Gonzales to ‘help’ Iraq’s legal system?

August 11, 2007

Given his track record, Alberto Gonzales probably isn’t the best person to be giving anyone, better yet Iraqis, advice about the rule of law.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire at home with calls for his resignation, is spending some time in Iraq.

The Justice Department said that Gonzales arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for his third trip to Iraq to meet with department officials who have been there to help fashion the country’s legal system.

“I am pleased to see firsthand … the progress that the men and women of the Justice Department have made to rebuild Iraq’s legal system and law enforcement infrastructure,” Gonzales said in a statement released by the department.

First, it’s not at all clear why Gonzales is encouraged by the status of Iraq’s legal system. Iraq is beset by what the AP charitably described as “sectarian lawlessness.”

Second, I suppose there are less qualified officials in the Bush administration to oversee Iraq’s drive to fashion a legal system, but no one comes to mind.

“First, it’s not at all clear why Gonzales is encouraged by the status of Iraq’s legal system. Iraq is beset by what the AP charitably described as ‘sectarian lawlessness.’ ”

You’re teasing us again. Seeing as how that’s effectively what the Republicans are busy imposing on the US, who better to advise them on making their system more partisan, more religious, more servile to the wealthy and powerful, and less answerable to the rule of law.

  • Perhaps he had run out of ideas on how to screw things up here and thought maybe if he went to the only place worse he could find he could get some fresh insights?

    Personally, I would be for Al spending a whole lot more time there. On the front lines would be a good place. Abu Grahib would be even better.

  • Don’t be surprised when he falls victim to an unexpected mortar attack in the “Green Zone”.

  • Hey maybe the Bushies are hoping Gonzales will get knock-off. Iraq is a dangerous place and Gonzales is a GOP re-election liability and a Bushie post era liability. Plus, I really doubt the Bushies are loyal to anybody but themselves.

    I certainly don’t think the Bushies would have sent Ashcroft, nor do I think Ashcroft would have gone to Iraq, however Gonzales would be a yes-man to his tragic end as dumb as that lawyer happens to be. Then again Bushie world is always getting smaller, very isolated, lots of people leaving – so that if you want to employ corrupt doctrine, Bush knows that Gonzales has no problem with it and will delivery – and also because there are no more Colin Powell’s left in this administration. There is not even one person with any integrity or competence in whole of this administration that could have gone.

  • OR maybe Bush’s torture lawyer is going to Iraq to get those Iraqi govenment members to put their collective John Hancocks’ on the dotted line for big oil.

    The Bushies are running out of time to get ExxonMoble’s 70% of the profits agreement turn into a binding contract.

  • Sectarian lawlessness? Would that be similar to Bushylvanianism—where the administration and its freakazoid acolytes thumb their collective noses at the rule of law, committing multiple atrocities against the Constitution and the Republic while raping the national treasury—all in the name of power?

    Ought to make Gonzo feel right at home….

  • I think Me_again @ # 5 hit on it. The privatization of Iraqi oil allowing our greedy oil companies access to their oil is the deal breaker that keeps Iraqi parliament members from signing on with the oil law. The Iraqi lawmakers return from their “recess” on 4 September and General Betrayus will report that everything is going well on 14 September so Attorney Criminal Gonzales will twist a few arms including Maliki’s before then. Besides that, Cheney will not trust many people to contrive more evidence against Iran about EFP’s in laying the groundwork for his next war. On the topic of EFP’s, the April raid in Diwaniya by US troops found a factory making EFP’s in Iraq, not Iran. General Pace was replaced because he strayed from the Whitewash House propaganda on that subject.

  • I think the mindless have inherited the earth. Gonzales offering advise about law is laughable. I think the entire Bush crew drank some kool-aid, and never recovered. They belong in prison, or at the very least, impeached.
    If Gonzales IS killed in Iraq, there will be celebrations in the streets around the world. He is a dark-spirited thug of a man, obedient to his masters as only the truly evil can be.
    I just wish he would stay in Iraq, he deserves to serve there, as does the draft-dodging, so-called Commander In Chief, and his equally cowardly VP. I would like to put the entire Bush administration in Bagdad, and make them stay there and serve, as they are doing to our people in uniform.

  • This is just another example of BushCo’s continuing effort to corner the irony market.

  • Just goes to show that this administration is as unfamiliar with irony as it is with those pesky things like truth and accountability. Alberto Gonzales helping the Iraqi legal system is kind of like Pete Rose teaching about sportsmanship or Typhoid Mary teaching about health care.

    I never thought I would see the day when this country would be the laughingstock of the world on so many levels.

    I want my country back.

  • Now that Gonzales has helped ruin our justice system, he takes time out of his busy schedule of lying at Congressional hearings to help the Iraqis ruin theirs.

    Typical circular “Bush” logic.

  • I want my country back.

    Anne, I’m guessing you were a Deaniac four years ago?
    I thought that was a great campaign theme.

  • I’m coming to the realization that the Bush Administration is no longer the Daily Show’s wet dream, providing irony, mendacity and brazen idiocy on a heretofore unknown comedic scale. No, these guys are the ones doing the laughing.

    Turning the Beatitudes on their ear, the Bushies are screaming, “screw the meak” and ripping the inheritance of the mild mannered citizens of the world away from them. This trip of Alberto’s to “advise” the Iraqis on the rule of law is brazeness at its “finest.”

    Alberto’s travels to Baghdad mark the high watermark of Bushist influence in the world. With Robert Mugabe’s echoing of Alberto’s ideas about warrantless wiretapping these past days, we are seeing the breadth of the Bushie’s influence in the world. But Gordon Brown is turning the UK slowly away from us and the US will only get more marginalized as other countries begin to see that W’s laissez-faire on acid economic policies are beginning to screw with their own economic systems through such crap as the subprime mortgage debacle.

    These days will be like the oily stain still visible in the Lower 9th Ward after Katrina: this is how bad it got. But this is also like the initial stream of water of water on the face of the Teton Dam shortly before it failed — we will begin to see a more rapid turning away from US policy in the international community as the floodgates let loose. We will have a Sysiphean task to rebuild the international prestige that let US dominate the world for so long. We need to see the signs of our dimishment, sush as the cost of concrete skyrocketing this year as world resources head for China at a premium rather than remain to build this nation.

    We’ve become Barry Bonds these days. We may still be able to flex some impressive muscle but we are the superpower with the asterisk and other will delight in seeing our star lose its luster.

  • UH OHHH…..Gonzo is the only one Bush/Cheny would trust to deliver the Iran ‘plan’. How the justification will go and what the payoff is. We are getting very close now. It’s time to put on the foil……………….

  • Gotta be the scariest words one could hear:

    “I’m from the Bush Administration, and I’m here to help.”

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