Category: war
Hysterical Hatchet Hannity (vs. Ron Paul)
May 16th, 2007One simply has to see to believe Sean Hannity's attack on Ron Paul subsequent to the second Republican candidate debate last night. Regardless of your view on whether the US government's foreign policy was a significant contributing factor to 9/11, re… more »
Webb Blasts Revisionism on Iraq War
January 28th, 2007Andrew Sullivan has a nice piece on Jim Webb (new senator from VA), which records the following quote of him dissembling the omnipresent revisionism on the case for the Iraq war ("we had no reason to disbelieve the President"):
The president took us… more »
The Enemy of Our Enemy...
December 30th, 2006Donald Rumsfeld greets Saddam Hussein in 1983.
I think an ironic faux speech bubble for this picture would go something like "Now, keep those chemical weapons we sold you on the down-low, or one day we'll execute you for the killings you don't commi… more »
Whatever Happened to War Bonds?
November 5th, 2006As I was growing up, I remember occasionally seeing nostalgia posters from the WWI and WWII eras for "war bonds." Part of their kitschy cuteness was that these posters would pull out all the propaganda stops to try to get citizens to buy them; invoking… more »
You May Only Criticize The Planning Of the Iraq War
October 18th, 2006That's the new concensus, just in case you missed it: the Iraq war was noble and justified... or at least, we couldn't have been anything but fooled by the shoddy "intelligence" stovepiped to us at the time, so we had to initiate the whole ordeal. We c… more »
Yes, We Really Have Caused All Those Deaths In Iraq
October 12th, 2006Daniel Davies gives the basics of the methodology of the recent Johns Hopkins Lancet study regarding the deadliness of the Iraq War, and strikes back at some of the political hacking:
... it is with heavy heart that I see that President Bush - wh… more »
Ominous Things Round-Up
September 19th, 2006Might as well bunch these all together in one post:
(1) Another hedge fund, Amaranth, has imploded--this one for going long natural gas with too much leverage. The Einsteins at Goldman-Sachs managed to get on board just in time to lose a cool $12-15… more »
The Opportunity Costs of Elective War
August 24th, 2006Its amazing that even with an explosion of public debt to finance the war, there were still steep costs in terms of manpower and equipment (as New Orleans learned all too well). The following graph of National Guard under Federal command after 9/11 is… more »
What Neocons Are Really Arguing
August 24th, 2006And I suppose the so-called "neo-libertarians" have the dubious honor of being included in this mnemonic:
Whenever a neoconservative says something should be done, whether it is democracy promotion, or instilling purpose in an enervated American po… more »
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