[lit-ideas] Re: Mirembe and the need for Blackwater
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:16:52 -0700
I was slandering Mike not Mirembe.
That is, you were trying to slander Mike, by slandering Mirembe? (I'd
look up the meaning of 'slander' before I admitted to engaging in it,
if I were you.)
I know that in recent notes she is described as not commenting on
this issue > but someone, early on, did comment.
Mirembe, and other State Department officials did. She happened to be
the embassy spokesperson when the Blackwater incident took place. What
was said, and by whom, was covered by sources you may not consult,
e.g., the NY Times and the Washington Post. In any event, nobody from
the embassy (or from the State Department) is talking about
responsibility. The word is that the US and the Iraqi governments are
conducting 'a thorough investigation,' etc. It surprises me a bit that
someone of your sophistication would believe that in speaking as the
spokeswoman for the US embassy in Baghdad, Mirembe was speaking for
herself.
I'm amazed that you can remember every note Mirembe posted. I can't
even remember every note I posted.
I can't, of course, remember every note she or I or anyone else
posted. But I'd have remembered something so out of character and so
out of keeping with the hopes she had for a list devoted to original
aims of Phil-Lit and its successors. I might not remember every pail
of milk with a piece of straw in it,
but I'd remember the one with the trout.
And, sorry, but the predominant political position of those who post
on politics -- here on Lit Ideas (and also on Theoria by the way)
is Leftist.
By your definition, perhaps; but your definition of 'Leftist' is so
ludicrous that it does no work in a discussion: e.g. your constant
identification of Leftists as 'anti-American' jihadist supporters, etc.
Finally, here's a clip of a session in which Mirembe and an Army major
general answer questions regarding the Blackwater incident.
http://dodvclips.mil/index.jsp?auto_band=x&rf=sv&fr_story=FRsupt217597&rf
Don't be surprised that at first, Mirembe begins to screech; that's
the translator. She gets her own voice back soon.
Robert Paul
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