Just so very nice.
Defense Minister Adam Ingram, who gave the figure in a written statement to lawmakers, said the "vast majority" of the young troops had been within a week of turning 18 when they were deployed, or had been removed from the war zone less than a week after arriving. "Fewer than five" were women, and none [...]
Tags: Iraq War, Underage Troops
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Even though the says stuff like this -
This week, the UK Daily Mail published photos of polar bears stranded on ice floes in the Arctic. Determined to deny the existence of global warming, Rush Limbaugh said on Friday that the bears were “just playing around…just like your cat goes to its litter box”: This whole thing is totally misleading. They’re not even stranded [...]
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Today was a bad day in Iraq. Really bad.
The deadliest suicide bombing to date occurred in Iraq today. More than 100 were killed and 300 were injured, many of whom are expected to die. "The pick-up truck that exploded was left at the entrance of [...]
Tags: Iraq War
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It’s really quite simple.
Greetings from the PlameHouse apartment in Washington, D.C. Between packing for my flight, getting to and from airports, flying across the country, and catching up on sleep, I didn’t have much chance to follow the news for a shocking 18 hours or so. When I did finally get a look at the headlines, I [...]
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Your money. And my money.
President Bush is requesting the largest military budget in all of US history for his last year in office, 2008. The budget is more than half a trillion dollars- $622 billion to be exact. The Administration is also requesting an extra $93 billion for this year, 2007. Depending on the fate of the current Warner-Levin compromise [...]
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Your money. And my money.
President Bush is requesting the largest military budget in all of US history for his last year in office, 2008. The budget is more than half a trillion dollars- $622 billion to be exact. The Administration is also requesting an extra $93 billion for this year, 2007. Depending on the fate of the current Warner-Levin compromise [...]
Tags: Military Budget
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Oh, this is such good reading.
Blogged by Brad from the road… See RAW STORY for their excerpts from Frank Rich’s analysis about what’s going on at the White House and in Dick Cheney’s brain right now. We happily associate ourselves with his take on things. Particularly the part about most of the DC insiders "misunderestimating" all that is likely at stake [...]
Tags: Dick Cheney
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I always love it when bloggers attack each other. Particularly when they’re supposed to be on the same side. Still, it makes for good reading.
In my continuing campaign of disagreeing with Left bloggers and writers, I now turn to everybody’s favorite (but my favorite first) blogger, Digby, who appears to endorse the very line of argument I find infuriating: "Deciding what to do next about Iraq is hard — on the merits, and in the politics [...]
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You should know that we’ve lost another chopper and crew.
Unfortunately, this progress is working against us: "BAGHDAD, Iraq – A U.S. Army helicopter crashed Friday in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad, police and witnesses said — the fourth lost in Iraq in the last two weeks. The U.S. command said two crew members were killed, and the top [...]
Tags: Iraq War, Helicopter Crash
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Sometimes, while exploring the blogosphere, you stumble on something written by a little-known writer who makes a lot of sense. Here’s a case in point.
Forget the talk about wanting Bush to withdraw from Iraq by 2009. Forget the self congratulating with respect to a (warning: .pdf) toothless and meaningless but symbolic vote. Hell, even something like censure is barely sufficient as far as action. Here is the plain fact. America wants out of Iraq. As soon as possible. Period. If you want to have any chance of gaining the public’s confidence, and as a nice little side benefit, control of Congress for a generation as well as the next few presidencies, listen and [...]
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Quick followup posts to a couple of important stories. Both via ThinkProgress. First topic – White House response to the NIE.
At a press briefing this morning, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said the White House will continue to avoid using the term “civil war” to describe events in Iraq, despite the findings of the new National Intelligence Estimate. Hadley was pressed on the issue by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz: “Why do you go out of [...]
And, just for good measure, something of note about New Orleans.
“President Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing floodgates and building permanent pumping in Southeast Louisiana in order to plug long-anticipated financial shortfalls in other hurricane-protection projects, a move Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) describes as a retreat from the president’s commitment to protect the [...]
Tags: National Intelligence Estimate, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans
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You have your DNC meeting (first post below this one) and, then, you have the hugely important NIE Report. The Washington Post did a great job of summarizing it. Via AmericaBlog, where John offered a comment.
Funny, that. Iran is supposedly, per Bush, one of our biggest problems in Iraq. Yet, according to the massive intelligence community review, Iran is mentioned only as [...]
Tags: National Intelligence Estimate, Iraq War
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