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Well, That Was Worth It

August 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Awright! We got Osama! Or, really, his cook. But how’s he gonna get his lamb kabobs now, huh? Anyway, the cook will get two years, wherever the military decides to finally put him. The judge, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Paul, said an assistant defense secretary ordered two years ago that the Army and the [...]

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Tags: human rights · war

In Case You Didn’t Hear it the First Kabillion Times….

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments

So the ObamAdmin’s response to the WikiLeaks papers: “We are in this region of the world because of what happened on 9/11,” Mr. Gibbs said. “Ensuring that there is not a safe haven in Afghanistan by which attacks against this country and countries around the world can be planned. That’s why we’re there, and that’s [...]

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Tags: war

We Will Fight the Heathens

July 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Taliban claims to have captured two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, while U.S. missiles kill 16 “militants” in Northwest Pakistan. Meanwhile my kids’ school district is cutting over a hundred jobs and consolidating schools. Unemployment remains at about 10 percent (which translate up to 16 percent, at least) when it took Congress 7 weeks to [...]

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Tags: war

The Point is What?

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Oh, Daily Beast, you are a wonder. When I tire of the right wing war blather, there you are, serving up the liberal equivalent. But first, I agree with Atrios — Peter Beinart has a point: Last summer, he tried to split the difference—surging in Afghanistan while simultaneously pledging to retreat on the theory that [...]

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Tags: politics · war

Help! The President’s Dick is IN DANGER!

June 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

ONOZ. Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge on why [McChrystal] must be fired—and how Obama is in danger of becoming a wuss. Not a wuss! At first I thought this choice of words came from the Daily Beast editors, no strangers to crass and reductionist language. For most of the column, Hoge himself takes the long [...]

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Tags: obama · politics · war