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• The Yazidi

  Published: August 14, 2007, 9:51 pm

  Tags: Clusterfuck, People Unusual Interesting Religions Getting Blown Up, Iraq War

  The Yazidi are a small sect of Kurdish speakers whose religion predates Islam and Christianity. Their holiest city is Mosul. Adherents, who number less than a million (and probably considerably less than half a million) are concentrated in Iraq. The Yazidi welcomed the US invasion, and their communities have been among the quietest and most

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• Dept. Of Pardon My French: Beloved Conservative U.S.-Loving French President Also Hates America

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Clusterfuck, Dept Of Pardon My French, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Iraq, Losers, Nicolas Sarkozy

  The election of Nicolas “Reagan” Sarkozy was a rare happy moment for American wingnuts who until that exact second had hated France with all of their tiny bitter might. Finally, a pro-American French president would restore America’s global glory and make the lazy communist book-reading French weirdos start putting on the pounds,

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• Dept. Of The Surge Is Working: Iraqi Insurgents Tragically Fail To Kill U.S. Lawmakers

  Published: August 31, 2007, 12:28 pm

  Tags: Baghdad, Clusterfuck, Congress, Dept Of The Surge Working, Disaster, Gop, Iraq, James Inhofe, Mel Martinez, Republicans, Richard Shelby, Senate, Surge

  Iraqi insurgents nearly killed three Republican senators and a Democrat from the House, for good measure, as the Americans attempted to flee Iraq on Thursday. GOP senators Richard Shelby, James Inhofe, Mel Martinez and Alabama Representative “Robert” E. “Bud” Cramer were finishing their vacation in Baghdad when missiles and

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• The Least Bad Choice

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:41 am

  Tags: Cohen Roger, Iraq, Clusterfuck, Times Op Eds, International Herald Tribune, Times Select, Middle East

  By ROGER COHEN Published: September 6, 2007 The way the United States leaves places matters. Having armed mujahedeen fighters to undo the Soviet empire in Afghanistan, America lost interest in a backwater. Payback came in the form of Afghan-trained holy warriors bent on the destruction of the West. That was careless. It is important

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• The War as We Saw It

  Published: September 12, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: Iraq War, Clusterfuck, Stop It Now

  [This will stay at the top of the page for the entire day today. I encourage discussion of this op-ed in light of the deaths of SSG Gray and SGT Mora yesterday in Baghdad.]By BUDDHIKA JAYAMAHA, WESLEY D. SMITH, JEREMY ROEBUCK, OMAR MORA*, EDWARD SANDMEIER, YANCE T. GRAY* AND JEREMY A. MURPHY** Published: August 19, 2007 Baghdad VIEWED from

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• The Nightmare Is Here

  Published: September 15, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Iraq War, Clusterfuck, Times Op Eds, Herbert Bob, Times Select

  By BOB HERBERT Published: September 15, 2007 We've heard from General Petraeus, from Ambassador Crocker, and on Thursday night from President Bush. What we haven't heard this week is anything about the tragic reality on the ground for the ordinary citizens of Iraq, which is in the throes of a catastrophic humanitarian

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• Dept. Of Spending It Over There So We Don't Have To Spend It Over Here: Trillion-Dollar Freedom On The March

  Published: September 26, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Clusterfuck, Defense Stocks, Dept Of Spending It Over There So We Don T Have To Spend It Over Here, George W Bush, Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz, Pentagon, Trillion, Victory By Loss

  Remember when that Iraq War was pretty much going to pay for itself — from the $20 billion in annual oil revenues! — and certainly wouldn’t cost the U.S. more than maybe $60...

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• Dept. Of Spending It Over There So We Don't Have To Spend It Over Here: Trillion-Dollar Freedom On The March

  Published: September 26, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Clusterfuck, Defense Stocks, Dept Of Spending It Over There So We Don T Have To Spend It Over Here, George W Bush, Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz, Pentagon, Trillion, Victory By Loss

  Remember when that Iraq War was pretty much going to pay for itself — from the $20 billion in annual oil revenues! — and certainly wouldn’t cost the U.S. more than maybe $60 billion, but more likely about $10 billion? Paul Wolfowitz said this in congressional testimony so you know it must’ve been true. And top White House

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• The Last REAL Democrat in D.C.

  Published: October 2, 2007, 7:17 pm

  Tags: Supplemental, Iraq, Obey David, Clusterfuck

  of course where the unholy clusterfuck of Iraq is concerned, there will be no supplemental spending legislation coming out of committee. As chairman of the Appropriations Committee I have absolutely no intention of reporting out of committee anytime in this session of Congress any such request that simply serves to continue the status quo,

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• Another General Denounces Bush and the Iraq Fiasco

  Published: October 12, 2007, 11:04 pm

  Tags: Iraq Occupation, Sanchez Ricardo, Clusterfuck, Bush Maladministration

  Retired Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez took a swipe at the aWol Bush maladministration and their inept, incompetent and inconsistent management of the occupation of Iraq. The United States is living a nightmare with no end in sight. He warned. After more than fours years of fighting, America continues its desperate struggle in Iraq

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• More "Phony Soldiers" Piping Up

  Published: October 16, 2007, 3:52 pm

  Tags: Iraq Civil War, Clusterfuck, Phony Soldiers

  About two months ago, the New York Times published an op-ed from seven infantry NCOs that questioned the wisdom of staying the course in Iraq. The piece was damning, and punctuated by the fact that one of the Soldiers was seriously wounded between the time the piece was written and when it was published, and two more of the seven were

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• Ex-Iraq commander says bring troops home

  Published: November 21, 2007, 11:47 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Source Kc Star, Sanchez Ricardo, Clusterfuck

  By ANNE FLAHERTYAssociated Press WriterRetired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top commander in Iraq shortly after the fall of Baghdad, said this week he supports Democratic legislation that calls for most troops to come home within a year.His comments come as welcomed ammunition for the Democratic-controlled Congress in its standoff with the

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• When all else fails, change the talking points!

  Published: November 25, 2007, 1:58 am

  Tags: Fiasco, Iraq Occupation, Fubar, Clusterfuck, Surge , Bush Maladministration

  From the department of moving goalposts:WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections.Instead,

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• "Don't Worry, Girls, We'll Protect You" [Sexism Still Sucks]

  Published: December 14, 2007, 1:24 pm

  Tags: Clusterfuck, Iraq, Police, Sexism Still Sucks, Women

  The Ministry of Interior in Iraq has ordered that all the policewomen in Iraq turn in their weapons for redistribution to men or face a withdrawal of their pay. Iraqi police officers, you’ll no...

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• "Don't Worry, Girls, We'll Protect You" [Sexism Still Sucks]

  Published: December 14, 2007, 1:24 pm

  Tags: Clusterfuck, Iraq, Police, Sexism Still Sucks, Women

  The Ministry of Interior in Iraq has ordered that all the policewomen in Iraq turn in their weapons for redistribution to men or face a withdrawal of their pay. Iraqi police officers, you’ll no doubt recall, are subject to intimidation, harassment, kidnapping and execution regardless of their gender. The women were recruited by the U.S.

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