Tag: iraq
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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July 14, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
©This article copyright Sean-Paul Kelley
Since the war started we've been repeatedly told that we're building Iraqi schools, healthcare centers, and my personal favorite: turning the electricity . . .
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August 30, 2006 11:43 PM EDT --
What Keith Olbermann did tonight took true courage. Not the faux, pseudo-decisive "stick-to-my-guns" variety of our failing President, but the very real courage of someone who took a chance, . . .
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October 10, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
I really, really hope this number is incorrect. 600,000 souls. Six-hundred thousand lives snuffed out. And why? Ignorance? Pride? Hubris? I'm speechless.
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June 27, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
I'll be back to blogging later today. I'm going to try and wrap up the last 100 or so pages of Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine."
In the interim, from page 65, here's . . .
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August 30, 2006 12:22 AM EDT --
In the run-up to Bush's Iraq war many critics said that Iraq would turn into the mother of all recruiting tools and quite possibly a training ground for new terrorists. No one listened.
Then, when . . .
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January 26, 2007 08:14 PM EST --
TPM has this post and this post on the 'Decision Maker.'
Who knew he was taking grammar lessons? And this post at Corrente is a gem.
Meanwhile, here and here are the news articles on Bush's . . .
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August 28, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
Senator John McCain evidently visited the Caucasus today, the Republic of Georgia to be precise. As Stratfor reports:
U.S. Sen. John McCain visited a new Georgian military base at Senaki, Georgia, on . . .
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August 28, 2006 05:42 PM EDT --
Now this is smart politics:
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that Hill Democrats may try to hold a no-confidence vote on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during consideration of . . .
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September 17, 2006 01:17 AM EDT --
With apologies to Jar-Jar Binks, but, "it's ouch time" for Republicans. Sounds to me like Joe Scarborough just began the first battle of a Republican civil war. As advice goes, it's . . .
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October 04, 2006 03:27 PM EDT --
The Twin Cities Star Tribune is reporting that Colin Powell has apparently broken with the Bush Administration on redeploymentm from Iraq:
In Iraq, "staying the course isn't good enough because . . .
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October 05, 2006 11:30 AM EDT --
From the Department of Homeland Security, Port Security webpage:
[I]f you have information concerning possible terrorist use of shipping containers to smuggle weapons or other items, you may be entitled . . .
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December 10, 2006 12:54 AM EST --
Al Qaeda is primarily 'Shi'a' says Silvestre Reyes, incoming intel chairman.
I knew Reyes was a bad choice, but good God, not that bad. Al Qaeda Shi'a? What effing planet is he on?
This . . .
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November 27, 2006 05:34 PM EST --
Here are two (here and here) recent Iran items worth discussing.
First, Maziar Bahari writes for the Washington Post's 'Post Global' blog. Aside from a few grammatical errors his post implies . . .
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August 27, 2006 08:58 PM EDT --
I'm assuming this is Kurdish related. If it is, it's a troubling development, one in which the United States is partially responsible:
Reuters - Four separate blasts on Turkey's popular coastal . . .
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August 30, 2006 07:00 PM EDT --
For a nation at war the Israelis sure seem to criticize their leaders alot.
Aren't they supposed to just shut-up and do what Olmert says, like we're supposed to do here? Wasn't that what . . .
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September 03, 2006 03:06 PM EDT --
Which event do you think is more important to the history of Iraq?
This one:
Iraqi armed forces have arrested the No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the country's national security leader said Sunday. . . .
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September 14, 2006 06:08 PM EDT --
Here is all the evidence anyone will ever need to indict this president for failure, massive, unredeemable failure. His mindset is clear. Let no fact, no reality, no reason, no event intrude on his version . . .
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September 18, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
You know, it's one thing to read about our pending Iranian war plans in the pages of the New Yorker written by Sy Hersh. If you find them there, like we did several months ago, there is usually some . . .
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September 29, 2006 01:43 AM EDT --
"Enough with the carrots. It's time for the stick," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-MEK (be sure to follow the 'MEK' link for the whole story) today about legislation designed to . . .
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September 29, 2006 11:53 AM EDT --
What kind of reply is there to something as phenomenally ignorant as this?
"No, none of that," Lott told reporters after the session [with the president] when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. . . .
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