Salut! Soldats!

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Saturday July 09, 2005 · 5:18 PM PDT

2005/07/09 · 17:18

Are you worn and weary? Fealty issues? Submission issues? Demands for either?
Feel you were drafted but did not sign up?

Weary of being bullied?

Booman Tribune is Welcoming Purge Refugees...

Booman himself will discuss issues of State power, covert acts and "reality". No bullying and no bitching. One may speak one's piece, and peace too. Read More

SY HERSH: On CSpan NOW

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Saturday September 11, 2004 · 7:36 PM PDT

2004/09/11 · 19:36

Apologies for nearly one line diary, but he is talking about Iraq and Abu Ghraib.

Says "we are in very deep trouble", the war is lost as we are waging it, cannot be won by force, we are "playing chess" they are "playing GO"...

And so forth...
He is speaking from Hampden-Sydney College on Thursday of this week.

CNN: Mrs Ditka says she'll divorce him if...

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Tuesday July 13, 2004 · 8:46 AM PDT

2004/07/13 · 08:46

.. he runs. And they invited her to call in, frankly I hope she does it might be entertaining.

Here is a link from (god help us) the Washington Times, no mention of her declaration but I'd say he will decline.
(The WashTimes from UPI wire service, so symbiotic... so regal, HA!)
Peace at home beats helping a sagging party effort.

I think some beneficial god shines down on Barak Obama, and I catch that drift from way far away in CA.... Read More

Dana Priest, WAPO transcript of Live Online

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Monday June 14, 2004 · 10:05 AM PDT

2004/06/14 · 10:05

I just happened to fall into this... and it seemed a bit meatier than many of these, so here is the link and the whole of the transcript appears below.

Dana Priest on line Q&A

On a related/unrelated issue, let me insert:

MSNBC just announced that Saddam may be released to sovereign (well whatever) Iraqi custody within "weeks". (I did not search for a link.)

Seems the ICRC has said he should be released within 30 days "if not charged". I never did care for the fellow, not even when he was our public chum, but, hey, let's charge him. Since we went to war and all.
Or, let his own people deal with him. Read More

One last, as Ronnie comes in over the hills of CA

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Friday June 11, 2004 · 5:48 PM PDT

2004/06/11 · 17:48

The plane is coming in over Pt Mugu, with the characteristic, but always optimistically referred to, "golden hills" of California.
One last time.
It's been a long week, and I wonder if there is tolerance for yet another Reagan diary, I almost don't have tolerance but look who's guilty of doing it...

Snippets went by earlier of what is in amongst the plans for the final final movement of this week of strange orchestration, masterwork tho it has been. There will be a lone bagpiper playing, something will be presented to Nancy by no doubt a military man, he on bended knee. We will be spared the internment of the casket, that will be off camera.

A strange week and, it seems, a penultimate moment delivered by and from the moving image. Without the movies, we would not have Ronnie. Read More

New Poll on IRAQ WAR fr LATIMES

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Thursday June 10, 2004 · 8:30 PM PDT

2004/06/10 · 20:30

Most voters, according to an LATimes poll poll just released on the website and taken Saturday thru Tuesday, say the Iraq War was not worth it.

Link to the PDF file excerpts from the poll

Snips below... Read More

FULL TEXT: Abu Ghraib, WSJ

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Monday June 07, 2004 · 10:28 AM PDT

2004/06/07 · 10:28

DKos poster gong, earlier alerted that WSJ has an article today on the legal, civilian and mil, machinations to make torture a fine and American security based thing. I feel safer don't you.

Thanks to an update at Billmon, we know that the full text has "escaped into the blogoshere"
so please forgive a close to one line diary but here is the link:
Security or Legal Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued

FOXNEWS broadcast of Bush at Elysee Palace

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Saturday June 05, 2004 · 11:43 AM PDT

2004/06/05 · 11:43

Did anyone else catch it? FOX NEWS carried live...

Bush and Chirac in prepared statements with Q&A at the Elysee Palace.
Here is the odd thing: while I was listening, suddenly there ws an audio bleed thru while BushBaby gave his prepared words in advance of throwing to reporters.

The bleed thru was in advance of his words, not his voice - at first I thought it was the bleed thru of both original transmission and delay but no different voice - but his words.

Then he would track, repeat the words with tiny differences, breaths taken at different times. Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Tenet to resign

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Thursday June 03, 2004 · 7:34 AM PDT

2004/06/03 · 07:34

MSNBC reporting Tenet will resign. Bush giving press conference now. Letter was accepted last night, John McLaughlin will serve as acting after Tenet leaves in July.

Wire notice will be posted in threads, apparently Reuters is carrying this...

Bremer is a "dictator", Brahimi calls it

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Wednesday June 02, 2004 · 7:14 PM PDT

2004/06/02 · 19:14

HA!... Somewhere in the sludge of cable news I heard one of the many many Republicans, reading from the Faxed Republican TPs, say today that Brahimi is 'an Algerian, what does he know of representative democracy".
The Chalabi and Neocon forces have had fun for weeks saying sometimes amazingly vicious petty and personal things, so reminiscent of the campaigns against Blix. Who the hell are we.

Really and truly we are about to drown in hubris.

Thanks to ABC (iirc, tho it may have been CBS, I heard both tonight) there was a clip of Brahimi that receives further exposure in this Knight Ridder article.

Continued below... Read More

BAGHDAD, shorter Galloway, longer Smedley Butler

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Monday May 31, 2004 · 9:28 AM PDT

2004/05/31 · 09:28

A report out of Baghdad cites three US soldiers dead, between attacks in Baghdad and Kufa.

BAGHDAD: Three U.S. soldiers were killed and two injured in fresh skirmishes in Kufa and Baghdad. 12 members of the Mehdi Militia were also killed in the US retaliatory action.

Killing of Japanese soldiers was feared in an attack on a Japan military convoy in Samawa.
The US military has also claimed killing of 51 resistance fighters.

Joe Galloway, who has turned against the war now having once, on the authority of those in Washington, believed it necessary, files his Memorial Day thoughts.

Some snips from his report below, a revisiting of Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC, long version at the link, and a report on an IGC assassination. Many reports I am finding obscure the direct reality of this assassination, occurring on Monday in Baghdad. Read More

ABU GHRAIB: What likely breaks next

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Wednesday May 26, 2004 · 3:24 PM PDT

2004/05/26 · 15:24

Although reading the 53 pages of the Taguba report released initially thru MSNBC or the report released by the ICRC, both alluded to incarceration of and abuse and/or torture of women and children, reading Juan Cole today and, even more so reading the article he links to in the Pak News, it feels as though it is only a matter of time before the release of photos of women prisoners occurs.

Below is a bit from each, Juan Cole and Pak News. Read More

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