meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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Chalabi’s Forgery Shop

In 1994, Baer said, he went with Chalabi to visit “a forgery shop” that the I.N.C. had set up inside an abandoned schoolhouse in Salahuddin, a town in Kurdistan. “It was something like a...

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Hydrogen Hurdles

Suppose you load compressed hydrogen into canisters and put them on the back of tractor trailers: you will need fifteen of these trucks to serve the same number of vehicles as one gasoline tanker...

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When “Bad” Wolves Go Good

Trainers brought four wolves to the set of The Day After Tomorrow … scenes were filmed using real wolves, and then later, in post production, [computer generated] wolves were substituted. A trainer put the...

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Radio Days

One time I was having a conversation with some in-laws (a brother and a sister) who were in their late 90s and still totally alert. They were old enough to tell me of their...

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Iraq’s Stakeholder Democracy

Obviously someone in the US Army in Iraq has an MBA, as I predicted earlier they are trying to entice al-Sadr into becoming a “stakeholder”… In their effort to achieve as smooth a handover...

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Not With A Bang…

After witnessing the Pentagon’s retreat from both Fallujah and Najaf without achieving the “success” of pacification and/or elimination of the local resistance, it seems that aside from killing several thousand (mostly) civilian Iraqis and...

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Played For Patsies

So as well as blindly following the “Crusader” scripts written for them by Bin Laden, Bush and the neoconned also apparently played right into the hands of Iran through Chalabi… “It’s pretty clear that...

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The Good Stuff

Delivering blankets and food to refugees at Dwamanda in the south, Lieutenant Reid Finn had no hesitation in telling journalists: “It’s simple. The more they help us find the bad guys, the more good...

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Mea Sorta Culpa

The New York Times was one of the major cheerleaders for an invasion of Iraq – frequently citing the most unbelievably bogus stories about Iraqi WMDs or Al Qaida links as fact. Many of...