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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 -
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… -
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… -
Iranian Atoms
Iran has lots of atoms. Lots. Time to invade... Barely two months after U.N. inspectors in Iran failed to find evidence of an active nuclear weapons program, the Department of Homeland Security uncovered new informa… -
$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 … -
Habeas Corpus Again
A story from New York Times about the Uighurs in Guantanamo shows the lack of independence in the review boards established by Pentagon. These boards are "replacements" for the right of Habeas Corpus that the Bushies t… -
What Would George W. Bush Do?
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U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
I found this nifty graph from Ed Stephan when looking for casualties after Bush proclaimed "mission accomplished". Worth reproducing here in full, even though the reproduction will go out of … -
Iraq Is NOT Korea
White House spokesman Tony Snow explains Bush's Iraq-Korea analogy: Here is -- what the President means by that is that at some point you want to get to a situation in which the Iraqis have the capability to go ahead an…
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