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Why More Money for Iraq -- If Bush is Going to Begin Withdrawing Troops

If, as he says, President Bush is going to start withdrawing troops from Iraq, why on earth does he need vastly more money from Congress to wage war? The staggering, ever escalating numbers tell the real story: As long as it’s up to Mr. Bush, the American presence in Iraq will be endless and ever more costly, diverting resources from other national priorities that are being ignored or shortchanged.  Read more
09/28/2007

The Most Important Film of Our Day: In the Valley of Elah

The irreconcilable moral is extended as, as individual servicemen and women and as a country we are truly in peril of losing our soul. We therefore very much need to decide whether that is something we want to — or can — endure.  Read more
09/24/2007

A Stephen Colbert Moment -- Tonight's Word: "Delusion"

George W Bush and the right-wing (Why not ‘wrong’ instead of ‘right’?), neocon, fascistically leaning, US Constitution-crapping-all-over Republicans. Delusion: they’re wrapped in it like moth pupae that fed on garment fabric before so encasing themselves against the bitterness of life and truth outside. Read more
09/23/2007

Pack of Running Dogs - Names Taken

PLEASE . . . somehow, somewhere retain the record of this vote against America’s best. Several are up for reelection in 2008, and they’re going to try to squirrel out from under this vote. Let’s not permit them to evade the proof of where their hypocritical heart was when it counted most.  Read more
09/21/2007

Roll Call of the Cowed and the Sameful-Shameful

For President Bushmaster — a bushmaster is a highly venomous snake, extraordinarily dangerous to humans, that inhabits the Southern tropics — to suggest the MoveOn.org ad was “disgusting” is so like a hog calling a wallowing pig filthy.  Read more
09/21/2007

4,000 or 250,000 Casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars?

Our 4,077 U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are the worst possible consequence of military service. Yet what about our 250,000 wounded, injured, and ill combat survivors and their families who suffer for a lifetime? Read more
08/31/2007

A Page from German History

Hitler was democratically elected by a loudly cheering populace. They got exactly what they wanted. He was their champion whose Deutschland Uber Alles was all to "Victory." I wasn't within the American Legion convention hall, but I could almost hear the faint wafting echo of the cheers of long ago.  Read more
08/29/2007

ON DUBYA and HIS RENO VISIT

I live in Reno, Nevada. Tuesday, the 28th, the American Legion is having its national convention in the Reno-Tahoe Convention Center on South Virginia. And here’s the first of the bad news: the legion of Legionnaires has invited George W. Bush to speak at its convention. Bad News 2: He accepted, and is scheduled to do so, promptly at 10:00 AM.  Read more
08/24/2007

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