Archive for the 'Iraq war' Category
Distaste For Colin Powell
Posted on August 14, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Iraq war, endorsements | Leave a Comment
Something about the whole event will leave a bad taste in my mouth if Colin Powell does end up formally endorsing Barack Obama. Powell did not just endorse the disastrous invasion of Iraq. It was the centrist apolitical career military officer turned respected statesman’s willingness to risk his personal reputation in front of the United [...]
The Game Changer Everyone Chose To Ignore
Posted on July 21, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Barack Obama, Iraq war, Nouri al-Maliki, The Washington Post, the media | Leave a Comment
All weekend I watched to see how The Washington Post would play Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s endorsement of Barack Obama’s withdrawal timeframe. All weekend the Post buried the story in the middle of longer articles dealing with Obama’s world travels.
Iraq’s elected leader has unambiguously declared that Barack Obama’s plan for Iraq is more in [...]
The Decider Has Spoken… And He Agrees With The Democrats?
Posted on July 18, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Bush administration, Iraq war, John McCain | Leave a Comment
First Read:
You can’t make this up… NBC’s John Yang reports President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have agreed that a new agreement setting the parameters for US-Iraqi relations after the current UN mandate expires at the end of the year should include non-binding language–”a general time horizon” and not “an arbitrary date”–about the [...]
A Good Plan
Posted on July 14, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Iraq war | Leave a Comment
Barack Obama’s op/ed in the Times is definitely worth a few minutes of your time. The plan outlined is clear, concise, and very much in line with what is wanted by both the American people and the Iraqi people. It is consistent with what Obama has said in the past regarding Iraq and consistent with [...]
Welcome To The Occupation
Posted on July 8, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war | Leave a Comment
So, umm, can we start calling the Iraq adventure an occupation now? It’s been one for over five years by most reasonable definitions, but doesn’t Iraq’s government calling it one make it official? Seriously, I’d be really happy if we could all be honest about some facet of this whole disaster just once before we [...]
Not Good Enough
Posted on June 11, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain | Leave a Comment
Marc Ambinder (and I’m sure others will make similar arguments; his just happens to be the first I saw) is already accusing Democrats of playing unfairly with McCain’s “not too important” remark regarding bringing our soldiers home from Iraq. In summary, Ambinder believes that Democrats ought to acknowledge the context of McCain’s comments, in which [...]
Maybe He Doesn’t Really Want To Be President
Posted on June 11, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain, supporting the troops | 1 Comment
You’re kidding, right?
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Every Republican in the country just winced in unison.
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Straight Talk From The Future!
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain, The Surge | Leave a Comment
Facts have a well-known temporal bias:
On a McCain campaign conference call, Senator Jon Kyl did not concede that McCain had made an error in saying “We have drawn down to pre-surge levels,” instead accusing the Obama campaign and reporters of “trying to nitpick the tense of the verb about the surge troops being home.”
“The surge [...]
Most Benevolent Occupation Ever
Posted on May 19, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war, United States military, religion | Leave a Comment
I can only assume this incident occurred because our government couldn’t be bothered to provide the army with actual targets for use in target practice.
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Hundred Year War To Last A Mere Five More Years
Posted on May 15, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain | Leave a Comment
John McCain, glorious fountain of Straight Talk, will today announce his intention to have won the Hundred Year War by January of 2013, less than ten years after it began. What could possibly prompt such a dramatic improvement in our timetable?
According to excerpts obtained by The Times’ Maeve Reston, McCain uses an imaginative speech construction [...]
Al Qaeda In Iraq Run By The Living Dead
Posted on May 9, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraq war, zombies | Leave a Comment
Iraq claimed to have arrested the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, but the US says not so much. This part of the article stood out to me:
Al-Masri , called “the Egyptian” and also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, took the reins of Iraq’s al Qaeda offshoot in June 2006, after a U.S. missile strike [...]
Mission Accomplished Day
Posted on May 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war, holidays | Leave a Comment
Five sweet, sweet years of freedom for the Iraqi people. Five glorious years of living without fear of Saddam Hussein’s WMDs for the rest of the world. Five years since America showed the evil-doers what we would do to them as repayment for terrorist attacks.
A century from now, our great-grandchildren will remember May 1, 2003, [...]
Heartbreaking Photo Of The Day
Posted on April 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war | Leave a Comment
A cropped version of this AP photo was on the front page of today’s Washington Post.
According to the caption, our missiles killed this boy. But that fact is neither here nor there. Regardless of direct responsibility for pulling the proverbial trigger, our war of choice is unquestionably responsible for killing this boy.
The war continues, and [...]
Only Dirty Fucking Hippies Care About Mental Illness Caused By War
Posted on April 18, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Afghanistan war, Bush administration, Iraq war, Military, PTSD, supporting the troops | Leave a Comment
The lede says it all.
The latest and most comprehensive study of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has concluded that nearly 1 in every 5 veterans is suffering from depression or stress disorders and that many are not getting adequate care.
A more specific breakdown of the numbers:
An estimated 300,000 veterans among the nearly 1.7 [...]
There Are No Upper Limits To John McCain’s Assholery
Posted on April 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain | Leave a Comment
Tristero links to a doozy of a McCain statement:
We can look back at the past and argue about whether we should have gone to war or not, whether we should have invaded or not, and that’s a good academic argument.
As tristero writes:
An academic argument as to whether the death of 4000 plus American troops, the [...]
PSA On The Hearings
Posted on April 8, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Congressional hearings, General Petraeus, Iraq war | Leave a Comment
I was having trouble finding a good liveblog of the Petraeus hearings amongst the many blogs in my RSS feed, but it seems Tom Ricks is handling it for the Post. So read that if you want the live updates.
Nothing too exciting as yet: McCain likes the war, Democrats are skeptical, Petraeus and Crocker are [...]
Cokie Roberts Is Very Serious
Posted on April 8, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war, polls | Leave a Comment
Glenn Greenwald has long been fighting the battle of “what the public wants” vs.” what the pundustry claims the public wants”. As such, he highlights an awfully straightforward poll demonstrating yet again that the public wants us to get out of Iraq already, to the tune of 60% to 35%. Here’s Greenwald’s summary, which I [...]
Is This Ironic Or Only Alanis-Ironic?
Posted on April 7, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war, John McCain | Leave a Comment
Either way, it’s definitely a bit embarrassing:
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Not as embarrassing as calling your wife a c—, but still embarrassing.
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A Two-Bit Congressman
Posted on April 4, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war, Patrick McHenry, supporting the troops | Leave a Comment
Via Think Progress, Republican North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry shows us the true meaning of supporting our troops:
We spent the night in the Green Zone, in the poolhouse of one of Saddam’s palaces. A little weird, I got to be honest with you. But I felt safe. And so in the morning, I got up [...]
The Most Impartial Of Referees
Posted on April 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war, John McCain, the media | Leave a Comment
The same media that has spent the better part of ten years falsely asserting that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet is doing everything in its power to convince us that John McCain wanting a hundred year war in Iraq is a vicious lie even though he explicitly said he was perfectly [...]
