http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince Another group of “Americans” executed in Iraq turn out to be Blackwater employees. It’s eerie to think of how much this shady mercenary group’s employment is contributing to the trillion dollar bill for the war. The whole idea of Blackwater gives me the creeps – well seeing it shares a name with sewage. Here […]
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What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html?em&ex=1169182800&en=823fac5b990e2729&ei=5087%0A WAR! Huh! What is it good for? Well, crushing debt and very little return, it seems. Here’s a short but stunning NY Times piece on what the funds channelled into the Iraq War trough could otherwise be financing. Whatever number you use for the war’s total cost, it will tower over costs that normally […]
World – Reuters – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/i/586 Instant cynicism – just add headlines: Baghdad morgue took 16,000 bodies in 2006 Rice tells Abbas U.S. will expand peace drive
Amid Spasms of Violence, Iraq Is Riveted by Gallows Video; Swift End to Drama – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/world/middleeast/30cnd-hussein.html Without specifying a time, date or place, he said, “There is no review or delay in implementing the execution verdict against Saddam.” Esam al-Gazawi, another lawyer representing Mr. Hussein who is currently in Jordan, expressed the views of many by suggesting that the timing of the execution was determined by the highest levels of […]
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Eric Umansky: The most telling part of the execution
http://www.ericumansky.com/2006/12/the_most_tellin.html It’s telling that the world news networks are so focused on their bloodlust that they’re overlooking some important journalistic angles on Saddam’s execution. At least the bloggers are asking the questions, so the opportunity for a network to pick up the story is still open. With all the cell phone videos out there, it’s […]
glumbert – Stick Magnetic Ribbons on your SUV
http://www.glumbert.com/media/suvribbon Thanks to GoghGirl for finding this takeoff on a> from the last quagmire. It’s a biting rebuttal to empty, red-state gestures and those who can’t understand that driving a gas-guzzling car is directly related to the presence of US troops in the Middle East. (Yeah, Chely Wright, I’m lookin’ at you.)
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http://religiousfreaks.com/UserFiles/Image/pope.insults.islam/mike.lane.no.outrage.gif Here’s one reason I generally like the writings of the NYTimes’ controversial editorialist Thomas Friedman. He’ll call bullshit (but not like Dick Cheney) on the “Islam is Peace” facade, and ask demand that the communities step in to condemn what the imams clearly won’t. If it takes a village to raise a child, it […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060915/wl_nm/religion_pope_islam_dc_6 Pope Ratzinger again shows how religion can be a unifying influence based on love and understanding: In his speech at the University of Regensburg, Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that everything Mohammad brought was evil and inhuman, “such as his […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060912/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_4 Apparently Dubya used 9/11/06 to justify his invasion of Iraq (which had nothing at all to do with 9/11/01,) and – finally – to hint at an exit strategy: “America did not ask for this war, and every American wishes it were over. So do I,” Bush said. “But the war is not over, […]