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McCain: "100 Year in Iraq, Fine With Me"
Hehe. This is a funny way to point out McCain's "100 years, that's fine with me" comment regarding Iraq: Sources: youtube Via: Matthew Yglesias -
McCain == Klingon
A while ago, I was arguing with someone about McCain... He believed that McCain is not that bad. I was saying basically that "not bad" is bad enough. But I couldn't really figure out what about him bugged me. Now I… -
Ethnic Cleansing in Baghdad
During a pre-dinner conversation a couple of weeks ago, the subject of the "surge" came up. The question was whether the Surge is working or not. I said "no". The surge did not accomplish neither the narrow military… -
Two Stories About Zubaydah
Very interesting, the CIA destroying videotapes of torture. Interesting because the there are now two completely different account on what happened to Abu Zubaydah. One is from CIA officers Ron Suskind interviewed fo… -
Karl Rove Lies
Karl Rove appeared on TV and lied about the Authorization of the Use of Military Force in Iraq. He claimed that it was the Democrats who wanted to rush the vote, thus implicitly, rush to war. This is just false. But … -
Bushies Lower Expectations in Iraq
The entire idea of the "surge" is to create breathing room for political progress. Now that the surge is almost over, we see no sign of political progress in Iraq. So what does the Bushies do? Lower expectations! Wi… -
$413 Billion vs. $50 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office releases estimates on the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: War in Iraq, so far $413 billion War in Iraq, Bush's 2003 estimate $50 billion Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, so … -
Fixing Corruption in Iraq Reconstruction
McClatchy has a good article about how freshman senator McCaskill managed to attach their anti-corruption amendment attached to the Senate defense bill: The Senate recently agreed to a plan from McCaskill and fellow f… -
Let's Invade ____
Matthew Duss discovers the template document for invasions: THE NEOCON MERGE TEMPLATE REVEALED Read the following and see if you can guess whether David Frum is writing about Iraq back in 2003, or about Iran today: "… -
Clinton on MoveOn
Clinton puts the entire "outrage" about the MoveOn.org Petraeus ad in perspective: Sources: YouTube.com, AP
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