Tag Archives: war
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 [...]
here we go again, again. again.
so the 48-hour airstrike suspension was a joke - less than one day into it they’d killed a Lebanese Officer. another ‘tragic mistake’, no doubt.
and in the PR battle, Olmert came out and said that hezbollah was ’seriously damaged’, to which Hezbollah responded with 200+ rockets (a new single-day record and nearly DOUBLE the previous [...]
THANK YOU ISRAEL
THANK ‘G-D’. finally, somebody gave in. peretz, olmert, who cares. FINALLY, if only for two days.
i encourage everyone on the planet to support the following organizations like never before:
Unicef
MSF International
ICRC
please and thank you and here’s hoping it lasts. (i’m looking at you, nasrallah)
wait, they’ve just clarified & qualified on CNNi - Israel ‘reserves the right [...]
a quick thought…
it has just occured to me, as Israel awaits the rush-shipment of American Precision Guided ‘bunker-busting’ Munitions, that in the wake of one ‘tragic mistake’ after another by the IDF, maybe Israel should START TARGETING CIVILIANS.
sounds crazy, i know, but given the current ‘pinpoint accuracy’ of the Israeli strikes which have ‘accidentally’ killed hundreds of [...]
full disclosure
ok, in the wake of Massacre II in the Lebanese village of Qana (as opposed to Massacre I, the 1996 Israeli shelling of a UN facility which killed 102 Lebanese refugees), the failure-by-design of condi’s pseudo-diplomacy, the repetition ad infinitum of ‘1559′ by bolton, gillerman, and FoxNews, and in keeping with the recent announcement of [...]
a special brand of journalism
maybe it should be called sigh-ops.
day 16 of Operation Extreme Makeover: Lebanon Edition, and my buddy shep smith has just learned how to pronouce Kiryat Shmona.
then he goes to get some insight into the fighting across the border from ‘one of the troops’, identified onscreen as ‘Major Michael Oren’. first i was struck by the [...]
scuttle diplomacy
Here we go again, again.
But first i have to get a few things off my digital chest:
1. ward churchill… ward churchill needs to STFU.
(or, “did you hear the one about the jackass who needs to STFU? *chuckle*…”)
2. If i hear that GDMF ‘HeadOn’ commercial one more time it’s going to give me a headache. That, and [...]
