America’s secret prisoners in Afghanistan.

Bagram  Prison isn’t a secret, but evidently who is being held there IS a secret. There are, according to the article, secret prisons in Afghanistan. From The Nation:
One quiet, wintry night last year in the eastern Afghan town of Khost, a young government employee named Ismatullah simply vanished. He had last been seen in the [...]

I Think I Found Cheney’s “Last Throes”

Unsurprisingly, he seems to have got it wrong.
A few years back, before the loss of a few thousand additional Americans, the pecker with a pacemaker said that Iraq’s insurgency was in its “last throes,” a claim that promptly and irrefutably got blown away by the violence in Iraq. As a matter of fact, there is [...]

War Bonds anyone?

Oh, this is rich:
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress have introduced legislation to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by using a method that’s a throwback to prior U.S. conflicts: war bonds.
Saying that it would “promote national shared sacrifice and responsibility,” Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., introduced a bill Wednesday in the House of [...]

The Big O’s speechifying on Afghanistan

Where do you think his speech was on the Bullshit Meter? Off the fucking charts.
Well, what did you think of his plan man? Same shit, different President.
Did ya think he sold it to the majority of Americans? Oh hell no.
Do ya think it’s a war worth fighting for another eight fucking years? Not [...]

Cooking Thanksgiving dinner in Afghanistan

It’s no easy task evidently as this story from McClatchy shows:
Just getting the ingredients for Golf Company’s one-day-early Thanksgiving dinner was a military operation.
First, the Marines consulted their translators. Then the translators persuaded the Afghan border police to go to a market in what may be the most dangerous part of Helmand province.
Buying the $68 [...]

betmo’s thankful edition

it’s that time of year again where the leaves blow in the cold autumn wind and folks all over america suddenly get thankful for family and friends who get on their nerves the other 364 days a year.  yep- it’s almost thanksgiving.  in the interest of full disclosure, thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
i must say [...]

Now, the “Patriots” Will Howl

Those yellow-magnet “patriots” of the Rushpubliscum Party absolutely adore war. They loved it when their monkey marched into Afghanistan, and they were downright orgasmic when he attacked the heathen ay-rabs of Iraq for no reason at all. They did suffer a little disappointment when their monkey wasn’t allowed to start a third war in Iran, [...]