Archive for November, 2005
If our…
efforts so far haven’t landed us on Bill O’reilly‘s Enemies List, what more can we do? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Two Years and $250 Billion Short
From the beginning of the Iraq war, we’ve seen very few things done well and many things done very poorly. This Newsweek piece contains some elusive good news: …since August, without much public notice, the Baghdad highway has been largely secured. In April 2005, when control of the route was primarily American, there were 37 [...]
“Tell Me Was it Love or Some High Grade Alcohol?”
As is probably the case with most people, the summer after I graduated high school marked the beginning of several transitions. I left Pittsburgh, my home of 18 years, for Tuscaloosa, Alabama and spent a few months training for the upcoming football season and acclimating myself to newfound freedoms and life in the deep south. [...]
Why is Bush Pulling his Punches?
President Bush, speaking at the Osan Air Force base in South Korea on November 19, two days after Murtha’s speech: “The terrorists regard Iraq as the central front in their war against humanity…. If they’re not stopped, the terrorists will be able to advance their agenda to develop weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, [...]
The Armstrong Williams method…
alive and well in Iraq: As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq. The articles, written by U.S. military “information operations” troops, are translated into Arabic and [...]
Get this man…
a copy of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, quick: “It is absolutely the responsibility of every U.S. service member, if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to intervene to stop it,” [Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] said. “But I don’t think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop [...]
Not doing…
all we can to defend ourselves: Efforts to train thousands of federal agents to protect commercial flights during heightened terror alerts were quietly abandoned more than a year ago because Congress objected to the cost, government investigators said Tuesday. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a [...]
Equal opportunity…
idiots. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Spider…
does not care about Fergie’s humps. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Winning When No One Is Keeping Score
“We’re winning the War on Terror.” Since 1115.org isn’t sufficiently swank enough to swing a subscription to LexisNexis, we can only speculate as to how many times the above phrase has been used by our politicians and the so-called experts of the punditry. But considering that almost every official mention of the War on Terrorâ„¢ [...]