From the L.A. Times.
In response to the “recommendation” from General Petraeus that the U.S. should keep 130,000+ troops in Iraq until at least July and spend another $100 billion.
What else could the United States do with a guesstimated $100 billion to reduce the strength and the appeal of Islamist terrorist groups worldwide?
If you think about [...]
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A great question
Posted in Islam, War, iraq, politics, terrorism on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Awww. Iraqis are trying to have their own lil’ preznit!
Posted in Bush, War, iraq on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(Via TPM)
Bush on Maliki:
“[Maliki's] learning to be a leader. And one of my jobs as the president and his ally is to help him be that leader without being patronizing. At some point in time, if I come to the conclusion that he can’t be the leader—he’s unwilling to lead or he’s deceptive—then we’ll change [...]
We’re winning the Iraq War Surge Media Campaign in the U.S. But still losing the war.
Posted in Bush, Journalism, Media, War, memes, politics on September 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Greg Sargent has an excellent breakdown of the public relations campaign to make it look like the surge is working and how the media has enabled it. This sort of thing really is a life or death issue. The longer this type of crap goes on, the more we’re dying over there.
This is not a [...]
Bin Laden – Chasing Smoke
Posted in Republicans, War, afghanistan, bin laden, terrorism on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Newsweek has an excellent article on the ongoing hunt for Osama Bin Laden. If you have no desire to read some of the excellent books on our war in Afghanistan (like Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor or Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzulo) then this article is a more than [...]
Attacking Iran Part 2
Posted in Bush, Conservative Craziness, FoxNews, Iran, War, politics on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films produced a video which illustrates a point I was making in the comments of an earlier post.
Here’s what the reader Martin Sims wrote in part:
Here we are once again considering the terrorist nation of Iran. A nation that controls Palestine through Hamas, Lebanon and Syria though [...]
The Blunder – Hoagland’s excellent op-ed on Bush, Iraq, and the Vietnam analogy
Posted in Bush, Media, War, politics on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Pretty much the short version of this post is “what he says.”
But let me add a couple thoughts which I have been chewing on for awhile.
1. This “Blame Maliki” movement is completely self-serving. I have absolutely no doubt the guy isn’t what we hoped he would be. But I think that says more about our [...]
Attacking Iran
Posted in Bush, Iran, War, What the Fuck? on August 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A growing buzz. It’s been bandied about for awhile now. Remember “the list?” And more recently the Seymour Hersh articles in the New Yorker.
Now former CIA agent Bob Baer says that the Bush Administration will order attacks on Iran within the next 6 months. And John Bolton, the former U.N. Ambassador and all-around asshole (my [...]
Yes, David. I do.
Posted in Conservative Craziness, Minutemen, Republicans, War, What the Fuck?, immigration on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In response, in part, to my earlier post and to Rick Perlstein (who replies in turn), David Horowitz asks if the left knows who the enemy is.
Before I answer in more detail, let me also draw everyone’s attention to something else I posted earlier because a similar theme can be drawn from the Minutemen video [...]
Saving Private Benjamin
Posted in Gender, Misogyny, Sex, Violence Against Women, War on August 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
McClatchy Newspapers has a “Wounded Warriors” blog, which is basically a collection of reports about veteran issues. It’s a great resource for stories which, in my mind, are essential to understanding the Iraq War. And it is also how I came across this commentary, “Pervasive wound of war,” from the Washington Times.
The commentary is about a [...]
Brooks champions Bush’s frighteningly delusional and theocratic ways
Posted in War, god and such on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scary paragraph of the day: David Brooks on why Bush’s unwavering confidence in his Iraq policy is a good thing.
Rather, his self-confidence survives because it flows from two sources. The first is his unconquerable faith in the rightness of his Big Idea. Bush is convinced that history is moving in the direction of democracy, [...]
patriotism
Posted in War on July 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Keith Olbermann on NBC last night called for Bush & Cheney to step down. The whole transcript is here. It’s everything that’s been said millions of times before, but in light of the Libby commuting and it being the 4th of July and all … I don’t know, it just seems especially eloquent right now [...]
more attention to cat deaths in Iraq = end of war? (p.s. I like The View)
Posted in Cat Blogging, Media, Pop Culture, War on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I was just watching The View (which, I don’t know why, feels embarrassing to admit, but I don’t have cable and so I’m pretty much stuck with whatever daytime TV is on the 3 channels I get when I wanna sit down watch TV while eating lunch — and yes, I eat lunch at [...]
signs, signs….
Posted in War on March 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My friend stumbled out of his hotel room in Chicago and found himself in the midst of an anti-war protest, where he snapped a photo of this fabulous sign:
Disco Blood Bath
Posted in Health Morality, War on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What would James St. James say?
But research has not proved that moderate or low doses of ecstasy are particularly dangerous. And avant-garde psychiatrists have long argued that in a controlled clinical setting, low amounts can play a role by reducing fear, without sedation, and so encourage openness and emotional insight.
Posted in War on January 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is so depressing:
The way to come to grips with $1.2 trillion is to forget about the number itself and think instead about what you could buy with the money. When you do that, a trillion stops sounding anything like millions or billions.
For starters, $1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign [...]
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