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Veto bait

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:27 PM
The pending House appropriations bill that would provide "emergency" funding for the continued occupation of Iraq is certain to draw a veto from the White House (and how much longer is this five-year-old occupation going to be falsely labeled an "emergency"
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Some interesting quotes from a recovering neocon

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:30 PM
Lawrence F. Kaplan, one of the premier neocon cheerleaders for the invasion of Iraq, has had a change of heart. He no longer considers himself a neocon, and he has had some very unflattering things to say about the Iraq invasion (which he and William
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Sanchez speaks

Monday, May 05, 2008 8:52 PM
From a new memoir by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former commander of US forces in Iraq : Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily
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Quote of the day (on Iraq)

Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:13 PM
The quote of the day comes from today's NYT editorial : We believe that the fight against Al Qaeda is the central battle for this generation, but Mr. Bush’s claim that Iraq is the main front is wrong. That is Afghanistan, and the United States is in real
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Petraeus shills for Bush again

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:19 PM
General David Petraeus gave one of his patented dog-and-pony shows before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, in which he suggested that the administration's failed strategy in Iraq should be given even more time to continue failing : Telling Congress
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Cheney insults the American public and the troops

Monday, March 24, 2008 8:38 PM
Today marks twice in one week Dick Cheney has insulted the American people, and now he's been brazen enough to insult the troops he and Bush have placed in harm's way. The outrage began last week , when Cheney was faced with this question: RADDATZ: Let
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On the fifth anniversary of a dark stain

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:53 PM
Five years ago, the majority of the American public believed Bush's portfolio of lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Five years and 4,000 dead American soldiers later, the lies remain unpunished and the occupation continues to be a disaster. Hans
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Pentagon buries report showing no links between Saddam and al Qaeda

Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:09 PM
Up until yesterday, the Pentagon planned to release a landmark survey of over 600,000 seized Iraqi documents that showed conclusively there was no connection between al Qaeda and the regime of Saddam Hussein. At the last minute, the Pentagon decided to
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Is it irony, or is it karma?

Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:42 PM
I'll bet Dick Cheney's head is about to explode : Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the 2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday. [...] Saddam Hussein's government signed a
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Survey of US military brass says US forces "stretched dangerously thin" by Iraq

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:48 PM
Foreign Policy has conducted a survey of current and retired senior military officers, asking for their opinions on the current state of US forces. The results are disturbing . First, a note about those surveyed: In all, more than 3,400 officers holding
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Congressional Dems find more streamlined way to cave to Bush

Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:45 PM
Concerned that they cannot cave to the Bush administration fast enough, Congressional Democrats are coming up with a way to streamline the process of giving Bush whatever he wants : Speaking to reporters here Thursday, both House Majority Leader Steny
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Sometimes history really does repeat itself

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:11 PM
In a fascinating example of history nearly repeating itself, it turns out that the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened. The Vietnam War was based on false pretenses . The standard narrative of the run-up to the Vietnam War goes like this: The Gulf
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Some thoughts on Edwards

Friday, January 04, 2008 12:07 PM
After John Edwards's strong second-place finish in last night's Iowa caucus, he had this to say : [C]orporate greed has got a stranglehold on America. And unless and until we have a president in the proud tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt,
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Bush protects the wrong people, and TSA doesn't protect anybody

Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:03 PM
Two (mostly) unrelated stories caught my eye today; both have to do with protecting the wrong interests. First, President Bush has refused to sign a defense spending bill; his reasons were curious : And then Friday, with no warning, a vacationing Bush
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In which I engage in wild speculation on Bush, Iran, Iraq, and the NIE

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:46 PM
For the last couple of years, the neocons and their puppets have been shouting about the dangers allegedly posed by Iran and its oh-so-scary nuclear program. Just two months ago, President Bush said this about the threat that Iran's nuclear program represented
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Not supporting the troops

Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:55 PM
The Democrats in Congress might actually be growing a spine (although the jury is still out on that one). The House recently passed a $50 billion funding bill for the Iraq debacle, which the Republicans in the Senate promptly blocked because the bill
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An American community poisoned by depleted uranium

Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:37 AM
The Albany suburb of Colonie, New York has spent the last fifty years being slowly poisoned by a now-shuttered depleted uranium weapons plant. The residents continue to suffer the insufferable, bearing the consequences of government negligence. Ironically,
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The hidden costs of the Iraq war

Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:29 PM
Crafted as a memo to President Bush, Tyler Cowan lays out the true costs of the Iraq war , not all of them measurable in dollars: To: President George W. Bush Subject: The Hidden Costs of Iraq You may recall that you got rid of your loyal White House
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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:00 AM
Almost all of modern history has transpired as the result of a single gunshot fired in Sarajevo in 1914. When the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Hapsburg Archduke Ferdinand, Bismarck's famous prediction came true: that a catastrophic
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Immunity for Blackwater thugs

Monday, October 29, 2007 10:43 PM
Let me see if I have this sequence correct : State Department hires armed Blackwater thugs to provide "security" in Iraq in order to mask the true number of US personnel deployed there. Said thugs murder 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians. State Department grants
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