Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

I was promised a recession.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Not all heroes wear capes.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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  1. 1.

    Matthew

    Considering that Patrick Cockburn is the author of the story this blog post is based on, and the story hasn’t been covered by any news outlets who at least pretend to be objective, I’m suspicious, very suspicious.

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    Joshua Martin

    Actually, it’s smart, smart, smart. NRO’s The Corner has a follow-up post; turns out the trees in question are, were, being used as ambush cover at a road junction. After the locals refused to provide the identities and location of the ambushers, the military, in order to protect the lives of its member, was obligation to cut down the trees.

    Would you rather American soldiers died so that some date palms might live, particularly in light of the fact that the owner(s) of said palms were sheltering, at least in some form, the killers?

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    Noel

    We’ve been conditioned to accept the worst about our effort by reporters who often wish to see that effort fail. Even NRO jumped to ‘court- martial’ initially. This story is a bit like blaming Lincoln for suspending ‘habeus corpus’…without mentioning there was a civil war going on.

    Our troops have proven themselves dedicated to helping the Iraqis…but even if one doesn’t believe that, why would troops who have to stay there gratuitously incite the locals?

    The grove-owners are being generously compensated and the story that they didn’t co-operate may even be cover to protect them. The 48 hr. rule still applies, esp. with this agenda-driven press.

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