Is Muqtada Al Sadr becoming the Nasrallah of Iraq?

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 4:09 AM PST

2006/11/02 · 04:09

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Besides al-Sadr, the largest Shiite coalition in the 275-member parliament, the United Iraqi Alliance, had also condemned the checkpoints for inflicting what it described as "collective punishment" against residents of Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods. Read More

Kickboxing and the Swiss Knife

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 12:53 AM PST

2006/10/31 · 00:53

Kickboxing and the Swiss Knife

Once upon a time, I spent the whole night awake with a bunch of sailors aboard the USS Trent, a naval vessel which specializes in transporting Marines. Man, what a night it was. I was really tired but decided it was much more valuable to stay awake all night (we were on a mission to flee Israeli atrocities in Lebanon) and joke around with the sailors, Quinty, Art and "LeBron" and many, many other lonely men at sea. Read More

A Tale of Homeland Security

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Sunday October 29, 2006 · 8:07 AM PST

2006/10/29 · 08:07

From The Archives of Shame

I've only met one person who worked for Homeland Security in my travels. He was a ba***rd.

We were in Cyprus evacuating from Beirut proper There were many women with small children. They had loaded us up at the crack of dawn (from the refugee center on the Turkish side of Cyprus) and taken us to the Cypriot airport. Read More

On the blind leading the blind

Leilani

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Monday October 23, 2006 · 3:35 AM PDT

2006/10/23 · 03:35

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. - The Wasteland Read More

On Dire Circumstances

Leilani

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Saturday October 21, 2006 · 10:45 PM PDT

2006/10/21 · 22:45

Ahem. Olmert seems to have forgotten that what HE did spoke to the nations of the world pretty clearly.

What an idiot.

In any event, it is pretty clear that the US is not only unable to fight in another war, they are clearly unable to fight the ones they are involved in.

Steadfastness and Islam are just not bombable. Islam can't be destroyed or replaced and the foolishness of that is evident. Read More

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