URGENT: 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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