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A Response to Senator McCain.
‘An Epitaph on a Government of Mercenaries’ 2000-2008 It is a God-damned lie to say that these Saved, or fought, or knew, anything worth any nation’s pride. They wrecked two countries and used their...
View ArticleWar - What Is It Good For? Introducing Jim Wright
For some reason, I haven't seen much on dKos about a remarkable fellow named Jim Wright. He's a retired Navy Chief Warrant Officer who lives in Alaska, and his blog Stonekettle Station has recently...
View ArticleFox News' Shep Smith gives hawks a history lesson on their own role in...
Fox News'Shep Smith Gives Iraq Hawks A History Lesson, reminding Republicans who are demanding that President Obama reengage in the religious civil war in Iraq, that it was their own disastrous advice...
View ArticleRumsfeld's "Parade of Horribles"
Before Operation Iraqi Freedom, Donald H. Rumsfeld wrote a secret memo to President George W. Bush listing 29 possible calamities in the war. The former Pentagon chief himself described it as a "parade...
View ArticlePeople Whose Names and Ideas I Wish Were Not in the News Right Now
Fortunately, the 8 year long nightmare that was the George W. Bush administration ended when President Obama was sworn in. The economy was a mess and we were involved in two unpopular wars--Iraq and...
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Neocons’ stunning revisionism: Why they’re still divorced from reality...
Peter Bergen, CNN's national security reporter, writes a poignant column, entitled Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq, where he notes that under the guise of eliminating al Qaeda from Iraq George W. Bush...
View ArticleWhy War Crimes Aren't Prosecuted
The Obama Administration didn't only not prosecute Bush Administration war crimes, they squashed Spain's attempt to prosecute them and represented Rumsfeld in court against torture charges. The Obama...
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Neocons "jolted back to life" like Frankenzombies from hell - must be tried...
Evoking images of Frankenstein's castle Edward Luce of The Financial Times warns us that America’s neocons have been jolted back to life, refusing to die, like contagious zombies from hell, coming...
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Donald Rumsfeld is an Alien Lizard
...who eats Mexican babies. It's in Wikipedia (or was), so it must be true! Evidently someone on a computer with an IP address from the US Congress has been making, shall we say, "creative" edits in...
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WY State Bar Invites War Criminal Dick Cheney to be Keynote Speaker - LMFAO...
To double down on the irony of the Wyoming State Bar inviting a war criminal to be their keynote speaker are the dates of their annual meeting which will be held between Sept 9 - 11. The worst, most...
View ArticleThe REAL Reason the CIA Destroyed 92 Videos of Detainees Being Tortured
And you can bet it's the same reason the Senate report on Torture hasn't yet been released. The CIA far exceeded their own definition of 'waterboarding' with at least two or more high-profile...
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Exactly backward: Former Bush speechwriter, now WaPo columnist, blames Obama...
The Bush team's continuing legacy in Iraq Former Bush-Rumsfeld speechwriter Marc A. Thiessen now is a regular columnist for the Washington Post. And appropriately enough for a former official...
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Rarely Has A U.S. Veep Been So Wrong About So Much At The Expense Of So Many
I try to ignore the Cheneys -- Dick and, now God help us, Mini-Me -- as much as possible because, to me, they smell strongly of sociopathy and I try to avoid that sort of thing. I blame the dumbing...
View ArticleMonsters Under Their Beds
I have been watching the Teapublican clown show too much, I think but I am seeing something that may not be new to others but has struck me as a reason to have nightmares at night.
View ArticleDown the Rabbit Hole After Rummy
A movie review of The Unknown Known, the 2013 Errol Morris documentary on Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
View ArticleRepublicans are to blame for problems at the Veterans Administration
Just now this morning my local newspaper had front page banner headlines "Troubled VA to undergo landmark restructuring".The Democratic response concerning problems at the VA has me shaking my head,...
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Judgment Day -- U.S. Officials to Appear Wednesday Before the U.N. Committee...
Well, this will be interesting... Perhaps James Clapper will come along to testify? He could just fidget around in his seat and wipe the sweat from his head as he's testifying lying through his...
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Was it political cowardice or bad strategy?
UPDATE: Heard from the Speaker of the Minnesota House, sadly shortly to be minority leader (replaced by this guy), and looks like some state-specific comments of mine might not hold up. Details...
View ArticleThis Month's Rumsfeld Award Goes to: Fat Rick, The Ohio State University Fan
This month's Rumsfeld Award goes to the OSU Fan who asked, "Why are all these people in New York and Ferguson lying down in the street? Don't they know we made the playoffs?"For those of you who are...
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Recall: War Criminal Michael Hayden Got Caught Leaking Trash about President...
The point to this diary: When you hear Michael Hayden spin his garbage today, remember, Michael Hayden is a war criminal and a liar. October 2013 Thinkprogress reportedRiding on the Acela express...
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