In the final accounting, literally every premise was a lie. There were no weapons of mass destruction. The war cost trillions, is ongoing after five years, and has not endeared us to the Iraqi people. There has been no wave of democratization. And our “humanitarian mission” took a relatively stable, though unquestionably repressive, society and [...]
This is pretty breathtaking:
McCain would have no problem being in Iraq for another 100 years? Really? That is, in a word, insane. He does say thats only if American troops are not being injured, harmed or killed but still, the Arab world isn’t going to like even the hint of that idea one bit, [...]
Why are Republicans more concerned with an ad in the newspaper then with casualties in Iraq?
(video via Firedoglake)
Its important to keep remembering this point:
This has been said a million times in a million different ways, but the whole point of this exercise is to ensure that Bush’s war continues until it’s time for him to cut brush permanently. The surge can’t have worked because then it could start ending, and the surge [...]
Petraeus has licensed himself out to the right-wing noise machine.
By all accounts he’s one of the most knowledgeable people on counter-insurgency in the US military. But he’s reduced himself to being no more than another White House press operative, with all that entails for his credibility.
–Josh Marshall, on the news that General Petraeus will [...]
Via Gabe Roth I learn that one of my favorite books, and one of the better books I’ve read on the Iraq War, Generation Kill is being turned into a 7 hour miniseries for HBO. Even better, its being co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns of “The Wire” fame. I don’t want to get [...]
Why is this video not played every time Vice President Cheney talks about Iraq? Why is this the first time I’ve seen it, why has it not been played over and over on TV (am I wrong? Has it been but I’ve missed it? Correct me if I’m wrong.)?
(via Gabe Roth)
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