Tag Archives: iraq
losing the numbers game
just for the record:
2007 has been the deadliest year so far for US forces in Iraq.
2007 has been the deadliest year so far for Coalition forces in Iraq.
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2007 has been the deadliest year so far for US forces in Afghanistan.
2007 has been the deadliest year so far for Coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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US casualties in Afghanistan [...]
McCain vs. Ware vs. Drudge vs. Truth
CNN’s Michael Ware suuuure is controversial, and frankly i’m shocked that CNN hasn’t abandoned him in Baghdad (yet).
no, he hasn’t been drawing maps in the sand to give away troop locations. he hasn’t been maligning Retired members of the US Military. he’s been reporting the ground truth from Iraq, since before the war even began. and some [...]
quote of the century
130,000 troops mired down in an uncivil war just isn’t enough, let’s make it 150,000… no wonder the President looks so happy. Happy enough to tell the TRUTH, if only for a moment.
All hail our dear leader, george “money trumps peace” bush.
obit
anna nicole smith died on Thursday.
on that same day, a US airstrike killed 13 ‘militants’ west of Baghdad.
great, right? well, sure - until you find out that the same airstrike also killed up to 45 civilians.
that’s 45 CIVILIANS - women, children, etc…
what? you hadn’t heard about that story, because of the minute-by-minute ‘breaking news’ coverage of the [...]
the power of a broken record
if there’s one thing this President knows how to do, it’s STAY ON MESSAGE.
brief excerpts from The President’s Press Conference in the Rose Garden on June 14:
“I saw firsthand the strength of his character and his deep determination to succeed, to build a country that can sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself…
We’ve got new intelligence from [...]
whatershed
more ‘bushspeak through the ages’, thanks to the President’s appearance today in Chicago.
May 22, 2006
“…the main reason I’ve come today is to talk to you about a watershed event that took place this weekend in Iraq. On Saturday, in Baghdad, Iraqis formed a new government, and the world saw the beginning of something new — [...]
how many new days does it take?
the President today praised the formation of the new Iraqi Unity Government (although two key posts, the ministries of Defense & Interior, are yet to be filled), with the following inspirational phrase:
“The formation of a unity government in Iraq is a new day for the millions of Iraqis who want to live in freedom.”
that’s great, [...]
in case you missed it, February edition
well it seems like the Powers That Be have been working overtime to confound me, piling on the ridiculousness like there’s no tomorrow. so i’ve gotten a new pda (more on that later) and a new attitude (hoo-hoo hoo-hoo hooo), and away we go.
first things first, Ariel Sharon is still in a coma at Hadassah [...]
every ten hours
i’m a big fan of statistics. sure, they can be twisted and spun to make whatever point you’d like. but sometimes they make a point of their own, without any spin whatsoever.
little things, like the fact that roughly once a minute, someone in the U.S. tries to commit suicide, and every 15 minutes one of them [...]
Iraqis insist on insurging despite positive press spin
like the old saying goes, if you can’t say something nice, wait for an American to bribe you.
yesterday, the LA Times broke the story of the Lincoln Group, a DoD contractor formerly known as “Iraqex”(?), and (probably) the Joint Psychological Operations Support Element (a division of USSOCOM, and completely different from the Office of Strategic Influence!) paying Iraqi newspapers to run [...]
