Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Over at Matthew Yglesias’s blog you can read all about how Bush lobbied the Iraqi government to delay the withdrawal date to help John McCain.
Hey, nothing wrong with getting U.S. soldiers killed to help your political allies right? OK, it’s possibly the despicable thing the Bush administration has ever done, and that’s saying something. [...]
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Tags: George Bush, Iraq, John McCain, Maliki
I had been meaning to write a post about how conservatives policy proposals have really gotten unclear. Thinking about I’ve decided that it’s more then policy proposals, it’s their entire vision for the future which is impossible to ascertain.
In 90s it was simple; the Congressional Republicans wanted lower taxes, to gut every federal program, [...]
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Tags: Foreign Policy, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain
Tom Friedman is an Awful Person
Atrios is right to highlight the below clip in which Tom Friedmen endorses killing people in whichever Muslim country is politically convenient. It’s not like it’s a momentary comment of frustration or spoken in rage. It’s carefully considered approval random killing.
It’s a disservice to our country that he’s still considered [...]
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Tags: Iraq, Iraq War, New York Times, Politics, Suck on this day, Thomas Friedman
To follow up on something that’s been bugging me, what’s up with people acting like it would be the end of world if there was no Olympics this year? What exactly would be so tragic about not being able to watch a bunch of sports events we don’t watch any time other then during the [...]
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Tags: Add new tag, Beijing Summer Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, Boycott the Olympics, China, China Olympics, Iraq, Iraq War, Olympics 2008, Tibet
The One Death Benchmark
This is the trailer for Body of War, which is a documentary about Iraq war veterans.
It seems like a really compelling story, and I encourage you to check it out. In this interview with the folks at Center For American Progress, subject of the film Tomas Young says, “We just passed [...]
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Tags: 000 deaths in Iraq, 4, Body of War, Center for American Progress, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Veterans, Surge, Tomas Young
Here is Matthew Yglesias discussing a Washington Post editorial earlier today.
Today’s Washington Post editorial on Iraq dedicated to slamming Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is really baffling. Their big point is that Democratic plans to withdraw troops from Iraq are somehow unrealistic or based on “fantasy” which seems to simply miss the contours of the [...]
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Tags: Foreign Policy, George Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq Withdrawal, Matthew Yglesias
Incentives For Crazy Talk
Matthew Yglesias had this say about McCain recent “100 Years of War” quote earlier today (See below for Video)
George W. Bush, I think most people can agree, has a tendency toward the cavalier and irresponsible. Liberal critics such as myself also tend to view his strategy in Iraq as aimed at a perpetual occupation of [...]
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Tags: George Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain
On Whole He’s Not an Idiot
Joe Biden said this recently about Guiliani:
Sure there is, but with these guys, he knows so little about foreign policy he confuses terrorists cells and organizations with countries. There was no al-Qaeda in Iraq before this war. Al-Qaeda became a Bush-fulfilling prophecy
I think on whole the very smart things Joe Biden says out number the [...]
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Tags: Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Joe Biden, Rudy Guiliani, War Critics
You!
Are responsible for Iraq!!!!
Or so the goons that run Foreign Affairs Magazine would have us believe.
This headline reminds me of the this old Onion piece, Osama Bin Laden Found Inside Each of US. I gather from a brief read through that this yet another article talking about how nobody has to sacrifice or something. Think [...]
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Tags: Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy Magazine, George Bush, Iraq
Pyrrhic Victories
I wanted to comment on Turkey’s decision to authorize cross border incursions into Iraq, as well as Israel’s most recent attacks on Lebanon. In both cases you have U.S. allies with real and legitimate security concerns, however I don’t think you have to be a big time peacenik to realize that legitimate security concerns [...]
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Tags: Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey
Blackwater is kind of, sort of gonna have to leave Iraq and find some other country where they can kill without legal consequence.
Blackwater probably will not be fired outright or even “eased out,” the official added, but there is a mutual feeling that the Sept. 16 shooting deaths mean the company cannot continue in [...]
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Tags: Blackwater, Iraq, U.S. State Department
So speaking of famous blogs, Yglesias put this post out yesterday.
In the post he responds to commentor Nostradamus who said
If it was all so foreseeable, why didn’t Yglesias foresee it? The truth is, he was pro-war when that was fashionable, and now he’s antiwar when that is fashionable.
As wars go, this one hasn’t [...]
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Tags: Iraq, Matthew Yglesias
New WashPost Poll and shockingly Americans aren’t supportive of fully funding Bush’s war request.
I think the real not worthy line comes later when they discuss Congress’s approval rating.
And just 29 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, its lowest approval rating in this poll since November 1995, when Republicans controlled both [...]
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Tags: Bush, Congress, Iraq
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