This guy can piss me off like no other.
Take a look at an excerpt from Bill Kristol’s recent Op-Ed What Obama Left Out, which is about Sen. Obama’s commencement speech at Wesleyan this weekend:
“Obama chooses to introduce the notion of public service…but there’s one obvious path of service Obama doesn’t recommend — or even mention: [...]
April 24, 2008 – 11:55 am
From Gary Kimaya’s The ten commandments: “Bush will face the judgment of history, and it will not be forgiving. But that is not our immediate concern. The most important thing now is to recognize the mistakes that led us into the most disastrous war since Vietnam — a war that will thankfully cost America many [...]
April 24, 2008 – 11:02 am
From Alternet’s 12 Reasons Why Leaving Iraq Is the Only Sane Thing to Do: “56% of Americans ’say the United States should withdraw its military forces to avoid further casualties.’ This has been a majority position since January 2007, the month that the surge was first announced. Imagine what might happen if the American public [...]
April 10, 2008 – 06:17 pm
From the National Priorities Project’s Federal Budget Trade-Offs: “Taxpayers in Rutland County, Vermont [where I live] have paid $71.1 million for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
23,337 People with Health Care OR
106,399 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
1,706 Public Safety Officers OR
1,292 Music and Arts [...]
From Frank Rich’s Tet Happened, and No One Cared: “For the majority of Americans who haven’t met any of the brave troops who’ve been cavalierly tossed into the quagmire, the war is out of sight and mind in a way Vietnam never was. Only 28 percent of Americans knew American casualties in Iraq were nearing [...]
From The New York Times’s McCain Is Vocal on War, but Silent on Son’s Service: “Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months [...]
From Alternet’s How the U.S. Just Got Schooled by a ‘Rag-Tag’ Neighborhood Army in Iraq: “Guerrilla wars are slow, crock-pot wars. To win this kind of war, the long war, takes patience. Trying to force a ‘defining moment’ by military action is not just ignorant and idiotic, but risks further demoralizing your side when that [...]
March 24, 2008 – 12:51 pm
From Alternet’s 4,000 Troop Deaths: A Number That Just Scratches the Surface: “Almost 30,000 American troops have been wounded in Iraq, according to official counts. But that’s just the official figure; the Pentagon doesn’t have adequate mechanisms in place to accurately track the number of wounded soldiers, and unofficial estimates range to 100,000. How many [...]
March 18, 2008 – 10:29 am
From the Independent’s Iraq is a country no more: “Five years of occupation have destroyed Iraq as a country. Baghdad is today a collection of hostile Sunni and Shia ghettoes divided by high concrete walls. Different districts even have different national flags. Sunni areas use the old Iraqi flag with the three stars of the [...]
March 14, 2008 – 02:30 pm
From CNN’s ‘Signs of torture’ you can’t imagine: “‘They took my husband away in front of me. I found his body in the morgue a few days later. He had multiple bullet wounds and his eyes had been gouged out,’ one woman tells me, forcefully twisting a tissue in her hands as if it somehow [...]
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