conclusion come from where we first stole this, an op-ed in the Incredible Shrinking Newspaper©™ (today's biz-niz section: four pp.) by Jon Wiener.

And if, two years later, continued protection required moving the archives to the U.S., that should have been a job for the U.S. National Archives in a formal agreement with the new government of Iraq, not a deal between Makiya's foundation and a private American institution. Private individuals and organizations simply do not have the legal standing to gather up governmental records and ship them out of the country.

The hell they don't under the current admin. It's every weasel-dicked mofo for hisse'f, & devil take the hindmost. Once more of us on the left begin to internalize this attitude ( You can bet your booties that The Editor here is only biding his time, 'cause that attitude is well entrenched w/ him) the rabid weasels had better start watching their pasty-white asses, 'cause there's much revenge to be had & much justice to be administered.

If the Hoover Institution continues to refuse the Iraqi government's demand for return of the archives, the U.S. government, which improperly gave Makiya permission to collect and remove the documents, ought to insist that those records belong to the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government. It's up to the Iraqis to decide what to do with them.

Yeah, like the Iraqis are supposed to have any control over our colony. Where's that cheap oil & the money from it, by the way? Are they holding out on us? Better not be!