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thudfactor on
May 16, 2005
OK, so Newsweek may have run a short story about US Military activity in Afghanistan that had not been thoroughly checked out.
And I think we can agree that allowing a false sense of urgency to encourage one to jump to conclusions based on partial or doubtful evidence, especially in powder-keg environments where a small mistake [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Afghanistan, Newsweek, U.S. military
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By
thudfactor on
January 28, 2005
Digby “responds to a joke letter”:http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_01_23_digbysblog_archive.html#110688380850953943 making the rounds, wherein the President presumably tells liberal whiners about human rights that, ok, you don’t like how we’re dealing with them? Then we’re sending one to your door.
bq. Although Ahmed is sociopathic and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his “attitudinal problem” [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Afghanistan, Ahmed, Alberto Gonzales, Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, LA Times, Taliban, U.S. military, U.S. Navy base, United States, United States Navy
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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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By
thudfactor on
July 8, 2004
Dave Kopel is working on a review of F911 for National Review Online. You can
preview it here. This is certainly more along the lines of how I think people ought to address the film. Far from saying F911 is unconvincing and leaving it at that, Kopel actually goes into detail.
However, for the most part I [...]
Posted in Politics
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By
thudfactor on
April 1, 2004
Our people were attacked and killed and mutilated and dragged through the streets of Iraq. Yeah, I’m mad at the Iraqis. But I’m about twelve different kinds of pissed at the conservative response, which has been pretty much along the lines of “kill them all.”
First of all, how could they? I mean, the real motivation [...]
Posted in War
| Tagged al-Qaeda, Andrew Sullivan, Bush administration, chemical warheads, Damascus, Iraq, London, middle east, New York, Ryadh, Saddam Hussein, Tehran, U.S. military, United States
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