Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The willow is too close to the house.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

T R E 4 5 O N

Good lord, these people are nuts.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

No one could have predicted…

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

In my day, never was longer.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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  1. 1.

    st

    Probably because to a lot of Iraqis, the UN and the US are just two fingers of the same hand. Whatever your opinion of the UN, there is no doubt that they were our partners in the sanctions that right or wrong, directly or indirectly caused a shitload of suffering in Iraq (and the UN was no doubt demonized roundly for it by Iraqi state tv – certainly Saddam wasn’t going to acknowledge his own larcenous malfeasance); to say nothing of the UN arms inspectors, whom I imagine were similarly played up as foreign interlopers. Remember, Gulf War I was done entirely under the auspices of the UN.

    It may be tough for someone like yourself (who clearly has, ahem, strong feelings about the UN, France, and the rest of the European antiwar crowd) to accept, but to a lot of people in Iraq who weren’t watching CNN, it’s “The UN? The US? Samey-same, G.I.”

  2. 2.

    poop ruiz

    of course there’s also the possibility that the people who bombed the UN Baghdad HQ were not Saddam Loyalists.

  3. 3.

    Mark S.

    John, it’s simple (IMHO).. they can’t hit targets that are protected, so the cowards hit the first targets they can find, regardless of who it is.

  4. 4.

    Blackavar

    The NY City Parking Enforcement Bureau may have been behind it. I understand the UN is several million dollars behind in payments on diplomats’ parking tickets over the last decade.

    Tony Soprano would kill for less…

  5. 5.

    Peter

    The US and coallition forces have been hardening the nonmilitary targets with barriers and (presumably) locked ‘n loaded troops.
    The UN decided they wanted a more ‘welcoming’ image so they refused the barriers.
    So they welcomed a splodeydope. The Baby Jesus weeps at such stupidity. The UN could screw up an iron ball with a rubber mallet.

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    Emperor Misha I

    Actually, ST, you got it almost right, except that it’s the UN and Saddam that are two chips off the same block.

    Remember who it was that were doing their level best to keep ol’ Soddy in power?

    Yep… Two letters, begins with a “U” and ends with an “N”.

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