Iran's imaginary nukes and other war-lies: Take 83 - - - It's the sort of bureaucratic lying-by-obfuscation below which caused the U.S. to unnecessarily nuke Japan twice in three days, attack North Vietnam for an incident which Defense Sec. Robert McNamara admits...
The easiest campaign promise??
Both War Party candidates (Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama) have stumbled all over themselves -- and each other -- to promise the government of Israel they won't let Iran produce a nuclear bomb. Unless they begin to believe their own propaganda as Kennedy did (which...
Iraq Veterans Against the War, Pt. 3
Iraq Veterans Against the War: The Documentary
Per IVAW: Voice of Art, the new documentary series on Pharrell Williams' I Am Other YouTube channel, is releasing Part 1 of its new episode entitled “Iraq Veterans Against the War” on Friday, June 29 2012. The episode features the historic march and returning of...
Dear Department of Justice: Please Investigate Your Old Boss for Material Support of Terrorism!
Dear Department of Justice and Department of Treasury Officials: We might have just helped you bag another material supporter of terrorism this week! And you'll never believe who the culprit is! We were even able to tape record some of his own damning admissions!...
Fool-Throated
I yearn for the day when "I was a full-throated supporter of the Iraq War" is understood — by writer and reader alike — to be a more damning admission than "I took Ecstasy once in college."
Damn You, Ralph Nader and Katherine Harris!
Of all the daily affirmations liberals tell themselves, none soothes me more than the one about how an Al Gore presidency would have spared us the Iraq War. Why, wasn't Al suitably smug about Dubya's "cowboy" act in 2002? Didn't Michael Moore open Fahrenheit 9/11 with...
Was it the promise or was it the SOFA?
On Friday, October 21, 2011, Mr. Obama, invoking one of his campaign promises, announced the complete withdrawal of all U.S. Troops from Iraq by "the [Christian] holidays." Over the weekend, he and his media arm further spun the story, claiming the deadline...
Kevin Drum, Perpetual Skeptic
Kevin Drum, Oct. 17, 2011: Aside from the fact that Barack Obama did not, in fact, send troops to Uganda in order to "kill Christians," what should we think about the fact that he sent troops to Uganda in the first place? Needless to say, I'm far more hesitant about...
Putrid Vulgarity on the AP Wire
Today's APNews Break featured the welcome news that US drops keeping troops in Iraq. Reporters Lara Jakes and Rebecca Santana however managed to suck the joy from the long awaited announcement by possibly the most tasteless paragraph to come over the wire since...


