There’s something that really bugs me about the “Chalabi: Spy for Iran” story. If Chalabi is what they’re saying he is, he would seem to be a pretty high-profile target. Someone we’d want to have in custody. You know, to try to ascertain the damage done and find out more about Iranian intelligence operations.
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I’ve been looking through older material, and I hit this post written in October of 2002:
We’re Building Empire.

Saddam’s power is the only thing holding the Iraqi state together. When Saddam dies, there will be no Iraq. The Iraqis will be “free” to kill each other. How does anyone bring democracy to that? You can [...] Read more »

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Washington Post:

Presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday the war in Iraq is a failure and that a shake-up is needed to end the Bush administration’s mistakes and incompetence, a sharp critique that sparked more Republican criticism that the Democrat is making the war a political issue. [
Kerry Calls Iraq War a Failure ]

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I see the anti-nuance force (a.k.a. the “willfully stupid brigade”) defending US torture activity at Abu Ghraib (and most likely other places as well) are a little confused about some of the details.
Torture V. Hazing: I see it’s in vogue to follow Limbaugh’s lead and refer to the torture of detainees as “hazing.” The [...] Read more »

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Some folks continue to insist that Abu Ghraib was just the perverted actions of a few untrained professionals. Of course, this could never have happend if, for example, the JAG had been allowed to monitor interrogations. Until Afghanistan, the JAG (Judge Advocate General Corps)
had that job.
The decision to force the removal of the [...] Read more »

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