Reality Debased

If you thought Ron Suskind manufactured that quotation, Pat Robertson erases all doubts:The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of...

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Holiday in Cambodia

Er, Chechnya:Sergei Abramov, who heads Chechnya's pro-Moscow government, said on Friday that the park would be built next year along with a range of cultural and entertainment facilities, including a new football stadium. ... "[N]ext year, we will launch not only a...

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What They Mean by “Staying the Course”

Larry Diamond, former senior adviser to the CPA in Baghdad, has a long, wonkish piece up at Foreign Affairs on "What Went Wrong in Iraq." It's supposed to be a how-to on occupation, not an argument against the war, but it does (unwittingly) illuminate the futility of...

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Blogroll Double Play

Jim Henley on the newest rationale for the war:It is high time we recognize the grammatical inversion that has seized our Imperial Wing. While they produce sentences of the form "I support the War for the sake of this reason," the truer template is "I support this...

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It’s Not Paranoia if You’re Powerful

Senators Jim Bunning (R, Ky.) and Mark Dayton (D, Minn.) are convinced al-Qaeda is out to get them. Why al-Qaeda would bother with either of these clowns is anyone's guess, but please remember their names the next time someone calls you paranoid for objecting to the...

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Reinforcements Are on the Way

A big Antiwar.com welcome to our newest blogger, Kevin Michael Grace. Kevin is a Canadian paleocon who has his own show over at The Ambler. We got tired of copying and pasting from his site, so we decided to just go ahead and invite him over. Enjoy!

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Cry Wolf, Eat a Lamb

Julia "Don't Call Me a Neoconservative, You F***ing Anti-Semite" Gorin demonstrates her deep ethnic sensitivity in a new column over at Jewish World Review:[A] Latino cheating is one who cheats his nature by having only one woman at a time, and if such a Latin man...

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Michael Ledeen Mental Health Watch

Everyone's favorite Iranian agent (only kidding, Mike; don't call your barrister) frets about Iraq (it's keeping us from obliterating other countries) and ends on a particularly frantic note: "Faster, damnit."

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Imagine a War on Satanism

Pat Robertson threatens to start his own 3rd party:Influential American evangelist Pat Robertson said Monday that Evangelical Christians feel so deeply about Jerusalem, that if President George W. Bush were to "touch" Jerusalem, Evangelicals would abandon their...

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Consider Afghanistan Democratized

Sounds like the Afghans understand how American democracy really works:MARGAREEN, Afghanistan Abdul Razaq stands among the menfolk of this dusty village of Afghan nomads and rejoices that democracy has at last come to his country after more than 20 years of warfare....

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