zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2007 | iraq, people, news
read this now. it's good. and depressing.
Quoted: s and the elite media alike are acting as if America's continuing presence in Iraq is predicated on national will, on an elaborate, tortured, tortuous decision-making process that will either extricate us from Iraq or establish a permanent footprint; that the final outcome is up to us. But what Lind, Larry C. Johnson, and Timothy Garton Ash perceive is that the groundwar dynamics have shifted into endgame gear, outracing the rhetorical cornmeal of a Lieberman or McCain and raising alarms that the political-media establishment is refusing to heed. What will it take for their hair to catch fire?
- zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2007 | people, iraq, bush
Quoted: It is, I believe, a positive development that The New York Times today has a front-page article documenting how active the debate is inside the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran. Perhaps the article will elevate the attention level paid to this very real and very dangerous possibility.
The essence of the article is this:
The debate has pitted Ms. Rice and her deputies, who appear to be winning so far, against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in Vice President Dick Cheney's office who, according to some people familiar with the discussions, are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 29 2007 | iraq, people, bush
Quoted: Either a car bomb killed people or a car hit a roadside bomb, killing people.
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Quoted: The charge, brought against a top commander at the main detention center in Baghdad, is rare and serious, with a maximum sentence of death.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2007 | people, bush, iraq
despite my going back and forth on gun control, here the back story to bush's arrival at the V tech campus on the day after the shootings is well developed...
Quoted: Greg Palast, reporting for BBC, Harpers and more
ShareViewed: 1 Time - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 19 2007 | people, iraq, news
not to be outdone by a college student, suicide bombers make the 18th of april the deadliest day in two months for baghdad...
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You must be SAWED-OFF SMILER BLOOD MAGNET's friend before you can comment on this Fave.the iraq piece was informative, thanks. however all his wanking and whining about television this and pop-culture that was a total waste. i don't see much on there that the BBC blog hasn't covered, and in less inflamatory dick-wagging language.
where does he whine about pop culture in the iraq entry? if you're referring to the "elite media," then i think he's right: no one seriously considers the possibility of defeat outside of withdrawal. The general sense is typically that either we withdraw and admit our mistakes or, if we just stay and dump more resources into the effort, we will inevitably win by necessity. i basically take the piece to be saying that the inevitablity of loss is more likely and that every strategic decision we have made pushes us further in that direction.and "dick-wagging language"? wtf? and look at this BBC article from friday ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6757329.stm ). It details only the most superficial aspects of the 'troop surge' as its results reflect on Bush and Petraeus. I tend to think that, for reflective criticism of u.s. military strategy in Iraq, you typically have to look a little further than the BBC,
I think we just mis-communicated. I tried to say i liked the Iraq piece, and I didn't complain about it at all. My complaints were about nearly everything ELSE on that blog. but that piece was interesting like I said, so....yeah.
ah-ha, i gotchya now....sorry, i have to live up to my new "wft-photo", you know, so, uh....yeah, sorry 'bout that...
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