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Priorities

“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 [...]

Why do you make me hit you?

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. [...]

Progress is being delayed

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. [...]

Editorial Policies

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 [...]

This Could Happen to You

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 [...]

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