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Category: War in Iraq

  • Half of Americans Remain Fucking Stupid

    Nice: Did Saddam Hussein’s government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003? Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a…

  • Back on the Menu: French Fries and French Toast

    The troglodytes in Congress have re-re-named des frites back to French fries. What a bunch of miscreants. This is one of the best examples of the ‘terrorists will win’ madness that might be (?) loosening an iota. The fries on Capitol Hill are French again. So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with…

  • Amy Goodman Puts Beatdown on MSNBC on Chris Matthews's Hardball

    How much do I love Amy Goodman? More every day. Somehow she got on Hardball with Chris Matthews. They were celebrating the 10th birthday of MSNBC and Amy wonders aloud why Phil Donahue wasn’t invited – and then shows the memos that prove his show was cancelled because the network was scared of having an…

  • Glen Greenwald on Chicken Hawks

    Jeff Jacboy went on a tear about the term ‘chicken hawk’ and how it was a slur. Glen Greenwald responds: Chicken-hawkism is the belief that advocating a war from afar is a sign of personal courage and strength, and that opposing a war from afar is a sign of personal cowardice and weakness. and aiming…

  • Pentagon Decides International Law Applies to US

    2 Iraq posts in a row. I know. But this is important. The Pentagon has now decided to treat detainees within the requirements of the Geneva Conventions: “The Pentagon has decided that it will treat all detainees in compliance with the minimum standards spelled out in the Geneva conventions.”  SCOTUS found that Geneva Common Article…

  • Nuremburg Prosecutor: Bush Possible War Criminal

    “Benjamin Ferenccz, a former chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials who successfully convicted 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating death squads that killed more than one million people in the famous Einsatzgruppen Case.” “The United Nations charter has a provision which was agreed to by the United States formulated by the United States…

  • Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War by Greg Palast (Mindmap)

    Must read. You know Greg Palast as the ex-pat journalist that reports for the BBC and reported to the rest of the world how the 2000 election was FUBARed while no one in the US did a damned thing. He’s back. Armed Madhouse is a complete tour of the greedy, selfish assholes that run our…

  • Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast

    Andymatic 017 Gay Podcast Dr. Eric from drericsblog.com and I work out the world’s problems.

  • HOWTO: Design a Civil War

    Another facsinating comment on Metafilter details why Iraq is failing – it was designed to slide into civil war. Iraq as a country is designed to fail. [T]he British carefully used their monopoly over cartography to ensure that these newly independent entities were cut up into chunks that would perpetuate ethnic strife and provide a…

  • GOP Congress Repeal Measure That Would Prevent Permanent Bases in Iraq

    It’s not an imperial over-reach of an occupation if we aren’t going to have permanent bases there. That’s out the window… Congressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker and…