AJ Strata is blaming Democrats for Iraqi civilians who WERE NOT killed: If the Democrats in Congress had done what their BDS crazed base had desired the killings and repression of Iraqis would NOT be going down. It would have gone up as al-Qaeda attempted to take over the country we were abandoning. Up Next: …
Archives for October 2007
Spooky
Sullivan quotes Hannah Arendt: “All debate about the truth or falsity of a totalitarian dictator’s prediction is as weird as arguing with a potential murderer about whether his future victim is dead or alive-since by killing the person in question the murderer can promptly provide proof of the correctness of his statement. The only valid …
Free The Ely Six!
Just imagine if it had been chipmunks and squirrels who went on a drunken shooting spree instead of local anti-environmentalists. Think that the cops would throw the book at them? Every newspaper in the country would run stories about it. Where’s the justice? *** Yeah, this story is a silly trifle, but we live to …
Specious Doesn’t Quite Cover It
A non-trivial point regarding this from the Sy Hersh Iran piece in the New Yorker: At a White House meeting with Cheney this summer, according to a former senior intelligence official, it was agreed that, if limited strikes on Iran were carried out, the Administration could fend off criticism by arguing that they were a …
The Fracture
This will be fun to watch: Alarmed at the possibility that the Republican Party might pick Rudolph W. Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate. The threat emerged from a group that broke away for separate discussions at …
Good News
This is good news: Deaths among American forces and Iraqi civilians fell dramatically last month to their lowest levels in more than a year, according to figures compiled by the U.S. military, the Iraqi government and The Associated Press. The decline signaled a U.S. success in bringing down violence in Baghdad and surrounding regions since …
We Can Sit and Talk and Not Talk For Hours and Still Have Things to Not Talk About
Consider this your Monday Opener.