Month: May 2007

Abstaining From Reality

Kanye West was right. It’s just that he was talking about a different disaster. But there’s another one, with victims the same color as those in New Orleans, that has the Bush administrations finger prints all over...

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Sunset in Iraq: reality v. denial

  As the democratic leadership and BushCo™ continue to argue and posture over the minutiae of the supplemental funding bill, and the inclusion of benchmarks, with aWol issuing yet another veto threat, unless he gets...

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It Was Not an Ambush

If we are going to understand anything about the war underway in Iraq we have got to get the terminology right. The news media–CNN in particular–continue to call last week’s attack on small U.S. Army outpost in...

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The War Czar Friedman

Ray Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, says Iraqi officials are now showing a “sense of urgency” about making progress on political measures.  But, uh, he warns that we shouldn’t expect any dramatic gains...

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Open Thread

It’d be nice if John McCain would actually show up to vote on Iraq instead of just talking all the time about how vitally important it is to the survival of white people.

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