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Latest Articles: Editorial
Shut Up! Sacrifice! ...and SURGE! Right Wing Talk Radio Must Put Its Money Where Its Big Mouth Is
Post Date: 2007-01-08 12:33:14 by Brian S
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Jan. 7, 2007 -- Hollywood (apj.us) -- Question: What do Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the Far Right Lords of Loud have in common?Answer: They all make a zillions on the backs of half-truths and failed Republican policies?Answer: They all decry the divisiveness in America yet know that they make their livings on dividing America?Answer: They all demean and demonize those who disagree with them, they blame everyone but themselves for making personal attacks?Answer: After touting our War President and his war as being a near bloodless walkover, they now say that no one ever said this would be easy... despite the lockstep administration pre-invasion notion that ...
Gen Wes Clark: The Smart Surge: Diplomacy
Post Date: 2007-01-08 11:39:34 by ...
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The odds are that this week President Bush will announce a "surge" of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq. Will this deliver a "win"? Probably not. But it will distract us from facing the deep-seated regional issues that must be resolved. The administration views a troop surge of modest size as virtually the only remaining action in Iraq that would be a visible signal of determination. More economic assistance is likely to be touted, but absent a change in the pattern of violence, infrastructure enhancement simply isn't practical. Yes, several additional brigades in Baghdad would allow for more roadblocks, patrols and neighborhood-clearing operations. ...
Faux News Editorial: To Win in Baghdad, Strike at Tehran
Post Date: 2007-01-07 20:54:08 by Brian S
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Sunday, January 07, 2007 By Robert Tracinski This week, President Bush is expected to give a major speech announcing a new strategy in Iraq. This is an excellent opportunity for the administration to announce a big strategic change that could dramatically improve America's prospects in Iraq. Unfortunately, however, no one has been discussing the one option that would actually have this effect. The president's current opportunity should not be underestimated. As weak as he seems, politically, President Bush has no real competition in setting policy for Iraq. Between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, the Iraq Study Group had its 15 minutes of fame and faded away without ...
Bush's 'Surge' Will Backfire
Post Date: 2007-01-07 20:20:06 by Brian S
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The rise in troop numbers could reduce the urgency for political effort Published: 07 January 2007 The odds are that President George Bush will announce a "surge" of up to 20,000 additional US troops in Iraq. But why? Will this deliver a "win"? The answers: a combination of misunderstanding and desperation; and, probably not. The recent congressional elections - which turned over control of both houses to the Democrats - were largely a referendum on President Bush, and much of the vote reflected public dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq. Most Americans see the US effort as failing, and believe that some different course of action must be taken. Most favour ...
The Surge: Political Cover or Escalation?
Post Date: 2007-01-07 15:15:01 by innieway
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The new year began on the hopeful note that Bush’s illegal war in Iraq would soon be ended. The repudiation of Bush and the Republicans in the November congressional election, the Iraq Study Group’s unanimous conclusion that the US needs to remove its troops from the sectarian strife Bush set in motion by invading Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s removal as defense secretary and his replacement by Iraqi Study Group member Robert Gates, the thumbs down given by America’s top military commanders to the neoconservatives’ plan to send more US troops to Iraq, and new polls of the US military that reveal that only a minority supports Bush’s Iraq policy, thus giving new ...
Dispatch from the Chinese landfill
Post Date: 2007-01-07 12:39:00 by robin
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CommentaryDispatch from the Chinese landfillBy Joe BageantOnline Journal Contributing Writer Jan 5, 2007, 00:47 Despite the bad name he has with liberals these days, Jesus did have the right idea. He’d get right down there on the street and grunt with the people, feeling them all over and healing their boils, feeding them and preaching his ass off while everybody hollered and saw the light as blind men popped open their eyes and lame folks started doing the Dead Sea Macarena. No maintaining a professional distance, no opinion polls for that guy. He just went out there and “got ’er done” in plain sight of everybody. Including the Jewish religious mafia ands the Roman ...
New Year reflections
Post Date: 2007-01-07 12:33:59 by robin
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New Year reflectionsBy Ramzy BaroudOnline Journal Contributing Writer Jan 5, 2007, 00:55 2006 was yet another year of tribulations in the ever tumultuous Middle East. It defied all early expectations that 2005 would be the worst for many years to follow. It ended on a sad note in Palestine, and left wide open the chance for many appalling possibilities that stretch from Baghdad, to Lebanon, to Mogadishu, and elsewhere.Like January 2005, January 2006 brought about momentous elections, the former in Iraq, and the latter in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; both occasions, which had the potential of becoming icons of democratic experiences, led to unmitigated disasters, exposing the ...
The Imperial Presidency 2.0 [MSM One Step Short of the "I" Word]
Post Date: 2007-01-07 11:27:18 by Morgana le Fay
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Observing President Bush in action lately, we have to wonder if he actually watched the election returns in November, or if he was just rerunning the 2002 vote on his TiVo. That year, the White House used the fear of terrorism to scare American voters into cementing the Republican domination of Congress. Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney then embarked on an expansion of presidential power chilling both in its sweep and in the damage it did to the constitutional system of checks and balances. In 2006, the voters sent Mr. Bush a powerful message that it was time to rein in his imperial ambitions. But we have yet to see any sign that Mr. Bush understands that — or even realizes ...
Abortion Rights Are Pro-Life
Post Date: 2007-01-06 21:13:06 by gargantuton
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Abortion Rights Are Pro-Life Friday, January 17, 2003 By: Leonard Peikoff Roe v. Wade anniversary still finds defense of the right to abortion compromised. Thirty years after Roe v. Wade, no one defends the right to abortion in fundamental, moral terms, which is why the pro-abortion rights forces are on the defensive. Abortion-rights advocates should not cede the terms "pro-life" and "right to life" to the anti-abortionists. It is a woman's right to her life that gives her the right to terminate her pregnancy. Nor should abortion-rights advocates keep hiding behind the phrase "a woman's right to choose." Does she have the right to choose murder? ...
The Nuclear Paradox
Post Date: 2007-01-06 13:35:45 by robin
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Middle EastThe Nuclear Paradox By Elson Concepcion Perez Jan 5, 2007, 01:39 It is more than a paradox. The United States, the world's leadingmilitary power and the only country to use the atom bomb againsthumans, is leading the pressure against Iran for its efforts todevelop a nuclear energy program for peaceful ends. The crusade has reached the point that the UN Security Councilrecently passed sanctions against Iran for exercising its right touse this energy source to meet its development needs. The paradox is even more apparent when Washington remains silent,like its European partners, about the nuclear weapons arsenal ofIsrael, its strategic Middle Eastern ally and spearhead of ...
They have made a killing
Post Date: 2007-01-06 11:59:45 by innieway
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The US has spent a million dollars for every dead Iraqi - is that what they mean by value for money? Terry Jones Saturday January 6, 2007 The Guardian Early this year the Bush administration is to ask Congress to approve an additional $100bn for the onerous task of making life intolerable for the Iraqis. This will bring the total spent on the White House's current obsession with war to almost $500bn - enough to have given every US citizen $1,600 each. I wonder which the voters would have gone for if given the choice: shall we (a) give every American $1,600 or (b) spend the money on bombing a country in the Middle East that doesn't use lavatory paper? Of course, there's ...
3000 American Deaths in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-01-06 10:48:59 by Ada
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Before the US House of Representatives, January 5, 2007 Mr. Speaker, Saddam Hussein is Dead. So are Three Thousand Americans. The regime in Iraq has been changed. Yet victory will not be declared: not only does the war go on, it’s about to escalate. Obviously the turmoil in Iraq is worse than ever, and most Americans no longer are willing to tolerate the costs, both human and economic, associated with this war. We have been in Iraq for 45 months. Many more Americans have been killed in Iraq than were killed in the first 45 months of our war in Vietnam. I was in the U.S. Air Force in 1965, and I remember well when President Johnson announced a troop surge in Vietnam to hasten ...
Rattled America Will Find It Can't Spin Itself Out Of This One
Post Date: 2007-01-05 12:49:26 by Brian S
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January 5, 2007 GEORGE Bush will be hard put persuading three, four or five thousand American soldiers, marines and reservists who have already been there to go back to Iraq this year, to face 4 million Sunnis displeased by the Saddam hanging. Hard put too to persuade Nuri al-Maliki to stay in office, and stay alive, till they get there. In the meantime the spinning of the killing of Saddam continues. The US had nothing to do with it; we merely guarded him for three years, then took him to the house of death and flew his coffined body to Tikrit. We tried to stop it happening so soon. We would have "handled it differently". What's all this fuss? The last 60 seconds of a ...
Terror's Trivial When It's Not Muslims
Post Date: 2007-01-05 12:08:28 by Brian S
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By Paul Joseph Watson How many people who aren't news junkies know that Madrid Airport was bombed on Saturday? Relatively few I would venture, and that's because major western governments and their media mouthpieces don't hype terror unless Muslims are behind it. I personally only caught the story a couple of days after it happened on an obscure channel on UK digital satellite called Euro News. Operatives of the Basque separatist organization ETA packed 800kg of explosives in a car bomb that ripped apart the parking lot of Barajas Madrid Airport, killing two and injuring twenty people. Now imagine if "Al-Qaeda" bombed Heathrow or LAX. You'd never hear the end of ...
Buchanan: Cakewalk Crowd Abandons Bush [Adelman, Perle, Frum, Cohen, Gaffney slam Bush Admin]
Post Date: 2007-01-05 11:27:54 by Brian S
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan, said a rueful John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush knows today whereof his predecessor spoke. For as he prepares to "surge" 20,000 more U.S. troops into a war even he concedes we "are not winning," his erstwhile acolytes have begun to abandon him to salvage their own tattered reputations. Case in point, the neoconservatives. As the Iraq war heads into its fifth year, more than half a dozen have confessed to Vanity Fair's David Rose their abject despair over how the Bushites mismanaged the war that they, the "Vulcans," so brilliantly conceived. Surveying what appears an impending ...
Forget the war--its all about Nancy
Post Date: 2007-01-05 08:32:12 by Ada
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I’m glad somebody’s holding them accountable: While discussing the Democratic ethics legislation, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Democratic Caucus chairman, was interrupted by anti-war protestors lead by Cindy Sheehan, a well-known activist whose son was killed in Iraq. “We’re here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change,” said Sheehan. Sheehan said that she was joined by 70 protestors to hold the Democrats accountable, saying are pressing incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the new Democratic leadership to stop authorizing additional funds for the Iraq war. Sheehan said any additional authorizations would make ...
The Gummint Skools
Post Date: 2007-01-05 06:57:30 by Ada
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"That biological parents are the enemies of their offspring" A Dec. 31 Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial detailed some of the $7 billion in spending the members of the 2007 Nevada Legislature have already proposed – all while earnestly bleating that no tax hikes will be required. "Atop the list," we noted, "is a mandatory program to round up all of Nevada’s children and lock them away from the subversive influence of their biological parents in day-long, tax-funded baby-sitting centers, not at the age of 6 (which is bad enough), but at the age of 5." A well-intentioned soul objected that the "references to all-day kindergarten in ...
Fox News Alert: Cattle Missing In New Mexico!
Post Date: 2007-01-05 00:29:40 by Morgana le Fay
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Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow. WonketteWe gave up on Fox News hours ago when it became clear they were doing the fingers-in-ears-I-can’t-hear-you routine, because we need to watch the new Democratic leadership acting like pompous asses all day. Luckily someone has been keeping track of what Fox is covering to avoid covering a Democrat-controlled Congress: * “Ivy League Prof Leading Suspect in Wife’s Death.” * Cindy Sheehan sucks. * Missing sailors. * Miers quits. * Some cattle have gone missing! But the fun’s over, as FNC has now gone to the House Live Cam. It’s like every channel is C-SPAN!
The Time for War With Iran is Now [Scary Kooks Crawl Out of Woodwork.]
Post Date: 2007-01-05 00:24:59 by Morgana le Fay
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The rumor is that early next week President Bush will present his revised war plan to the American people. From what I've heard, a major aspect of this plan is an increase in the number of US troops in Iraq. As far as that goes, it is a good thing. As I've said before, the primary benefit of such an increase is political - it lets everyone know that in spite of the results of the 2006 election, we're serious when we say we will continue to fight the war for victory. Democrats can yammer and talking heads can talk, but we're not looking for an "exit strategy", nor are we going to retreat using the focus-group-tested word, "redeploy". We're fighting to ...
Operation Decapitation "The hardest part of the mission is going in there and pulling some father away from his kids,"
Post Date: 2007-01-04 22:32:30 by tom007
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Operation Decapitation "The hardest part of the mission is going in there and pulling some father away from his kids." - Captain Justin Brown AL-QAIM, Iraq - In early October, Lieutenant-Colonel Gregg Reilly, the SCO, or squadron commander, of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's (ACR) Tiger Base in western Iraq decided he had enough "actionable intelligence" to pursue those Iraqis attacking his soldiers every day. "We have the most concrete set of targetable data in Iraq," the SCO says of the operation code named Tiger Strike. "We have built this over many months with multiple sources." He has two organizational charts on his wall. One chart is ...
The Spirit of Tom Paine
Post Date: 2007-01-04 10:07:16 by Stephen Lendman
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The Spirit of Tom Paine - by Stephen Lendman We only know about Tom Paine because Thomas Edison discovered him in the 1920s. Edison believed he was our most important political thinker, and it was essential that his writings and ideas be taught in the nation's schools. It's no exaggeration that there might never have been an American Revolution without this man's writings that had such a profound influence on the nation's founders and masses of people he reached through one of the few "mainstream" means of communicating of that period. Paine was an unlikely man to have had such influence. He was humbly born and raised in England, was largely self-educated and ...
Senator Barack Obama is a Real Louse
Post Date: 2007-01-04 06:20:30 by Ada
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Just thought I’d say that to shake you up a little, because it’s a sentence I’m sure you haven’t read anywhere else, and I dislike saying what everyone else is already saying. That’s not what I’m paid for. Actually, the young Illinois Democrat himself is startling enough. He manages to excite liberals enormously, especially those in the press, without much offending conservatives. And he appeals powerfully to “moderates,” or people of no particular political philosophy. At the moment he is approximately as popular as the Beatles once were. Yet he takes positions definite enough that you can’t accuse him of dodging issues. He has a generally ...
Operation: Save Bush's Legacy
Post Date: 2007-01-04 00:43:39 by Morgana le Fay
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If press reports are correct – that George W. Bush will approve a troop “surge” in Iraq of 17,000 to 20,000 soldiers – the follow-up question must be whether the escalation will do anything but get more Americans and Iraqis killed while only forestalling the defeat of Bush’s war policy. Even top advocates for the “surge,” such as retired Army Gen. Jack Keane and neoconservative activist Frederick W. Kagan, have argued that U.S. troop levels must be increased by at least 30,000 for 18 months or more to bring security to Baghdad, what they call a “precondition” for any successful outcome. “Any other option is likely to fail,” Keane and ...
Federal Workforce is "Elite Island of Secure and High-Paid Workers"
Post Date: 2007-01-03 19:11:53 by boonie rat
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Federal Workforce is "Elite Island of Secure and High-Paid Workers" By Ralph Smith 5/18/2006 Throughout the year, FedSmith chronicles the ins and outs of the political process that leads to the final average federal pay raise given to federal employees in January. Each year, the articles on federal pay are the most popular articles on the site. So, in response to the market demand, we run numerous articles on the federal pay system. Here is an article on federal pay with a markedly different perspective. Based on hundreds of comments submitted by readers in recent years, most federal employees think they are underpaid. Some contend they are vastly underpaid and contend they ...
The Slow March: Russia, Iran, And The Coming Conflicts
Post Date: 2007-01-03 13:02:41 by Brian S
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January 2, 2007 Many throughout the world have believed futilely that Russia, her Islamic allies, and the U.N. have worked for positive change. The 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, have illustrated the serious escalation of radical Islamic attacks and their true intent to destroy Israel and America. During the 1980’s, The United States actively engaged in the fight against communist and socialist agendas that were rapidly spreading around the world. We even dealt with a terrorist leader named Mohammar Kahadfi. We all remember President Reagan’s resolve when he directly dealt with the Libyan Dictator. American pilots paid him a night time visit, bombed his residence and ...
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