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Deja vu all over again

Saturday, August 18, 2007

While wandering through the blogosphere I came across this post at Down with Tyranny in which Howie Klein discusses the recent spate of official factfinding visits to Iraq, during which the visitor is squired around the green zone and fed a line of bull by the military. These folks, most of them already war supporters, […]

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Losing in Afghanistan

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Interesting article in the Times this morning about the failure in Afghanistan (you expected something else from these folks?). It contains the usual litany of failures, incompetence and faith based governance. Nothing new there. I found two things interesting. One was the fact that almost all of the sources were on the record. Apparently the […]

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Fighting terror wearing blinders

Sunday, July 29, 2007

There’s an excellent book review in the Times today (Our War on Terror), in which Samantha Power reviews a number of books which, in one way or another, illustrate the problems with the American approach to fighting terrorism, particularly the disastrous Bush approach. In fact, the review is essentially a catalog of the all-wrong-all-the-time Bush […]

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Joe Courtney on Iraq

Thursday, July 12, 2007

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

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McClatchey calls Bush on Al Qaeda

Friday, June 29, 2007

I am just piggybacking onto Atrios here, but I think it’s worth doing. Recognizing good journalism is as important as decrying the trash, particularly since, for the most part, we internet types don’t have the resources to do original reporting. I have written about the brain dead way portions of our media (including the New […]

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Frank Rich on the surge

Sunday, June 24, 2007

I’m sort of taking the day off. I’m going to watch Sicko, which I am downloading as I write, with Michael Moore’s blessing, apparently. You can download it here. While I’m waiting, I do want to pass on portions of Frank Rich’s column (Times Select, so you have to pay) in the Times today. Rich’s […]

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Talking lesson from George (Orwell, that is)

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Further proof that Bushco considers Orwell’s 1984 a How-To book. Yesterday, I read this post on Josh Marshall’s site, in which he showcased a comment that noted the fact that the people fighting us in Iraq are now being called Al Qaeda by the media. In this morning’s Times the observation is borne out: The […]

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Good growing weather for the House of Blackwater

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Apparently the difference between a mercenary and a “contractor” is that a contractor doesn’t do offensive operations. At least that seems to be the line peddled by the various “security” companies to which the United States has thrown large amounts of money for off the book, and off the Geneva Convention (not that it matters) […]

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General Taguba speaks out

Sunday, June 17, 2007

More reason to believe that we may never recover from the criminality of the Bush Administration in Seymour Hersh’s latest article in the New Yorker. General Antonio Tagula, who conducted a circumscribed (by his superiors) investigation of the Abu Ghraib torture, was forced out of the military in January, and for the first time he […]

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Buying time expecting a miracle

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Today I played a little catchup on my newspaper reading, since I hadn’t been around yesterday to read the Times when it first came. I sort of hopped from yesterday’s paper to today’s, and serendipitously happened to read the following two articles one after the other. The first (The Laptop is Mightier than the Sword), […]

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