[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Back from Iraq war, and alone ...: A few days after I had returned from a six-month deployment to Iraq, my second sojourn in the Middle East since 2001, I remember feeling like I was an alien creature from some other planet.

[SWJ Blog] Putting the “I” in the COIN Team (SWJ Blog): Dupuy pointed out in has classic study, A Genius for War , it produced a system that institutionalized excellence at the tactical and operational levels of war from the defeat of .Institutionalizing excellence in PRT performance should become a key goal as we move forward in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Drone Warfare and the ...: As a fine example of this, and of battlefield ingenuity, during the Iraq War, some clever soul in the Air Force discovered that practice bombs (full weight, but concrete instead of explosive) made adequate tank killers:, tanks adjacent to .Instapundit » Blog Archive » KENNETH ANDERSON on Drone Warfare and the Harvard National Security Conference.

[FAIR Blog] FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman's Iraq War: Ironically, though, it was the neo-conservative Bush team that argued that culture didn’t matter in Iraq, and that the prospect of democracy and self-rule would automatically bring Iraqis together to bury the past. While many liberals and realists contended that Iraq was an irredeemable tribal hornet's nest and we should not be sticking our hand in there;

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Two brothers, two homicides ...: Where is God in these tight knit communities. I pray that God touches these young peoples souls while they are still alive.

[Mediaite] Olbermann Reflects, In Great Detail, On MSNBC Anchors Of The Past ...: Her unease deepened with the coverage of the Iraq War in March and April of 2003, which she thought celebrated the triumphs of war at the expense of the scarcely visible tragedies. These concerns formed the basis of a lecture Banfield delivered at Kansas State University on April 24, 2003, a couple of weeks after the fall of Baghdad.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Homicide in Hollenback: Why a ...: good Morning from India Anderson: What would happen If as many servicemen were killed in Afganistan as are children in the United States by guns every years? One might think there would be massive anti-war protests.

[T Magazine] Vain Glorious | A Scar Is Born - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com: From the beginning, the director, Daniel Sullivan, and Linney knew that Goodwin’s visible scars would be an important facet of the production, so the actress suggested calling in Mindy Hall, an accomplished (and as of this past Sunday night, Academy Award-winning) makeup artist who Linney had worked with on four films, including “Kinsey.” “I knew Mindy would be able to come up with something a) the theater would be able to afford, b) that would look realistic and c) that I would be able to put on myself,”

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[The Common Ills] US military announces 2 deaths « The Common Ills: ) calls out the latest attempts at revisionary history, "I know liberals like to think Dubya and his crew were so evil no one will ever, ever forget the lessons learned during the Bush years, but this kind of revisionist bulls**t has a way of slowly seeping into the populace’s subconscious. After enough hours of hearing Liz Cheney talk about how rad her dad is, and reading enough of Friedo's disgusting columns, people will start to believe this crap."

[Spectacular Attractions] Digesting Avatar « Spectacular Attractions: The fantasy of Sully giving up the impediment of his (American) humanity is a guilt-ridden 9/11 death wish. References to “fight terror with terror” and “shock-and-awe campaign” don’t belong in this 3-D Rapa Nui with its blather about the Na’vi’s “direct line to their ancestors.” Once again, villainous Americans exhibit no direct communication with ancestors.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Guest Column: Will Bin Laden ...: The Republican Party's campaign platform in the 2000 election called for "full implementation" of the Iraq Liberation Act and removal of Saddam Hussein, and key Bush advisors, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Rumsfeld’s Deputy Paul Wolfowitz, were longstanding advocates of invading Iraq.[32] After leaving the administration, former Bush treasury secretary Paul O'Neill said that an attack on Iraq had been planned since the inauguration, and that the first National Security Council meeting involved discussion of an invasion. O'Neill later backtracked, saying that these discussions were part of a continuation of foreign policy first put into place by the Clinton Administration.[33]'

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: well you get what you vote for Bill clintonwill cheat again and embarrass the American people we will once again have a scandle in the white house, why take that chance, I truly believe out withe the old over 60 presidents, hillary is from a different generation and she repeats everything Obama says he says change, she says change, if you listen carefully she almost quotes him word for word, and she still uses the word I, I I this is a personal victory NOT for the American people , but for her, and her husband he got kicked out the whitehouse, it should be a law once your kicked out ,you cant come back in, the other countries are probably laughing at us for picking a woman to even try to run the white house,I cant see her dueling wtih osama bin laden or the president if Iran? tell hillary to go home and cook.

[News Blog] The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog: It's the basics that will get votes and all howard can say is look what i've done over the past decade - yes mr howard look what you've done and look at the resulting mess!Accussing labor of being all about unions is a tired old line that nobody believes!Labor cares about the average aussie/aussie family not those who are mega rich and lets not forget where howard and the libs get financial backing from - various wierdo religious cults.Howard keeps on about what he's achieved so far,well he's had a decade to fix our hospital system which is 3rd world standard,under howard the rich have gotten richer and your average aussie battler makes no headway,people are tired of struggling causing them to lose thier homes etc and do we really want costello as our leader in 18 months time??No! We don't want howard or costello now or in the future - show them the door and make sure it hits them on the arse on the way out of govenment!

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Saul Alinsky Takes the White House: Now that system is being controlled by Marxists of the Alinsky type, who want nothing more than to start the brainwashing at ever younger ages in order to perfect the process in preschool. The only hope for this country's future is in the several million children who are home educated, and allowed the freedom of thought that the public school system so completely suppresses.

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[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] At UK's Iraq inquiry, Gordon Brown says invasion justified _ ...: Ex-UK minister: postwar planning for Iraq lackingLONDON ”” British officials worried before the invasion of Iraq that the Americans weren't putting enough thought into postwar planning, the head of Britain's defense ministry at the time said Tuesday. Former Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon told an official inquiry into the war that planning was not as "detailed and comprehensive as we would have liked."He acknowledged the aftermath of the 2003 invasion "did not go as well as we wanted it to go."Britain is holding its third and widest-ranging inquiry into the conflict, which triggered huge protests and left 179 British dead before the country's troops withdrew from Iraq last year.

[Arab News Blog] Arab News Blog » War Reporting: after the fall of Saddam when journalists could get out into all parts of Iraq fairly freely, but as the violence mounted and journalists were targeted in the struggle access to many parts of Iraq or to many Iraqis became much more difficult.  For years, journalists (even those not living in the Green Zone) were forced either to huddle down in offices and rely on stringers, or else go out into the field with the military as embeds.  Both routes offered useful perspectives, but neither is perfect. 

[The Daily Colonial] The Daily Colonial » Blog Archive » Bullets and Bylines: Kalb ...: Chandrasekaran recently returned from Marja, a danger zone where the experience of trudging across land under heavy gunfire reminded him of the battlefront experience circa World War II. He said that reporters in Afghanistan are severely impeded by the dangers of the work, in a country where vast, volatile areas are closed off to any journalist who values their life.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] In UK's Iraq inquiry, Gordon Brown says that going to war in Iraq ...: UK's Brown faces questions over Iraq warLONDON ”” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended the decision to invade Iraq, saying Friday before an inquiry on the war that deposing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. In testimony before a looming national election, Brown praised the sacrifice of those who died and immediately addressed a critical question: Did he agree with Britain's choice of going to war?"It was the right decision and it was for the right reasons," he said.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Biden-Cheney Duel on Talk TV: and that the Bush mishandled it from the outset by taking its “eye off the ball.” That, he said, left the U.S. in a more dangerous position in Afghanistan, the al-Qaida stronghold where Osama bin Laden and his cohorts plotted the Sept 11 terror attacks.

[Entertainment Daily] UK's Blair promises autobiography “The Journey” will offer an ...: Publisher Random House paid an estimated 5 million pounds ($7.5 million) for Blair’s personal account of his time in power, after a bidding war that Washington literary power-broker Robert Barnett ”” an attorney whose clients include President Barack Obama, his predecessor George W. Bush and both Bill and Hillary Clinton ”” described as among the most fierce in memory.

[JimMacMillan.Net] Iraq War Diary - January 30, 2005: Election Day; Birthday in Mosul ...: Car bombs were unlikely today, since “no-roll” enforcement, communicated on local television and radio and in newspapers, meant that nobody would be driving besides the Army and the Iraqi forces, thus making it pretty hard for insurgents to roll up on a site unnoticed. Still, barricades, barbed wire and lots of other secret military ops would have made it impossible to get close to the polls for anybody who tried.

[SNP Tactical Voting] SNP Tactical Voting: Jim Murphy's Altar Boy Error: For me, Jim Murphy's move was always foolish given the Iraq War alone. Countless civilian deaths, their lives rendered almost meaningless, sacrificed for so little gain in the face of international condemnation for not following through with the weapons inspections and consensual UN approach.

[The Common Ills] Attacks on press freedoms and the elections « The Common Ills: Most outlets rely on Iraqi journalists to be stringers and eyes and ears as well as to be the co- or sole reporter on news reports but many of the Iraqis cannot register as journalists due to threats that might follow as a result of their occupation being known. This has seriously curtailed a great deal of coverage news consumers would otherwise be receiving.

[Committee to Protect Journalists] Protective bylines, and why they're necessary - Blog - Committee ...: Theyhave asked that they not be connected to an American news organization. In order to indicate where the information is coming from, however, we wantedreaders to know that it is coming from a person on site where the eventsdescribed were happening.

[TED Blog] TED Blog: TED Fellow Sean Gourley published in Nature: If we look at the war in Iraq and take a random sample of 2,500 attacks, we find that there are on average ~1,800 attacks that kill 1 person, ~30 attacks that kill 5 people and ~1 attack that kills 20 people. Of particular interest is when we take this same sample of 2,500 attacks from any modern war, we see a very similar ratio emerge.

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[BIGON Sandbank] David Miliband 'did not lose sleep' over Iraq backing | BIGON Sandbank: Mr Miliband, who was a junior minister at the time of the invasion, said: "The authority of the UN, I think, would have been severely dented if the hypothetical case that you are putting - that we had marched to the top of the hill of pressure and then walked down again without disarming Saddam - then I think that would have been really quite damaging for any of the multilateral aims that we have that need to be pursued through the UN.

[Politics] Iraqis may prove war was a mistake worth making | Washington Examiner: Iraq has seen 9400 men in uniform killed since the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. That's not even half of a 10th of a percent of the nation's population of almost 24 million.

[Business Xanadu] Who agrees with my opinion School Business on the Iraq war?: It made sense to kill Saddam Hussein really, get some person who objects to the US cause, set up a permanent strategic location to do military operations in the middle east, against Iran, China, Syria, Egypt and India. The whole war is coated in this feel good we care about these people crap.

[Tony Blair] Iraq Inquiry: Miliband to “pejorative” Lyne - “UN”¦ feeble follow ...: SIR RODERIC LYNE: Now, he had the intent, he was presumed to have some material, his capability had been hugely constrained since 1991 by a range of measures, not just by trade sanctions, but, much more importantly perhaps, by an arms embargo, by deterrence, by No Fly Zones, by a Naval embargo.  Was military action, in March 2003, the only way of continuing to contain this intent, this threatened this desire of Saddam Hussein, to become once again a potential aggressor?

[J. Neil Schulman] J. Neil Schulman on War « J. Neil Schulman: With Iraq I believed the WMD threat was real, and as I’ve stated elsewhere I believe the disinformation that led to this threat appearing credible came from Saddam Hussein’s attempt to bluff Iran, which as we know is well along the way to having its own A-bombs. Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator and, again, it did not take much of a casus belli to want to see Iraqis —

[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] Sorry, Rove, Bush Did Lie About Iraq | The Smirking Chimp: Nevertheless, Bush followed up his false pre-war claims about Iraq's WMD with a post-invasion insistence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had barred U.N. inspectors from his country, a decision that Bush said left him no choice but to invade.

[Second Opinion] Second Opinion: A good day for democracy in Iraq - A virtual ...: The war in Iraq was ill conceived, ill planned, and needless adventurism, especially when considering the real struggle against international terrorism our nation faced after the 9/11 attacks. The fact that Iraq is having an election and the sectarian violence is only resulting in dozens of deaths each week instead the larger number we were seeing only a year or two ago, is nothing to crow about.

[NY Issues] Baghdad Holds Key As Iraq Awaits Initial Vote Results: Iraq expects the first results of the polls on Tuesday presented as a test for the young democracy, hold down the button with Baghdad as Prime Minister and his secular rivals jockey for pole position. Thirty percent of the votes were counted in the evening, the complex range of Iraqi political blocs its first official indication of how to reduce the second general elections since 2003, fall of Saddam Hussein.

[At War] Iraqi Elections: Live-Blogging Election Day - At War Blog ...: A group of soldiers from Delta Company - part of the Third Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade - gathered at the edge of a landing zone near a joint American-Iraqi base in the center of Baghdad this morning not long after the attacks began. Three armored vehicles lined up, ready to roll out into the city, should the Iraqi security forces request their assistance, reports Tim Arango of The New York Times.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Iraq War Defense ...: Mr Brown said that every request for money for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and occupation of Iraq was swiftly approved by the Treasury. He shifted the blame on to generals when confronted with complaints from the relatives of soldiers killed by in attacks on Snatch Land Rovers.

[At War] Iraqi Election - Music Videos and Propaganda - At War Blog ...: At a rally Wednesday in central Baghdad for Ayad Allawi and his Iraqiya coalition, the biggest challenger to current Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s coalition, supporters frequently interrupted Mr. Maliki’s speech with refrains from “Triumph Baghdad,” an oft-heard song in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Sunday, Bloody ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister and secular Shiite, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

RealClearWorld - The Compass Blog: Putting Iraq on a path to democracy and decency is a noble accomplishment of which Americans ”” of all parties ”” should be proud. Even if you think the war wasn’t worth it or that it was unjustified, only the truly blinkered or black-hearted can be vexed by the fact that Saddam Hussein’s regime is gone and the country is on the path to better days.

[Tenth Amendment Center Blog] Safeguard Wisconsin's Guard from needless deployment | Tenth ...: For the first time in recent history, citizens of Wisconsin have the opportunity to help answer the question “Who decides about war?” As part of a national movement of nearly two dozen states, on Tuesday, March 9, at 1 p.m. at the State Capitol in Madison, the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee of the state Assembly plans to hold a public hearing on Assembly Bill 203, the “Safeguard the Guard Act.”

[WorldBBNews] The Wire re-up: season five, episode four - the big lie | WorldBBNews: Without overlaying the timelines of political events with the writing of series five, we can’t know to what extent one informed the other, though it is clear - in the subtext and structure - that Simon was mindful of both recent and contemporaneous events and intended the serial killer plot to warn of exactly the kind of inherent dysfunction in public institutions exposed by Blair and George Bush in 2002-03.

[Pakistanpal's Blog] Muslim Disunity: A Religion Divided Against Itself « Pakistanpal's ...: Considering that a few thousand Sunnis were able to prevent superpower America from successfully occupying Baghdad or much of Iraq, had the Shi’ites joined with the Sunnis against the invaders, the U.S. would have been defeated and driven out. This outcome was not possible, because the Shi’ites wanted to settle the score with the Sunnis, who had ruled them under Saddam Hussein.

[SECTalk Forums] Will Iraq's democracy vindicate Bush? - SECTalk Forums: In 1963, the United States backed a coup against the government of Iraq which was then headed by General Abdel Karim Kassem, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy, and later withdrew the anti Soviet Baghdad Pact. The CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party government in ridding the country of suspected leftists and communists.

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[www.questionsandanswersonline.com] What drives the Democrats ? - www.questionsandanswersonline.com: And then there are those who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the magnitude of the stakes in Iraq or in the larger conflict against radical jihadism. The reality of this struggle ”” that we are in an existential war with a totalitarian enemy that celebrates death and cannot be appeased ”” is too bleak and hopeless.

[Democrats & Liberals] Democrats & Liberals: Iraq-nam Accomplished: In a very important way, Iraq-nam is a lot worse than Vietnam: it is taking our focus away from the fight against Al Qaeda. Not only are we getting Americans killed every day, our armed forces are being stretched so dangerously thin that we do not have enough troops to fight our real enemy: Al Qaeda.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Will Obama Still Be Blaming Bush in 2012? Bet on It: Bush and people took the US economy just when the dot com bubble was bout to burst, when Enron (who had string ties to Gore’s AGW scam) was about to burst in additiocrisis triggered by 9/11 and still managed to get the conomy in order. Then seven years later, with Congres (that is the institution who votes budgets) in democrat hands an economic depressiojn was triggered by the implosion of Faanny Mae and Fredy Mac, two institutions he had tried to reform and was prevented of doing so by the Democrats.

[Politics Daily] U.S. Casualties in Afghan War Soar Toward 15000 Dead and Injured ...: Bush was SMART enough to know that drawing Al Qaeda out of the mountains of Afghanistan and into the deserts of Iraq was the best move. he did more to destroy AQ's power and credibility than any of Obama's drone executions will ever have.

[Top News] Speaker Pelosi fumbles in dealing with the ouster of Chairman ...: After defending Rangel late last week and on two Sunday talk shows, Pelosi reversed course after House Democrats let her know that Rangel had become a major political liability. More than two months after saying she was in “campaign mode,” Pelosi replaced the Rangel problem with another dilemma.

[Theodore's World] Bush Signs Veto With Pen From Father of - PC Free Zone: You can bet a repeat of the Vietnam capitulation in Iraq or Afghanistan will welcome an all out attack from the Islamists at home as well as amongst our allies. Look about and see what appeasement has brought to Israel, Lebanon, France and the Netherlands.

[Davids Medienkritik] Davids Medienkritik: Sueddeutsche Zeitung: Biased Daily Life for ...: In your letter you want me to “admit that the world would be better off if your president had not started that war?” though you obviously feel it is such a questionable statement that you immediately qualify it with, “I am not saying that the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam.” As if the two thoughts somehow worked together on any level. What a feeble attempt to square the circle of the obvious contradiction A little verbal cover for those who want their way but without being held responsible for the consequences.

[Breaking News Updates New Orleans - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com] Senate leader wants 'airing' of Vitter scandal | Breaking News ...: Harry Reid is ineffective as the Senate Majority Leader and he needs to be replaced and retired and I just faxed his bohonkey monkey a 10 page fax telling him this....Get ready Congress for yet another mass mailing compliments of Senator Reid....

[Arkansas Blog] Arkansas Blog: Lincoln attacks Halter: Working Middle Class (broke) -- for the most part they are not broken but those that are broke are in that position because they made very poor financial decisions: bought more house than they could afford, bought new cars or used cars they couldn't afford, bought "stuff" they couldn't afford, didn't do a simply monthly budget and follow it to make sure they didn't spent more than they earned, used credit cards and were then infused with a sense that "money is free", didn't pay cash for things when they bought them and many, many more dumb financial decisions that caused them to be broke. Do people get sick or hurt and lose jobs or get laid off?

[Maser Media Blog] Maser Media Blog » Mass Graves of Children Dug up in Iraq: During the Bush presidency the wacko left (like Susan George and Henry Giroux) said the war was terrorism, and Bush invaded people's privacy with the military industrial complex. Meanwhile, Obama who gets excuses written for him everyday by a complicit leftists media tells us our cell phones are being monitored, and has continued the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and expanded it to Pakistan.

[GOP Leader Blog] Republican Leader John Boehner | Sen. Reid's Government-Run Health ...: There's no way I'm going to work every day to fund abortions. Give me a break. There are reforms out there that will lower the monetary cost of healthcare without raising the sociological costs. I'm supposed to sacrifice my morals to save a ...... Calling abortion murder makes no sense when at the same time you condone the death of another soldier on any battlefield in the world. You will support your war in Iraq, Afghanistan.. You probably even hope for a war with Iran. ...

[OPINION] OPINION Blog | The Dallas Morning News: Zachary, when the Deficit Commission (co-headed by skinflint Alan Simpson) is going to have a simultaneous solution of spending/ entitlement cuts AND increased taxes then "spending should be cut before any thought is given to raising taxes" is not a reasonable opinion, it is a selfish opinion as it is going to saddle our progeny with a fiscal mess. A number of times with various libertarian posters on this blog I have said I am ready to take the bitter medicine of both spending cuts AND new taxes (I am a topy 5 percenter) and not a single libertarian or Tea Party poster has been willing to give an inch.

[Erick's blog] A Real Tea Party Worthy Amendment to the Constitution | Erick's blog: Prior to the New Deal, 10% was the maximum level except during the Civil War and WWI. Once Social Security and Medicare are privatized there is no reason it needs to be more than 10% now.

[Mail Online - Peter Hitchens] Other People's Countries and What We Should do About Them - Mail ...: There are or were of course some good state-schools in this country in the shape of the old post-war grammar schools, though a lot of them were closed down by a rightwing education secretary in the shape of Mrs Thatcher. Apart from them, the Left in this country has never really been strong enough properly to control the British education system, so the best it’s managed to do has been to undermine education altogether and try to smash the system in stead.

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[News] Chilcot Inquiry: Gordon Brown supported Iraq War, but Macavity was ...: To further underline the monstrous mendacity of the great grey greasy nostril-mining sociopathic, schizophrenic misfit, DumbDumb has felt incumbent upon himself to leave the bunker to run interference on behalf of McBully, and what a puerile job he makes of it too @ 11.14. You almost start to feel sorry for the sad apparatchik –

[Kahunas News] I funded Iraq war properly, Brown tells Chilcot inquiry | Kahunas News: The prime minister - who had originally been scheduled to give evidence to the inquiry after the general election - told the panel: “I was determined - and I may say it’s one of my regrets I wasn’t able to push the Americans further on this issue - that the planning for reconstruction was essential just at the same time as the planning for war if the diplomatic avenue failed.

[News Portal] I funded Iraq war properly, Brown tells Chilcot inquiry | News Portal: Questioned for more than four hours of by the Chilcot inquiry, the prime minister delivered a calm and measured performance. He began the session by paying tribute to the military personnel who had lost their lives in the conflict and told the panel the “difficult decisions”

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] Gordon Brown at the Chilcot Inquiry | LabourList.org 2.0 ...: It's interesting, though, that Sir John Chilcot has essentially ruled Brown's appearance as off limits for electioneering. He opened the hearing saying he is "acutely conscious" that we are in the run-up to a general election, that the inquiry wants to "remain outside party politics" and that it has asked all political parties to respect that.

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - World Tonight: Gordon Brown at the Iraq inquiry: As for that contentious legal advice from the attorney-general, who at the last moment assured the Cabinet that going to war in Iraq would be legal, despite his earlier reservations, No, he hadn't known about all the detailed discussions that had preceded it - but it didn't matter, because the final "unequivocal" advice was that the war would be legal.

[Scholars and Rogues] Scholars and Rogues » Gordon Brown at the Chilcot inquiry: While Blair and others appeared embarrassed by the fact that both America and the Iraqi government undertook significant policy and military initiatives without consulting the UK, which did of course have certain legal obligations as an occupying army, Brown appeared blithely unconcerned. More generally, while previous Labour party appearances have been characterized by the almost adversarial and/or confrontational response by the testifiers, Brown seemed to be having a conversation, and a not unpleasant one, with committee members.

[NewsBag] 'Brownwash': PM under fire over Iraq war defence (AFP) | NewsBag: He may have bamboozled the dopey Chilcot Inquiry. But in the court of public opinion, he still has serious .

[News | The Independent UK] News | The Independent UK - Brown on Iraq: I wasn?t at fault: But Brown disingenuously retorted by making reference to plans drawn up by the department to spend an extra £1.3 billion on new equipment that he maintains the department said they could fund with efficiency savings. Brown then went on to say that he doubted that this had been achieved and he even pompously declared that if every Whitehall department operated by the same rules then this would cost the taxpayer an additional £12 billion per annum!

[The Legal Blotter] The Legal Blotter » Blog Archive » UK knew 'no leg to stand on ...: UK knew 'no leg to stand on' legally to go to war in Iraq · legal advice March 6th, 2010. By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Published: 10:00PM GMT 26 Jan 2010.

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Gordon Brown at the Iraq inquiry: In giving his opinions on the situation in post-invasion Iraq, the PM gave the impression that officials were taken by surprise by the speed of events on the ground and, in any case, didn't have enough influence over the US to ensure that planning for reconstruction was taken seriously. Incredibly, he was speaking as if the UK had no prior experience of these kinds of operations.

[Watchdog Blog] Watchdog Blog » Blog Archive » The American Press, Guilty of ...: This man, the editor of The Press Gazette magazine (read by all British journalists) admits it, when taken to task over the fact that in order for Mr Blair to get ANY empathic coverage over his questioning on Iraq at the Chilcot Inquiry a private supporter paid around $3,000 out of his own pocket to advertise the unfairness of it all. STILL, even advertised on the index page at the Press Gazette’s own website, there was no mention of it by the know-all editor who makes a habit of opining on anything and everything else!

[Hiram's 1555 Blog] Cynthia McKinney Briefing « Hiram's 1555 Blog: McKinney will help introduce and contribute to a people’s juridical process aimed at articulating a new legal protocol to be known as The Calgary Principles. In the tradition of the Nuremberg Principles, the Calgary Principles will address the rampant criminality that tends to immunize from criminal prosecutions those who commit the highest order of international crime.  Among those who will also contribute to the proceedings will be Splitting the Sky and Anthony J.

[Headline UK News] Gordon Brown tells Iraq inquiry: I fully backed the war: Written by UK news, breaking UK news, latest UK news, latest UK politics news on March 5th, 2010. Gordon Brown has said that he was "fully in line" with the decision to invade .

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[digoBlog: news on tech & games] digoBlog: news on tech & games » Blog Archive » Rumor ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release .Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too "hot" to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be .

[Free Games, Video Games, Online Game, Download Game, PC, XBOX, playstation,PSP, Gamecube at Grevs.com] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too hot to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be released. I can promise you that game is still coming out and it is finished, .

[Iran Reviews] Iran Reviews: Rumour: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: It also suggests that developer Atomic Games remains operational in some capacity, despite reports that it had closed down following Konami's refusal to .

[Game Prowl] Game Prowl » Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready ...: By Prowl Pro, March 3, 2010 1:58 AM. Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too “hot” to publish, has according to IGN been .

[Cool-O-Rama] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release . March 2, 2010 · 0 comments. pa rel=”lytebox” href=”http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/six_days_in_fallujah_01.jpg”img ...

[NNN Forums] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release [Politics] - Yesterday, 10:45 PM

[Entertainment Daily] Buble Leads Juno Awards Nominations: Cameron won the guild prize 12 years ago for "Titanic." Also nominated are Kathryn Bigelow for the Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker," Lee Daniels for the Harlem teen tale "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," Jason Reitman for the recession-era story "Up in the Air" and Quentin Tarantino for the World War II hit "Inglourious Basterds."

[Dinar Rumor - Iraq Dinar Forum - Find out everything about the Iraqi Dinar here!] Iran wants to double trade with Iraq to $ 8 billion in 2010: The U.S. is trying Nations and the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend its controversial nuclear program which the West suspects is aimed at making bombs. Tehran says its program is for peaceful purposes and that he would not stop.

[Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown] Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown--Watching Oscar 24/7 » Blog Archive ...: Chartier had recently disseminated an email to certain Academy voters and other film industry figures in which he solicited votes for his own picture and disparaged one of the other contending films. Academy rules prohibit “casting a negative or derogatory light on a competing film.” The executive committee of the Academy’s Producers Branch, at a special session late Monday, ruled that the ethical lapse merited the revocation of Chartier’s invitation to the Awards.

[Immelman for Congress] Immelman for Congress » Blog Archive » Iraq Set to Elect Pro-Iran ...: The main Sunni political bloc splintered in 2008, and its chief remaining faction, the Iraqi Islamic Party, is shunned by many mainstream Sunnis because of its hard-line religious ties. As a result, many of Anbar’s voters say they will support coalitions that combine Sunni and Shiite candidates in a nonsectarian platform, like the Iraqiya list headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a moderate Shiite.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] Heavy turnout in Iraq's Kurdistan for contest of new vs. old ...: An alliance of Islamist and communist parties intends to file a complaint with Iraq's election commission over allegedly incumbent-friendly precinct managers, propaganda near voting places and accounts of soldiers trying to cast multiple ballots. Soldiers were given an opportunity to vote early two days before the general election.

[The IUSB Vision Weblog] UC San Diego minority student responsible for hanging a noose in ...: (3) UCSD: Meanwhile, a terrible student media publication (which, after viewing their website consists of all white staff, nudity, staff wrestling each other, and well, not much else), pushes their limits calling black students “ungrateful n——” –

[pa2010.com] Some thoughts on Sestak's poll numbers””and TV | pa2010.com: I wouldn’t place too much trust in HateSestak’s information against Sestak as any reason to vote against him (I truly can’t be bothered with empty allegations). But with that being said, I generally agree that Sestak only has a position of “I’m not Arlen”, and that’s not good enough on it’s own to win an election.

[mcclatchydc.com: World] Hair salons once again the fashion for women in Iraq | McClatchy: During the past few years, Morad confined his work Istanbul in Turkey and to a secure compound that serves Baghdad's elite. He longed to take his skills back out to average Iraqis, but couldn't out of fear that he and his employees would become targets.

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[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Did Mitch Daniels Fudge the ...: “Very, very high” reminds me of what Paul Wolfowitz said in response to General Eric Shinseki’s estimate that stabilizing Iraq would take several hundred thousand troops: he dismissed it as “wildly off the mark.” Wolfowitz and Daniels weren’t just mistaken.

[Interesting Times] Mitch Daniels : The New Yorker: In the spring and summer of 2003, with Baghdad looted and Iraq’s infrastructure disintegrating and Iraqis losing patience and the insurgency just beginning, around the Republican Palace, where the Americans of the Coalition Provisional Authority were trying to bring some order to Iraq, the name Mitch Daniels was often mentioned, without much love. C.P.A.

[GOP 12] GOP 12: Blaming Daniels?: One of Daniels (and Douthat's) critics maintained that Daniels gave an .Daniels' estimate for what the U.S. would spend in Iraq during “a short, successful war” (which is what we initially seemed to have fought) tracked almost exactly with what the C.B.O.

[HillBuzz] Today's MSM Horsemen of the GOP Apocalypse Push: Mitch Daniels ...: Bush or Bill Clinton (I won’t even bother with Obama on this one, for obvious reasons) would have volunteered to continue suffering for the sake of honor, or if, rather, more likely, they would have taken the chance offered McCain, then spent the years afterward trying to fashion explanations for why their move was in fact honorable and strategically correct.

[Northwest Indiana and Beyond] nwi.com, Northwest Indiana and South Suburban Chicago area: Hostettler stressed the lack of intelligence to justify that weapons of mass destruction existed under Sadaam Hussein and reminded those in the room he voted against the Iraq war, but backed efforts in Afghanistan, because of the direct link to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

[IraqiGovernment.net] Mitch Daniels and the Iraq War - New York Times (blog ...: There was the cost of the Iraq war as well: [Daniels] was responsible for forecasting the budget in the event of a war with Iraq. …

[F iat Lux] 3-1-2010 The Day in Review | F i a t Lux: Bill Kristol cautions against too much Republican excitement. Ross Douthat calls Mitch Daniels (R-IN) the best governor in the United States.

[Daily War News Blog] Cost of Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion | Daily War News Blog: Lindsey himself was dismissed in a shake-up of the White House economic team later that year, and in January 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the budget office had come up with “a number that’s something under $50 billion.” He and other officials expressed optimism that Iraq itself would help shoulder the cost once the world market was reopened to its rich supply of oil.

[MY WP] Mitch Daniels and the Iraq War - Ross Douthat Blog - NYTimes.com ...: Mitch Daniels and the Iraq War - Ross Douthat Blog - NYTimes.com. Filed under: General ”” Tags: american, barack-obama, bush-, General, hillary-clinton, house, iraq-, literature, office, politics, religion, republican, ross-douthat, ...

[Spectator Live] Contrary to what you might think, it is actually...: fleety3000. March 2nd, 2010 8:40am Report this comment. He did have a bit of an unsavoury role in the Iraq War though. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2010/03/mitch-daniels.html ...

[Erick's blog] Evan Bayh to Retire | Erick's blog: Bayh leaving obviates that argument, it is probably better to have a Senator who could be in the body for 20+ years as a solid conservative compared to one who is, at best, a two termer. So assuming then Democrats don’t get somebody competitive in, not a big risk considering they only have today and tomorrow to get enough signatures in to qualify for the ballot.

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[The Thunder Run] The Thunder Run: From the Front: 03/01/2010: Vote Seen as Pivotal Test for Both Iraq and Maliki - A few months ago, building on genuine if not universal popularity, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki appeared poised to win a second term as Iraq's prime minister. Now, as Iraqis prepare to vote in parliamentary elections on March 7, his path to another four years in office has become increasingly uncertain, his campaign erratic and, to some, deeply troubling.

[Command the Raven] Iraq's New Political Elites: A Dream Come True? | Command the Raven: These close relations were particularly salient when compared to the relatively independent Kurdish leadership, which lacked an external patron directly involved in their political decisions and behavior. In addition to the special bond with Iran, the Shi’a elite differed from their Kurdish counterparts in the following respects: the decentralization of the Shi’a leadership, the abundance of leaders, the existence of a religious authority that dictated to the political leaders, and the power struggles that occasionally deteriorated into violence.

[Enduring America] The Latest from Iran (19 February): Finding the Real Stories ...: I wish that you were there to advise them and be a voice of calm, but I can see how given the principles the defenders of America go by, there’s only one way they’re going to calculate this out, and the only point I’m trying to make is that it’s not based on being puppets for Israel or some hidden motive like that, it’s just how they will inevitably perceive this situation, as an unacceptable uncertainty for American safety. They’re not trying to pursue some covert agenda, they’re actually worried about what they see as a threat.

[Antiwar.com Original] Iraqi Christians Seek Return, Sense Extinction by Kelley B. Vlahos ...: Before the war, Christians were a learned, professional class that enjoyed civilian jobs and some deference from former dictator Saddam Hussein. But like Kassab himself, many fled during the 1980s to avoid conscription into Saddam’s Ba’ath Party, and the dictator’s treatment of Christians became increasingly erratic and brutal as he became more paranoid and unstable through the 1990s.

[Shadow Government] Iraq, a war we are winning; Afghanistan, a war we can't win By ...: While Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen (and to a lesser extent General Petraeus) have appropriately "lowered expectations" on what the military can do to help in Afghanistan, there is still and undercurrent to "Win" this thing. Afghanistan lacks: 1) a tradition of central government, 2) a semi-modern infrastructure, and 3) a committment to (or at least an appreciation of) higher education to name three differences with Iraq in addition to your points about corruption.

[At War] John Burns Q and A: Ending the War in Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Many thousands (if not a million) of other families were destroyed during the genocidal Anfal (’Spoils’) Campaign of 1986-88, the Halabja gas attacks of 1987, the suppression of Shia and Kurdish rebellions in 1991, the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, and, of course, during the thirty years of uninterrupted state terror that was inflicted on people all over Iraq and Kurdistan in order to sustain and solidify the reign of Saddam’s crime family.

[truthout] t r u t h o u t | Worst Three Months for US in Iraq Since War Began: The goal was to curb the violence so Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders can strike agreements .A Sunni political party said Friday that four Sunni Cabinet members will refuse to attend government meetings to protest the way Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki handled legal proceedings against the fifth Sunni minister.

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[SWJ Blog] 1 March SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): A few months ago, building on genuine if not universal popularity, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki appeared poised to win a second term as Iraq’s prime minister. Now, as Iraqis prepare to vote in parliamentary elections on March 7, his path to another four years in office has become increasingly uncertain, his campaign erratic and, to some, deeply troubling.

[The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Iraq & Afghanistan Update/ Nov 17 | The Agonist: Another American journalist who has written extensively about Iraq, Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, said: "The notion that the newly organised government of Iraq would not understand the basic tenets of press freedom makes a mockery of the sacrifice of the soldiers and the journalists who have lost their lives or been injured doing their jobs there."

[Shadow Government] Eikenberry's leaked cables are turning the Karzai challenge into ...: Committing US troops to provide security in urban areas had a much greater effect on Iraq than the proportionally small increase in troops lauded as the "surge." That said, the Anbar Awakening and the decision by Sadr to have his militia cease-fire was far more important to reducing the violence and providing some modicum of security. It gets very tiresome to continually see the canard that the "surge" saved Iraq offered up like a talisman in this blog.

[SWJ Blog] SWJ Interview with Bing West (Part 1) (SWJ Blog): The major unknown variable is Maliki, who often appears resentful and dismissive of the pesky Americans. What concerns our senior officers is his erratic impulsiveness, combined with secretiveness, distrust and overconfidence based upon ignorance of the fundamentals underlying the fragility of the current stability.

[Making Maps: DIY Cartography] Mapping the Failure of the Iraq “Surge” « Making Maps: DIY Cartography: Furthermore, the nighttime light signature of Baghdad data when matched with ground data provided by the report to the US Congress by Marine Corps General Jones and various other sources, makes it clear that the diminished level of violence in Iraq since the onset of the surge owes much to a vicious process of inter-ethnic cleansing.

[AlterNet.org: Health and Wellness] Iraq: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics | World | AlterNet: "They are using this number because they want to show that Maliki is succeeding," said Salim Abdullah, a lawmaker and member of the largest Sunni bloc, known as the Accordance Front. Manipulation of public sentiment has been a central element of the White House's entire Iraq war enterprise.

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » EU postpones Syrian accord; Ignatius on ...: For several years, the United States has wanted him to be a strong leader who could assert Iraqi sovereignty. But Maliki's erratic behavior in .

[Buzzle: What's the Buzz?] ICG Report, Turkey, Iraq, 'Kurdistan', and the Nefarious, Age-Old ...: The law’s final section, "Necessitating reasons", states: "This Law was issued to develop the petroleum wealth of the Region in a way that achieves the highest benefit to the Kurdistan people and all Iraqi people, using the most advanced techniques of market principles and encouraging investment, in a manner consistent with the provisions of Articles 111, 112, and 115 of the Federal Constitution, to promote and adhere to the highest standards of transparency, accountability, and fairness in the petroleum sector, to provide special petroleum revenue allocations for all citizens of the Region, for the future generations of the Region, for those who suffered as a result of the previous regime in Iraq[;] for the natural environment of the Region; and to facilitate cooperation on petroleum management with the Federal Government[,] provided that revenue is shared equitably, as required by the Federal Constitution".

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[Avatar-Forums.com] veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan deride "Hurt Locker" - Avatar-Forums.com: is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for.

[Atlas Shrugs] St. Louis Dispatch Shills for Bosnia Muslim Myths, Ducks Gorin ...: Based on Savich’s sorry effort, I can only feel that my assertion, that Monty Python is a much better source for accurate historical information than Savich and his fellow Serb nationalists, has been entirely vindicated. But before I show why this is so, I’d first like to take note of Savich’s attempt at cutting irony, directed at me, when he says:

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : While America Slept: Nor her self-sacrifice: the tale is told of Lyndon Johnson in 1966 asking Charles de Gaulle, when France left NATO in 1966 and demanded the removal of all American bases from French soil: “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France’s cemeteries?” (There are 30,922 Americans from the First World War buried in France and 93,245 from the Second.) On D-Day itself, American lost 2,500 killed, Britain 1,641, Canada 359, and there were Australians and New Zealanders too. Indeed, the English-speaking peoples took 98.4 percent of the military casualties liberating France that day, despite the fact that in June 1944 the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia faced no conceivable threat of invasion from Germany.

[slacktivist] slacktivist: Housekeeping: Time away from the computer meant more time reading books and I'm 100+ pages into Tom Ricks' Fiasco, meaning I've now read much more of this dismal history of the Iraq debacle than either President Bush or Condi Rice read of the National Intelligence Estimate allegedly detailing the reasons for this misadventure. The events detailed are dismal, that is, the book itself is excellent and highly recommended.

[Stromata Blog] Stromata Blog: A Whimper It Is: An infantryman's searing memoir of the battle for Fallujah in November 2004, a crucial, hard-fought victory over al-Qa'eda and its allies. Whatever history thinks about the war in Iraq, this book is a future classic of military literature.

[Powell's Books: Review-A-Day] Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of ...: Kurdistan is not totally safe, but it is an important part of Iraq and you can more or less operate there pretty well." A translator for Time and CNN, Yousif Mohammed Basil, responds to the good news, bad news debate this way: "As an Iraqi, living inside Iraq, I cannot hear good news, and even if there is good news, you cannot hear it with the noises of explosions and the noises of the terrorists and the noises of American military operations."

[The Colossus of Rhodey] The Colossus of Rhodey: The Top Ten Conservative Movies of the ...: There are no shades of gray in The Hurt Locker, and this is a strikingly patriotic motion picture that has been embraced by an American public weary of the anti-Americanism churned out by Hollywood in its portrayal of the War on Terror – from Rendition and Lions for Lambs to Redacted and In the Valley of Elah. The Hurt Locker is by far the best conservative film of 2009, and one of the greatest of the decade.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » “A Huge Slap In The ...: is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for.

[Knoxville.com Stories] Knoxville.com | War veterans battle portrayal of military in 'Hurt ...: Many in the military say “Hurt Locker” is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for. Even Brian Williams, the NBC News anchor, took a shot on his blog, writing a post titled, “The Hurt Locker: Hurting for a fact-checker.” The movie's positive reviews could not have been “written by anyone who had spent any time with U.S. .

[Publishers Weekly - Reviews News] Fiction Reviews: Week of 9/17/2007 - 2007-09-14 06:00:00 ...: C's latest project is a series of political and philosophical essays, and Coetzee divides each page of the present novel in three: any given page features a bit of an essay (often its title and opening paragraph) at the top;

[PowellsBooks.Blog] Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.Blog - Review-a-Day - Stories Behind ...: Kurdistan is not totally safe, but it is an important part of Iraq and you can more or less operate there pretty well." A translator for Time and CNN, Yousif Mohammed Basil, responds to the good news, bad news debate this way: "As an Iraqi, living inside Iraq, I cannot hear good news, and even if there is good news, you cannot hear it with the noises of explosions and the noises of the terrorists and the noises of American military operations."

[SWJ Blog] 31 August SWJ Op-Ed Roundup (SWJ Blog): The uncompromising, frank, slightly academic and entirely energetic US commander of the multinational force in Iraq has made a positive assessment of the effects of the 20,000-strong surge in Iraq and is already looking at the new battlefield geometry that flows from that conclusion. That geometry is based on the evidence of military progress in Iraq during the surge as a result of a more aggressive attitude in hunting al-Qa'ida and militia extremists, placing increasing political pressure on the Iraqi Government to include dispossessed and disaffected Sunnis, and an increasingly bellicose attitude towards Iran.

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[MetaFilter] Amerithrax case closed | MetaFilter: "Shortly after the first anthrax victim died in October, the Bush administration began an intense effort to explore any possible link between Iraq and the attacks and continued to do so even after scientists determined that the lethal germ was an American strain, scientists and government officials said.

[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Iraq hangs 'Chemical Ali' - Saddam's cousin and henchman: Baghdad (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 - Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" for his gassing of Iraqi Kurds, is the latest in a growing line of Saddam Hussein's henchmen to have been killed or sent to the gallows. Majid, a cousin of the executed former dictator, was sentenced to death on January 17 for crimes against humanity after being found guilty of ordering the 1988 gas attack on the northeastern town of Halabja.

[The Race for Iran] JUDGING ANALYSES OF IRANIAN POLITICS « The Race for Iran: We were not pleased when the disaster we opposed unfolded. They were going to draw attention to the mistaken judgments of the people who up until the previous hour had denounced them as so many water-carriers for despotism and agents of foreign governments.

[BV Black Spin] President Obama, What Have You Done For Me Lately? - BV Black Spin: "Barack Obama will work with military commanders on the ground in Iraq and in consultation with the Iraqi government to end the war safely and responsibly within 16 months," said Obama's campaign Web site. "Barack Obama had the courage and judgment to oppose the war from the beginning, warning against undetermined cost, length and consequences."

[Gaza Carnage Archive] » February 16, 2010: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad that if Israel goes to war, “we need to put an end to the Zionist regime once and for all.” And last week, on the anniversary of the Iranian revolution, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran will enrich uranium to 20 percent and declared that his country is capable of building an atomic bomb.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Lieberman, McCain Want Iran Sanctioned for Human ...: invading, hmm, let's see now, Afghanistan, Pakistan (some troops/special forces, drones for sure--I'd calling bombing invading someone else's sovereign territory), Iraq and it wouldn't surprise me if, in fact, there weren't some CIA, NSA operatives and/or Special Forces in Iran already. That's a lot of territory, alot of bases, a great deal of funding,many many weapons, a great deal of supply needed and, of course, people being hurt, malnourished, bombed, shot and so on.

[News From Antiwar.com] US Missiles Spark Buildup Along Russo-Polish Border -- News from ...: Jct: Now that their phony war on terror is falling apart, I guess Obama's going to have to pick a fight with Russia again. Remember the denunciations when Kruschev tried to put missiles in Cuba which the US felt warranted war in response, and now they're doing what warranted war from them to Russia again.

[Stromata Blog] Stromata Blog: The Lesson of the “Stimulus”: On this first anniversary of the signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”, pronounced “error”), the Administration is loudly proclaiming that, without this massive borrow-and-spend scheme, the economy would be much worse today, probably in the throes of a depression. The quantitative assertion is that 2,000,000 more Americans would be jobless, lifting the unemployment rate to about 11 percent.

[blog.cagle.com - main] Cartoons | blog.cagle.com - main: On the other hand, Barry has given us, double unemployment and triple to quadruple debt, before he was president he was able to get involved with prison convict Tony Reskco, mad bomber Bill (kill your parents) Ayers and killer kitten wife Bernadine (here’s a Molotov bomb for you and your family) Dohrn, in the state congress he well just didn’t have that much time to do much, but as a “professor” his compatriots had thought he spent too much time on his “other career”, then there was his 143 full days of actual work (?) in the senate voting for all of the “big time spending” and declaring that we should surrender a war in Iraq already lost that was in 2006, apparently he’s now on the eve of declaring HIS victory there.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Yes, Virginia, Many Ron Paul ...: Middle East Security Assistance: $2.22 billion for Israel which combined with the $555 million of forward funding in the FY2009 supplemental is the same as the $2.775 billion in the President’s request and consistent with the second year of the 10-year Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Israel; $1.29 billion in economic and security assistance for Egypt, which when combined with the $260 million in forward funding in the 2009 supplemental is the same as the President’s request;

[Opinionator] What War Is Good For - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: It used to be that Iraq held the key, and a lot of people made a great deal of noise about Iraq’s “central” location in the region, and many stressed the importance of its sophisticated, well-educated, urbanized, more secularized population. It used to be the case that agitators for war with Iraq believed that changing Iraq could change the region precisely because it was majority Arab and not Persian as Iran was.

[██▓▒░░ ♥lazy feroz♥ ░░▒▓██'s blog] '9/11 conspiracy theories(THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TRUTH ...: Specifically, the experiments concluded that burning jet fuel alone can sufficiently raise the temperature of a steel support column to the point of structural failure, that a controlled demolition using conventional techniques would leave clear evidence that was not found at Ground Zero, that using thermite is not an effective technique to melt a steel column, and that even if thermite chemical signatures were found, it would be impossible to tell if thermite was actually used or if the traces came from the reaction of aircraft aluminum with other substances in the fire. The testing also concluded that the type of hole found at the Pentagon was consistent with the mainstream scenario, and that damage from a bombing or missile attack would differ from the damage that occurred.

[The DC World Affairs Blog] A Bad Decision by the American Conservative Union: The John Birch ...: Many of these libertarians were very vocal about their opposition to America's role in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was strange to hear this anti-war rhetoric at a conservative conference.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Obama's Shifting Positions on Iraq: A Rezko ...: Apparently a lot as I can’t get anything more the the static MSM sound bites(and Hollywood talking heads) out of friends on the left in conversations. I can’t even get any specific details out of them in a ‘what makes Obama great’

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Inside the Military-Industrial-Media Complex ...: In May of 2008, One hundred and fifty Cuban and South American journalists, ambassadors, politicians, and foreign guests gathered at the Jose Marti International Journalist Institute to honor the 50th anniversary of the death of Carlos Bastidas Arguello —the last journalist killed in Cuba.  Carlos Bastidas was 23 years old when he was assassinated by Fulgencia Batista’s secret police after having visited Fidel Castro’s forces in the Sierra Maestra Mountains.

[The Next Hurrah] The Next Hurrah: "Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism ...: The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formalappraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agenciessince the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16disparate spy services inside government. Titled "Trends in GlobalTerrorism: Implications for the United States,'' it asserts thatIslamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized andspread across the globe.

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[fírgoa - universidade pública - espazo comunitario] Marnie Holborow: Ideology and Language: the Interconnections ...: The ”˜challenge’ in the title announces the style, as Graham points out: together with ”˜change’, it is one of the most used in neo-liberal speak and both are euphemisms for adopting market values (Graham 2004). Ironically, for an ideology that promotes so insistently the virtues of consumer choice, its documents and public statements have a drab uniformity that recalls Orwellian Newspeak in that the language becomes slavishly adopted and anything else considered a heresy.

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[THE PHILIPPINES MATRIX PROJECT] RE-VISITING SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO: In honor of Virgilio Enriquez ...: By 1946, when formal independence was granted in the wake of the war’s devastation of the infrastructure and economy of the islands, the Filipino elite and large parts of the pettybourgeois intelligentsia or middle stratum had become exemplary neocolonial subjects geared for waging the U.S. “Cold War” in Asia. Throughout the forties and fifties, anticommunist ideology and its repressive institutions reinforced the “deFilipinization” that historian Renato Constantino (1978) traced from the cooptation of the ilustrado at the beginning of the century to current President Arroyo’s sycophancy to the reactionary policies of the Bush administration.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Media Misses Big Story of Obama Trip: MCCAIN MAY BE NARROWING THE GAP NOW BUT AS WE APPROACH THE ELECTION YOU BETTER BELIEVE THE PRESS WILL DO TO HIM EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID TO BILLARY: FREEZE HER OUT AND MAKE HER LOOK TOTALLY IRRELEVANT (NOT THAT I, PERSONALLY, CARED—I CAN’T STAND THE BROAD AND IT WAS DIFFICULT NOT TO GLOAT WATCHING THE PRESS, LITERALLY, TAKE HER RIGHT ON DOWN) AND MAKE OBAMA LOOK LIKE JESUS COMING HOME. IF THE PRESS REALLY DID STICK TO “THE FACTS, MA’AM”, OBAMA COULDN’T WIN BUT THE PRESS LOOOOVE HIM AND WILL DO THEIR BEST TO USHER HIM ON IN.

[THE PHILIPPINES MATRIX PROJECT] FILIPINO WRITING AGAINST EMPIRE « THE PHILIPPINES MATRIX PROJECT: a genuine alternative?  Is ethnocentric nativism (a return to the pasyon, various tribal mores, and other sectarian or autarchic practices) a viable option?  How has Philippine writers succeeded in transcending the either/or dilemma of choosing between abrogation through appropriation, or unilaterally privileging the indigenous?  Is Samir Amin’s universalist resolution of this predicament (proposed in his book Eurocentrism) a cogent way of breaking through the impasse?

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » I have received a death threat: The US government is actively drawing up detailed plans with the assistence of Isreal for attacking Iran and the American president regularly vilifies Iran and is trying to get the entire world to embargo Iran. It doesn’t surprise me if some Iranian might feel anger toward the US and people tend to lash out irrationally and make threats when they feel threatened.

[Guest] Reading List 1&2 - DU BA (H) Economics - Education Tips - Prime ...: The contemporary revival of interest in the concept of citizenship is a response to developments such as the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc and the rise of independent states in its wake, the rise of new forms of virulent nationalism and sub-nationalism, and globalization and migration. In addition, demands for political recognition by minorities based on new sources and forms of identity have wrought significant changes in the way we conceive of citizenship.

[Matthew Vadum: The American Spectator articles and blog posts.] The American Spectator : Community-Organized Crime: It accuses the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now of carrying out "a nation-wide strategy of tax fraud, racketeering, money-laundering and manipulating the American electorate." Specifically, the report accuses ACORN of racketeering, evading taxes, sloppy accounting, defrauding donors, defrauding the U.S. government, filing false statements, obstructing justice, and plundering employee pension funds.

[Blog Maverick] Wanted - New TV Show Ideas « blog maverick: The Midwest, two transplants, one from New York, one from Georgia, get there own farms they both have significant others who travel for work, one has a brood of kids (human and the goat kind), the other a brood of dogs some chickens and a couple of horses throw in for fun the live down the road from one another they have similar struggles men that dont realize how much work it takes to raise a family, run a farm, and keep everything together at the same time. They are witness to miracles and nightmares they live in their own private hell at times but have each other to lean on, to help each other through to make each other laugh and are there when they are each at the end of their ropes.

[Feral Scholar] Feral Scholar » Blog Archive » Doctrine: “It also seems to me that the revolutionary movements in Nepal and in China, at least — maybe even Spain as well — occurred in far less race-fragmented cultures than the US. Race/national unity was often a foundation and a glue for third/emerging world revolutionary struggles, and I tend to agree with Stan [if I am interpreting past posts of his correctly] that this race/national unity and opposition to (usually White/Western) colonial power was a stronger motivating and inspiriting force than abstract theories of capital and class.”

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Revolt on the Right: The titles, President of the U.S.A., Commander In Chief (which used to apply only to the president’s relationship to the armed forces, but now seems to be his relation to all of us), and the unofficial “Leader of the Free World,” for the head of the executive branch of the American federal government, are as useful, and no more meaningful, than the English formulations, of “His (Her) Majesty’s government, or the old (post-1689) “In the name of His Majesty, The King,” or “In the name of Her Majesty, The Queen.” From 1689, up through to the Edwardian era (circa 1901-36), “His (Her) Majesty’s government,” was de facto Parliament’s government (which became all too clear with the reforms of 1763-1839).

[Belmont Club] Belmont Club » The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes: Fred Barnes, in an article entitled “How Tommy Franks won the Iraq war”, June 2, 2003 wrote: “There’s a debate over whether operational (or strategic) surprise was attained–that is, something approaching total surprise of the Pearl Harbor variety. Franks thinks it was.

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[Unreported] Seasoned journalist versus Thomas Friedman - Allison Kilkenny ...: The problem is that the Nir Rosens are forced to shout their records of first-hand testimonials in a response letter posted on Foreign Policy’s blog, while Friedo instantly invades the brains of around a million people (more counting on-line readers). The playing ground isn’t level, so the Friedos always win.

[We Love Quilting!] We Love Quilting! » Blog Archive » Quilting helps Iraq war veteran ...: Not only does she use quilting to creatively express her day-to-day struggles from her Iraq experience ”” she also deals with post traumatic stress disorder ”” but Madsen completes quilts that are donated to evacuated troops in military hospitals in Germany. These servicemen and women are beginning their journey back to the United States.

[Terroristplanet.com Blog Spot] Iraq War: Iraqi Freedom 2003 | Terroristplanet.com Blog Spot: Iraq War: Iraqi Freedom 2003 Iraq after Desert Storm After Coalition troops routed Iraq in the 1991 war. The international community agreed to maintain a...

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama, Biden and Iraq: Profiles In ...: Our military and George Bush paid for this victory as dearly as anything can be paid for, through their unyielding courage and determination, and for this corrupt two-bit wanker scum and his politically syphilitic entourage — who did everything they could within the reach of their political black arts to lose this war and to shame our president and nation and abandon the Iraqi people to the horrors of a killing fields all for political points —

[LuckyBogey's Blog] Operation Petticoat, UAV Airmen Pilots, And Morphing Wings ...: The recent developments in the field of smart materials have spurred research in the field of morphing wings where those materials can be used to make a 21st century intelligent wing. One of the most prominent morphing projects is NASA’s own Aircraft Morphing Program which is a 6 year program aimed at developing smart devises for implementing in airframe application to enable self-adapting flight resulting in dramatic improvements in aircraft efficiency and affordability.

[Fr33 Agents] Why Believe bin Laden: If NATO troops are marauding about Afghanistan disrupting or ending the lives of Afghans, then it’s kind of logical that those affected might hit back at the citizens of NATO member countries. Therefore, it’s also logical to assume that if NATO wasn’t occupying Afghanistan nor had the British participated in the invasion of Iraq then it wouldn’t fuel the fire of Islamic terrorism.

[AndyChrist1984 - MySpace Blog] Slave Labor in the U.S. - Andy Christ's MySpace Blog |: His 90 min speech drew several hundred people who help the military $48 million F-18 Hornet fighters, 36 of which when to the Iraq war. The purpose was to thank the men and women for helping building the war machine.

[The Olympian Online -- South Sound] They search if someone's missing in Iraq - South Sound - The ...: And the most high-profile recovery made during the unit's tenure in Iraq was in August, when Marines discovered the remains of Navy Capt. Scott Speicher, an F/A-18 Hornet pilot who was shot down during the 1991 Gulf War.

[ConservativeHome's Platform] ConservativeHome's Platform: George Trefgarne: The Left cannot be ...: The challenge for the country, and for the Conservatives, isto develop a right of centre critique of Tony Blair’s foreign policy,before defeat/withdrawal in Iraq is exploited by the Left. For if theLeft are allowed to dominate the ensuing debate, the consequences willbe grave indeed: a surge in anti-Americanism jeopardising the specialrelationship, a tilt in public opinion in the opposite directiontowards a federal Europe, and a dangerous reversal in the War on Terror.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » The Pakistan connection: The reason the Pakistani security services support the Taliban, he said, is for money: after the 9/11 attacks, the Pakistani military concluded that keeping the Taliban alive was the surest way to win billions of dollars in aid that Pakistan needed to survive. The military’s complicated relationship with the Taliban is part of what the official called the Pakistani military’s “strategic games.” Like other Pakistanis, this former senior official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of what he was telling me.

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: Afghan students protest US civilian ...: The Obama Administration, however, when it released its request for supplemental war funding for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2009 on April 9 stated that that would be the final supplemental request for Iraq and Afghanistan, and that starting in Fiscal Year 2010, .The request includes $1.2 billion for 9 of the Navy's F/A-18E/F “Super Hornet,” $2.7 billion for procurement of 35 V-22 “Osprey” tilt-rotor aircraft, and $10.4 billion for 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

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[Dissident Voice] Dissident Voice : Combating the Disinformation, Psyops, and Cover ...: Later, al-Sahhaf claimed that the Iraqi Republican Guard had slaughtered U.S. troops and was in control of the entire airport. His claims, according to one intelligence officer, were true, but were countered by a US military-media campaign of evasions and distortions which switched the subject from the airport to Private Jessica Lynch and ridiculed al-Sahhaf as “Baghdad Bob.”

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] Combating the Disinformation, Psyops, and Cover-ups of the US ...: When Iraq Veterans Against the War failed to support him, it was because an IVAW administrator, Amanda Braxton, a lifelong civilian, had been buffaloed by the best swiftboating attack since the presidential election of 2004. It was led by men whose records in special operations, propaganda and Republican war rallying made them seem more like mercenaries than media.

[DhafirTrial] DhafirTrial » The Evil of Sanctions: According to the BBC, the Oil for Food program “was a $60bn (£32bn) scheme which was supposed to allow Iraq to buy food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies with the proceeds of regulated oil sales, without breaking the sanctions imposed on it after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.” Actually, it was a license for fraud and embezzlement and proved most lucrative to all sorts of lowlifes who profited from a government plan that purported to alleviate misery.

[Montana Kaimin News] montanakaimin.com - News: You don't have to condone an action like that to address its motives, which is key to any .Turning to the apparent success in Anbar province and a few other Sunni areas, this is not the positive situation it is purported to be.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Is Health Care Reform the ...: Let’s say at the end of that debate, 33 percent of Americans thought it was a good idea to invade Iraq, 46 percent thought it was a bad idea and the rest weren’t sure. Then let’s say that there were a bunch of elections in places like New Jersey and Virginia in the middle of this debate and George Bush’s party lost them all badly.

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Inside the Iraq inquiry II: I watched the whole of the Blair questioning, and I thought that he answered all the questions put to him in a straight forward manner and as I recall the events with truth and sincerity, I first watched the massive turnout opposing Blair all two hundred of them,carrying the same absurd name calling banners that some of the lesser educated use on these blogs, one clown interviewed couldn't get the smile of his face or stop giggling more interested in being on the tele than the reason he purported to be there for, behind him a bunch of lads who had obviously scived off from school fo a laugh they also were grinning all over there faces and were certainly not of a age to remember anything of the war in Iraq, the rest were mostly made up of Moslems.

[Flopping Aces] The Iraq War Inquisition Begins in Britain: And so long as we are hunting for liars in this area, let me suggest that we begin with the Democrats now proclaiming that they were duped, and that we then broaden out to all those who in their desperation to delegitimize the larger policy being tested in Iraq””the policy of making the Middle East safe for America by making it safe for democracy””have consistently used distortion, misrepresentation, and selective perception to vilify as immoral a bold and noble enterprise and to brand as an ignominious defeat what is proving itself more and more every day to be a victory of American arms and a vindication of American ideals.

[Raw Story] Soldier reportedly holds daughter's head underwater for failing to ...: Given his age I would say he has been in Iraq or Afghanistan, perhaps multiple tours and still in thanks to the back-door draft "Stop Loss." Every single statistic generated by the war criminals Bush/Cheney was a lie, from casualty numbers (not counting the dead unless they died on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan) to the number of criminals given "Moral Waivers" and recruited from prisons.

[Publishers Weekly - Reviews News] Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 4/23/2007 - 2007-04-20 06:00:00 ...: weapons inspector Ritter (War on Iraq) is that rarity, a peacenik who’s also a gung-ho ex-Marine besotted with the leatherneck’s romanticized warrior ethos. In this eccentric manifesto, he critiques the antiwar movement in the light of military-philosophical chestnuts gleaned from Sun-Tzu, Marine Corps “maneuver warfare” principles and aerial combat guru John Boyd’s “OODA-loop” theory.

[FAMOUS PEOPLE NEWS.COM] Agbaso's one-hour reign as Imo governor « FAMOUS PEOPLE NEWS.COM: Nigeria: Visa Scam - EFCC Arraigns Five Suspects January 21, 2010. The economic and financial crimes commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned five young men who area of specialization is to dupe United Kingdom visa applicant before a Lagos High Court.

[The AV Club - Film] Going Na'vi: Why Avatar's politics are more revolutionary than its ...: Given the astronomical expectations for James Cameron’s Avatar—his first narrative feature in a dozen years, and the launching pad for a purportedly game-changing approach to the use of 3D and performance capture technology—it’s not surprising that the movie has split critics and viewers into two unequal but similarly passionate camps. On the one, more populous, side, are those who feel that Cameron has revolutionized the art form, creating a visionary work that will forever alter the medium.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: With outragous tax breaks and government give aways just to keep a few jobs in the local area most of us used to believe it was a trade off that was in the best interests of Americans and American jobs. Of course we have all learned the hard way that even if we do buy our jobs from the MultiNationals they will outsource/offshore them as soon as they can to ensure the top brass can add to their fleet of yachts or private jets.

[The Race for Iran] EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF “LIES” TO JEFFREY GOLDBERG (AND LEE ...: The Iran expert on Secretary Powell’s Policy Planning Staff at the time–Hillary Mann Leverett–thought that, and sent a detailed memo to Secretary Powell, through the Director of Policy Planning, Richard Haass, to that effect. (We will return to this memo and Powell’s reaction to it in a moment.) Within the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, the senior career diplomat responsible for Iran (and the only serving U.S. diplomat other than Hillary who had regularly negotiated with Iranian counterparts over Afghanistan), then Deputy Assistant Secretary Ryan Crocker, was not working on Iran at that point, as he had left Washington for Kuwait and Baghdad following the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Enough: This site is well-known to have strong opinions on Palin and her qualifications, but for the future, let’s encourage the media, Palin, Palinites and Palin-haters to rise above the tit-for-tat media sound bytes that have left so many Americans embittered about this country’s future. Policy positions, platforms, leadership and America’s future should be what we, and the voters, are about, not continuing the reality TV show nature of Palin-related politics.

[Antiwar.com Original] The Kamm Scam: Fake 'Journalist' Defends a Forgery by Justin ...: either produced by the Americans, who still think nuclear weapons are a secret and are afraid to release facts of how these weapons actually operate (either in encyclopedia articles or in their occasional forgery) or by some Iranians, who may be trying to join the circus and show us that they are as silly as their American (and British) accusers.

[Mises Economics Blog] The War is Lost - Jeffrey Tucker - Mises Economics Blog: C'mmon, only thing New Yoork Times wants to do is to lessen the burden on their guy, who won the Nobel Prize for peace and now it would be quite inconvenient if he would have to do some unpopular things, like surge, similar to that successfully implemented in Iraq, and to attract bad will that way from European communists who adore him and who gave him a Nobel Prize.

[Liberal Values] » John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, the Movie Liberal Values: Young says that his belief in Edwards ran so deep that he agreed to take the fall for the candidate, inviting the pregnant Hunter to live with him, his wife, Cheri, and their three children. Later, after Hunter delivered the baby, Young and his family moved to a different home in California.

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[Cinematical] Todd's Top 10 of 2009 - Cinematical: dead wrong, I loved The Hangover and I watched it like five time since I bought the blu ray and I think the The Hurt Locker is the second best of the year, you're are confusing quality and taste, only very ignorant or pretentious people think there's a difference between high art movies and quality popular movies and concessions should be made, and that's the same misconception tha made The Hurt Locker to be a flop, it was sold as an art movie when in fact it is, more than anything, and thrilling action movie with even less plot than Transformers 2, that's why people failed to see it, all movies should be judge on their own merits, just like boring existential stuff is not OK just because you're doing an "art film", stupid, incoherent, racist, sexist, braindead stuff is not aceptable because you're Michael Bay

[TIME: Real Clear Politics] The Mailbag Overflows With Olbermann - Real Clear Politics - TIME.com: If the greatest offense you can muster is at Olbermann for calling out the President for having the gall to demand that Kerry apologize for his non-insult while he himself-the man who ordered the invasion of Iraq-does no more than admit that "mistakes were made", then you should seriously consider re-aligning your priorities with, say, reality.

[Jon Taplin's Blog] Iraq-Five Years Later « Jon Taplin's Blog: I’m from mid-American town in Ohio, and in 2001-2, people were not being manipulated by the White House, they were SCREAMING that we had to do something, and the people they elected, are their kind of people, they pretty much think the same kind of thing. The media runing waving flags covering the war, were not manipulating us, they were serving up exactly what the customer ordered.

[No Ripcord - Independent Music & Film Magazine] Film Reviews | Avatar - James Cameron | No Ripcord - Independent ...: The military guys are bad because they're humans with guns who speak in terms directly lifted from Iraq war politics and pasted into the script. The scientists are somewhere in between because they work for the guys with guns, but realize THERE HAS TO BE...

[Breitbart.tv] Breitbart.tv » Limbaugh: 'Phony Soldiers' Story is a Phony Story: Limbaugh ABSOLUTELY accused those solders in harms way in Iraq who want withdraw as being “phony soldiers”. AFTER HE MADE THAT ACCUSATION, he then cherry picked Jesse MacBeth and in an attempt to bolster the case he just made about soldiers against the war being “phony .

[Reports - Chris Hedges' Columns | Truthdig] Chris Hedges: The Information Super-Sewer - Chris Hedges' Columns ...: but if democracy doesn’t get a handle on the autocratic, authoritarian, conservative, Right-Wing Republican Movement promoted by the political jingoism of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Fox Network, ResistNet.com, Grassfire.org, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill OReilly, Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, the Republican Tea Party, 

[Joy Tiz] The Decompensation of a President: For all of the narcissist’s grandiosity, he is driven by a relentless need to pursue and maintain a source of narcissistic supply.  A narcissist is at his most menacing when he perceives a threat to his perpetual supply of admiration and affirmation.  No drama Obama showed early on  the truculence typical of narcissists when they sense a threat to supply.  The same president who remains steadfast in his willingness to meet with Iran’s barbarian in chief, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad,  bleats about imagined desecration by Fox News.

[Fugitive Ink] Land girls in Lymington: war art fights back « Fugitive Ink: More to the point, as the notion developed ”” however self-reinforcing and partial it might have been ”” that Britain was somehow necessarily now a waning force in the world, what could possibly seem insular, antiquated and hence redundant than chronologically modern yet stylistically traditionalist depictions of English rural life? So whatever was variously skilful, inspired or formally successful in this corpus of work ”” or to put it more simply, whatever remained beautiful ”” nevertheless fell victim to the sheer conceptual weight of that unavoidable subject-matter.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Marty Peretz Auditions for the ...: That is, at some level you could only explain bombing Iraq in revenge for 9/11 as either incredibly cynical or incredibly psychotic or both. But the things they are trying to ” explain” that Obama has done are always utterly ordinary political acts.

[The LABVIRUS.COM Blog] The Decompensation of a President: Slick Barry is a narcissist of ...: No drama Obama showed early on the truculence typical of narcissists when they sense a threat to supply. The same president who remains steadfast in his willingness to meet with Iran’s barbarian in chief, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, bleats about imagined desecration by Fox News.

[SWJ Blog] 9 November SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[neo-neocon] neo-neocon » Blog Archive » Is it self-confidence or is it arrogance?: History will vindicate Bush, Cheney and their noble company, on Iraq, including it’s planning and execution, while the peanut gallery left will fade into the oblivion of the innefectual, fools in every sense of the word, yapping endlessly for decades of sucker negotiations, always resulting in greater long-term danger and tragedy for innocents. Beware of B.O.’s promotion of the black hole of Afghanistan as the cause celebre, if he is elected.

[mwaw.net Blog] How to Sell a War: Consider the picaresque journey of Tony Blair’s plagiarized dossier on Iraq, from a grad student’s website to a cut-and-paste job in the prime minister’s bombastic speech to the House of Commons. Blair, stubborn and verbose, paid a price for his grandiose puffery.

[The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review] The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Archbishop Rowan Williams ...: Hewlett Johnson (1874-1966), the famous "Red Dean of Canterbury". Johnson, a lifelong Fellow Traveller, among other things served as Chairman of the Board of the Daily Worker (this sounds like a joke, but is actual fact), and wrote best-selling books like The Socialist Sixth of the World (1939), in which he claimed that

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