If This is Election Year Pandering
Posted by TRex@ 8:15 pm Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in 2008 Race, iraq war, that idiot | 2 Comments »Then we need to have an election every goddamn year. Bush to order 8,000 troops out of Iraq Of course, it's not until February and it's only 8,000, and they're probably going to turn them right around and send them to Afghanistan...in ...
How Did It Come to This?
Posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel@ 7:00 pm Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in (in)justice, 2008 Race, Gitmo, iraq war | 42 Comments »On June 18, Physicians for Human Rights published a report entitled Broken Laws, Broken Lives. The 130-page document provides, in sickening detail, the most complete evidentiary record I have yet seen of what the American military and intelligence establishments have ...
This is Controversial?
Posted by TRex@ 7:36 pm Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Cap'n Mac, iraq war | 28 Comments »WTF? I don't understand what Chuck Todd finds so objectionable about this ad. I think it's what a lot of mothers are thinking about the Iraq War. My, my, the Villagers are awfully sensitive about their friends, aren't they?
Not Just ‘No’
Posted by TRex@ 10:31 pm Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Barack Obama, iraq war, that idiot | 96 Comments »(Above: What would happen if you flew a plane like George Bush has run the Iraq War.) HELL to the NO. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was taking questions at a town hall meeting in Wisconsin when he fielded a rather unexpected ...
“Let’s Not Start Sucking Each Other’s Dicks Quite Yet, Gentlemen”
Posted by TRex@ 2:35 pm Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in (in)justice, Gitmo, iraq war | 33 Comments »I felt awesome about that landmark Supreme Court ruling today for just as long as it took me to click over to Eschaton and read this: LONDON (AP) — The U.S. government has photographic evidence that a Guantanamo Bay inmate was ...
What a Strange Concept!
Posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel@ 11:14 pm Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in iraq war, the good guys | 93 Comments »[Do you know me?] A politician who makes a campaign promise, gets elected, and actually executes on the promise. It will come as no surprise that said politician is not American. It's Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. And the campaign promise he is executing ...
What is He Even Talking About?
Posted by TRex@ 1:22 am Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Cap'n Mac, iraq war | 27 Comments »You know, it's crap like this that makes me start to really excited about the debates between Obama and McCain: During the third interruption of today's remarks in Denver, with protestors chanting about ending the war, McCain felt the need to ...
VoteVets: Kicking Ass, Taking Names
Posted by TRex@ 11:00 pm Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Cap'n Mac, iraq war, teh congress | 72 Comments »As some of you may know, the new Iraq funding bill passed today, with Senator Webb's new GI bill attached. John McCain didn't even show up to vote. He was busy shilling for donations in California. I ...
Happy Birthday, Jon Soltz
Posted by TRex@ 10:37 pm Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in iraq war, the good guys, yay! | 101 Comments »Don't ask me how I know this, but today is the 31st birthday of Jon Soltz of VoteVets.org. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who speak out against the Bush Administration's tragic and irresponsible military actions in the Middle East are some of ...
“Progress”! Except Without the Progression Part
Posted by TRex@ 11:00 pm Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in iraq war | 90 Comments »(Above: US soldiers training Iraqi troops.) You can watch the video above and see why I take all reports of "progress" from Iraq with a pound of salt. Some of these guys have some interesting dance moves, though. If ...