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Latest Articles: Editorial
Why Petraeus' intriguing new Iraq strategy will probably fail.
Post Date: 2007-07-25 21:47:08 by tom007
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Why Petraeus' intriguing new Iraq strategy will probably fail. By Fred Kaplan Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007, at 5:51 PM ET Gen. David Petraeus. Click image to expand.Gen. David Petraeus Judging from the New York Times' July 24 sneak preview, the new strategy for the war in Iraq—the eagerly awaited plan that Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker have promised to deliver this September—seems ambitious and intriguing, but confusing in concept and highly impractical. If the U.S. military had, say, 100,000 more troops to send and another 10 years to keep them there; if the Iraqi security forces (especially the Iraqi police) were as skilled and, more important, as ...
Help Stamp Out Stupidity
Post Date: 2007-07-25 20:09:15 by BlueEyedGirl
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“In the original publication of this column it was implied that the Humane Society of the United State engaged or supported violent or illegal activities. According to the HSUSA, ‘At no time has the HSUSA ever supported condoned, or encouraged the use of violent or illegal means to advance the cause of animal protection.’ We regret any confusion or misunderstanding our publication may have caused.” By Gary Truitt The word “stupid” is defined by Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia, as “the quality or condition of being stupid, or lacking intelligence , as opposed to being merely ignorant or uneducated. This quality can be attributed to both an ...
Banked Into Submission
Post Date: 2007-07-25 09:12:52 by robin
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Part III of our globalization comic series. In this mini-episode, Bunny tells Mimi about the World Bank and IMF and how wonderful they are.
An African's plea: No more 'saviors'
Post Date: 2007-07-25 00:44:40 by Tauzero
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An African's plea: No more 'saviors' Africa doesn't want to be saved. With fair partnerships, it is capable of unprecedented growth. By Uzodinma Iweala Last fall, shortly after I returned from Nigeria, I was accosted by a perky blond college student whose blue eyes seemed to match the "African" beads around her wrists. "Save Darfur!" she shouted from behind a table covered with pamphlets urging students to TAKE ACTION NOW! STOP GENOCIDE IN DARFUR! My aversion to college kids jumping onto fashionable social causes nearly caused me to walk on, but her next shout stopped me. "Don't you want to help us save Africa?" she yelled. It seems ...
The Whir Before the War
Post Date: 2007-07-24 20:30:11 by tom007
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The Whir Before the War By John Kelly Tuesday, July 24, 2007; B03 The recent Answer Man columns about helicopters in the Washington area prompted a phone call from Ray Lustig, a retired Washington Post photographer who lives in the Palisades section of Northwest Washington. Ray has lived in that neighborhood for 39 years. He's had a lot of time to make some detailed observations of its various rhythms. One thing he's noticed is that every major U.S. military action was preceded by increased helicopter traffic over his house, as choppers shuttled people back and forth between the Pentagon and CIA headquarters, which is across the Potomac River from where he lives. Desert Storm, ...
Editorial: It's time to stop accepting Bush's failures
Post Date: 2007-07-24 17:50:38 by tom007
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Editorial: It's time to stop accepting Bush's failures related linksMore Editorial * Editorial: Leave superintendent search to school board * Editorial: NFL star Vick should be leashed - for now * Editorial: On how to spread costs of airport upgrades STORY TOOLS * E-mail story * Comments * iPod friendly * Printer friendly SHARE THIS STORY [?] Newsvine Del.icio.us Digg Fark Yahoo! Reddit It's hard to know what to think these days about U.S. security, what with attempted car bombings at Britain's airports, terrorist threat assessments rising in the United States, nonspecific warnings of a possible terrorist attack this summer and President Bush finally facing a serious ...
Just what the founders feared: an imperial president goes to war
Post Date: 2007-07-24 06:30:18 by Ada
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The nation is heading toward a constitutional showdown over the Iraq war. Congress is moving closer to passing a bill to limit or end the war, but President Bush insists Congress doesn’t have the power to do it. “I don’t think Congress ought to be running the war,” he said at a recent press conference. “I think they ought to be funding the troops.” He added magnanimously: “I’m certainly interested in their opinion.” The war is hardly the only area where the Bush administration is trying to expand its powers beyond all legal justification. But the danger of an imperial presidency is particularly great when a president takes the nation to war, ...
Stiffen Your Upper Lip
Post Date: 2007-07-23 13:05:54 by ghostdogtxn
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The Washington Post is on Crack
Post Date: 2007-07-22 19:11:36 by tom007
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The Washington Post is on Crack by Cenk Uygur | Jul 21 2007 - 7:46pm | permalink article tools: email | print | read more Cenk Uygur In an editorial in Saturday's paper called "The Phony Debate," the Washington Post claims it is Harry Reid who is keeping the US government from agreeing on a sensible withdrawal plan from Iraq. Who wrote this editorial, Mitch McConnell, Bill Kristol, President Bush? What kind of crack do you have to be smoking to claim that it's Senator Reid and not President Bush who is keeping us in Iraq? That is such an outrageous proposition that it makes you question the Washington Post's credibility, or their sanity. Look at this absolute crap ...
How Will They Destroy Ron Paul?
Post Date: 2007-07-22 19:07:53 by tom007
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How Will They Destroy Ron Paul? by Mike Whitney | May 25 2007 - 3:08pm | permalink article tools: email | print | read more Mike Whitney How will the media destroy Ron Paul? We all know the drill by now. Whenever a politician with character and principles throws his hat in the ring the media descends on him like feral hounds on a pork chop. It’ll be no different with Paul. The only difference this time is that we should all be aware of what’s really going on. Did you see the Republican debates? Paul won hands-down. He stood out in a crowd of colorless toadies and became an overnight internet-sensation. In fact, an ABC survey showed that Paul won the first debate with an 85% ...
The World After George W. Bush
Post Date: 2007-07-22 16:39:15 by Mekons4
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The world after George W. Bush July 22, 2007 PRESIDENT BUSH has hinted more than once that he expects to leave to his successor the task of ending America's military occupation of Iraq. His reasons for doing so may go beyond calculations about the time needed to establish security and a functioning government in Iraq, beyond a reluctance to enter history as a president who presided over the retreat from a lost war. Perhaps Bush senses that the change of direction required to cut the nation's losses in Iraq would expose the flagrant misconceptions on which his conduct of the Iraq war was based. If Bush were to accept the need to cut deals with Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia ...
How Will the Third Lebanon War Start?
Post Date: 2007-07-22 14:01:11 by Eoghan
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It is the one year anniversary of the "Second Lebanon War" as the Israelis now call it. It took them nearly as long to finally decide on a name for their failed campaign against Hezbollah--an understandably difficult task when you lose in the manner they did last summer. Since then, both Israel and the United States have not stopped seething at the opportunity lost to vanquish an organization which has proven itself capable of doing what no other Arab country, party or ruler has ever done before: precipitating an Israeli retreat from occupied territory as occurred in 2000 and withstanding the full onslaught by their lauded military last year, allowing them to emerge the victor. ...
Voice of the White House 20 July
Post Date: 2007-07-21 11:35:13 by Eoghan
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Washington, D.C., July 19, 2007: “This is such a lovely place to work. Packs of sweating and desperate Republican Congressmen coming in and out, trying to talk to Bush and get him to at least make some kind of promise (of course never to be kept) about withdrawing or at least to stop snarling at people. Pointless. Bush is constantly in a rage here and yesterday, I had to deliver something to the West Wing. After I had dropped of my files and was heading back to my office, someone opened a door and I could hear, very clearly, Our Beloved President screaming with rage. He said, and I quote: “Goddamit! I said to quit bugging me about Iraq! I will never withdraw a single man from ...
Well I Just Wrestled My First Alligator - tom007
Post Date: 2007-07-20 23:41:52 by tom007
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Been In Louisiana fro the last week tending to the death of my great father in Law. Last Sunday cousins in law (that we don't know very well)invite us on their pontoon boat to run up and down the river in Lake Charles. We had a great time on this pontoon speedboat w/ 150 hp out board. So tonight we go over to their place for shrimp etuffe, shrimp cornbread and scallops wrapped in bacon. But as we were getting out of the car, Steve, my CIL's friend says "look in the pickup bed." There is a six foot four inch alligator with an attitude - duct taped safe. It's rear feet were taped behind his back, and, naturally, his jaws were duct taped. Couldn't believe it. He ...
Paul Craig Roberts: A Wake-up Call
Post Date: 2007-07-20 20:03:19 by ...
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07/19/07 "ICH" -- -- This is a wake-up call that we are about to have another 9/11-WMD experience. The wake-up call is unlikely to be effective, because the American attitude toward government changed fundamentally seventy-odd years ago. Prior to the 1930s, Americans were suspicious of government, but with the arrival of the Great Depression, Tojo, and Hitler, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convinced Americans that government existed to protect them from rapacious private interests and foreign threats. Today, Americans are more likely to give the benefit of the doubt to government than they are to family members, friends, and those who would warn them about the ...
Fun Smart Test - See How Smart You Are
Post Date: 2007-07-20 17:32:12 by tom007
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Ron Paul
Post Date: 2007-07-19 20:39:32 by tom007
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Please Watch This
Post Date: 2007-07-19 19:09:20 by tom007
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Mind Control and HAARP
Post Date: 2007-07-19 18:23:11 by Eoghan
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I received the following message from someone with whom I have been having a interesting email exchange. He was responding to our podcast on Mind Control, HAARP, and the Coming Catastrophe. He didn't want to post it himself, hoping to preserve some anonymity, so I am posting it in his place. I removed a few personal references, but other than that, it is as he wrote it to me. The dumbing down of the American public has been the subject of much speculation. It is blamed on the public school system, television, flouride in the water, computer games, and other things. The following looks at the use of technology. My information only confirms the conclusions I heard on the podcast, but ...
A failed strategy -- al-Qaeda prospers under Bush
Post Date: 2007-07-19 13:34:47 by Ferret Mike
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The dragon's teeth sown by the Bush administration's miscalculation and outright incompetence in pursuit of the war on terror are beginning to yield their deadly fruit. Hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of corpses after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the latest formal assessment of the terrorist threat facing the United States concludes that the nation is losing ground in the fight against al-Qaeda. Far from being "on the run," as President Bush has frequently proclaimed, the terrorist organization has significantly strengthened over the past two years. The assessments in the National Intelligence Estimate released Tuesday call into question not just ...
Why did Americans support Bush? (Part 1)
Post Date: 2007-07-18 13:04:15 by christine
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It has long intrigued me why the German people supported Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. After all, every schoolchild in America is taught that Hitler and his Nazi cohorts were the very epitome of evil. How could ordinary German citizens support people who were so obviously monstrous in nature? Standing against the Nazi tide was a remarkable group of young people known as the White Rose. Led by Hans and Sophie Scholl, a German brother and sister who were students at the University of Munich, the White Rose consisted of college students and a college professor who risked their lives to circulate anti-government pamphlets in the midst of World War II. Their arrest and trial was depicted in ...
Why Bush Is A Loser
Post Date: 2007-07-18 02:43:09 by ...
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Who knew Bill Kristol had such a flair for satire? How else to read his piece for Outlook on Sunday, in which he declared, "George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one"? Surely Kristol, the No. 1 cheerleader for the Iraq war, was mocking himself (and his neoconservative pals) for having been so mistaken about so much. But just in case his article was meant to be a serious stab at commentary, let's review Kristol's record as a prognosticator. On Sept. 18, 2002, he declared that a war in Iraq "could have terrifically good effects throughout the Middle East." A day later, he said Saddam Hussein was "past the finish line" in ...
How Bush Uses His Generals
Post Date: 2007-07-16 23:16:44 by Ferret Mike
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President Bush says that he should be trusted on military issues because he listens to his commanders. But he has a tendency to celebrate his generals when they're providing him political cover -- then stick a knife in their backs when they're no longer of any use to him. Last week, Bush rejected any blame for the chaos that ensued in Iraq after the March 2003 invasion. So whose fault was it? Bush pointed the finger at Gen. Tommy Franks, the Central Command chief at the time. "My primary question to General Franks was, do you have what it takes to succeed? And do you have what it takes to succeed after you succeed in removing Saddam Hussein? And his answer was, yes," Bush ...
The Double Hypocrisy of the Rightwing: The Vitter’s Victual
Post Date: 2007-07-16 19:13:38 by Brian S
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"How could you justify doing something like this? Why is it your business?" So Tucker Carlson asked me last Wednesday on his television talk show. Why would the Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG), under the editorial management of Lori Price, publish the "DC Madam's" phone list? Why wouldn't my own sexual behavior also be a topic of concern? Our answer is that the CLG is not appalled at the immorality of visiting an escort or house of prostitution. As a liberal news and activist organization, we generally couldn’t care less about the sexual proclivities of elected officials, unless such activities are illegal or involve children. Anyone who has any ...
If We Ever Meet Irving Kristol We Are Going to Knee Him in the Balls
Post Date: 2007-07-16 18:27:38 by Zipporah
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If We Ever Meet Irving Kristol We Are Going to Knee Him in the Balls It is also far too early in the morning for Bill Kristol to be saying this nonsense. I suppose I’ll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush’s presidency will probably be a successful one. See, now we wish our ridicule could harm you. We are too hungover to even mock this editorial. All we can do is blockquote it incredulously. Let’s step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Yes, let’s. Let’s step all the way back to bed. Let’s step back to a magical bed ...
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