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We all know that every word ever posted on David Horowitz’s Frontpage website is a lie, including “and,” and “the,” but the blogger G-Nome has the very worst liar of that crew — Kahanist–defender Steve Plaut — nailed to the wall but good.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen some press about the Individual Ready Reserve in Iraq (oh, here’s some), but Saturday night I met a young lady who’s father was called up to go kill people 20 years after being discharged from the army. He is opposed to the war, and told his kids before going that it was unjust. Apparently he thought it was his duty to go anyway. As misguided as that belief is, many good men have died for having it. Her little sister has had a chance to meet her father only once, the day she was born, then he was off to the wonderful land of liberation and democracy that is Iraq, where he gets to play the IED lottery for the chance to never see her again.

I can report to you that this man’s absence has caused great pain and fear for this family – my neighbors. The girl became particularly upset while decribing her frustration with mass media. In all the hype surrounding this war, she says, there is a distict lack of focus on the lives of the individuals doing the fighting and dying on all sides. Remember the Dover test?

When the life of a dead American soldier is brought up in the press, it is invariably a pack of lies used to exploit their foolish sacrifice in some PR stunt.

Many US troops don’t want to be there at all – some say so outright, and some refuse to fight, but most shut their mouths and do their “duty,” keeping their fingers crossed and biding their time.

The fact that this conflict, which even that traitor Bill O’Reilly calls a “war of choice,” is being fought by guardsmen, the IRR and those unfortunate enough to miss the cut and get “stop-lossed,” is an outrage.

Any American who is for the continued occupation of Iraq, yet has not signed up to go take the place of a man who wants to come home is a pathetic coward and hypocrite.

Strange, but for some reason, today the Washington Post decided to run the Larry Franklin plea deal story on page B-1 – the Metro section.
According to the great libertarian journalist Jim Bovard, in today’s Maryland edition,

It is below the fold, next to an article about a geezer from New Orleans who was re-united with his 11 year old dog named Sassy, and also next to and below an article about the frustrated maestro of the former now-defunct Arlington, Va. symphony.

What’s the matter? The Post has been doing a pretty good job with this story up until now.

After spending almost three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail today.

She was released after she had a telephone conversation with the Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sources said. In that conversation, Libby reaffirmed that he had released Miller from a promise of confidentiality more than a year ago, sources said.

Of course, readers of Antiwar.com read almost two years ago that Libby was the source of the Plame leak.

Between this and Larry Franklin’s plea bargain in the AIPAC case, this has been quite a news day for the war party. Of course there were a few other Iraq-related stories today.

So all the left-liberals who thought that the nomination of Bolton to the UN would mean the death of that organization — that it would unleash the U.S. to dominate the world — should consider Bolton’s latest move: opposing a bill to withhold funds to the UN.

Hmmm. When will left-liberals learn that the United Nations is a fig leaf and puppet for U.S. imperialism, and that, while conservative politicians sometimes attack the UN’s superficial check on U.S. militarism, most of them are perfectly fine using the organization as an instrument of, and excuse for, U.S. global hegemony?

The UN is a threat not just to American sovereignty, but world peace, and has been since it was conceived by the U.S. working with the Soviet Union. When the UN tells the U.S. it can’t bomb, it does so anyway. When it sanctions U.S. aggression, the empire proceeds with the façade of international diplomacy. What a sham the whole thing is. Bolton is right at home with the UN.

Writes Andrew Sullivan:

This blog broke the story of more Geneva Convention violations recently: the posting of mutilated and dead Iraqis photographed by U.S. soldiers on a website also devoted to porn. Now, there’s an investigation. No other blog, to my knowledge, followed up.

Well, I guess you can’t call it a follow-up, since this blog addressed the corpse porn matter a month before Sullivan (and gave credit to Helena Cobban for breaking it), but hey, we don’t want any props. We would, however, like to know how the sanctimonious Sullivan, who calls antiwar protesters “fascists,” thought his little pet invasion would turn out any other way. In fact, it seems to us that Sullivan’s show of outrage over nowthatsfuckedup.com might be just the teensiest bit motivated by a desire to hide the evidence of what his war of liberation has wrought. After all, Andrew, wouldn’t those “hajis” be just as dead and dismembered if their photos weren’t posted on that site? What are you afraid of? That what’s left of pro-war America might see those photos and come to its moral senses?

UPDATE: I see that Andrew Sullivan is still prattling on about the porn site. He wants the soldiers involved prosecuted for Geneva Conventions violations – for disseminating the photos, of course. Bad for the war effort, you know.

I hope someday to take a deep drag of the magical air Sullivan and his brethren enjoy atop Mt. Olympus, to send the mortals off to do my bidding then strike the stupid brutes down when they fail me. And never miss a wink.