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This headline says it all

by John Cole|  July 1, 20025:19 pm| Leave a Comment

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This headline says it all about our friends at the Guardian:

US Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima Paved the Way for September 11 and Its Aftermath

The whole article deserves a sound Fisking, but the opening paragraph is particularly odious:

Now that the number of innocent civilian victims killed collaterally in Afghanistan by the US bombardments is equal to the number killed in the attack on the Twin Towers, we can perhaps place the events in a larger, but not less tragic perspective, and face a new question: is it more evil or reprehensible to kill deliberately than to systematically kill blindly? (Systematically because the same logic of US armed strategy began with the Gulf war.) I don’t know the answer to the question. On the ground, among the cluster bombs dropped by B52s or the stifling smoke in Church Street, Manhattan, perhaps ethical judgments cannot be comparative.

There you have it- Moral equivocation, reliance on dubious statistics, and a mixture of conjecture and dubious false truths. Didn’t someone already debunk the Marc Herold civilian casualty claims?

Oh yeah. That can be found here.

Repeat a lie often enough…

The rest of the article should be read at your own risk. Damn jackals.

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This is one battle we

by John Cole|  July 1, 20025:13 pm| Leave a Comment

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This is one battle we can not afford to lose, or we will see our soldiers being accused and tried by every two-bit dictator in the world.

The US Assault On World Criminal Court

One question- How long before charges are brought against Ariel Sharon and George Bush? I say a month or less.

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Gay and ready to go

by John Cole|  July 1, 20025:08 pm| Leave a Comment

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Gay and ready to go off half-cocked. No pun intended.

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Jonah Goldberg is beating up

by John Cole|  July 1, 20025:03 pm| Leave a Comment

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Jonah Goldberg is beating up on Alec Baldwin again. If my archives were not all messed up, I would go find my post that had all his other quotes in there…

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I guess I am going

by John Cole|  July 1, 20024:50 pm| Leave a Comment

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I guess I am going to really have to pick up my blogging. Instapundit is out of town, now Layne and Welch are quitting. That really is a tough blow.

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I guess I will now

by John Cole|  July 1, 20024:49 pm| Leave a Comment

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I guess I will now not go see Minority Report- at least not now that Tom Cruise has proven himself to be a total jackass.

“I think the U.S. is terrifying and it saddens me,” he told the British paper the Daily Express. “You only have to look at the state of affairs in America.”

Bugger off, Cruise.

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Despite my sporadic posting as

by John Cole|  July 1, 20024:47 pm| Leave a Comment

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Despite my sporadic posting as of late, a number of blogs have added me to their links. If you are one, and do not find yourself listed on my links to the left, simply drop me an email and I will gladly add you. I have an open link policy- I will add you if I know about you.

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