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Category Archives: iraq
Moving a Mountain Out of Iraq
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Share the post “Moving a Mountain Out of Iraq”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailFrom Stars & Stripes, video of a soldier tasked with the US Army’s orderly logistical withdrawal from Iraq. Probably half of the much-ballyhooed Persian Gulf buildup upon leaving Iraq will actually be … Continue reading
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Hard Work Is The Reward For Hard Work
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Share the post “Hard Work Is The Reward For Hard Work”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Some of that as-yet-unshoveled shit is actually very important to me and I want it shoveled really badly, but that doesn’t diminish the raw quantity of overall shit. (CLICK … Continue reading
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Iraq: It’s Finally Over
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Share the post “Iraq: It’s Finally Over”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThere will be no American troops in Iraq on January 1, 2012: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has told U.S. military officials that he does not have the votes in parliament to provide immunity to the … Continue reading
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Bradley Manning is Still Not Special
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Share the post “Bradley Manning is Still Not Special”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailHerein lies my problem with the tortured narrative of Bradley Manning: The emotional problems of loneliness and alienation Manning confronted are hardly atypical for a perceptive 20-year-old, particularly one with a long-estranged … Continue reading
Iraq Is An Operation, But Not A Combat Op
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Share the post “Iraq Is An Operation, But Not A Combat Op”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail It’s funny what happened to the word ‘war.’ Even as it became a political and cultural meme, it lost currency in public discourse. See how that works? Korea … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV
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The Saddam Channel
Share the post “The Saddam Channel”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis sounds very much like Iraqi broadcast TV ante 2003: The Saddam Channel debuted on Friday, the first day of this year’s Eid for Sunnis. The holiday started Saturday for Shiites. The station’s official name … Continue reading
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Blackwater Employees Speak Out
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Share the post “Blackwater Employees Speak Out”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThat civil suit against Blackwater is heating up: A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in … Continue reading
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Another True Story
Share the post “Another True Story”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is my 300th blog post since I came to Blogger. Woot! Let’s hear it for 300… Ahem…actually, for this three-hundredth blog, I would like to apologize to the blogosphere. I’ve waited more than seven … Continue reading
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The Shoe Incident
Share the post “The Shoe Incident”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailJunior’s ‘legacy project’ was destroyed over the weekend by a pair of shoes. In case you’ve been living in a cave, here’s the video: There are some liberal bloggers out there expressing concern at the … Continue reading
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Bush and the SOFA
Share the post “Bush and the SOFA”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe Decider was in such a hurry to complete a Status Of Forces Agreement with Iraq that he made some major concessions. Actually, he kind of conceded the whole War on Terror thing. In … Continue reading
