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Category: War in Iraq

  • Our New $1.2 Billion/Year Embassy in Iraq

    But we’re not an occupying force: Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. Come on Democrats. You are being handed the fucking playbook. While Americans will be living in posh […]

  • Andrew Bacevich on a Father's Grief

    Andrew Bacevich (author of American Empire and The New American Militarism) on the recent loss of his son in Iraq: I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty. After my son’s death, my state’s senators, Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry, telephoned to express their condolences. Stephen […]

  • Cindy Sheehan Gives Up

    Epic: when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of […]

  • Iraq War Roundup

    Much falling out from Reddit.com: Young officers leaving army at alarming rate after initial commitments met: Suddenly every holiday is about the military WaPo to report that Blackwater mercenary forces opened fire on Iraq forces. Cheney wipes his ass with the Geneva Conventions in his address to West Point grads. 4 year old boy beaten […]

  • Obama: Check Your Voicemail

    Give me a fucking break. I call Obama’s office in DC to call in support for stopping this stupid hellhole of a war immediately: voicemailbox is full.

  • Olbermann on the Democrats Rolling Over on Iraq Timetables

    Thank you. Few men or women elected in our history—whether executive or legislative, state or national—have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear: Get us out of Iraq. … You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions—Stop The War—have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and […]

  • Iraq Troops to Double By Christmas

    But it isn’t an escalation: The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. The actions could boost the number of combat soldiers from 52,500 in early January to as many as 98,000 by the end of […]

  • House Dems Fail on Timetable, Still Looking for Scrotum

    Goddamn this. Speaker Nancy Pelosi will present a plan to House Democrats for a war funding bill that won’t include a timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq but will feature benchmarks with consequences, according to Democratic leadership aides… Leadership aides said the benchmarks would be tied to Iraq reconstruction aid and would require President […]

  • Propaganda Campaign Planned 2 Months Before Invasion

    (old story I know but adding it to the queue from Reddit) The White Paper, prepared in January 2003, lays out plans to install American-friendly media with an Iraqi face and to silence local anti-US news outlets, referred to in the paper as “hate media.” Also released by the National Security Archives were a Power […]

  • Andrew Bacevich on Semiwar

    Andrew Bacevich remains one of my favorite non-fiction authors. His 2 books have truly been a great education in the last several decades of foreign policy. To imagine that getting rid of Bush will cure what ails the body politic is akin to assuming that excising a tumor will alone suffice to cure cancer. The […]