My favorite conservative columnist, Daniel Larison, is hitting it on the head and out of the ballpark this morning about the mindless OMG’ing in the Beltway press and elsewhere about political dishonesty on national security issues.

He brings up two main directions on this:

1. if Group A is out of office, then Group B (who is in) are feebly trying to ( Read more... )

Iraqi PM to Obama: If you release those unreleased photos from Abu Ghraib, my electorate will go up in blue flame and demand that the US get out yesterday.

…from Think Progress.   Give it a look for a summary of why it’s major bad news, if you didn’t know that already…unless you think you’re Jack Bauer or something.

As Jesse Ventura said on The View:

“If waterboarding is OK, why don’t we let our police do it to suspects so they can learn what they know?” he asked. “If waterboarding is OK, why didn’t ( Read more... )

Gitmo: People reviewing the cases of prisoners are finding out that there’s really no solid files as such on anyone,  and that a lot of material is suspect or worthless - and scattered, disorganized and fifth-hand.   The realization is coming through that people were supposed to get confessions and information first and worry about anything else ( Read more... )

From Dick Meyer at NPR on Blago and Made-off:

As audacious as Blagojevich’s political gluttony is, it is easy to find far worse political corruption, much of it perfectly legal: Distorting intelligence to invade Iraq, torturing prisoners, failure to regulate Wall Street, and systematic pork-barrel boondoggling come quickly to mind. If you’re ( Read more... )

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The real root of Don’t Ask Dont Tell and other anti-gay stuff seems to be an insistent idea, that, similarly to the idea my father tried to pass on to me, that all gay men and women are desperate and determined to infect us all with their orientation - that somehow, they will all be predators waiting for their chance to rape, humiliate and then ( Read more... )

The ugly truth about what happens when you send people to a war zone who aren’t up for the situation; they get turned into the contents of a coffin. A waste, an utter stinking waste. But the recruiters can fill their quotas, and the President can play with men’s lives.

And once again, the answer is that really, the President doesn’t have a plan ( Read more... )

I know that there are people out there who have a bunch of questions about Obama’s stance on the military and the war.  I decided to look up his initial statement in 2002 as an Illinois State Senator - a speech where he said what his feelings about war and the military were.

I work about a block from where this was given, and I wished that I’d ( Read more... )

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