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That fucking tears it, I'm not paying my taxes next year. You want a war? You got yourself a war, you little Texas bitch boy.

I like how King George arbitrarily decided that the war was over in May. It certainly doesn't seem over to me.

From Slate: "...Americans shouldn't just be skeptical of what the president says about WMD. They should be skeptical of what he says about GDP. In economic policy even more than in war policy, the Bushies have successfully suppressed, manipulated, and withheld evidence to serve their policy purposes."

It just gets worse and worse, doesn't it?

johnny5000 posted some very interesting links. I'd heard nothing about this interview with General Wesley Clark in which he states that White House officials decided within hours of the 9/11 attacks that they were going to pin it on Saddam Hussein, evidence or no evidence.

And here's a sad story from Afghanistan: We are now negotiating with the Taliban ( Read more... )

We got our POWs back. w00t! (Reuters storyMy Dad was saying the other day that U.S. forces discovered chemical weapons factories and a very high-tech nuclear weapons research lab in western Iraq. Apparently this "news" came from talk radio or one of the bizarre consipiracy-theory news sites he reads. I haven't seen anything in the mainstream ( Read more... )

As one of only two Marines in history to win two Congressional Medals of Honor, the exploits and heroism of Major General Smedley Butler are known to every recruit. Together with Sergeant Major Dan Daly and Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, Butler is part of the Corps' Holy Trinity ( Read more... )

Rumsfield is ignoring his generals and consulting with Newt Fucking Gingrich. God save us ( Read more... )

Well, I've been meaning to post my thoughts on how this war sets a terrible precedent for Dubya doing whatever the hell he wants and endangers us all by provoking further terrorist attacks. But realistically, the time for protest has passed. We are committed. So now, my thoughts are with the troops. Let's get the job done quickly and get them ( Read more... )