Tag: Iraq War

4,497 Reasons Why There Are No Do-Overs in War

Filed in Featured, National by on May 5, 2016 66 Comments
4,497 Reasons Why There Are No Do-Overs in War

Hillary Clinton’s colossal fuck-up of one of her most important political decisions of her career.

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Dishonorable Discharge

Filed in National by on December 9, 2011 1 Comment

It seems that the Bush-era Department of the Air Force and Defense Department really didn’t give a damn about those who made the ultimate sacrifice for out country. The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show.

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Time to End the Wars

Filed in International, National by on June 21, 2011 7 Comments

The US Conference of Mayors did something on Monday that they haven’t done in over 40 years. They passed a resolution calling for an accelerated end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What is important to me at least is that the last time the Conference acted on this subject, we were mired in […]

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Another BushCo Iraq War Lie — Mobile Bioweapons Labs Edition

Filed in National by on February 15, 2011 1 Comment

It is completely amazing to me that the British press is still working to figure out how we got duped into the Iraq war. Part of this, of course, is that there have been multiple official inquiries that have been revealing the timelines, the decisions taken and the ways that the world was suckered into […]

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Look Who’s Back – It’s Donald Rumsfeld

Filed in National by on February 4, 2011 1 Comment

Donald Rumsfeld has a new memoir. By Rumsfeld’s account, he’s a hero surrounded by incompetents.

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Go Cheney Yourself, Dick Cheney

Filed in International by on February 14, 2010 2 Comments

Dick Cheney poked his head out of his undisclosed location to share this wisdom with the world this morning: Responding to Biden’s comments that Iraq may end up being one of the Obama administration’s greatest success, Cheney chuckled. “I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by my friend Joe Biden,” he said. “I’m glad he now […]

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Your Taxpayer Dollars At Work

Filed in National by on February 11, 2010 4 Comments

What’s a good use of taxpayer dollars? It’s paying for prostitutes for Blackwater mercenaries, of course.

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Good News To Start New Year

Filed in International by on January 1, 2010 7 Comments

For the first time ever . . . EVAH . . . since the ill conceived Iraq War began, the United States did not suffer any combat deaths in a calendar month reports CNN. December was the first month since the beginning of the Iraq war in which there were no U.S. combat deaths, the […]

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Sunday Papers: The UK Iraq War Inquiry

Filed in National by on November 29, 2009 3 Comments

We haven’t done this for awhile, but this effort by the British to take a hard look at how they came to be involved in the Iraq War doesn’t seem to have gotten much press stateside. So far, I’ve seen one NYT article (this post written on 11/28, tho) and heard some NPR reports.

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No War For Oil

Filed in International by on October 23, 2009 4 Comments

Uh, what? I thought we were spreading freedom and democracy. Wait a minute… et in remarks to Congress yesterday, Pickens revealed that he is just as interested as ever in tying our national security to oil interests in the Middle East, suggesting that American oil companies are “entitled” to Iraq’s oil because we spent blood […]

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