Under the Geneva Conventions, nations are required to respect proportionality in dealing with their enemies particularly in civilian areas. Proportionality is somewhat subjective but basic numbers can provide...
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Leveraging his considerable experience in fighting negative emotions like 'terror', George W. Bush identified yet another ominous enemy of the state. This time it's not terror but 'uncertainty'. ...
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This is the oldest trick in the book. Bush doesn't want this election to happen and he is starting to try and terrify people into giving power to the grown ups. He and McCain are working hand in had on...
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You can't sell Count Chocula directly to children but you can sell them war."It has opened the Army Experience Center, including Humvee and helicopter simulators, near Dave & Buster's and an indoor skate park...
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Last night I watched a very disturbing video put out by a YouTube user called 'NationalConservatism' (no doubt a near relative of National Socialism). Their video about Obama which was one of YouTube's most highly rated videos was creepy and disturbing. Also, I...
There are those who think that racial profiling is a good thing whether it's at the airport or the border crossing. They argue that certain groups are just more inherently likely to commit a crime or do something bad. This is racism in its crudest form. This...
An overwhelmingly obvious point made today in the blogosphere:"There is simply nothing that can get the big news orgs to stop reporting that the September progress report on Iraq is being written by General...
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Andrew Sullivan is an academic. When I read him I feel like I'm reading The Economist. His point of view is always entirely idealogical. So his recent rant is no surprise. He parrots Charles Krauthammer - an unrepentant warmonger - in his condemnation of British...
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""I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research until March 2005.
"You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would...
"The new Iraqi government has learned well from its puppet master. Rather than investigate the folks who arranged the lynch mob that executed Saddam Hussein in a grotesque display worthy of "Lord of the Flies,"...
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November 17/18/19, 2006 -- Questions remain about where
the right-wing American Spectator obtained a copy of the John Murtha
videotape made of the FBI's attempted ABSCAM sting of the congressman conducted...
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In war it is important to win the battle of words. I'm not talking about winning an argument. I'm talking about being able to define the terms of the debate. Karl Rove and the current...
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""You ought to just back off, take a look at it, relax, understand that it's complicated, it's difficult," Rumsfeld said regarding deadlines. "Honorable people are working on these things together. There isn't any daylight between them."
Rumsfeld also said the U.S. is...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the facts have left the building..."The piece claims to cite a Democratic consultant, a DNC "operative," and a House Democratic leadership aide, all of whom are anonymous, and coincidentally, all of whom use far-right talking points while speaking to a...
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How can you tell a Democrat from a Republican? Just look at their drug of choice. Democrats will always opt for pot whereas Republicans always skew coke. It looks like they've been overdoing it. The paranoia is becoming comical. Here is Patrick...