Saying Hello To 2009
And soon we will be saying goodbye to George W. Bush, The Decider, the commander in chief.
On the 20th day from today President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office. Between now and then gives us a chance to make judgments about what we would hope our next President might avoid or modify during [...]
Where will they go?? How about home?
I am talking about Gitmo, and the ‘prisoners’ that are still held there. From Jurist:
A spokesman for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Ruddsaid Saturday that Australia would be willing to consider acceptance of Guantanamo Bay detainees on a case-by-case basis, according to a report in The Australian. Rudd’s spokesman confirmed that Australia, along with other countries, [...]
Iraqi Judge orders investigation into Al-Zaidi beating.
From Jurist:
Iraqi judge Dhia Al Kinani Friday announced an investigation into the alleged beating of Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi. Al-Zaidi was allegedly beaten after throwing his shoes at US President George W. Bush on December 14 during a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki where the two leaders discussed the signing of [...]
Another Forward
Yes, it’s time again for another feel-good/liberal-hating/right-wing forward. And you all know how much I love those little misguided, Fox addled, authoritarian brain farts.
Here’s today’s pea-brain patriot’s piffle.
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Subject: FW: A Marine!
A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a [...]
President Obama-Take Care of our Vets!
From Tomas Young and Eddie Vedder, a request-Take care of our Veterans, all of them, their emotional and physical scars from doing your dirty work. From the documentary Body of War:
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Stop the Army’s Stop-Loss program.
Some jackass at the Heritage Foundation, who is also safely living in the United States, describes the military’s Stop-Loss Program thusly:
“It generally helps prevail in conflict and avoid the further loss of life,” said Eaglen, “because as a trained unit, this group has functioned together, they’ve lived together, they’ve fired weapons together, so they will [...]
Would you buy this SOFA? Should the Iraqi people?
Next year, thanks to Iraq President Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi’s will get to actually vote on the Status of Forces Agreement that was ratified by their government and finally their Presidential Council Thursday. All our troops must be out of Iraq by 2011.The Iraqi’s will supposedly vote on the agreement next year.
I say supposed to [...]
“Budget reform is not an option. It’s a necessity.”
Obama uttered those words at his second press conference in two days, today.
He can start with the Pentagon’s budget, and all those fucking contractors we have sucking us dry in Iraq and other places around the world…including here at home. The Pentagon’s piece of the pie is the largest in the whole…cough…pie of a budget.
The [...]
Blackwater USA might be screwed under new SOFA.
And it couldn’t happen to a bigger bag o’ batshit bunch of mutha fucka’s… From IHT:
Private contractors working for the U.S. government in Iraq will lose their immunity from Iraqi law under a new pact with Baghdad, senior American officials said on Thursday.
The contractors, who provide everything from personal security to meals for U.S. forces [...]
Means As Much Now As It Did Then
This song was popular on the radio when I was a kid. Teenage boys from every American neighborhood were being kidnapped to go fight in Viet Nam.
Now there is no draft to make the kids go to an unpopular, illegal war but the sentiment and truth in this song is very relavent today.
Edwin Starr
War
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What is the deal? A round-up of Middle East news
U.S. forces in Iraq handed over control of another province Thursday. Babil, south of Baghdad, is the twelfth transfer of 18 provinces), Aljazeera reports. Further:
Babil had been the forefront of sectarian violence, including a suicide attack in Hilla, the provincial capital, in March 2007 that left more than 100 Shia pilgrims dead.
. . . Baghdad, Diyala, Salaheddin, Ninawa, [...]
why aren’t we?
thousands of iraqis protest ‘deal’ between america and iraq that would allow forces to remain until 2012
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7 Years Later It Is Still Just Talk.
Seven years ago the Chinese made flags were flying from anywhere they could be hung. Americans were salivating for revenge. War frenzy was being whipped up from every part of the war machine. We were living by color coded terror alerts and the fear prompted everyone to be willing to give up our liberties in [...]
another piece in the puzzle
“All together, these non-uniformed workers have cost nearly $100 billion, accounting for roughly 20 percent of the total U.S. budget for the five-year war.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari: US must provide a “very clear timeline” to withdraw its troops from Iraq
I don’t know how much clearer BushCo and John McCain need to hear this from the Iraq Government.
