Comments on: This is what’s pissing me off today (Jan. 10th, 2008) http://killingbatteries.com/2008/01/this-is-whats-pissing-me-off-today-jan-10th-2008/ Leif Pettersen's battery-powered rise to the zenith of travel writing rapture Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:01:54 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: anne marie http://killingbatteries.com/2008/01/this-is-whats-pissing-me-off-today-jan-10th-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-56263 anne marie Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:22:56 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2008/01/this-is-whats-pissing-me-off-today-jan-10th-2008/#comment-56263 Wasn't it excellent? Love your review. Wasn’t it excellent? Love your review.

]]> By: leif http://killingbatteries.com/2008/01/this-is-whats-pissing-me-off-today-jan-10th-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-55817 leif Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:40:56 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2008/01/this-is-whats-pissing-me-off-today-jan-10th-2008/#comment-55817 Elfin – You know I've been watching the exact same news as you have for the past four years. The information contained in this movie is on a whole new level. The detailed interviews with people on the scene and involved in the occupation at high levels, the chronological and exhaustive descriptions they gave of the situations, the people and the decisions being made and, the kicker, the revelation of all the completely avoidable disastrous decisions being made by totally unqualified people. The interviewees make it clear that this isn't all a case of hindsight being clearer. They describe how they stood there and carefully explained to the close-minded people in charge all of the awful ramifications of the obtuse decisions they were about to make and how they were totally ignored. As Ambassador Barbara Bodine put it, (roughly paraphrased) "We knew there were four right ways to do this and 500 wrong ways… We just didn't know we were going to have to go through all 500 of the wrong ways first." If you thought you were mad before, you're going to blow flames out of your ears when you watch this film and then start daydreaming of creative torture techniques on select individuals using bamboo like I did. Elfin – You know I’ve been watching the exact same news as you have for the past four years. The information contained in this movie is on a whole new level. The detailed interviews with people on the scene and involved in the occupation at high levels, the chronological and exhaustive descriptions they gave of the situations, the people and the decisions being made and, the kicker, the revelation of all the completely avoidable disastrous decisions being made by totally unqualified people. The interviewees make it clear that this isn’t all a case of hindsight being clearer. They describe how they stood there and carefully explained to the close-minded people in charge all of the awful ramifications of the obtuse decisions they were about to make and how they were totally ignored. As Ambassador Barbara Bodine put it, (roughly paraphrased) “We knew there were four right ways to do this and 500 wrong ways… We just didn’t know we were going to have to go through all 500 of the wrong ways first.”

If you thought you were mad before, you’re going to blow flames out of your ears when you watch this film and then start daydreaming of creative torture techniques on select individuals using bamboo like I did.

]]> By: elfin http://killingbatteries.com/2008/01/this-is-whats-pissing-me-off-today-jan-10th-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-55777 elfin Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:12:02 +0000 http://killingbatteries.com/2008/01/this-is-whats-pissing-me-off-today-jan-10th-2008/#comment-55777 I have to "remove all throwable, breakable items from the room before" to even try to "leave a passing comment". no disrespect to either you or the movie but have you been sleeping in the last 8 years ? your outrage outrages me. I have to “remove all throwable, breakable items from the room before” to even try to “leave a passing comment”. no disrespect to either you or the movie but have you been sleeping in the last 8 years ? your outrage outrages me.

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