True Believers and the Looting of Iraq

What is it with the warhawks’ sudden recognition of the hypocrisy of the now discarded justification for the invasion of Iraq being to “disarm Saddam?” For an example, Andrew Sullivan, disillusioned Bushie war cheerleader writes:The reason the story...

Mayhem in Iraq – Green Zone casualties

Eight people are dead and four wounded in two explosions in the Green Zone. At least two Americans are among the casualties.:It is believed to be the first time that insurgents have struck from within the heavily guarded compound that is home to the US and British...

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...

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...

Saturday Blog Tour

An excerpt from Riverbend’s latest:After Bush finished his piece about the glamorous changes in Iraq, Allawi got his turn. I can’t seem to decide what is worse- when Bush speaks in the name of Iraqi people, or when Allawi does. Yesterday’s speech was...