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3 trillion is a very big number

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

3 trillion dollars is the estimated cost of the Iraq war, an outlay that was totally avoidable and which could have been used for other purposes, or never borrowed in the first place. Numbers that big make your brain go numb. They are literally incomprehensible. This site tries to make them somewhat comprehensible. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgq5suMXCV8[/youtube]

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New Moveon Video

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNqiAgE1kw[/youtube]

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Revising and expanding my remarks

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Yesterday I mentioned that McCain might find it easier still to get away with the lies that he tells about Iraq if he could keep some basic stuff, like the difference between Shiite and Sunni straight. He put his ignorance on display when he confused Sunni and Shiite yet again in his questions to Bush’s […]

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Michael Ware reacts to Petreaus testimony

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Michael Ware tells the truth on television: Wareish-mby luvnews One must wonder why they can’t find guys with brains like that to put in front of the camera on a day to day basis, instead of brain dead people like Blitzer. Or does the comfortable life inside the Beltway cause brain death in formerly intelligent […]

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Zbigniew Brzezinski calls for an exit

Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Washington Post runs against type today and gives some space to Zbigniew Brzezinski, who has opposed the Iraq war from the start. Nothing he says is much different than you can read, for instance, at Juan Cole’s Informed Comment every day, but it’s important that it appears in the pages of a paper that […]

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Hillary and Obama on mercenaries

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hillary Clinton recently announced that, if elected, she would “ask the Joint Chiefs for their help in reducing reliance on armed private military contractors with the goal of ultimately implementing a ban on such contractors,”. When this first came across my RSS reader I thought it was great and intended to give Hillary credit for […]

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Reality intrudes, but who cares?

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Sometimes it seems that we inhabit parallel worlds, in one and the same time and place. There is the “real” world, in which actual things happen, and a virtual world, in which we all pretend to believe in various fantasies. The real world intrudes big time into the front page of the New York Times […]

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Give Senator Warner what he wants

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Recently, Barack Obama made what is actually a relatively non-controversial statement about the state of our Armed Forces: You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of […]

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Documenting the lies

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Center for Public Integrity has created a database of all the lies told by Bush, his puppeteers, and his cronies in the run up to war. Some of the pages seem to be blank, at least when I went there, but there’s still plenty of material. Take a walk down memory lane, look for […]

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Another cost of war

Sunday, January 20, 2008

According to a new report from the Pentagaon “1 in 5 American servicemen and women who have been in Iraq are coming back with brain injuries.”. The same report says that “17 percent of the soldiers returning to war could have a traumatic brain injury”. Presumably, the soldiers returning with TBI run a substantial risk […]

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