Playing Politics with Oil Reserves
Moon of Alabama Today Bush stopped refilling the national emergency oil reserve which has been depleted in the aftermath of Katrina. In 2004 Senator Kerry had demanded such a stop. What was Bush's answer?
View ArticleOfficial Report to Congress: Iraq War Prepared In 2001
via Moon of AlabamaThe non-partisan Congressional Research Service has made a new estimate for the costs of the War on Iraq and War on Afghanistan. Like often, the Washington Post in reporting this...
View ArticleThe Locksmith Made Me Torch My Neighbor's House
X-posted at Moon of Alabama ------Your Honor, let me first thank you for the opportunity to defend myself. I am here accused of having burned down my neighbor's house. Did I do so? Did I set fire on my...
View ArticleMay 1, 1844, 1886, 1929 and 2006: "Who did betray us ..."
"Wer hat uns verraten Sozialdemokraten" In English: "Who did betray usSocial-de-mo-crats" The slogan above is still shouted these days during left-wing rallies in Germany. Few remember its historic...
View ArticleLebanon Endgame: Stalemate
How will the current Lebanon conflict end? Israel is day by day losing its moral ground. Attacks on clearly marked ambulances, the use of cluster ammunition and phosphorous bombs are now toping the...
View ArticlePremature Ejaculation
Five thoughts on Lebanon: There were cultural(1) and economic(2) reasons for Israel to attack Lebanon. But there are several hints that the current attack is a premature ejaculation(3). Disarming...
View ArticleTOWs - "Manufactured by [poll]"
Hizbullah's older anti-tank weapons have been effective against armoured personnel carriers and buildings used by soldiers for shelters. Its newer weapons such as the Russian Kornet and US TOW missiles...
View ArticleIraq's "Gated Communities" and the Sarafiya Bridge
(X-posted at Moon of Alabama)Connect these dots: The U.S. army is building a large wall to seperate one area in Baghdad from its neighbor areas. This to control everything going in and out from the...
View ArticleURGENT: The Imminent Golf Crisis
crossposted at Moon of Alabama -----History professor Andrew J. Bacevich questions why every major politician wants to add some 100,000 troops and increase defense spending. "What is the use?" he...
View ArticleUrbicide in Baqubah
(crossposted at Moon of Alabama)There is a new detailed analysis out on the "War and Operation in Iraq" written by the Global Policy Forum and some thirty non-governmental-organizations. It is...
View ArticleA Short Lecture on Executive-Legislative Duality (snark)
Two days ago the press corps and White House spokesperson Dana Perino were collectively speculating about Cheney's positioning in the executive and/or legislative branch. MS. PERINO: The executive...
View ArticleThe London-Glasgow Terror "Similarities"
(x-posted at Moon of Alabama)The British officials are freaking out about the incidents in London and Glasgow, pushing the terror alert to the top level. According to the BBC they do believe the cars...
View ArticleNathan Sharansky - Lying with Statistics
(x-posted at Moon of Alabama)In a Washington Post OpEd arch-zionist, likudnik, human rights promoter and GWB favorite Natan Sharansky is urging against a U.S. pullout: Leave Iraq and Brace for a...
View ArticleWhen Soldiers Die, "We're winning" and some Pat Tillman Relation
(x-posted at Moon of Alabama)While being totally against the U.S. war on Iraq, I still feel some empathy for the troops being send there. Having been a soldier myself, it is painful to see them wasted...
View ArticleContrary to Bush's New Lie - Iran Does Not Want Nukes
It is tiresome to again and again refute U.S. lies about Iran's civil nuclear program. But it is important to not let the propaganda win and to refute it every time it threatens to take the lead. Bush...
View ArticleSix Years At Tora Bora?!?
From the annals of somewhat ridiculous news: Reuters, August 16, 2007Afghan, U.S. forces assault al Qaeda in Tora BoraU.S. and Afghan air and ground forces pounded al Qaeda militants for a second day...
View ArticleHow to make them care about you - an answer to kid oakland
In his diary they don't care about us and never did kid oakland makes some valid points on how little the Democrats in Washington care about the progressive "kooks" that support them. We are utterly...
View ArticleDem Candidates Will Prosecute Torturers Or Not?
One Malcolm Nance, who has personal experience on the issue, explains why Waterboarding is Torture... Period.The Democrats and the Democratic presidential candidates seem to be against applying such...
View ArticleNow: The Real Enemy in Afghanistan
The U.S. is finally fighting the real enemy in Afghanistan.As the Air Force Print News service reports: An F/A-18C dropped a GBU-12 onto an enemy building engaging coalition forces near Delaram....
View ArticleFirst Sgt. Hatley and the Beauchamp TNR Affair
A U.S. Army First Sergeant described as a murderer in today's NYT seems to be the same one that led the unit involved in last years New Republic / Beauchamp controversy.In July 2007 a U.S. soldier...
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