Category Archives: War!

Far From the Perfect World

Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 by Keith

Michael Moore on the death of Bin Laden and what it really means: In a perfect world (yes, I would like to reside there someday, or at least next door to it, in Slightly Imperfect World), I would like the … Continue reading →

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Number Three is Going up Against a Sicilian When Death Is On The Line

Posted on Monday, January 18, 2010 by Keith

It doesn’t help our claims that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren’t modern-day Crusades when the military is using firearms inscribed with Bible verses. In the great and infinite list of bad ideas, this one is pretty much number … Continue reading →

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I Called It! I’m So Sad…

Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 by Keith

This makes sense and that is the problem: Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse. Honest. This … Continue reading →

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A New Approach to Iraqi Records Management

Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 by Keith

Remember all those Baathist records that were lost from the Iraqi National Library during the invasion? Well, funny story: A lot worse things have happened in Iraq, but the removal of the Baath Party archives from the country — 7 … Continue reading →

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Robbing The Cradle Of Civilization

Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 by Keith

Like everyone and everything else in Iraq, the National Library and Archives have had a rough go of it since the Occupation: The sacking of the library that began April 11, 2003, was a bad one. The current Director of … Continue reading →

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Couldn’t We Have Spent The Money Better On Ponies?

Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 by Keith

Remember back in 2003 when Donald Rumsfeld (hereafter referred to as The Butcher of Baghdad) said the war would pay for itself in Iraqi oil revenue? Remember when the dunderheads at the DoD were tossing around figures like $200 Billion, … Continue reading →

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He Also Thinks Saruman Was a Great Tactician

Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 by Keith

Salon has a great piece up on Sir Alistair Horne, who wrote numerous books on world history but one in particular, A Savage War of Peace, about the Algerian War of Independence that apparently is a favorite among the bush administration, … Continue reading →

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What, No Children To Coerce Into a Life of Military Servitude?

Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 by Keith

This BBC headline is brilliant: Gay Sex Immoral Says US General And war, of course, is family values, good as apple pie and kittens. Please General Pace, Sir, lecture me some on what is Right and Honorable: “As an individual, … Continue reading →

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Is There A Draft In Here?

Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 by Keith

Senator Headuphisass thinks that reinstating the draft will stop the Republicans from waging any more illegal wars. That’s a hell of a fucking gamble with other people’s lives, I must say. This is all based on the preposterous assumption that … Continue reading →

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Sheehan and Chavez and Citgo

Posted on Sunday, October 1, 2006 by Keith

This little piece of GOP Astroturf has been circulating through people’s email inboxes for a few weeks now and my father-in-law sent it on to my wife: Cindy & Chavez Venezuela Dictator Vows To Bring Down U.S. Government Venezuela government … Continue reading →

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