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By
thudfactor on
July 23, 2006
The Washington Post headline reads: “In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html. But it doesn’t sound like the military forgot. The military has institutional memory. The civilian leadership, on the other hand…
bq. [R]etired Marine Col. Gary Anderson, an expert in small wars, was sent to Baghdad by the Pentagon to advise on how to better put [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad, Gary Anderson, Iraq, law-enforcement task, Pentagon, the Washington Post, United States, Vietnam
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By
thudfactor on
October 8, 2005
Some time ago I deleted the “about me” page, primarily for technical reasons. For well over a year now I’ve been posting here with no “about me” page, but I think it’s time I had one. Just so you know who you’re talking to.
*Me:* I’m a thirty-something professional web developer. I work primarily with PHP and [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Arlington, Bill Clinton, Blacksburg, Bristol, Capitol Building, Christian Church, Internet Web sites, Oracle, Pentagon, professional web developer, Virginia, Virginia High School, Virginia Tech, Washington DC
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By
thudfactor on
August 5, 2005
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Era of Small Government is over[1]. In the ongoing quest to rename everything in the Washington DC area after Ronald Reagan there’s a “new proposal”:http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=550621. Some Congressman from Texas wants to rename 16th Street Northwest[2] “Ronald Reagan Boulevard.” Of course, Washington DC taxpayers would have to pay for the [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Bill Frist, Evil Voice, GIF, National Airport, Pentagon, Reagan National Water Treatment Facility, Reagan Presidential Urinal Cake, Reagan Washington, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Building, Ronald Reagan Defense Building, Ronald Reagan Memorial Cat Box, Ronald Reagan Washington Monument, Small government, Texas, Union Station, USD, Washington DC, Washington National Airport, White House
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By
thudfactor on
October 26, 2004
Ah. Looks like they’ve settled on a cover story, at least for now. It’s the “it was gone when we got there” defense.
Which, if true, means that the chaos from our invasion encouraged and/or permitted the distribution of these weapons from a secure, known, monitored situation to one that was insecure, unknown, and unmonitored. This [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Iraq, Pentagon, satellite reconnaissance
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By
thudfactor on
October 25, 2004
When things are this bad you have to take your entertainment where you can, so I have been waiting with baited breath to see how the kool-aid drinking portion of the Right will spin the al Qa Qaa issue into “no big deal.”
Bush campaign spokesman “Steve Schmidt says”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003785: “John Kerry has no vision for [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Bagdad, Bush Appologist camp, Iraq, John Kerry, Pentagon, Phil Carter, Steve Schmidt, U.S. military, United States
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