Luther Liberal vs. Matthew Moderate

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Wednesday April 04, 2007 · 1:23 PM PDT

2007/04/04 · 13:23

Sigh.

I swear, if 99% of Americans were for withdrawal from Iraq, that last lonely percentile would be living right here. Here's the most recent op/ed from my trusty school paper, The Battalion. This passive/aggressive wingnuttery is what passes for reasoned debate in my hometown.

I should add, this kind of bloviating has inspired me to drop out of the college of engineering in favor of political science. It has motivated me to get involved and start paying attention to the issues. Hell, it's inspired me to vote for the first time in my life. For anybody but Republicans.

Going down with the ship

jollygreen

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Wednesday March 07, 2007 · 7:51 AM PST

2007/03/07 · 07:51

The Navy has ramped up the scuttling of decomissioned ships since Bush and company took office, as WaPo's Craig Hooper wrote Monday:

Over the past six years, 79 condemned Navy ships have been towed out to sea and destroyed by Air Force bombs, submarine-launched torpedoes or hails of gunfire. These exercises, long considered the most cost-effective way to dispose of unwanted naval vessels, have eaten away at America's inventory of still-useful retired warships. Soon every vessel capable of serving in America's reserve combat fleet could vanish, leaving an overextended Navy with no viable backup forces.

The entire article is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

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