this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war

we love and support our troops, just as we love and support the Iraqi people – without exception, or precondition, or judgment

we have no sympathy for the devil

images and poem below the fold

Sophy T. Haynes, left, is consoled by her husband Thomas Pallozzi-Haynes as she pays her final respects to her brother r Sgt. 1st Class Schuyler B. Haynes during his funeral service, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006 in Menands, N.Y. Haynes a direct descended of Philip Schuyler, a wealthy 18th-century landowner and patriot who served in the British colonial forces and later as one of four major generals in George Washington’s Continental Army, died Nov. 15 in Baqouba, Iraq, of injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations.
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)


The body of Nasir Gatami, the deputy of the local Sunni Endowment chapter lies next to a vehicle in Basra, southern Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. Gatami and three of his bodyguards were killed by opening fire on their two-car convoy, police said. The Endowment, which confirmed the attack, was created to care for Sunni mosques across Iraq.
(AP Photo/Nabil Al Jurani)

#4
by Jane Miller

Do you know how long it has been since a moral choice presented itself

and the wrong choice was made

not two minutes

why is it not quiet between lightning and thunder as if someone were asking

do you have other articulable feelings  if so express them now

tragedy ensues

with a laser blast from the cockpit

the dangled finger of God makes contact

PLEASE CALL FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND PHYSICIANS QUICKLY

Establishment Washington really is not interested in how to end this horrendous and despicable debacle we unleashed in Iraq. They are not interested in how to maximize U.S. interests. They are only interested in how to find a way to bring this disaster to some sort of slow resolution that looks as though it is a respectable and decent outcome — anything that makes it seem like it wasn’t a horrendous mistake in the first place.

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The invasion of Iraq was a huge mistake. But the behavior of our political and media leaders after that, and now, reveal that they are not just bereft of judgment but entirely bereft of character.

from Glenn Greenwald’s The Tom Friedman disease consumes Establishment Washington, via Tristero at Digby’s Hullabaloo.

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