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By
thudfactor on
May 19, 2005
“Kevin Drum says:”:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_05/006340.php
bq. There have been 126 car bombings in Baghdad in the last 80 days. That compares to 25 in all of 2004.
This is in context of an article quoting “American Military commanders in Baghdad” saying we’re going to have troops there for a long, long time.
Meanwhile, here at home, our Senate is spending time arguing [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged American Military, Baghdad, car bombings, Kevin Drum, senate
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By
thudfactor on
November 5, 2004
So! What I am hearing is we lost the election because we’re “mean, insulting, insufferable bastards”:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_11/005099.php. Maybe (Kevin Drum suggests) if we were nicer we would _win_ next time.
_Really_? Who on the right should we emulate, I wonder? Tucker Carlson, perhaps, who called John Stewart “Kerry’s Butt-Boy?” Ann Coulter, who thinks we’re all traitors? Ooo. [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Ann Coulter, Jerry Falwell, John Stewart, Kerry, Kevin Drum, Tucker Carlson
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By
thudfactor on
October 12, 2004
The word is: no major progress until _after_ the election. For some reason the Bush administration feels going after “the terrorists” would adversely affect him in the polls, so “the military is holding back”:http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2460150,00.html.
Meanwhile, “Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Related Equipment has gone missing”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&e=2&u=/nm/20041011/wl_nm/iraq_un_nuclear_dc.
Of course, if our troops need help all they need to do is ask. [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Bush administration, HTML, Iraq, Kevin Drum
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By
thudfactor on
August 23, 2004
I do wish that A-list weblogs like
Political Animal and
Talk Left would institute some sort of an editorial policy on comments. An interesting topic gets posted, and I look in the comments for more discussion …. and within four minutes, trolls have hijacked the thread rehashing the same old trash and distracting everyone from [...]
Posted in So Called Media
| Tagged Kevin Drum
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By
thudfactor on
May 6, 2004
The abuses described and (God help us) photographed in Iraq are embarrassing, disgusting, and horrifying. But while others argue about who is ultimately at fault (untrained soldiers? the commander of the facility? upper levels of the Pentagon?) frankly I don’t care. Whoever knew about this and did nothing to stop it — from the lowest Private sweeping [...]
Posted in War
| Tagged Brittney Spears, cop car, federal government, financial and online activities, Iraq, Kevin Drum, local law officers, Pentagon, Terrorist