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I see this slogan everywhere. Yellow ribbons on cars, big baloons.... and I can't help but think how ethnocentric we are as a country. Where is the support THEIR troops sticker? We send naive young men and women over to kill Arabs with a lie in their hearts and a paycheck in their wallets, but...
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Don't shoot the messenger. To woefully pervert the lyrics of a perfectly good John Lennon just a tad, "All we are saying, is, give war a chance." I'm generally a lover, not a fighter. And I'm a lover of peace, not a bellicose war-monger. ...
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Is victory in Iraq within reach? In accordance with quintessential psychological theorist and philosopher Carl Jung's notion of the anima and animus, I believe, that, both collectively, and individually---whether male or female---we all possess some sort of archetypal force that would like...
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Operation Iraqi Gloss-Over
September 14, 2007
The president cites shaky facts as he makes a case for keeping high levels of troops in Iraq.
Summary
President Bush played...
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Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) explains how history is being made tonight if things go off without a hitch:
thanks to Blue Jersey
History buffs, and those with long memories, will recall the last time conservatives found something important enough to stand up and obstruct all night long: the...
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Another senior Republican breaks with Bush on Iraq
By Susan Cornwell 1 hour, 53 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy continued to hemorrhage support in the U.S. Senate as another senior Republican called on Thursday for a new strategy that...
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McClatchy,:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" brigades to arrive in...
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, EPH 6:12.
So, how is the surge going? Well, it depends on who you are talking to. Some would say...
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From Alternet:
More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story.
On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected...
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As the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war looms large this coming week, the anti-war activists are in full protest gear. Marches will once again be held all over the US Saturday to show our outrage at the war in Iraq and the people that put us there. Since these patriots are willing to...
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Nobody loves the war in Iraq. Nobody loves war-----------period. Or do they? You don't even have to enter any quarters into my blog n roll jukebox. Simply watch this new music video by Cake, who covers Black Sabbath's War Pigs, and, instead of quarters, enter...
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In order for Bush to attempt to gather public support for his increase of troops in Iraq, he has begun his tour of military bases, as of yesterday. Stopping at Fort Benning GA, the small assembly of soldiers gave him a polite but far from rousing welcome. As this article in WaPo states, the...
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It kept me thinking about it for hours. Keith has been enboldened lately and he evidently was very upset that people would take Kerry's comment as directed to the soldiers. The rightwing has had a field day with his "bad joke". To see the video of KO's "special comment" aimed...
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