Three years ago, Limbaugh was saying (and people were repeating) that the Guantanamo Bay prison we were holding suspected terrorists in was practically a vacation spot.

Anything better than diet, Qurans, prayer rugs, I mean where else can Muslims go in the world to find everything they need? There’s no better place than Gitmo. Club [...]

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Does Fallon’s resignation mean
war with Iran is more likely? When I tell most people (the ones who don’t read blogs) that we’re on a run-up to war with Iran, that there are people in charge who think it’s a really keen idea, and that John McCain is one of them, I get blank incredulous [...]

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When Obama told a story last week about US forces in Afghanistan scrounging for ammunition because they’ve been under-equipped, the loudest of the right-wing howler monkeys were
quick to call either him or his source liars and/or traitors, with one person Hizoy cites
saying Obama’s an enemy propagandist.
We’ve seen
helmet-liner drives (shock-absorbing helmet liners help [...]

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Here’s a highly detailed hypothetical from you courtesy of Patterico:

Let’s assume the following hypothetical facts are true. U.S. officials have KSM in custody. They know he planned 9/11 and therefore have a solid basis to believe he has other deadly plots in the works. They try various noncoercive techniques to learn [...]

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I remember before the summer started a lot of media-heads saying that the President had until September, roughly, to straighten things out in Iraq. And that Republican congressmen, conscious of the horrible presidential approval ratings, would peel off from the President come September if the surge didn’t work.
It is the end of September and [...]

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