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By
thudfactor on
July 24, 2006
So, “the article I linked to yesterday”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/07/23/unwilling-to-listen/ about the Iraq war appears to be an excerpt from the upcoming book “_FIASCO_”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159420103X/celticknotwor-20 by Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks. Thomas Ricks did an “online chat”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/07/07/DI2006070701061.html where he discussed his book and his articles. As you can probably guess, a few nutjobs crawled out of the woodwork to [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Don Rumsfeld, Iraq, online chat, Thomas Ricks, Washington Post
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By
thudfactor on
January 26, 2006
One question that’s bugged us about the President’s domestic surveilence program is this: if the law was insufficient for their needs, why not ask Congress for a change in the law?
That question has not been answered, but it has been made _obsolete_. The new question is: if the law was insufficient, why did they “oppose legislation [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Bush administration, Congress, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Glenn Greenwald, Mike DeWine, Ohio, senate, United States, Washington Post
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By
thudfactor on
December 21, 2005
From today’s Washington Post:
bq. At the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan was asked to explain why Bush last year said, “Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Court Judge, Scott McClellan, United States, United States government, Washington Post, White House
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By
thudfactor on
September 2, 2005
This is unbelievable. People are still starving and stranded, there’s practically no guidance from troops on the ground, folks are waiting for transportation that’s not likely to come because they can’t do anything else…
bq. “We’ve been trying to get out,” said Cornelius Washington as he walked along a highway overpass near the Superdome. “No one is [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged ABC, Bush, Cornelius Washington, Emphasis mine, Food, insurance fraud, Scott McClellan, United States, Washington Post
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By
thudfactor on
June 29, 2005
A friend of mine says to me today, “I know the mess in Iraq is bad, but shouldn’t we stay and fix it? Wouldn’t it be worse to leave the job undone?”
Under different circumstances, I’d agree with him. We _should_ stay and do it right. But staying and doing it right is not an option [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Delaware, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Iraq, John F. Kerry, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Massachusetts, middle east, United States, Washington Post
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