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[Subdy.com American dating services] Democrats have The tendency to believe the worst? | Subdy.com ...: It is now on display, not only in the TNR story, but also in “The Other War: Iraq Veterans Bear Witness“ in the July 30th issue of The Nation, which bills the Iraq war as “a dark and even depraved enterprise.” The article is based on interviews with some 50 Iraq war veterans and purportedly describes “disturbing patterns of behavior by American troops in Iraq.” According to the piece, the war has “led many troops to declare an open war on all Iraqis.”

[Republicans & Conservatives] Republicans & Conservatives: We Did Good in Iraq: Most public opinion told us that the surge which was being planned would not work. The ending we could have expected in 2006 was truly frightening.

[Dahr Jamail's Mideast Dispatches » Dahr Jamail - Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East] “Mass Casualties”: The Dark Underbelly of Occupation, an Army ...: When Anthony’s unit is moved from Mosul to Al-Anbar province in central Iraq to set up a new hospital, the unit commander leads the men to believe that he would be working at another hospital for a month, but actually he was back in the US taking a class at a war college because he needed the course in order to be promoted. The medic finds it unconscionable: “I start to feel nauseous - we are in the middle of fighting a war and our leader has given himself a month-long VACATION.”

[Fabius Maximus] The U.S. Military's German Fetish « Fabius Maximus: I’ve always been interested in the German military, especially the Wehrmacht of World War II.  As a young boy, I recall building many models, not just German Panther and Tiger tanks, but famous Luftwaffe planes as well.  True, I built American tanks and planes, Shermans and Thunderbolts and Mustangs, but the German models always seemed “cooler,” a little more exotic, a little more predatory.  And the German military, to my adolescent imagination, seemed admirably tough and aggressive: hard-fighting, thoroughly professional, hanging on against long odds, especially against the same hordes of “godless communists” that I knew we Americans were then facing down in the Cold War.

[Stephen M. Walt] Why John Judis is Wrong about the Iraq War | Stephen M. Walt: What if these groups had openly opposed the war, or just quietlypushed for an genuine debate on different options, or simply remained on the sidelines and let members of Congress know that they had their doubts?What if their counsels of restraint had been reinforced by similarlyprudent advice from respected think-tanks like the Saban Center at Brookings, the American Enterprise Institute orthe Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)? What if staunchly pro-Israel punditslike Charles Krauthammer, Max Boot, Kenneth Pollack, Jeffrey Goldberg, and ThomasFriedman, among others, had spent2002 raising questions about the wisdom of an attack, or arguing aspassionately against the war as they did in favor of it?

[Signs of the Times] American Blitzkrieg: Loving the German War Machine to Death ...: Later, of course, a little knowledge about the nightmare of Nazism and the Holocaust went a long way toward destroying my admiration for the Wehrmacht, but -- to be completely honest -- a residue of grudging respect still survives: I no longer have my models, but I still have many of the Ballantine illustrated war books I bought as a young boy for a buck or two, and which often celebrated the achievements of the German military, with titles like Panzer Division, or Afrika Korps, or even Waffen SS.

[Mohammed Abbasi] American blitzkrieg « Mohammed Abbasi: In this infatuation with German military prowess, which the political scientist John Mearsheimer memorably described as “Wehrmacht penis envy”, we celebrated our ability to blitzkrieg our enemies – which promised rapid, decisive victories that would be largely bloodless (at least for us).

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | American Blitzkrieg: When ideologues, like the Neo-Conservatives, use military history they tend to pick those philosophies and "lessons" like the Myth of Blitzkrieg to pursue their ideological goals while ignoring any facts or historical analysis that contradicts their dogmatic thinking. Such intentional ignorance led the Bush-Cheney Administration into a disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq and the total mismanagement of the fight in Afghanistan.

[Signs of the Times] The Jews of Iraq -- Signs of the Times News: (There were ways of getting Iraqi dinars out, but when the immigrants went to exchange them in Israel they found that the Israeli government kept 50 percent of the value.) Even those Iraqi Jews who had not registered to emigrate, but who happened to be abroad, faced loss of their nationality if they didn't return within a specified time. An ancient, cultured, prosperous community had been uprooted and its people transplanted to a land dominated by East European Jews, whose culture was not only foreign but entirely hateful to them.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama, Biden and Iraq: Profiles In ...: It’s a good time to point out that Biden is VP because Obama needed a serious adult on the ticket to provide the gravitas that doesn’t come when one is essentially a Chicago street thug with the right demographics to guilt the Dems into voting for an unfit candidate.

[Stephen M. Walt] Blair, Bush, Israel and Iraq | Stephen M. Walt: He mentioned the "Israel issue" in the context of the considerations in going to war, but that could just as easily refer to the effect launching the war would have on other Mideast peace prospects (his comments suggest they were concerned with broader Mideast issues) and how it would "play" in the rest of the region, as well as whether there would be a repeat of attacks on Israel as a result of a coalition attack against Iraq, and what to do with Israel in terms of its potential response. THAT would be a more logical interpretation of what Blair meant and why he and Bush would consult with the Israelis, i.e., to make sure they would play ball in terms of staying on the sidelines as they did in Gulf War I and thereby avoid turning the opinion of other Arab states against the U.S./British efforts.

[Flopping Aces] Obama & Pals Take Credit For Iraq War Success: “I mean, the truth of the matter is that, that the ”” America’s ”” this administration’s policy and the surge are a failure, and that the surge, which was supposed to stop sectarian violence and ”” long enough to give political reconciliation, there’s been no political reconciliation”¦ The reality is that, although there has been some mild progress on the security front, there is, in fact, no, no real security in Baghdad and/or in Anbar province, where I was, dealing with the most serious problem, sectarian violence. Sectarian violence is as strong and as solid and as serious a problem as it was before the surge started.”

[Stromata Blog] Stromata Blog: Law Professors Say the Darndest Things: Time travel, ghosts, Albert Einstein's daughter, ancient conspiracies, a blind assassin, a Mossad agent who will die if he hears the telephone ring: With his customary bravura and skill, Tim Powers fashions a coherent and exciting story out of a strange assortment of materials. (*****)

[Blog Them Out of the Stone Age] Blog Them Out of the Stone Age ”º Naming the War: which I think makes sense in the Iraq case, since Al Qaeda wasn’t in Iraq when we took down Saddam Hussein’s regime and let’s face it, we didn’t expect them turn up afterward. In any event, they were a relatively small component of the Iraq insurgency, though they drew a disproportionate share of attention and headlines.

[Open Book Toronto] An Obscure Bicentennial | Open Book Toronto: There's the tale of Laura Secord (she did not, in fact, use a cow as cover to cross American lines, just her knowledge of back routes through the swamp and woods) and the candy store chain named after her. There's the memorial to Sir Isaac Brock and the eponymous university in Saint Catharines.

The View From 1776: The View from 1776 presents a framework to understand present-day issues from the viewpoint of the colonists who fought for American independence in 1776 and wrote the Constitution in 1787. Knowing and preserving those understandings, what might be called the unwritten constitution of our nation, is vital to preserving constitutional government.

[Drudge Retort] Iraq to Sue US, Britain over Depleted Uranium | Drudge Retort: Chris Busby, the British radiation expert, Fellow of the University of Liverpool in the Faculty of Medicine and UK representative on the European Committee on Radiation Risk, talking about the best-kept secret of this war: the fact that, by illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq, Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world.

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