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Racist Moron Invasion

So I checked today and thought Roger had gone completely apeshit posting comments so moronic and stupid they were beyond his usual style. Then I checked my referer logs… this looney fascist fundie nerd...

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Iranian Conspiracy Theories

David sent me a wonderful Iranian conspiracy theory that the US allowed Saddam to quit Iraq for Russia so that he can be maintained as a bogeyman image suitable for continual military involvement… much...

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Who Threatened The Pampered Sheiks?

The war was a cakewalk after all: the path paved by the bodies of Iraqi civilians and conscripts, who died defenseless against a storm of remote control bombs … The three week invasion offered...

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I Loves My Guns I Really Do

Looking after number one, the pro-family Republicans just enacted a bill that would absolve all gun and ammunition manufacturers, retailers, and dealers from legal liability where people have been killed or injured using their...

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Should Have Tried the Twinkie Defence

Guy spends five (!) hours trying to kill his wife (via slashing, smothering, and stabbing) and the best defence he can come up with is “I was dreaming”. A nuclear engineer who couldn’t convince...

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A Splendidly Lethal War (For Journalists)

There’s a cool interview with David Halberstam which points out that at current rates, if the Iraq invasion and occupation was to stretch out as long as the occupation in Vietnam did, then nearly...

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Let’s Hear It For The Looters!

So I read endless US media props that everything in Iraq is now “secure” and the people are “rejoicing”. Uh-huh. I think in Iraq, paying homage to those with the biggest tanks is probably...

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The Street Dogs of Baghdad

Fisk reports that dirty bullets were being used on Baghdad buildings – if that’s true then it’s shocking that radiological warfare is being used within densely populated urban environments and not directed against armour...