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thudfactor on
May 18, 2005
*Update:* I hate it when I lose my temper on my blog only to discover “I was already outdone by -an Irishman- a Scot”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/18/galloway/index.html?source=RSS. (Many apologies.)
So the other day on the Al Franken show, Franken’s dittohead friend Martin Luther says to Al Franken’s objections to Bush’s military policy “so you think we’d be better off with [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Afghanistan, Al Franken, America, Bush's administration, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Martin Luther, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, North Korea, Saddam Hussain, Vietnam
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By
thudfactor on
January 14, 2005
So, let me get this straight:
We “didn’t find any”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3740-2005Jan12.html?nav=headlines weapons of mass destruction. We were, of course, supposed to.
Iraq is *now* a “training ground for terrorists”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7460-2005Jan13.html and we’ve helped unite and radicalize the Muslim community against us. We were, of course, supposed to *break up* terrorist training camps in Iraq and use Iraq as a base to [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq, Iraqi government, Islamic Republic of Iran, middle east, Saddam Hussain
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By
thudfactor on
September 12, 2004
I didn’t post anything about September 11 yesterday because I lived through it. It was the scariest day of my life, with the possible exception of September 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and so forth … when we were all convinced another attack would be both immediate and devistating. I’m not eager to revisit it. [...]
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| Tagged airline passengers, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussain, sarin gas crawling, White House
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By
thudfactor on
February 12, 2004
Six years and more than $50 million in taxpayer money later, an independent counsel has concluded there is “insufficient evidence” to charge President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton with any criminal wrongdoing in the Whitewater land deal in Arkansas.
“It’s ironic that the president’s potential legal troubles relating to the Lewinsky investigation would outlast, [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Afghanistan, Al Gore, America, Arkansas, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Elizabeth Dole, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Initiative and Outreach Office, Iraq, Janet Jackson, John McCain, Karl Rove, middle east, national guard, New York, Osama bin Laden Dead, Rodham Clinton, Saddam Hussain, USD
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By
thudfactor on
February 3, 2004
As I read analysis of what’s going on in Iraq, I have to wonder: why did the neocons think that different ethnic groups far too eager to shoot and explode each other would be willing to create a nicely behaved democracy once Saddam Hussain was removed from power? And why do they think it can [...]
Posted in War
| Tagged American middle east, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, middle east, Saddam Hussain, United States
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