Iraq Surge 2.0 (or is it 3.0? 4.0? ... 3266!)
When the surge doesn't work, what does the Bush Administration do? Surge some more!New orders awaiting the signature of Defense Secretary Robert Gates will put 12,000 National Guard troops on alert to...
View ArticleSurge and Splurge 2007
Via Shakesville, we learn that Hearst Newspapers did a little reading between the Pentagon lines:The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this...
View ArticlePentagon admits to following strategy dictated by terrorists
The buzz today in the political blogosphere has been, of course, the Pentagon's rebuke of Hillary Clinton.In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of...
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Forget about Bush and Cheney - Impeach the Precedents they've Claimed
Impeachment of the worst White House administration in history comes upeveryday in the blogosphere -- and not without itsskeptics. I've been rather skeptical about it all myself. What with how the...
View ArticlePatriotism, n. - Loyalty, devotion and duty to the Republican Party
Americans who are not Republicans are enemies of America.That's the message throughout the latest swift-boat smears on Barack Obama, faithfully passed on by our mainstream media, whose measure of...
View ArticleColonialism
100 years? 1000 years? 10,000 year? Is John McCain kidding? No. None of the Republicans (nor a few Democracts either) is kidding. America, to them, is to be a colonial empire.Never mind how America was...
View ArticleNew spin on newspapers' drumbeat for war
Greg Mitchell tries to claim in Editor & Publisher that many major papers five years ago were in fact against the war on Iraq.You may be surprised to learn that, precisely five years ago, at least...
View ArticleWhile McCain rambles on about last year's surge, Obama points to the job ignored
John McCain says:"Let me be very clear, I am not questioning his patriotism, I am questioning his judgement. Senator Obama has made it clear he values withdrawal from Iraq above victory in Iraq."He has...
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Rewriting history, Pope Benedict claims Nazis were atheists
Not that I claim to know more than Pope Benedict's first-person Nazi expertise, but his claim that Nazis were about atheism is somewhat bizarre:The Pope used this speech to warn Britain about...
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And the Band Droned On
In my undergraduate class in anthropology, one of the texts related how during World War Two, soldiers in the US Army were given vitamins. But there was a religious denomination that opposed taking...
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