Monthly Archives: February 2006

…they’d be on their way home: Most American troops in Iraq believe that the US should withdraw within the next year, according to the first poll of US military personnel in Iraq. President George W. Bush, whose overall approval rating … Continue reading →

Cunning Realist, in reference to this: Ponder it for a moment. We are now in the mosque-rebuilding business in the Middle East, smack-dab in the middle of a civil war [...] We are asking 20-year olds from Tulsa and Des … Continue reading →

six twenty-one US ports being bought by a company out of Dubai amounts to race-baiting for votes, period. It’s an election year, & “security” has been redefined to mean random hypocritical anti-arab barking, those people could care less about anything … Continue reading →

this — a note on an obvious crony pick slipped onto the Federal Reserve board — is pretty much the only reason I still read things like The New Republic. Apparently some dude got on whose biggest accomplishment is marrying … Continue reading →

Thank you, Illinois: [Illinois Gov. Rod] Blagojevich says he didn’t realize “The Daily Show” was a comedy spoof of the news when he sat down for an interview that ended up poking fun at the sometimes-puzzled governor. “It was going … Continue reading →

I smell civil war: A wave of sectarian strife and recrimination swept Iraq Thursday after Wednesday’s bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra. The Interior Ministry said that more than 100 people have been killed in … Continue reading →

“indian give” on declassified documents for no apparent reason: U.S. intelligence agencies have been secretly removing from public access at the National Archives thousands of historical documents that were available for years, The New York Times reported on Monday. The … Continue reading →

Roaming death squads? Brilliant!!” Whenever someone who supports the war in Iraq starts barking about “we’re on the road to victory!” or other similar pseudo-patriotic bromides, I can’t resist asking them just WTF they define victory as being — what … Continue reading →

“Yeah, it’s bad, but I don’t see you yellin at everyone else selling stuff over there”. Read the whole thing, they basically nailed it. Our relations with China have so many “yeah, but” & “uh, no comment” bits intertwined that … Continue reading →

the bad news: The Bush administration helped derail a Senate bid to investigate a warrantless eavesdropping program yesterday after signaling it would reject Congress’s request to have former attorney general John D. Ashcroft and other officials testify about the program’s … Continue reading →