John McCain in NeverLand

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Wednesday March 28, 2007 · 9:54 AM PDT

2007/03/28 · 09:54

Yesterday, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN and made an amazing pronouncement: Not only is Mr Bu$h’s ~~surge~~ escalation working, but it has produced entire neighborhoods in Baghdad that are safe to walk through. That’s right, Americans can walk in parts of Baghdad unmolested.

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Thursday January 18, 2007 · 1:56 AM PST

2007/01/18 · 01:56

The Bu$h malAdministration announced today that it will retreat from its dictatorial and totalitarian position that they can wiretap any American, under any circumstances, at any time they feel like it, without FISA Court authorization.

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Thursday January 04, 2007 · 10:59 PM PST

2007/01/04 · 22:59

The AP is reporting just before midnight Thursday/Friday that Mr Bu$h has decided to release GEN John Abizaid from his post at CENTCOM and replace him with Admiral William Fallon, who is currently Commander, US Pacific Command. He is also sending GEN George Casey off to a well-deserved retirement, replacing him with LTG David Petraeus.

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Wednesday December 20, 2006 · 5:08 AM PST

2006/12/20 · 05:08

George W Bu$h says we’re winning the war in Iraq. The Baker-Hamilton report says we’re neither winning nor losing the war. Colin Powell says that if we’re not winning then we’re losing. They can’t all be right, can they? Can they all be wrong? How can something be described at the same time by two opposing words? Is it merely a case of semantics? The use of specific words as political spin or some vague mental attitude defined by a single word? (A LATE UPDATE on this below)

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Monday December 18, 2006 · 7:51 PM PST

2006/12/18 · 19:51

Fred Kagan released his great plan for victory the other day. It details just how we can beat the people whose country we’ve been occupying for almost four years now, and who resent us staying where we’re not wanted. They want us out, and a national government associated with one or more religious organizations.

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Sunday December 17, 2006 · 5:52 AM PST

2006/12/17 · 05:52

There are ongoing attempts to lasso and hogtie Iran and Syria in order to make them obedient to the whims of The Decider-in-Chief. Some people have actually dared to suggest that Mr Bu$h engage in some peculiar folk ritual called "diplomacy" and meet with these two countries in regional talks with a view to encouraging them to stop supporting their proxy Shiites in Iraq.

Sadly, it appears Mr Bush may not be interested in cooling down the chaos and bloodshed in Iraq.

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Saturday December 16, 2006 · 4:55 AM PST

2006/12/16 · 04:55

Two weeks ago Dick "dick" Cheney was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, meetingwith King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud. The official story was first that Mr Cheney had asked King Abdullah for some help in quieting the bloodshed in Iraq, and as a quid pro quo the US was to obtain some control over the Shiites, especially the Mahdi Army, led by Muqtada al-Sadr. The fact that he traveled all the way out there for a meeting of several hours added significance to the gravity of the situation.

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Thursday December 14, 2006 · 7:31 PM PST

2006/12/14 · 19:31

This is a lovely story. It has all the basic elements: real news reporting, hysterical fascist mau-mauing a news organization for doing its job, blatant attempts to manage the news and news reporting agencies, and thereby "tame" them, the hubris of an allegedly impartial blogger and a pending train wreck.

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Wednesday December 13, 2006 · 12:54 PM PST

2006/12/13 · 12:54

Most people know the name of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who hid in a secret upper story apartment in Amsterdam during the German occupation until they were discovered in August, 1944. The family was transported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where Anne died seven months after her arrest, a victim of typhus. All of her family died, except for her father, Otto, who returned to Amsterdam after the war and discovered her diary there.

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Saturday December 09, 2006 · 5:39 PM PST

2006/12/09 · 17:39

Larry Johnson’s No Quarter blog had a guest poster two days ago. Major Bill Edmonds, a Special Forces officer, discusses his assignment in Iraq - an assignment that he was trained for, and apparently suited for by personality. MAJ Edmonds wrote this article originally for a magazine and it was forwarded to Mr Johnson by a friend.

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Tuesday December 05, 2006 · 5:06 AM PST

2006/12/05 · 05:06

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — President Bush met Monday with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, one of the most powerful Shiite leaders in Iraq, and urged him to "reject the extremists that are trying to stop the advance of this young democracy."

The meeting with Mr. Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was part of an effort by the White House to shore up the fragile government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki by reaching out to a wider circle of Iraqi politicians.

The hourlong session in the Oval Office plunged Mr. Bush deep into the intricate web of Iraqi politics. Mr. Hakim is a fierce rival of Moktada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American Shiite cleric who has thrown his weight behind Mr. Maliki and whose militia is widening the country’s sectarian divide through the killings of Sunni Arabs.

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Tuesday November 21, 2006 · 2:00 AM PST

2006/11/21 · 02:00

Representative Charles Rangel, appearing today on the CBS News program Face The Nation, announced that he will quickly present a bill to resurrect the draft.

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Wiretapping and FISA, Part CLIX

New Stars in the Middle Eastern Sky

Winning and Losing

Mr Kagan Refines the Schlieffen Plan

Making Nice With Syria

Iraq - What To Do?

Easongate, Jamilgate, And Now Malkingate

A Tree in Amsterdam

A Soldier Speaks

George Bu$h Humiliates the United States Again

A True National Draft