Archive for the 'GWOT' Category
More Proof the Right Wingers Are Short-Sighted and Not Very Bright
Back when the Bush Adminsitration was setting up its no fly lists and terrorist watch lists and warrantless wiretaps and habeas corpus-free judicial proceedings and all of its other activities, people like me were sounding the alarm that anyone could end up on these lists. Conservatives typically responded with a glib “if you haven’t [...]
Read More..>>Done.
Marcy Wheeler:
Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent Card and Gonzales from succeeding.
Five years ago tomorrow, George Bush [...]
PRESIDENT BUSH OR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN? NEW GOP STRATEGY OF APPEASEMENT
What do you call someone who talks to their enemies? In Bushworld, you call them appeasers and compare them to Neville Chamberlain, which is why someone needs to buy Bush an umbrella (right-wing dingaling link on purpose): US considering talks with Taliban, official says:
The United States is looking at negotiating with “reconciliable” members of the [...]
Up Is Down
National Review, 8/2/07:
So President Obama would invade Pakistan? Who would have thought? “It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005,” Obama said at a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value [...]
Crappy Birthday to You…
Happy Birthday Iraq War! You were supposed to be over in 6 months, and only cost a few billion dollars. We were going to be greeted with candy and flowers, greeted as liberators! We were going to get cheap oil and gasoline as a result, and a flowering Jeffersonian democracy!
So Happy Birthday [...]
A Question About Opiates
Juan Cole has a post up today about the US’s Top Ten Challenges in the Middle East for 2008. I’ll be the first to admit that I am out of my depth when it comes to opining on what needs to be done, but the following graf:
Farmers need aid to be weaned off [...]
Musharraf
They Blame Musharraf
It doesn’t, after all, take much to comprehend that the hated elections looming over Musharraf would probably be postponed indefinitely if his principal political opponent happened to be liquidated before polling day.
So let’s run through this logic in the way that Inspector Ian Blair might have done in his policeman’s notebook before [...]
