Lieberman to be New Secretary of Defense?

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Tuesday February 15, 2005 · 4:16 PM PST

2005/02/15 · 16:16

A Washington Post "In the Loop" article says that there is a rumour running around Washinton that Bush may ask Lieberman to be the new secratary of defense. Read More

Let the Blood Letting Begin

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Thursday January 27, 2005 · 6:05 PM PST

2005/01/27 · 18:05

The crazies, not having been able to take down Arlen Specter in november are screaming again. About what you might ask?

The fact that Specter has hired liberals (oh god) to his staff. But were not actually talking about socialists or anything were just talking about people who have connections to the democratic party and the NAACP. Both obvious bastions of America hating commies. Read More

On Iraq

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Tuesday January 25, 2005 · 5:09 PM PST

2005/01/25 · 17:09

I know that there have been many, many diaries on Iraq but I'd like this one to be sort of clearing house of idea's about what to do, if in some hypothetical universe you were president.

In my mind I would love it if we could just declare victory and pull out. But the consequences of pulling out both from the perspective of the utter mess we'd leave behind and the possible greater devastation that that would create, even more than we are are creating now, makes me worry.

We have to only look at Afghanistan to see what twenty years of war will do to a country. That was the reason Rumsfeld said that there was nothing to bomb there. Even our boneheaded policies are not as destructive as civil war. Hobbes belief in the absolute power of the government was predicated on his belief, after seeing the English civil war, that life was so bad with out an effective government that the only way to ensure that there was never one again was to have government that held all power.
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