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Not Quite A Bargain
Joseph Stiglitz, a nobel-prize winning economist and Linda Bilmes have written a book claiming that the Iraq war has thus far cost 3 trillion dollars. I'm trying to think of all the things that America could have done with 3...
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Academy Awards: Jon Stewart Talks About Iraq-Inspired Cinema
At last night's Oscar ceremony, host Jon Stewart had a few choice words to say about the recent American films about the Iraq war: (for more of Stewart's political bon mots last night, check out our friends at AlterNet)...
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The War Keeps on Going
You'd think that the Iraq War would be a major campaign topic given comments from our Secretary of Defense (as reported in the New York Times) that he'd support a "pause" in troop withdrawal: His comments were another strong indication...
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Happy Fifth Anniversary
Happy 5th anniversary, Colin Powell, on your presentation to the United Nations that convinced many moderate Americans of the slam-dunk "evidence" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (thanks to Think Progress for reminding us of the occasion). And just...
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A Range of Views on Iraq
If any of the candidates of any party had served in Iraq, they might have a point-of-view similar to one of our 2008 donation recipients....
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Lies? What Lies?
As we discussed yesterday, the Center for Public Integrity has done us the service of cataloging 935 incontrovertible lies by the Bush administration on Iraq, dating from October 2001 to August 2003. Dana Perino's response was, ironically enough, another half-truth:...
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More on the Lies
The Center for Public Integrity, which put together the very excellent accounting of all the lies about Iraq told by top Bush officials, also has a very excellent title for their scorecard: The War Card. And, knowing that not everyone...
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When Yahoo! Doubts Your Word...
Plenty of Americans have lost trust in the President, but defenders of the Bush administration will claim that CREDO, MoveOn, Keith Olbermann and other detractors form a liberal elite out of step with the mainstream. We know that's not the...
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Tommy Franks Paid 100k to Endorse Questionable Veterans Charity
As in, very questionable. According to Brian Ross: Retired U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, was paid $100,000 to endorse a veterans charity that watchdog groups say is ripping off donors and wounded...
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Et Tu, New York Times?
The New York Times has decided to add neo-con Bill Kristol to its list of regular opinion columnists. The Daily Kos provides a great analysis of some of the ways Kristol misleads in his second New York Times Op-Ed column,...
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Iraq On The Backburner
As the momentum of the political races picks up, many are wondering "Will Iraq Return as a Campaign Issue?" According to polls, the economy appears to be the issue of concern more so than the war and health care. Arianna...
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Blackwater Casually Uses CS Gas - Military Terms It "Decidedly Uncool"
Apparently Blackwater casually used dangerous riot-control gases in Iraq: The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005,...
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151,000 Iraqis dead
151,000 Iraqis are estimated to have died between March 2003 and June 2006 as a result of the United States' invasion. According to an article in USA Today: The estimate comes from projections by the World Health Organization and the...
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Halliburton's Evil...and Seemingly Safe
We don't just need to get out of Iraq...we need to break the stranglehold of the growing contractor culture that has grown only stronger in the 7 years of Bush-Cheney military-industrial complex. These cronies believe the are above the law....
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Moving Left on the War
It's been frustrating this past year, knowing that the American people had expressed its will to end the war, knowing that votes had been tallied and power had changed hands in Congress...and yet...and yet... We're still there. But there is...
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The Daily Show May Be On Strike...
...so it's a good time for more of us to learn that the Onion's online videos are funny, dark and a little too true. Our Troops Send Holiday Wishes For Peace, Goodwill, And Body Armor (The video embed is acting...
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This Isn't Progress
To close out a year in Iraq that was supposed to be our turning point, that supposedly showed evidence of progress...Think Progress notes that the number of American military casualties this year: 899 -- the deadliest year since our invasion....
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Blackwater: Even Mercenaries Think Those Guys Are Too Much
One of the story's of the year has to be Blackwater: the growth of a mercenary army that has been revealed by the events of '07 to act above the law. I cringe at the idea of these private armies,...
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There's The Christmas Spirit
You might not think of Tuscaloosa as being a big CREDO area...well, you'd be surprised. Because the Tuscaloosa News just wrote an article about our program to bring phonecards to veterans...a program you all helped push over the $100k mark....
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Christmas Memories
Looking through past Christmas messages from Drinking Liberally, I found this from 2004...while the Rumsfeld references are no longer contemporary, the themes are sadly still timely. A Very Rumsfeld Christmas A Visit From St. Rummy (with apologies to Clement Clark...
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Ending The War
Patrick Murphy, an Iraq War veteran who was elected in 2006, spoke candidly to his local paper about his frustration with the war -- and his belief that Congress should have done more. Murphy was "not sure" what more Democrats...
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Man's Best Friend - Not Safe In Iraq
One more reason for us to call for an end to this senseless blunder in Iraq: these mercenaries are just out of control. This time, their latest casualty may not be quite as horrendous as innocent Iraqis or as their...
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Remember Ahmad Chalabi?
We do. So what's the guy who got us into Iraq doing now? Helping us get out of Iraq? Nah. He's too busy museum-curating. BAGHDAD -- For a few brief hours Tuesday, three dozen spectators -- journalists, local politicians and...
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Don't Change Course
"Don't change course" seems to be our President's motto, whether dealing with tax cuts, domestic spying or, of course, Iraq. It's a shame his Defense Secretary agrees. Senior Pentagon and military officials said today that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates...
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GOP Debate Re-Cap
Drinking Liberally and Laughing Liberally hosted a debate-watch in New York City last night. Our friends at techPresident liveblogged from The Tank where our comedians snarked as our crowded room of alternatively-shocked-awed-and-amused lurking liberals sighed, gasped, laughed, booed and generally...
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A Pattern Emerges...
Hey, Presidential candidates: a pattern has emerged in the fates of world leaders who joined the Iraq War debacle (thanks ThinkProgress for the full report): Of 14 major partners in the Coalition, eight leaders were defeated in elections, four stepped...
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Dose of Durst
The White House has decided unity might be a bit much to hope for from Iraq and has lowered their expectations. Yeah, George Bush is good at that....
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Fudging the Facts on Iraqi Returnees
It's become an increasingly common refrain for apologists of our Iraq policy - you want proof that the security situation in Iraq is getting better? Just look at the numbers of Iraqis returning home. On Nov. 7, Brig. Gen. Qassim...
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We're Also Thankful...
...that pretty soon, George Bush won't be able to use Poland as his example that we're a real coalition in Iraq, as that country will be withdrawing troops soon. So, the President's "Don't forget Poland" becomes "Forget Poland" -- we...
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How Not to be Thankful
How's this for a Thanksgiving message: "Thank you for sacrificing your physical and mental health for our country. Now can you pay us back that bonus we gave you?" Not such a seasonal message, is it? Yet it seems to...
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The Fight Is On
53 votes. 53 and counting. The Senate voted down war funding with no restrictions. But then it also voted down a proposal to tie funding to a change in course. Let's get those 7 votes -- keep telling the Senate...
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Priorities
The President is really getting a hang of that veto pen: President Bush today vetoed a bill that would have provided $150.7 billion for education, health care, job training and other domestic programs. Dana Perino, the White House press secretary,...
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When Will We Ever Learn?
Starting a new week, we're greeted by the same sad news: senseless violence, the death of an Iraqi citizen, and it seems that the unaccountable actions of the for-profit armies to whom we've outsourced our misdeeds are at the center...
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"Freedom's Happening In Iraq"
President Bush claims "freedom's happening in Iraq," that "we're making progress" and that "if you lived in Iraq, you'd be saying, 'God, I love freedom'" Yes, he seriously claimed that. Without ever noting the massive civilian death doll, the growing...
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Dose of Durst
President Bush wants another $48 billion for the Iraqi occupation. He insists that not only was our invasion a good idea, if he had to do it over again, he would screw up in exactly the same way....
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Strongly Disapprove
More Americans "strongly disapprove" of Bush than did of Nixon, reports Think Progress. So once again, our President has set a record. Once he starts down one course, he rarely veers off, whether it's a disastrous war, a wrong-headed economic...
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Blackwater Guards Involved in Civilian Shooting Promised Immunity
Well, this more or less speaks for itself: The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned. As a result, it will...
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...and Four Billion More Specific Reasons
We are paying contractors $4 billion every year to outsource this war for us. That's 4,000,000,000 dollars...nine zeroes. Earlier today we noted the $2.4 trillion we'll be spending over the next decade on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. These numbers...
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2.4 Trillion Reasons
USA Today reports that every American would need to contribute $8,000 to add up to the $2.4 trillion total the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars will cost over the next decade. How's that for a reason to demand that Congress authorize...
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Pop Quiz, Hotshot!
Sometimes in our campaign to bring common-sense to our Iraq policy, we come across some rather unlikely allies. For instance, who said the following over the weekend? “Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” [the person] said...
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Laughing Liberally To Keep From Crying
Revelations about Blackwater make it clearer and clearer just how murky & muddy a mess they've made. Once you've taken a look, you may not want to drink the Blackwater, but how about a Liberal Shot of Political Whiskey, courtesy...
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And More of Our Representatives Finally Agree
Ninety House members are done with this stay-the-course funding...and are pledging to only support funding for withdrawal. This is an increase from only 70 Reps who made that commitment three months ago. This means that some folks -- who we...
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First In...Now Out?
What does it mean when even the Marines want to leave Iraq? The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according...
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Dose of Durst
The FBI plans to head up the Blackwater investigation in Iraq, during which they will be protected and escorted by...Blackwater. You can't makeup stuff like this. Oy. Do something to stop the madness in Iraq...then enjoy more Durst to...
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Dose of Durst
Condoleezza Rice says we have no plans to invade Iran. So how does that differ with what happened in Iraq? No plan to invade also means no plan to exit...and we saw where that kind of planning got us....
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Our Daily Dose of "Why Are We There?"
The committee staff report said Blackwater guards had engaged in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, and in the vast majority of cases the guards fired their weapons from moving vehicles without stopping to count the dead or assist...
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Whither Iceland?
Start your new week -- and new month -- with a laugh: ...and with one more reason to demand a timetable for our exit from Iraq. I mean, even Iceland's one media representative had an out...it's now time for our...
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Dick Cheney Was Right
You know, 1992 Dick Cheney...the one who spoke about how complicated it would be to remove Hussein and build an Iraqi government. It's time to exit this situation....
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The Jay Leno Benchmark
Chris at Open Left has a great way of measuring whether an issue has reached the public radar: by whether Jay Leno is joking about it. The discussion of residual forces has been gaining traction, and Tim Russert asked each...
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Every Day Another Reason
As if we needed to further convince you to tell Congress there can be no funding without a timeline for an exit from Iraq, yet more evidence that the President and his team can not be trusted without oversight, checks...
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Contradictions
Under a headline that would be absurdist if it weren't so somber -- "What Defines a Killing as Sectarian?" -- the Washington Post exposes the troubles in calculating whether we are in fact making any progress in Iraq...and what the...
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Olbermann on MoveOn
For anyone seeking a coherent and articulate response to the mind-numbingly outrageous actions of Congress yesterday, check out Keith Olbermann's latest special comment from last night's program: Now let's get back to the business of ending this war....
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Working Assets: proud to be nonpartisan.
Yesterday I received an email from the Young Democrats of America (I'm not a member but am somehow on their list), asking me to send a thank you card to Congress. What terrible timing. It's been a week of bitter...
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Txt 2 End War
We just sent the following text message out to members of our mobile action network: WorkingAssetsMobileAction: Senate vote on Levin-Reed amendment IN HOURS. Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them 2 vote YES to bring troops home! Voting is...
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Losses...
We lost on restoring habeas and we lost on changing the course of the war. Neither of these is a huge surprise given who we're dealing with in the Senate. They are only surprising in the larger sense of continual...
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Will the Senate start to end the war today?
OpenLeft is counting senators prior to a possible vote today on the Webb amendment. This legislation gives reasonable deployment breaks to soldiers so the military doesn't break, and it has bipartisan support. Last time we got 56 votes for this,...
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Two Battles
Sometimes it feels like there is nothing to be done about the mess our country is in. (Well, it never feels that way to Working Assets members who can always do more through our great Act For Change online activism.)...
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"Funding All Sides of this Sectarian War"
Progress in Iraq? From an interview on Alternet today: There have been a lot of reports about the fact that the people who the U.S. is working with, the supposed "freedom fighters," the "counter-insurgents" are former insurgents. They were Iraqi...
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Meanwhile, in the White House...
...Things are going a little crazy-go-nuts: Catch this if you don't quite get the reference here....
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Hail To The Petraeus?
It seems that Gen. Petraeus has expressed some interest in running for President: The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, expressed long-term interest in running for the US presidency when he was stationed in Baghdad, according to a senior...
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Kerry & The Value of a Life
It's a theme John Kerry has trumpeted for over 30 years. As a returning veteran, he asked: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be...
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Dose of Durst
The President said General Petraeus's testimony wasn't a sideshow. Would have been more believable if he hadn't been munching on cotton candy at the time....
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The Death of Two Soldiers
Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance Gray died on Monday. In a war with no mission, no measure for victory and no end in sight, there are going to be many deaths. These two resonate in a particular way given...
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Get Ready for Beach Impeach III...
Here in the Bay Area, cab driver and uber-organizer Brad Newsham is thick in the planning for Beach Impeach III -- this time, to be held at Crissy Field in the Presidio, this Saturday September 15th at 1 PM. If...
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Stop. Stop. Stop.
A new site called Stop The DC Establishment has been set up by our friends at OpenLeft and FireDogLake to tell the Beltway boys and girls to stop giving David Petraeus -- who has a history of wrong predictions about...
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Being Honest About Ending the War
We all know that trying to convince President Bush to change course in Iraq is absurd. Well, we don't need to convince the President -- there is a much softer target: enough members of either House to stop passing mindless...
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MoveOn Steps Up
For anyone who thinks: - Congressional hearings are boring - War opponents will be timid on the Hill this week - Mondays are sleepy and sluggish starts to the week ...MoveOn is about to challenge your assumptions. Because there is...
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Petraeus: The General from Fox News
If you were not yet convinced that General Petraeus' delivery of the White House's report on "progress" in Iraq to Congress is a thoroughly cynical PR ploy, you should be now. Think Progress posts on General Petraeus' "exclusive" appearance on...
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It's Almost Too Much Progress
While the President broke from his script with his joyous declaration that "We're kicking ass" with the surge, normally he stays to his notes to more somberly declare: "We're making progress." MoveOn thinks we've heard this claim before...and their new...
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YouTube as a Democratizing Force
Earlier in the day, we highlighted the DCCC's YouTube release -- today, OpenLeft also released a video, criticizing Senator Clinton's statements on Iraq and pushing New Hampshire voters to take seriously their opportunity to question that candidates over the next...
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The Surge Is Working
No, no it isn't. This graph, from Frank di Libero at Angry Bear, tells the whole story....
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From Bremer's Lips to Bush's Ears
I'm not one to spend much time defending L. Paul Bremer. Anyone who had their hands on this Iraq fiasco from the start comes out dirty. But it is fascinating that the man who Bush entrusted to head up the...
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To End on a Lighter Note
Olbermann's "special comment" on Bush's loss of credibility in Iraq and his intention to keep us in perpetual war, the new video revealing the shallow fraud of the President's false promises to draw down from the Occupation, and the tragic...
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Dose of Durst
President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq over Labor Day weekend. Nice of him to visit the course he intends to stay. The President's comments to his authorized biographer that he's "playing" for the fall with troops in...
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Completely Useless
Cenk Uygur is frustrated. This Air America host is tired of the lies about the surge, tired of the "neutral" media repeating those lies and tired of war critics softening their comments and seeing signs of light in order to...
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Do They Mean It This Time?
The obvious and unfortunate answer is "no" to the rhetorical question posed in the latest ad from Americans Against the Escalation in Iraq. The question -- "Do they mean it this time?" -- refers to the President's optimistic statements about...
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...But This President Has Ceased to Listen
Inspired words to wake up to on a Wednesday morning, words that cut to the heart of the President's play-acting in Iraq this Labor Day weekend: And as for the most immediate victims of the President’s perfidy and shameless manipulation...
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Iraq, Iran...What's the Difference?
Other than one pesky letter, what's the difference between Iraq and Iran? Bush's plan. No, not an exit strategy. No, not a multi-lateral coalition. No, not diplomacy. It's a different part of the plan that Headzup focuses on. Say no...
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Failure is Contagious
One quality of the Iraq quagmire: everyone gets to share in the failure. The architects of our invasion, the executors of the Occupation, the liars who led us in and the spineless saps who let it happen...and now there are...
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Dose of Durst
The latest National Intelligence Estimate says the Iraqi government is paralyzed by internal squabbling and petty personal differences. So, apparently, we have made some strides in installing an American style democracy over there. Leave it to Durst to turn...
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Working Assets / MoveOn Vigil
Thousands of Working Assets members gathered with folks from MoveOn and other groups tonight to honor those who have given their lives in Iraq and to show Congress the real cost of the war. In downtown San Francisco, Working Assets...
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War Drums Beating
Yesterday Bush and French President Sarkozy tried to raise world fear levels about the possibility of Iranian nuclear weapons. Bush warned that an atomic bomb toting Iran would put the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust". Sarkozy...
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Dose of Durst
In President Bush's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he made an analogy between Vietnam and Iraq. You know, I can't help but thinking: maybe if he had gone to one, we wouldn't be in the other. Let's...
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The President Drops a Few Names in the Case for War
Is it me, or did President Bush's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars this week make it seem like he just got a subscription to Mental Floss and can't wait to show off? First he makes reference to Graham...
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More like Suppression's Watch...
There's been a lot written in the last few days about a new, well funded, pro-war organization called Freedom's Watch (funded by former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer). This video reveals that they do this by suppressing dissent. We were...
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Mathematics
We've known for a long time that the Bush Administration doesn't really support our troops, but this is outrageous. The Pentagon will fall far short of its goal of sending 3,500 lifesaving armored vehicles to Iraq by the end of...
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Hooray for Scheduling Conflicts!
Today, Fox News announced that they are canceling their Democratic presidential debate. Though the Congressional Black Caucus blames the cancelation on "scheduling challenges," it is clear that there were other factors involved, mainly the decision of three major candidates (Senators...
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Another Report to Ignore
The Bush Administration is really a champion at ignoring lessons. They ignored warnings pre-9/11 and pre-Katrina, ignored the failings of cronyism and incompetence in handling the New Orleans devastation, ignored their own intelligence findings before Iraq, ignored proposals from the...
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The Real Culprit
It looks like we've found the person who "bears ultimate responsibility" for 9/11, (No, it's not Saddam Hussein). A CIA's inspector general report released today identifies the real culprit: Former CIA director George Tenet. From ABC News: The report says...
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Iran/q
It's so easy, just switch the last letter and "Iraq" becomes "Iran." Fox News will barely have to edit their jingoistic, Hollywood-style graphics if they help the Bush administration march us into another military confrontation. Don't think that's what Fox...
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A Different Kind of Escalation
I must have missed the memo, so I'm glad that Alternet reminded me: all this week The Daily Show will have a reporter in Iraq. Yes, a fake reporter...doing real reports...for a fake news show...in real Iraq. I guess they...
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Your Tax Dollars at Work
We weren't surprised to learn that Fox News was manipulating Wikipedia entries (including the entry of Al Franken) -- after all, mangling the truth is what they do best. It was comical that they did it so clumsily and were...
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While We All Wait For The Petraeus Report, Bush Takes a More Proactive Position
Y'know how the standard administration retort to any questioning of the surge is to wait until Petraeus' report in September? Turns out they'll be writing that report. Read it and weep....
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Don't Impeach the 1994 Dick Cheney
This sensible man articulates all the reasons not to go into Baghdad alone: you wouldn't have the ability to secure it, it would become an Occupation and eventually a mess. And yet this man is Dick Cheney -- in 1994...looking...
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Dose of Durst
When George Bush vetoed the stem cell bill, he said “Americans should not be asked to pay for the destruction of human life.” So, what the hell are we doing in Iraq? Mr. Durst, you're humor sometimes stings with...
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Highest?!?!
How is it that when Bush's approval rating is at its lowest, he still has the political clout to have the number of troops in this occupation at its highest?!?! 162,000. Take that number in. 162,000 Americans, and not 1...
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The Military at YearlyKos
General Wesley Clark is addressing the YearlyKos Convention right now. He was introduced by Jon Soltz of VoteVets, an organization that has created effective, hard-hitting TV ads about what "supporting the troops" really means. These two men have pulled an...
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Something Bush Finally Wins For Real
Thank the Washington Post for this entertaining lead paragraph to a story in today's paper: President Bush is a competitive guy. But this is one contest he would rather lose. With 18 months left in office, he is in the...
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Dial O For Obvious
From an interview with Condoleeza Rice in the most recent issue of Businessweek: Would you consider a position in business or on Wall Street [after the end of the President's term? I don't know what I'll do long-term. I'm a...
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So Close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Despite Harry Reids best efforts at the Senate's overnight session, the opponents of the war still fell 8 votes short of the mandatory 60 votes needed to end debate. Huffington Post reports: The Democratic proposal, by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich.,...
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